r/whenthe • u/Zedudz • May 30 '23
Goofiest shit I’ve ever read
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u/Spiderfr0g dumbest smartass May 30 '23
Salmonella vid was good tho
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u/LemonsLiesandLuigi rawr (shoot me) May 30 '23
I love actually knowing the context of this without doing any immediate research.
We danse till we drop bois
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u/ItsTerryTheBerry May 30 '23
Cmon man don’t leave us hanging what happened
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u/Zedudz May 30 '23 edited May 30 '23
Random ass peasant started dancing out of nowhere and mfs around them started dancing as well
Shit started spreading as many people started dancing and not stopping day and night and some allegedly died because of it💀💀💀 (just stop dancing dumbass lol)
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u/verysad- May 30 '23
tf2 ass historical event
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u/Conscious-Warning-83 May 30 '23
Accidentally press g, how do I turn it off
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u/sigsig777777777 May 30 '23
Forever conga line
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u/ItsTerryTheBerry May 30 '23
OOH yeah the dancing virus thing I know about that
Goofy silly moment
Pretty sure it was an artifact of people thinking they couldn’t stop dancing, sorta in the same way people thing placebo medicines make them feel better.
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u/Trex1873 OoOo BLUE May 30 '23
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u/YogurtclosetNo239 May 30 '23
This is the type of shit (mass hysteria or whatever) that makes me think we're in some type of simulation lol
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u/Zak_Light May 30 '23
It's highly beloved this was also in combination with ergot, basically hallucinogenic fungus that would commonly appear on bread. Mass hysteria does exist but it is usually not to such an extent as this when hallucinogens are not involved, take for instance the meowning nuns from the Middle Ages. This went out for like a day or two where basically everyone in the nunnery was meowing (echolalia, a psychological phenomenon when you repeat back what you've just heard, such as reflexively going "Hello" when you hear "Hello", also plays into this. When you consider how a nunnery would very often have repeated mantras and scripture, they are already set up for echolalia).
But, soldiers then showed up to threaten to beat the shit out of them, and they promptly stopped. Simple as. With the dancing plague, not so - they not only danced til they were dead, but even if they were being arrested, what have you. This was clearly something more than just simple mass hysteria.
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u/GenderEnjoyer666 May 30 '23
That was an example of mass hysteria and people thought that demons infested them. The first thing they tried was to just let them keep dancing, but when that didn’t work they pulled a 180 and just banned dancing.
Also the dancing they did was more like swinging people in circles and screaming than just the dance shown in video
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u/Smoah06 trollface -> May 30 '23
It’s funny that they tried to fix the problem by getting a band to play a jig around the dancers. Which enticed more people to dance.
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u/gothicaly May 30 '23
Dats cap. Show me a reel or it didnt happen. Not a single peasant girl shot a bereal? Fuck outta here
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u/Sk123_9000 May 30 '23
The Dancing Plague of 1518
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
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u/RCV0015 May 31 '23
Fun fact! One theory for the rockin' peasants is that it was the result of an ergot outbreak. Ergot is a hallucinogenic fungus that sometimes grows on rye.
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u/Dosux2 May 30 '23
A week ago? are you in 2019 or something?
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u/Darmug 🏳️⚧️"You are now breathing manually." -Alpharius May 30 '23
Context of the comment?
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u/Dosux2 May 31 '23
They said something like "TIL samonella made a video on this topic like a week ago" and then said something I really didn't understand lol
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u/Sir_Soft_Spoken May 31 '23
Ain’t no party like a Strasbourg 1518 party, ‘cause a Strasbourg 1518 party don’t stop why can’t I STOP OH SWEET SAINT VITUS DELIVER ME FROM DANCING
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u/Zockemon May 31 '23
People who dont know what you are talking about must be so fucking confused rn
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