I genuinely have no idea. If only one or two of them had gone the “personal story” route I might have actually believed the tale. But one person after another reporting it as “I did/saw this” just baffles me. I don’t know if it’s confabulation or some kind of leg-pulling exercise.
Sort of? Except it’s not like a rite of passage. You just occasionally, for at least 15 years, stumbled over someone who would swear that it happened to them. At least the drop bear gag is so frequent you know it’s a joke pretty quickly.
Crikey what an unusual story! With no twists in the tale or deviation at all. Why do you think they all tell it as first person?
I genuinely have no idea. If only one or two of them had gone the “personal story” route I might have actually believed the tale. But one person after another reporting it as “I did/saw this” just baffles me. I don’t know if it’s confabulation or some kind of leg-pulling exercise.
It’s the Chinese expat version of drop bears, then?
Sort of? Except it’s not like a rite of passage. You just occasionally, for at least 15 years, stumbled over someone who would swear that it happened to them. At least the drop bear gag is so frequent you know it’s a joke pretty quickly.
Ah of course leg pulling would make sense