• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    I thought the whole purpose of the joke, the punchline, was that leaving your phone in rice would attract an Indian to the food, who would compulsively fix the phone for you. That’s what I heard in school with that joke anyway

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      18 hours ago

      Nah, this little bit of wisdom has been around since flip phones in the early 2000s era. That’s long before there were any businessmen cooking up various franchises based around variations of 'fix’ation.

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      18 hours ago

      So you thought the purpose was overt racism and you’re ok with that.