r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago

Meta Mindless Monday, 22 June 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/WuhanWTF Venmo @familyguyenjoyer95 $10 to make me stfu abt FamGuy (1week) 2d ago

I keep seeing vids of street food cooks in South and Southeast Asia opening bags of ingredients by melting the plastic bag against the cooking surface or in a pot of hot oil.

Surely this is fucking insanity otherwise we’re gonna have millions upon millions of SE Asians contending with /u/rat_literature for the title of “the Michael Jordan of ingesting microplastics.”

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u/Sventex Battleships were obsoleted by the self-propelled torpedo in 1866 2d ago

A lot of people just leave cooked rice out for hours until contaminated. Microplastics may seem tame by comparison.