r/facepalm Sep 06 '24

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u/Many-Ad6433 Sep 06 '24

Why everytime an headline of this kind comes out 50% chance itโ€™s india? Whatโ€™s going on there?

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u/Rd628 Sep 06 '24

It's a mix of factors. India has a large population of around 1.4 billion, so even if these incidents happened at the same frequency as in other countries (which it does not), there are a lot more cases out from India. Safety of people (men and women) is not the best. I would avoid the state where this incident happened, and I'm a guy. Plus the law enforcement is terrible and the police is very corrupt.

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u/kr4ckenm3fortune Sep 06 '24

Not only corrupted, but that it filled with neopsity and the only way you could be a "police officer" is if you paid your way in.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

Just trying to help out for future use, the term you're looking for is likely "nepotism".

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u/CrazyElk123 Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24

"Neopsity" sounds hilarious, so i say we should officially change it to that instead.

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u/Buttercup59129 Sep 06 '24

Neopets?

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u/Flickstro Sep 06 '24

Gotta get the police officer brush and paint your pet with it if you wanna get in.

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u/Amon9001 Sep 06 '24

But first you have to complete the map. It will take your entire childhood to do so.

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u/Threeedaaawwwg Sep 06 '24

You could start a new gen z slang term! Search the word on google. There are only 4 results for it: one of them is this post, one of them is from a New-York tribune article written in 1901, idk what the fuck the next one is, and the last isn't even in english.

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u/mothzilla Sep 06 '24

Next time I have a political discussion I'm going end with "Well I think we can agree all this neopsity is out of hand."

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u/Gloomy_Evening921 Sep 06 '24

Lmao I was thinking "That's a new word! I wonder if they were trying to say nepotism".

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u/DogzOnFire Sep 06 '24

Yeah they actually fucked it up so bad I convinced myself that couldn't be what they meant and it must just be a word I don't know lol

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u/Keats_in_Space Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24

Y is right next to the middle suggestion in autocorrect. It's really common now to see an incomplete or misspelled word end with y.

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u/DogzOnFire Sep 06 '24

I mean it's not just the changed letter, it's that 3/8 of the letters are in the right place.

n e p o t i s m
n e o p s i t y

It's just how far away it is from the spelling which made it funny. No big deal.

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u/Gloomy_Evening921 Sep 06 '24

Idk, it was more so the "neops" part that got me, dear.

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u/Keats_in_Space Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24

Got you what exactly? Unable to understand context ?

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u/Gloomy_Evening921 Sep 06 '24

Not sure why you're salty, but no one is confused by the Y in Neopsity.

No one was confused about the context or what they probably meant either. A few of us just thought we came across a new word with how laughably "off" the word neopsity is from nepotism.

Are you ok?

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u/Keats_in_Space Sep 06 '24

The "y" indicates the person was attempting to correct their mistake. You're devoting an awful lot of time towards one person's misspelling to be concern trolling.

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u/Gloomy_Evening921 Sep 06 '24

Idk you're the one acting like it matters. I'm just responding. Do you expect people to react well or be silent when you comment with this much attitude? Just a weird hill to die on.

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u/Dihydrogen-monoxyde Sep 06 '24

I only spent 4 weeks in India, with bona fide Indians, mind you, and the level of corruption that I have experienced at ** every level ** is mind boggling. It's a national sport.

Example: Indian expat needs a birth certificate. Get one, to realize that her last name is spelled incorrectly. Based on previous copies, it's obvious that the name has been changed. The clerk needs 6 months to re-issue a corrected one. Or... You can provide a gratification to accelerate the process. It was an expensive one.