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Can't find any evidence of this urination incident, got a link?

Mea culpa: upon waking up and being challenged, I realized that I had conflated the Shannon Hoon story and the [very real] Oasis "piss bomb" story into one.

If I'm really and truly honest, I still remember this happening quite clearly so consider this my own personal Mandela Effect moment.

However, there's an unforgiveable gap between fans throwing urine bottles around and my claim [that I very clearly remember Liam as the brother who pissed on an audience at Molson Park but can't prove it and now look like a dumbass] so I do sincerely apologize.

I think the word 'literally' has gone the way of the emdash

literally has had two meanings for decades, maybe centuries

1) Literally Literally

2) Figuratively

It's semantic bleaching

Not sure why you're downvoted. People have literally been using literally both ways for at at least 25 years by my own observational record.

You know, "I could literally eat a horse." in which it is clearly understood that the speaker is not claiming that they could physically fit a horse inside their stomache.

Except in this case e.g. Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon actually did literally piss on the audience, so using the word literally to mean "not literally" is confusing because it's not obviously some exaggeration (and considering the timelines, the original comment may have been referring to a literal event but confusing who did it).

Literally literally didn't mean literally even when it meant literally and not figuratively

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/very-actually-and-ot...

The em-dash has a fairly specific use. It's just that some people have decided that it indicates AI and can't resist trumpeting that supposed insight at every opportunity.

Well, they have some horror stories about them, so it's plausible, I just didn't find any evidence they specifically urinated on the audience.

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