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Imagine having to live in a different country where you didn't get push notifications about what's going on up the king's bum (feddit.uk)
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[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Did I just dream this or did we in the US have a president that had a colonoscopy and they broadcast the video on the nightly news? I swear that happened with Reagan or Bush or possibly Clinton but I can't find anything about it.

[–] smeg 2 points 8 months ago

I thought your news was supposed to report on all the shit that your president was doing?

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Katie Couric televised her colonoscopy in 2000! (Piped)

[–] jak@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What a lovely thing to be willing to do. I’m honestly really touched that she values reassuring others over her own privacy.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

Today she could have paid for the procedure by posting it on OnlyFans.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't she only like a vice president or something though?

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Famous news anchor :)

[–] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Not a president/prime minister or anything important, but I think a celeb had a smear test done on a popular morning show here in the UK. Unless I’m also dreaming.

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I guess I dreamed it. It wasn't Katie Couric because I was an adult when that happened. I remember being a kid at home and seeing the video of what looked like a tunnel but it was video of someone's colonoscopy.

What I did find was that Reagan had polyps removed and they basically showed a diagram of a person's digestive tract on the nightly news and Reagan's handlers were embarrassed by that. Maybe one station also showed the video through a random person's butt tunnel to go along with it or something.