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In recent months, this indian Jam Boy story has been reposted a million times on this platform. Goes something like this:

The Jam Boy was first introduced as early as the 1800s when the British Empire occupied India. When the British gentry went to play golf, they would have two men, the caddy and a Jam Boy.

The Jam Boys sole purpose was to keep the mosquitoes away from the golfer. To do this, the Jam Boy would cover himself in Jam to attract the mosquitoes away from the players. When the game was over the Jam Boy got to keep the jam he was wearing to take home to his family.

Does anyone have any actual evidence of this? Best I can gather is that it's just a legend that begun on Urban Dictionary. I want to believe.

Video related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwfRMk1j18&t=12s
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sorry anon, it isn't real. there's no evidence of it anywhere. but don't worry, that doesn't mean it isn't funny as fuck.
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>>18435899
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This is now an entertaining pseudo history thread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeuchi_documents
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>>18435899
...poo cope?
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>>18435933
>modern forgeries or pseudohistorical texts
Like redditor want that wuz black samurai?
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>>18435976
ESL shitskin
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>>18435933
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeuchi_documents
Heard about this story and a few others like it. I always liked the "Jesus' lost years in the Orient" ideas.
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>>18435988
>ESL shitskin
Ironically coming from you.
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>>18435995
>no u
Learn English before pretending to be White, Pedro.
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>>18435997
>>18435988
Stop trying to pretend like your garbage posts are somehow "culture war", and that the people who find you repulsive are somehow the outsiders. Fucking disgusting subhumans, I swear.
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>>18436001
ESL shitter having a meltdown after getting called out lmfao
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>>18436004
You will never be white, shitskins lmfao
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>>18435865
I saw allegations it's an anecdote originally referring to pharaoh Pepi (not sure if the first or second), but I'm not aware of the origin of this claim.
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>>18435865
Why would mosquitoes want jam??
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Shit I would love to have a jam boy right now dang skeeters are eating me up.
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>>18436328
They don't. They are attracted to carbon dioxide we breathe out and exhale which signals to them where blood is. The story is bullshit.
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>>18436434
People keep saying this but I don't know why they jump to "it must all be made up" instead of the much more reasonable assumption that they were just referring to all obnoxious tropical bugs as mosquitos
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chicanos/latinx are desperately trying to deflect to indians to score white people points on 4chan
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>>18436513
This explains about 95% of posts on post-covid 4chan
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>>18436513
Jeets eternally seething about that one video where normies said they preferred a million illegal spics over one legal jeet. We don't even think about you, stinky.
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Looks like somebody took it personally kek
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>>18436513
>if you don't want billions of street shitters in your country, you are latinx!
What did Jam Boy mean by this?
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>>18436697
But you ARE Latinx though
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>>18436987
>>18436601
Latinx don't shit in the street or any public place
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>>18435865
This is indeed a factual statement.
>>>/pol/533393674



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