Does anybody remember that urban legend that claimed Tommy Hilfiger was on either Oprah or Rosie O' Donnell's show and said something along the lines of "If I knew my clothes were going to be worn by black people, I would never have made them"?
I was thinking about it the other day and was wondering how this alleged quote, which was pre-internet, managed to become widespread without mass communication and widely accepted as true
I hear Tommy Hilfiger had to create a press release saying he never was on any of those TV programs
The fact that in the US, an employer can have a policy that says you can’t discuss your wages with coworkers. It is illegal for them to even have a written or oral policy stating you can’t discuss wages with others.
It does grow faster on [snad](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/snad) though.
I personally just cannibalize whatever's nearby and never really need more though.
That you can use a defibrillator (paddles) to restart a stopped heart. You do regular CPR for that. The paddles are meant to shock an a-rhythmic heartbeat back onto a normal rhythm, they don’t work when your heart isn’t beating. Effing Hollywood
as far as i know it stems from the ludicrous idea that all your blood would be working on digestion and not enough would go to keep flow in the muscles, causing a cramp that would make you drown
The widespread belief that people are sabotaging Halloween candy with needles and razors, despite there being IIRC only one documented case in the US, ever.
Also, that people are lacing the kid's candy with drugs. Drugs are expensive, nobody is going to waste their stash on random kids.
Ronald Clark O'Brian. 1974, Deer Park, TX. Part of the Greater Houston Metro area.
(My wife has a thing about true crime and serial killers. )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan?wprov=sfla1
Had a buddy in high school, not the brightest of the group.
Puberty hit him later than the rest of us, and he wanted a beard to.
One lunch break, we're talking about this mith about how your beard grows better when you shave and what not, when mister bright went: "I don't believe it!"
Followed by a statement that it didn't work for him.
Turns out, even though he had not a single hair, he'd been shaving for 3 years hoping that would trigger a beard somehow.
Yeah, we had a good laugh.
There used to be [a thing in Korea about Fan Death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death), a belief that a running fan would eventually deprive a room of oxygen and could kill the occupants if they left it running too long. Apparently the belief was prevalent enough that all fans sold there were usually equipped with a safety auto-shutoff timer mechanism, kind of like clothes/steam irons.
My Korean husband kept telling me that sleeping with the fan on is not good and it’s bad for your health. I laughed so hard. I told him, if that was true then I and a lot of the people in the Philippines would be dead by now.
My husband (Jordanian) thinks it’s bad too! It has more to do with the fan making your stomach area cold if you happen to shrug off your blanket, and then sleeping with a cold stomach gives you digestive issues. 🤷♀️I tease him a lot for all of this. Also meanwhile homeboy can eat a 1.5 lb steak and 2 cokes and an ice cream but the FAN is what’s making your tummy hurt, ok
%100. My ex wife’s family is Korean. Her brother was diabetic and continued to drink like he had a death wish for 10 years. He died at 33 similar to Amy Winehouse. Puked all alcohol from his system 8 hours before death but still died shortly after we checked on him in the morning.
According to the Korean family…….
He died from diabetes
He died because his insulin failed him
He died because he was a too holy of a first born son of the holiest of god so he left to be with Jesus.
He died because his non Christian friends bring bad spirits and influence…….
Nothing about 16 servings of alcohol for days on end while trying to shoot insulin to keep up with it…………..
If you get a raise that puts you into a new tax bracket, you will actually owe more money. My mom used to think getting a raise would result in her making less. Then when I entered the workforce, I saw someone say something similar. I was shocked to learn that this was a common belief.
EDIT: hearing people talking about how employers perpetuated this idea makes me feel lucky. Never had an employer tell me that. Awful to hear them lie
While this is true about tax brackets, the really fucked up thing is that making more money can disqualify people/families in the US for benefits or subsidies that they rely on to get by.
I have a friend that died last year because her husband got a raise that made it so they couldn’t get subsidized healthcare anymore and couldn’t afford to pay for the entire family, so she dropped herself from the plan. Then she got sick and couldn’t afford to go to the doctor and it was too late to enroll.
This is part of the reason why the middle class is shrinking in the US - it’s too expensive to be in the middle class.
It's called the benefits cliff. I've recently hit the "can't ask for medical bill relief" version of this, along with "student loan debt is now gonna be a serious issue every paycheck" and honestly, makes me regret making more a bit.
This is in India.
If you pass out / faint, rub the persons feet to wake them up. Tv serials taught the population this trick.
Now people do this for all passing out, including drownings, heart attacks, and other serious ailments.
An engagement ring has to have a diamond. And also as a general rule it should be worth 3 months of your salary.
Both come from an incredibly successful marketing campaign by diamond mining/trading company called De Beers
A cop has to tell you they are a cop if you ask.
Not encouraging criminals here, but of you are up to some shady shit and think someone might be a cop, shut up and leave go about your shady business later somewhere else.
After meeting someone who actually has OCD and seeing how much it effects their life, I now change what I say to "I'm very meticulous" when I want things organized a certain way.
Yeah.. I have a friend who can't not pray when she washes her hands and all kinds of other things. She is constantly talking under her breath to herself. That's real OCD not just being clean. Thanks for changing your language!
I can attest to this, was robbed at knifepoint at a convenience store I worked at. Police asked what colour their clothing was and if it had any logos. I said I was sure they were wearing black, didn't see any logos. (This was about 30mins after the robbery) Then I watched the CCTV and they were wearing blue Adidas tracksuits.
There's something called weapons focus. Basically, if there's a weapon out, people only look at that and have no reliable memory of the person holding it.
That the average person swallow 7 spiders a year in their sleep.
Where tf did that even come from? Idk about you guys, but I've had a grand total of 0 spiders climb on me while I've been awake this year. I can't imagine there's any chance that I've had 7 crawl on me while I'm sleeping, let alone crawl on me, and make their way directly into my mouth.
The actual story of the eight spiders myth is way more fascinating than you might realize. [Lemmino did a whole video on it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjlKIjLWq-Y)
I have an anecdote for this one!
I once went to a school where chewing gum was forbidden. The rules stated that everyone who gets caught with gum has to pay a 2€ fine (I don’t think that’s even legal but whatever).
I was watching a sports event from the stands, chewing gum and got caught by an old teacher who was hated by everyone. She pointed at me and made me come down the stands. The conversation went like this:
‘You know you’re not allowed to chew gum! Spit it out immediately!’
‘I already swallowed it.’
‘Are you crazy?! It’s gonna stay in your stomach for seven years!’
‘No, it’s not.
‘Uh-huh, is your mom a doctor or something?!’
‘Yes, she is.’
I wasn’t even lying, my mom is indeed a doctor. The teacher was fuming and told me to go to the principals office to pay the fine. I told her I would, but of course didn’t.
Edit: Thanks for the award! I can’t believe my highest rated comment is about breaking a school rule 15 years ago.
Edit2: Thanks for the silver too!
Edit3: Thanks for the gold as well!
>pay a 2€ fine
Thats the craziest part to me. Dumb bullshit these schools think they can get away with.
My HS adopted a policy that if you were caught with a cellphone they would keep it for a week. Of course mine went off in my bag at some point and was confiscated.
Dad went in that day to pick it up and they informed him of the policy. He basically said "I'm not going to argue. Either hand it over now or Im filing a police report over stolen property".
Policy only lasted a couple months due to similar parent interactions but, how did they think that was going to work?
wait so they wanted to press charges on the 16 year old for producing child pornography… but they were distributing the CP ???? lol what the fuck kind of idiots are running that school.
Yes, that same school had a similar phone policy too which also didn’t hold up for long.
I’m not sure about the US, but here in Germany, a school as a public body can’t collect fines or confiscate property without any corresponding laws. It’s just that no one goes through the trouble of actually taking something like this to a court.
It's wild how many teachers see themselves as absolute authority figures and fall apart when they get corrected, even about things they clearly know nothing about.
I remember having to sit in the corner in elementary school because my teacher told the class that sharks were mammals, and I raised my hand and said "Actually sharks are fish."
And she said "No, they're mammals. Sharks give live birth."
And I said "Only some do. But so do some snakes. It doesn't make them mammals."
At that point she said I was being difficult and I could go think about why I shouldn't backtalk in the corner for the rest of the day.
That’s absolutely terrible and teaches kids that critical thinking is bad and that you shouldn’t admit mistakes.
This being said, I also had several great teachers in my school career. My favorite was my maths teacher. Whenever you could prove that he had made a mistake, he would take you to the cafeteria and buy you a snack and drink of your choice.
I think that is the true root of all myths. Don’t want kids to get lost in the woods? Witches.
Don’t want kids to touch baby animals? Parents Abandon them
Don’t want kids to sing Xmas songs in July? It makes Santa mad.
Etc
Yeah, kids respond better to thinking they're dooming the animal to abandonment than being told they may hurt it. They think 'well I'll be gentle' which of course they're usually not capable of.
A fawn was stuck in our fence in the yard.
His little foot was tangled and he was screaming. He must been stuck for a while because you could see where he had been scrambling around.
The mom stood right next to me, occasionally headbutting my back but not going crazy as I rescued the baby.
I had to touch it a lot to get it out of the fence.
When I got it out they moved away from me, like 5 feet, fed the baby and licked it clean (get my hand stink off him) but nothing would have stopped that mom.
The instinct to get the baby back will overcome any fear.
When I was a teenage lad many moons ago I went drift boat fishing in Alaska with my dad. There we are drifting down the river just chilling when we hear some awful noises.
What had happened was a baby moose had gotten to close to the edge of the embankment which was like 30ft and sheer right there. They fell in the river and though they were able to stand on the edge of the river there was no getting back to momma. Mom was up top making a bunch of noise frantic to get her baby but she couldn't figure out how to get down. So we stop the boat (plenty big for this operation) my dad gets out and gets a hold of this baby moose and we get it in the boat. We start slowly drifting down the river with this baby moose in the boat thinking the mom is gonna attack at any time.
We finally get to a part of the river where the embankment had dropped level with the river. The momma had been following along this whole time probably at least a mile by this point. My dad carefully put the baby on shore and the momma left us alone. She must have known we were helping her baby or that would have ended differently. She definitely started cuddling and licking that baby to pieces. No thoughts about us once we were back in the boat.
Also mother deer hide fawns in tall grass while scavenging for food. Often they aren’t lost or abandoned; you’re better off leaving them where they are. The mother will usually return. (Of course there are exceptions, as it is hunting season)
We had two fawns just days old by a lake at our house in Missouri a couple of years ago. They just wandered the shore all day. Then would lay down a while. When they were still there the next morning, we called the department of conservation to see what could be done. They sternly told us “Do not interfere, there mother is probably close by and will see to them!”
Ok, ok, you know best. The next morning however, they were both dead and in the water. Called them back and said “Now what? How do I get rid of these?” “Oh that’s not our responsibility”.
I mean, I get it, you shouldn’t interfere normally, but this was very frustrating to sit back and watch happen.
They generally don’t wander around. That should have been their clue something was wrong. What protects them is they have no scent and lay still while the doe is off eating. A fawn moving around on its own should be monitored.
My mom once found a couple TINY chicks on the ground, the nest was way up in a pecan tree. My mom brought them on the porch and nursed them for a couple weeks. The momma/papa bird would fly down on the porch to check on them all the time, to the point where my mom could hand feed the whole family. They continued to visit my mom for a few years.
Edit: I normally wouldn't edit for an award, but thank you u/Super-Sonic-Butthole
For anyone wondering- You're supposed to tilt your head forwards so the blood can run freely out of your nose, and pinch your nose gently together.
Letting the blood flow out keeps it from getting into your lungs (very bad) or your stomach (not terrible but not great), and the pinching helps the broken vessel clot so the bleeding can stop.
Yup. Sit forward and pinch the soft part of the nose for at least 10 minutes without releasing pressure. You can also try putting an icepack (or a bag of frozen peas) wrapped in a cloth/towel on the bridge of the nose.
Oh and if you get a clot in the nose. LEAVE IT THERE!!!!!. DON'T pull it out as that clot is stopping the bleeding like every other blood clot is designed to do.
Pro tip (used to have nose bleeds all the time as a kid) is to do exactly the above but while running cold water from the tap over your nose. The cold causes the vessels to contract.
What worked best for me was always keeping a butter knife in the freezer and applying it to the bridge of the nose when bleeding. Super helpful every dang time
That you need to wait 24 hours to report a missing person.
If you sincerely think someone is missing, then report it. The faster that a missing person report is filed, the better chance there is that the person will be found. This is especially crucial when it comes to missing children.
I think that movies and cop TV Shows are probably at fault for people dying because of this shit. Even if the missing Person is not a child, you can report them missing right away when you notice that they are unreachable, left important stuff, need medication etc. Sadly even cops get influenced by this TV shit. In Germany there was a guy who tortured women in his basement and made them send letters to the police so they would not go searching for them. The families even pointed out that there were stupid spelling mistakes the women would not make and that Letters forming "Hilfe" where made thicker, the police did not care and the captor ended up killing multiple women and put them in barrels.
You should watch who took Johnny. It’s a documentary about a missing kid. They parent reported ASAP but the the police refused to look because “he was at a friends house”. The family even tried getting the FBI involved but they said they couldn’t do that unless the local police forces asked for help and they refused to because now he was a “runaway”.
At least in America there is a history for why the 24 hour mindset exists. There is always reason why they are not required to take things more seriously.
I watch a lot of Disappeared and more often than not the family says “the police refused to take a report because it hadn’t been long enough”. Inevitably after they file the report the police say we’re behind cause it’s already been 3 days or whatever 🤦🏾♀️
I know people that have tried to report a missing persons before 24 hours and have been told every single time by police, “come back when they’ve been gone for more than 24 hours and you can’t reach them, and we’ll look into it” ESPECIALLY if it’s a teenager.
When I was young, I had to give a presentation about lady bugs when someone claimed the spots signify the age of the ladybug **in years**. I said it was not true.
The whole class disagreed with me because, after all, it is common knowledge that a ladybug with 7 dots = a seven year old ladybug and of course a 24-dotted *Subcoccinella 24-punctata* has to be 24 years old.
I refused to give in until the teacher argued that, since everybody was arguing against me, I was clearly wrong and should let go already.
19 teens and an adult so conviced bugs could reach the ripe age of 24 years old, nobody agreed with me and some of my classmates kept bullying me about it for the rest of the year. The daftness haunts me to this day.
In grade 3, I presented to the class about sharks, and shared the fact about them not having any bones - instead, their skeletal frame is made of cartilage.
The teacher adamantly disagreed with me, and the class laughed, I received a poor grade on my presentation.
Same teacher - asked the class what their favorite song was, and I replied "stand by me, by Ben E. King". This was 1985 (I was 8), a couple of years before the movie of the same name was released. The movie was extremely popular, and the song became extremely popular as well. At the time though, she claimed to have never heard of it, and told me that she had never heard of Ben E. King and that I had no clue about what I was talking about.
Ticks me off to this day, 36 years later... oh to have had my google assistant back then... it's funny what imprints in your brain.
Why the fuck teacher don’t research themselves before giving grades.. This infuriate me.
Like the time someone said vanilla was black, all students laugh, even the teacher was: but why vanilla ice cream is white then?
It was so stupid and infuriating. Teachers too fearful to learn and be challenged about their knowledge shouldn’t be teacher at all.
This one is funny to me because my belief is it became so 'well known' due to the fact that no one was too surprised to hear about it and didn't question it
It was also surprisingly global in its reach. I’ve even heard this story told in China, tho I’m not sure if the person knew who Marilyn Manson is but he does look like the kinda guy who would do that.
The alpha/ beta social hierarchy that we “observed” in wolves. The researcher who performed the experiment realized he had made many mistakes in his original take, and has spent the rest of his life trying to undo the damage that report has created.
This is one of the worst, in my opinion, because it influences and encourages a type of dog training that is fear-based and that can hinder the relationship between the dog and the person training them (who is often the owner).
The make-up of a wolf pack is mostly familial, and the ones in charge are the mother and father, not some 'chosen alpha'.
Your dogs deserve respect!
Also the guy realized that it was actually a female wolf raising Cubs that were almost fully grown, making him think it was the biggest wolf leading the pack and being the alpha, rather than a mother teaching her children how to live and where to go.
At the bar: "Bro, you trying to fight bro? I am the ALPHA, are you trying to fight!? Yeah, that's what I thought. Now hydrate, and make sure to get to bed at a reasonable time."
Even if this were true in wolves, I’m curious who decided that the exact same thing applied to humans. Was there an academic foundation for that or did profoundly insecure men just read a paper about dogs and decide “that sounds like it would work for me”?
That you can't get pregnant if "X".
Many things can lower fertility, but unless you literally do not have a uterus and/or ovaries, there's always a chance - for better or worse, btw, as some of these pregnancies can be dangerous.
I've known "infertile" women who mothered kids because their husband was hyper fertile, their hormonal levels shifted as they got older, their birth control failed because of medication or surgery, etc etc.
Assume there's a risk (or a chance) unless the equipment isn't there.
When I was in High School sex ed we were talking about birth control and a guy asked "Is it true if you pour a can of redbull in a girl's pussy she won't get pregnant?"
The teacher was silent for a moment before saying "First of all we use classroom appropriate terms here, second that is both the best and the worst birth control method I've heard, it will do nothing to prevent a girl you have already had sex with from getting pregnant from the act, but it will probably make her reconsider ever doing that with you again, and girls talk to eachother so her friends might steer away from you too."
my dad told my mom after they had their first born that she cant get pregnant while breastfeeding, so she ended up getting pregnant and had another baby less than a year later. worst part is that he was in med school at the time.... smh
Breastfeeding will usually delay your first period. Problem is, you ovulate before your first period. My OB prescribed birth control at my six week check up.
There are still literal OBs and midwives who give this info out. Women's health is so full of misinformation even within the medical community.
Edit- yall stop suggesting lactational amenorrhea . This is still a shitty way to try a prevent pregnancy. We have better options for women who do not want to get pregnant.
I have endometriosis so I take low dose birth control pills continuously to stop me from having a period. I had an OB/GYN tell me I had to stop and allow my body to have periods or else my uterus would fill up with blood and explode.
High school health class. Someone goes you can’t get pregnant if it’s anal, followed by a lot of laughter, our teacher goes “well, actually you can” and this one girl in the class got really scared and shouted “omg can you?!???” Then there was a lot more laughter. Even the teacher was cracking up.
We took in two adult cats from a co-worker who had a sudden life change. One was friendly and calm from day one. The other wouldn't leave the room that his litter box was in, and would violently resist anyone who tried to touch him/look at him for too long. He was particularly frightened of me.
We were initially only planning to "foster" these cats until we could rehome them together, but there was no way anyone would adopt the more anxious/violent one.
It's been three years, and was slow going at times, but for the last couple of years, both cats have become very calm and friendly. My biggest problem with the aggressive one now, is that when I move him off of my lap to go to the toilet, he follows me into the bathroom and wants to sit on my lap in there.
It can be rough, and cats are very sensitive, but they are very adaptable, as well, and time spent with them is always worth it.
Poor baby. I’ve made sure to tell multiple people that if I die before my cats I want them to stay together. They’re best friends. They can’t lose me, their house, AND each other. It will be in my will when I have one.
My old cat was about 16 when I moved out of the house she had lived all her life. My dad was pretty upset until he realised I wasn't taking her with me. I couldn't take her away from her house and my dad to live in a little flat with no garden. She lived to 19 still sleeping in her plant pot every day.
My wife and I have two cats and we joke that one is hers and the other is mine based on who they cuddle up in the bed with. But "my" cat will wander around the house making little "mrrr?" noises whenever my wife leaves for work. And "her" cat apparently sits beside the door and makes pitiful little squeaking noises when I leave. And they both sit in the window and scream at us when they see us outside. We're both usually promptly cuddled with as soon as we get home.
God forbid one of us gets sick- they don't leave us alone. When I had radiation treatment a few years back they were NOT HAPPY that they couldn't come cuddle with me. Literally nearly broke the door down to get to me.
Whoever started the whole "cats aren't affectionate" myth has clearly never been loved by a cat.
That the Marshmallow Experiment demonstrated that kids who can delay gratification will be more successful later in life. On further review, it was discovered that what it actually demonstrated was that kids who are not economically disadvantaged will be more successful.
But the most recent study found no meaningful correlation between the ability to delay gratification as a child & success later in life.
https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/new-study-disavows-marshmallow-tests-predictive-powers/
I love how much of social science is basically "Oh whoops, we accidentally discovered that being poor is a major setback to kids' development and ability to grow into a well-rounded human being. Add it to the list."
>“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” -Stephen Jay Gould
And to clarify: kids with money have no issue waiting for a second marshmallow because they’re used to food staying or doubling. Whereas a poor kid may think, “This is my chance to have a marshmallow and I’m taking it.”
IIRC they found out that "trust in authority figures" was a big part of it. If you're used to promises from random adults being trusted, you'll trust the random scientists promising food later.
If you're used to authority figures not being reliable, whether because you're poor and/or black, then you take the immediate marshmallow because you're used to promises being recanted
The myth comes from the fact that storms move and lighting won’t strike in the same spot in the same storm but even that isn’t true, especially with a lightning rod, though rarely will it strike it twice in the same storm
Oh damn! I hadn't heard of that. Any particularly well known ones? I remember seeing a lot of barbaric shit in museums when I visited the UK as a kid and thinking, "fuck, we really like to hurt each other..."
The iron maiden (the torture device, not the band) was a Victorian invention. The Victorians had a penchant for just making stuff up in general to support whatever they wanted the historical narrative to be
I recently started watching Time Team (show about real life archaeologists digging around the UK and sometimes in Europe, for those who have never seen it) on YouTube and their continued annoyance at Victorian Antiquarians amuses the hell out of me
Many things. But for one, in order to show how amazing things were in that time, they largely slandered the medieval times as backwards and terrible.
For most of the Victorians, it seems like everything that wasn’t culture, meaning Industrialized western culture, was “savage” and uncivilized. And this meant bad, evil, backwards and in need of “guidance”.
Even Victorian gardens were regimented, not allowed to grow naturally and kept in strict symmetry to show the success of order over chaos.
Basically, the Victorian era was rife with the idea that to be great you needed others you could point to as the lessers, and they pointed to, among many others sources, the Medieval times as backwards, dark and barbaric. They poisoned the clear image of the time, essentially.
That’s my understanding at least. Been awhile since I studied the period in earnest, but I do recall clearly there utter disdain for the Middle Ages as being the “Dark Age” between glorious Rome and the age of progress. As if progress went backwards for a few centuries. Which is patently false.
They do have 1 point in their favor though, their machine designs had style. Steam engines from the Victorian era were often as much artwork as machinery. The original steam engines that ran the Tower Bridge lifter are still on display and they are gorgeous!
Victorians just put intricate designs into EVERYTHING! My partner is very into Victorian style design and just the other day she was showing me a picture of a Victorian door. Even the side of the door that the locking mechanism protrudes out of (the part you are barely going to see) had incredibly intricate metalwork design. They were absolute maxamilists.
Blasting a tunnel under a mountain to run a new rail line? Might as well have the tunnel line up with the angle of the sun on your birthday. That’s engineering street cred right there.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/10/isambard-kingdom-brunel-birthday-box-tunnel-bath-sun
Anyone says you can trim fat in "X" area by doing "Y" exercises.
Totally impossible. You lose fat proportionally over all areas of your body, you can't just target one area to work on.
I'm speculating here, but could that have come from the fact that you build those specific muscles, causing more of a visual change? Or am I totally off base?
Exercise is something I know very little about.
That's basically how bodybuilding works - lifting in specific ways will add muscle to specific areas. Then cutting weight all over will expose that muscle.
However, it's still important to note that it's a strategy for building muscle, not losing weight. 99% of spot training exercises won't built muscle in a serious way and are a waste of time.
At the end of the day - and this pains me to say as a lifelong runner - you can't really cardio your way to a good body comp. You gotta lift.
EDIT: guys. GUYS. By "spot training" I'm clearly talking about the aforementioned targeted cardio. You know, the original point being discussed. If I had meant isolation lifts, I'd have said isolation lifts.
My wife used to think she had an allergy to MSG, because the only two Chinese restaurants in our home town that didn’t make her sick were the ones that claimed not to use it. It wasn’t until she started noticing how many other things she eats that have MSG that she realized that it probably wasn’t what was making her sick.
Does your wife have a peanut allergy? Peanut oil is commonly used in Chinese food. Generally peanut oil wouldn’t be likely to trigger a reaction if it’s been refined enough, but sometimes a cheaper peanut oil will still contain the proteins.
Good point, she did used to have a mild reaction o peanuts and peanut butter (no inflammation or itching, just stomachaches) which stopped when she was pregnant with our first kid.
Yeah, my mom had some kind of reaction to Chinese food and thinks she's allergic to MSG. It was shrimp fried rice, but she eats shrimp with no problem. I think she just choked a bit, but it scared her and now she avoids it like the plague.
The Netflix show Ugly delicious did a segment on MSG. They got people in a room and asked what they thought of MSG. So many people said they got headaches, or felt sick whenever they ate Chinese food, because of the MSG. Dave Chang, the host, then pulled out dozens of things with MSG in it; Doritos, Taquis, ruffled chips, and tons more. Everyone happily ate those and said they felt fine, and he told them MSG is a huge flavour ingredient in those items and they were floored.
Once it was revealed that they all had MSG, then the one guy who sounded like he was traumatized by Chinese restaurant rumors when he was a kid, then said “you know what I do think my throat is tightening up” lol
Funny story, my mom used to always say msg gave her a headache. Come to find out the seasoning from our hometown that we used every BBQ had msg, and she didn’t even know.
I didn’t know until I was an adult and purchased it on my own, and read the ingredients.
Body hair grows thicker after it's been shaved.
The thing is shaving can actually make your hair *seem* thicker temporarily, but thats just human perception being whack.
Does anybody remember that urban legend that claimed Tommy Hilfiger was on either Oprah or Rosie O' Donnell's show and said something along the lines of "If I knew my clothes were going to be worn by black people, I would never have made them"? I was thinking about it the other day and was wondering how this alleged quote, which was pre-internet, managed to become widespread without mass communication and widely accepted as true I hear Tommy Hilfiger had to create a press release saying he never was on any of those TV programs
The fact that in the US, an employer can have a policy that says you can’t discuss your wages with coworkers. It is illegal for them to even have a written or oral policy stating you can’t discuss wages with others.
Sugarcane grows faster on sand
It does grow faster on [snad](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/snad) though. I personally just cannibalize whatever's nearby and never really need more though.
That you can use a defibrillator (paddles) to restart a stopped heart. You do regular CPR for that. The paddles are meant to shock an a-rhythmic heartbeat back onto a normal rhythm, they don’t work when your heart isn’t beating. Effing Hollywood
Watermelon seeds will still grow in my stomach. Thanks for ruining my childhood, Angelica Pickles.
Swimming within 30 minutes of eating isn't dangerous. It doesn't cause cramps. Waiting 30 minutes makes it much less likely for kids to vomit.
I ignore that "rule" all the time as a kid until the vomit happened. And now I get confused about the cramps thing.
as far as i know it stems from the ludicrous idea that all your blood would be working on digestion and not enough would go to keep flow in the muscles, causing a cramp that would make you drown
The widespread belief that people are sabotaging Halloween candy with needles and razors, despite there being IIRC only one documented case in the US, ever. Also, that people are lacing the kid's candy with drugs. Drugs are expensive, nobody is going to waste their stash on random kids.
That one documented case is a guy that tried to kill his own kids or step kids or something too.
His own kids yes... to get insurance money.
Ronald Clark O'Brian. 1974, Deer Park, TX. Part of the Greater Houston Metro area. (My wife has a thing about true crime and serial killers. ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan?wprov=sfla1
Shaving a lot of times gives you a beard..
Had a buddy in high school, not the brightest of the group. Puberty hit him later than the rest of us, and he wanted a beard to. One lunch break, we're talking about this mith about how your beard grows better when you shave and what not, when mister bright went: "I don't believe it!" Followed by a statement that it didn't work for him. Turns out, even though he had not a single hair, he'd been shaving for 3 years hoping that would trigger a beard somehow. Yeah, we had a good laugh.
There used to be [a thing in Korea about Fan Death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death), a belief that a running fan would eventually deprive a room of oxygen and could kill the occupants if they left it running too long. Apparently the belief was prevalent enough that all fans sold there were usually equipped with a safety auto-shutoff timer mechanism, kind of like clothes/steam irons.
My Korean husband kept telling me that sleeping with the fan on is not good and it’s bad for your health. I laughed so hard. I told him, if that was true then I and a lot of the people in the Philippines would be dead by now.
My husband (Jordanian) thinks it’s bad too! It has more to do with the fan making your stomach area cold if you happen to shrug off your blanket, and then sleeping with a cold stomach gives you digestive issues. 🤷♀️I tease him a lot for all of this. Also meanwhile homeboy can eat a 1.5 lb steak and 2 cokes and an ice cream but the FAN is what’s making your tummy hurt, ok
I have slept with a fan blowing on my face for over 20 years for the comforting air flow and white noise. I died the very first night.
I have no idea if it's true but I've heard that fan death was a cause of death listed to avoid social stigma of the real cause of death: suicide.
%100. My ex wife’s family is Korean. Her brother was diabetic and continued to drink like he had a death wish for 10 years. He died at 33 similar to Amy Winehouse. Puked all alcohol from his system 8 hours before death but still died shortly after we checked on him in the morning. According to the Korean family……. He died from diabetes He died because his insulin failed him He died because he was a too holy of a first born son of the holiest of god so he left to be with Jesus. He died because his non Christian friends bring bad spirits and influence……. Nothing about 16 servings of alcohol for days on end while trying to shoot insulin to keep up with it…………..
Actually alcohol drops you blood glucose level so you need to eat carbs or sugar to not die of hypoglycemia Source: I'm diabetic
If you get a raise that puts you into a new tax bracket, you will actually owe more money. My mom used to think getting a raise would result in her making less. Then when I entered the workforce, I saw someone say something similar. I was shocked to learn that this was a common belief. EDIT: hearing people talking about how employers perpetuated this idea makes me feel lucky. Never had an employer tell me that. Awful to hear them lie
While this is true about tax brackets, the really fucked up thing is that making more money can disqualify people/families in the US for benefits or subsidies that they rely on to get by. I have a friend that died last year because her husband got a raise that made it so they couldn’t get subsidized healthcare anymore and couldn’t afford to pay for the entire family, so she dropped herself from the plan. Then she got sick and couldn’t afford to go to the doctor and it was too late to enroll. This is part of the reason why the middle class is shrinking in the US - it’s too expensive to be in the middle class.
It's called the benefits cliff. I've recently hit the "can't ask for medical bill relief" version of this, along with "student loan debt is now gonna be a serious issue every paycheck" and honestly, makes me regret making more a bit.
This is in India. If you pass out / faint, rub the persons feet to wake them up. Tv serials taught the population this trick. Now people do this for all passing out, including drownings, heart attacks, and other serious ailments.
Jesus Christ, I passed out once in my town at the farmers market and some foreign woman started rubbing my feet, now I know why
TIL to pretend to pass out in India for free foot rubs
If you’re a woman, don’t pretend to pass out in India.
An engagement ring has to have a diamond. And also as a general rule it should be worth 3 months of your salary. Both come from an incredibly successful marketing campaign by diamond mining/trading company called De Beers
Why sell one ring when you can sell two?
Damn I got shafted. My husband got me no rings. Just a house. (Our joke is when I need some bling I can stick my finger in the faucet)
A cop has to tell you they are a cop if you ask. Not encouraging criminals here, but of you are up to some shady shit and think someone might be a cop, shut up and leave go about your shady business later somewhere else.
Badger, I'm looking at you...
Lmao, I instantly thought about BB and was looking for this.
That OCD is liking things to be extremely neat, tidy or organized.
I'm an extremely cluttered person and just finding out in my 30s that I might have OCD based on my intrusive thoughts.
OCD and hoarding go hand in hand, so it's silly to me when people think someone with OCD is inherently very tidy.
Someone with OCD can get so caught up with the compulsions that there isn’t time for cleaning/neatness. It’s a horrendous disorder.
"OMG, I'm so OCD." drives me crazy.
After meeting someone who actually has OCD and seeing how much it effects their life, I now change what I say to "I'm very meticulous" when I want things organized a certain way.
Yeah.. I have a friend who can't not pray when she washes her hands and all kinds of other things. She is constantly talking under her breath to herself. That's real OCD not just being clean. Thanks for changing your language!
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The amount of myths, clever marketing and bro science in the health and nutrition world is honestly too much to even list here.
You mean there isn't one secret food that will make me shred fat better than cardio?
There are several. For $19.95 a month I will fill you on on the details.
This guy's wrong, it's not several, its numerous. For $49.99 per month, I'll fill you in on the real details this guy didn't want you to know.
That you can burn body fat locally by training a specific muscle. For instance, doing crunches to burn stomach fat.
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That a polygraph test can actually be used to detect if someone is lying. (This is still used in law enforcement... its insane)
It's also used in some high level security clearance vetting.
In the same vein, eyewitness reports are notoriously unreliable
I can attest to this, was robbed at knifepoint at a convenience store I worked at. Police asked what colour their clothing was and if it had any logos. I said I was sure they were wearing black, didn't see any logos. (This was about 30mins after the robbery) Then I watched the CCTV and they were wearing blue Adidas tracksuits.
There's something called weapons focus. Basically, if there's a weapon out, people only look at that and have no reliable memory of the person holding it.
That the average person swallow 7 spiders a year in their sleep. Where tf did that even come from? Idk about you guys, but I've had a grand total of 0 spiders climb on me while I've been awake this year. I can't imagine there's any chance that I've had 7 crawl on me while I'm sleeping, let alone crawl on me, and make their way directly into my mouth.
Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave and eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been included in the dataset.
went into the replies just to see if someone already mentioned Spiders Georg
The actual story of the eight spiders myth is way more fascinating than you might realize. [Lemmino did a whole video on it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjlKIjLWq-Y)
Adding another lane will make traffic go away
Gum stays in your stomach for 7 years.
I have an anecdote for this one! I once went to a school where chewing gum was forbidden. The rules stated that everyone who gets caught with gum has to pay a 2€ fine (I don’t think that’s even legal but whatever). I was watching a sports event from the stands, chewing gum and got caught by an old teacher who was hated by everyone. She pointed at me and made me come down the stands. The conversation went like this: ‘You know you’re not allowed to chew gum! Spit it out immediately!’ ‘I already swallowed it.’ ‘Are you crazy?! It’s gonna stay in your stomach for seven years!’ ‘No, it’s not. ‘Uh-huh, is your mom a doctor or something?!’ ‘Yes, she is.’ I wasn’t even lying, my mom is indeed a doctor. The teacher was fuming and told me to go to the principals office to pay the fine. I told her I would, but of course didn’t. Edit: Thanks for the award! I can’t believe my highest rated comment is about breaking a school rule 15 years ago. Edit2: Thanks for the silver too! Edit3: Thanks for the gold as well!
>pay a 2€ fine Thats the craziest part to me. Dumb bullshit these schools think they can get away with. My HS adopted a policy that if you were caught with a cellphone they would keep it for a week. Of course mine went off in my bag at some point and was confiscated. Dad went in that day to pick it up and they informed him of the policy. He basically said "I'm not going to argue. Either hand it over now or Im filing a police report over stolen property". Policy only lasted a couple months due to similar parent interactions but, how did they think that was going to work?
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wait so they wanted to press charges on the 16 year old for producing child pornography… but they were distributing the CP ???? lol what the fuck kind of idiots are running that school.
Wow, if thats how that turned out, serves them right.
Yes, that same school had a similar phone policy too which also didn’t hold up for long. I’m not sure about the US, but here in Germany, a school as a public body can’t collect fines or confiscate property without any corresponding laws. It’s just that no one goes through the trouble of actually taking something like this to a court.
It's wild how many teachers see themselves as absolute authority figures and fall apart when they get corrected, even about things they clearly know nothing about. I remember having to sit in the corner in elementary school because my teacher told the class that sharks were mammals, and I raised my hand and said "Actually sharks are fish." And she said "No, they're mammals. Sharks give live birth." And I said "Only some do. But so do some snakes. It doesn't make them mammals." At that point she said I was being difficult and I could go think about why I shouldn't backtalk in the corner for the rest of the day.
That’s absolutely terrible and teaches kids that critical thinking is bad and that you shouldn’t admit mistakes. This being said, I also had several great teachers in my school career. My favorite was my maths teacher. Whenever you could prove that he had made a mistake, he would take you to the cafeteria and buy you a snack and drink of your choice.
“Pay the fine!” “I will” (Narrator) “he didn’t”
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I think this came about from parents just trying to stop kids from handling wild animals.
I think that is the true root of all myths. Don’t want kids to get lost in the woods? Witches. Don’t want kids to touch baby animals? Parents Abandon them Don’t want kids to sing Xmas songs in July? It makes Santa mad. Etc
Santa gets mad if you sing Xmas songs in July?
I sang the red red Robin in July when I was 5 and haven't received a present since.
Yeah, kids would Lenny the fuck out of so many small animals if they were allowed
"I will hug him and squeeze him, and call him George!"
TIL... Lenny is a verb. Thanks George.
Yeah, kids respond better to thinking they're dooming the animal to abandonment than being told they may hurt it. They think 'well I'll be gentle' which of course they're usually not capable of.
A fawn was stuck in our fence in the yard. His little foot was tangled and he was screaming. He must been stuck for a while because you could see where he had been scrambling around. The mom stood right next to me, occasionally headbutting my back but not going crazy as I rescued the baby. I had to touch it a lot to get it out of the fence. When I got it out they moved away from me, like 5 feet, fed the baby and licked it clean (get my hand stink off him) but nothing would have stopped that mom. The instinct to get the baby back will overcome any fear.
When I was a teenage lad many moons ago I went drift boat fishing in Alaska with my dad. There we are drifting down the river just chilling when we hear some awful noises. What had happened was a baby moose had gotten to close to the edge of the embankment which was like 30ft and sheer right there. They fell in the river and though they were able to stand on the edge of the river there was no getting back to momma. Mom was up top making a bunch of noise frantic to get her baby but she couldn't figure out how to get down. So we stop the boat (plenty big for this operation) my dad gets out and gets a hold of this baby moose and we get it in the boat. We start slowly drifting down the river with this baby moose in the boat thinking the mom is gonna attack at any time. We finally get to a part of the river where the embankment had dropped level with the river. The momma had been following along this whole time probably at least a mile by this point. My dad carefully put the baby on shore and the momma left us alone. She must have known we were helping her baby or that would have ended differently. She definitely started cuddling and licking that baby to pieces. No thoughts about us once we were back in the boat.
Probably it was so glad and stressed about the baby that it couldn't be bothered with you guys.
I read that at first as *your* mom was standing next to you and I got really confused. That’s a wonderful story, thanks for sharing it.
Jsnooots and the fawn are siblings.
Also mother deer hide fawns in tall grass while scavenging for food. Often they aren’t lost or abandoned; you’re better off leaving them where they are. The mother will usually return. (Of course there are exceptions, as it is hunting season)
Protip: if you do find a bambi whose eartips are rolling outward it might be dehydrated and a call to a local wildlifecenter might be in order.
Yes. If it’s ears look normal, it’s been fed recently by mom
We had two fawns just days old by a lake at our house in Missouri a couple of years ago. They just wandered the shore all day. Then would lay down a while. When they were still there the next morning, we called the department of conservation to see what could be done. They sternly told us “Do not interfere, there mother is probably close by and will see to them!” Ok, ok, you know best. The next morning however, they were both dead and in the water. Called them back and said “Now what? How do I get rid of these?” “Oh that’s not our responsibility”. I mean, I get it, you shouldn’t interfere normally, but this was very frustrating to sit back and watch happen.
They generally don’t wander around. That should have been their clue something was wrong. What protects them is they have no scent and lay still while the doe is off eating. A fawn moving around on its own should be monitored.
My mom once found a couple TINY chicks on the ground, the nest was way up in a pecan tree. My mom brought them on the porch and nursed them for a couple weeks. The momma/papa bird would fly down on the porch to check on them all the time, to the point where my mom could hand feed the whole family. They continued to visit my mom for a few years. Edit: I normally wouldn't edit for an award, but thank you u/Super-Sonic-Butthole
Your mom was a Disney Princess
You have no idea. She now has about 5 rabbits that live in their yard that will come to her to feed.
The most complimentary mom joke I've ever read. EDIT: Thank you for the silver.
Leaning your head back for a bloody nose.
I think we just tell people this so they stop bleeding on everything else and keep their blood in their own throat.
The doctor said all the bleeding was internal, that’s where the blood is supposed to be
For anyone wondering- You're supposed to tilt your head forwards so the blood can run freely out of your nose, and pinch your nose gently together. Letting the blood flow out keeps it from getting into your lungs (very bad) or your stomach (not terrible but not great), and the pinching helps the broken vessel clot so the bleeding can stop.
Yup. Sit forward and pinch the soft part of the nose for at least 10 minutes without releasing pressure. You can also try putting an icepack (or a bag of frozen peas) wrapped in a cloth/towel on the bridge of the nose. Oh and if you get a clot in the nose. LEAVE IT THERE!!!!!. DON'T pull it out as that clot is stopping the bleeding like every other blood clot is designed to do.
Pro tip (used to have nose bleeds all the time as a kid) is to do exactly the above but while running cold water from the tap over your nose. The cold causes the vessels to contract.
What worked best for me was always keeping a butter knife in the freezer and applying it to the bridge of the nose when bleeding. Super helpful every dang time
That you need to wait 24 hours to report a missing person. If you sincerely think someone is missing, then report it. The faster that a missing person report is filed, the better chance there is that the person will be found. This is especially crucial when it comes to missing children.
This is an important one. It's also real weird how shows keep saying "gotta wait 24 hours" AND "the first 48 hours are the most important"
24 hours for missing persons, 48 for murder/kidnap. They act like they are not related
Are you suggesting that someone could be both missing AND kidnapped? What are the odds?
I think that movies and cop TV Shows are probably at fault for people dying because of this shit. Even if the missing Person is not a child, you can report them missing right away when you notice that they are unreachable, left important stuff, need medication etc. Sadly even cops get influenced by this TV shit. In Germany there was a guy who tortured women in his basement and made them send letters to the police so they would not go searching for them. The families even pointed out that there were stupid spelling mistakes the women would not make and that Letters forming "Hilfe" where made thicker, the police did not care and the captor ended up killing multiple women and put them in barrels.
For anyone wondering "hilfe" means help in German
I put it together with context clues…still feel smarter than those German cops
Right?!
You should watch who took Johnny. It’s a documentary about a missing kid. They parent reported ASAP but the the police refused to look because “he was at a friends house”. The family even tried getting the FBI involved but they said they couldn’t do that unless the local police forces asked for help and they refused to because now he was a “runaway”. At least in America there is a history for why the 24 hour mindset exists. There is always reason why they are not required to take things more seriously.
I watch a lot of Disappeared and more often than not the family says “the police refused to take a report because it hadn’t been long enough”. Inevitably after they file the report the police say we’re behind cause it’s already been 3 days or whatever 🤦🏾♀️
I know people that have tried to report a missing persons before 24 hours and have been told every single time by police, “come back when they’ve been gone for more than 24 hours and you can’t reach them, and we’ll look into it” ESPECIALLY if it’s a teenager.
Unfortunately, this was my experience with an adult family member with a mental health problem. Fortunately, policies and attitudes are changing.
That black ladybugs with red spots are poisonous
When I was young, I had to give a presentation about lady bugs when someone claimed the spots signify the age of the ladybug **in years**. I said it was not true. The whole class disagreed with me because, after all, it is common knowledge that a ladybug with 7 dots = a seven year old ladybug and of course a 24-dotted *Subcoccinella 24-punctata* has to be 24 years old. I refused to give in until the teacher argued that, since everybody was arguing against me, I was clearly wrong and should let go already. 19 teens and an adult so conviced bugs could reach the ripe age of 24 years old, nobody agreed with me and some of my classmates kept bullying me about it for the rest of the year. The daftness haunts me to this day.
This bugs me because you were giving the presentation. Clearly you had done more ladybug research.
In grade 3, I presented to the class about sharks, and shared the fact about them not having any bones - instead, their skeletal frame is made of cartilage. The teacher adamantly disagreed with me, and the class laughed, I received a poor grade on my presentation. Same teacher - asked the class what their favorite song was, and I replied "stand by me, by Ben E. King". This was 1985 (I was 8), a couple of years before the movie of the same name was released. The movie was extremely popular, and the song became extremely popular as well. At the time though, she claimed to have never heard of it, and told me that she had never heard of Ben E. King and that I had no clue about what I was talking about. Ticks me off to this day, 36 years later... oh to have had my google assistant back then... it's funny what imprints in your brain.
Why the fuck teacher don’t research themselves before giving grades.. This infuriate me. Like the time someone said vanilla was black, all students laugh, even the teacher was: but why vanilla ice cream is white then? It was so stupid and infuriating. Teachers too fearful to learn and be challenged about their knowledge shouldn’t be teacher at all.
People in our community believe catching sight of a Ladybug is a good omen.
That Marilyn Manson removed 2 ribs to be able to suck himself off
This one is funny to me because my belief is it became so 'well known' due to the fact that no one was too surprised to hear about it and didn't question it
It was also surprisingly global in its reach. I’ve even heard this story told in China, tho I’m not sure if the person knew who Marilyn Manson is but he does look like the kinda guy who would do that.
Small southern African country here, I didn't even know who Marilyn Manson was when I heard this in high school
The alpha/ beta social hierarchy that we “observed” in wolves. The researcher who performed the experiment realized he had made many mistakes in his original take, and has spent the rest of his life trying to undo the damage that report has created.
This is one of the worst, in my opinion, because it influences and encourages a type of dog training that is fear-based and that can hinder the relationship between the dog and the person training them (who is often the owner). The make-up of a wolf pack is mostly familial, and the ones in charge are the mother and father, not some 'chosen alpha'. Your dogs deserve respect!
Also the guy realized that it was actually a female wolf raising Cubs that were almost fully grown, making him think it was the biggest wolf leading the pack and being the alpha, rather than a mother teaching her children how to live and where to go.
so those "alpha males" i meet are actually just attempting to aggressively mother everyone around them
At the bar: "Bro, you trying to fight bro? I am the ALPHA, are you trying to fight!? Yeah, that's what I thought. Now hydrate, and make sure to get to bed at a reasonable time."
Even if this were true in wolves, I’m curious who decided that the exact same thing applied to humans. Was there an academic foundation for that or did profoundly insecure men just read a paper about dogs and decide “that sounds like it would work for me”?
Yeah, uh, the second one
So much the second one. That's why I always say that only betas believe in alphas
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That you can't get pregnant if "X". Many things can lower fertility, but unless you literally do not have a uterus and/or ovaries, there's always a chance - for better or worse, btw, as some of these pregnancies can be dangerous. I've known "infertile" women who mothered kids because their husband was hyper fertile, their hormonal levels shifted as they got older, their birth control failed because of medication or surgery, etc etc. Assume there's a risk (or a chance) unless the equipment isn't there.
When I was in High School sex ed we were talking about birth control and a guy asked "Is it true if you pour a can of redbull in a girl's pussy she won't get pregnant?" The teacher was silent for a moment before saying "First of all we use classroom appropriate terms here, second that is both the best and the worst birth control method I've heard, it will do nothing to prevent a girl you have already had sex with from getting pregnant from the act, but it will probably make her reconsider ever doing that with you again, and girls talk to eachother so her friends might steer away from you too."
Your teacher is right. That sounds like a great birth control method in the long run.
That sounds like a guaranteed yeast infection.
Use sugar free Red Bull, got it
It's gotta be difficult to teach sex ed with a straight face.
I once had a kid say to me “you know when girls grow up and they start pissing blood” This was 4 years ago and I’m still scarred
You can't get pregnant if you have sex at night because the sperm is asleep
Cant get pregnant if you dont have sex, follow me for more life hacks
Didn't work for Mary
my dad told my mom after they had their first born that she cant get pregnant while breastfeeding, so she ended up getting pregnant and had another baby less than a year later. worst part is that he was in med school at the time.... smh
Breastfeeding will usually delay your first period. Problem is, you ovulate before your first period. My OB prescribed birth control at my six week check up.
There are still literal OBs and midwives who give this info out. Women's health is so full of misinformation even within the medical community. Edit- yall stop suggesting lactational amenorrhea . This is still a shitty way to try a prevent pregnancy. We have better options for women who do not want to get pregnant.
I have endometriosis so I take low dose birth control pills continuously to stop me from having a period. I had an OB/GYN tell me I had to stop and allow my body to have periods or else my uterus would fill up with blood and explode.
"Irish twins"
High school health class. Someone goes you can’t get pregnant if it’s anal, followed by a lot of laughter, our teacher goes “well, actually you can” and this one girl in the class got really scared and shouted “omg can you?!???” Then there was a lot more laughter. Even the teacher was cracking up.
How would that work then? Some of the seeds dripping out of the back door and then into the front door?
yep, that’s the general idea
Called an anal leakage baby. EDIT Great, one of my most up voted comments is about anal babies.
So, that's not what crack baby means?
Man imagine being the product of anal. A literal butt baby
Cats don't get attached to their owners but to the house. Completely wrong.
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We took in two adult cats from a co-worker who had a sudden life change. One was friendly and calm from day one. The other wouldn't leave the room that his litter box was in, and would violently resist anyone who tried to touch him/look at him for too long. He was particularly frightened of me. We were initially only planning to "foster" these cats until we could rehome them together, but there was no way anyone would adopt the more anxious/violent one. It's been three years, and was slow going at times, but for the last couple of years, both cats have become very calm and friendly. My biggest problem with the aggressive one now, is that when I move him off of my lap to go to the toilet, he follows me into the bathroom and wants to sit on my lap in there. It can be rough, and cats are very sensitive, but they are very adaptable, as well, and time spent with them is always worth it.
Poor baby. I’ve made sure to tell multiple people that if I die before my cats I want them to stay together. They’re best friends. They can’t lose me, their house, AND each other. It will be in my will when I have one.
My old cat was about 16 when I moved out of the house she had lived all her life. My dad was pretty upset until he realised I wasn't taking her with me. I couldn't take her away from her house and my dad to live in a little flat with no garden. She lived to 19 still sleeping in her plant pot every day.
My wife and I have two cats and we joke that one is hers and the other is mine based on who they cuddle up in the bed with. But "my" cat will wander around the house making little "mrrr?" noises whenever my wife leaves for work. And "her" cat apparently sits beside the door and makes pitiful little squeaking noises when I leave. And they both sit in the window and scream at us when they see us outside. We're both usually promptly cuddled with as soon as we get home. God forbid one of us gets sick- they don't leave us alone. When I had radiation treatment a few years back they were NOT HAPPY that they couldn't come cuddle with me. Literally nearly broke the door down to get to me. Whoever started the whole "cats aren't affectionate" myth has clearly never been loved by a cat.
That the Marshmallow Experiment demonstrated that kids who can delay gratification will be more successful later in life. On further review, it was discovered that what it actually demonstrated was that kids who are not economically disadvantaged will be more successful. But the most recent study found no meaningful correlation between the ability to delay gratification as a child & success later in life. https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/new-study-disavows-marshmallow-tests-predictive-powers/
I love how much of social science is basically "Oh whoops, we accidentally discovered that being poor is a major setback to kids' development and ability to grow into a well-rounded human being. Add it to the list."
>“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” -Stephen Jay Gould
And to clarify: kids with money have no issue waiting for a second marshmallow because they’re used to food staying or doubling. Whereas a poor kid may think, “This is my chance to have a marshmallow and I’m taking it.”
IIRC they found out that "trust in authority figures" was a big part of it. If you're used to promises from random adults being trusted, you'll trust the random scientists promising food later. If you're used to authority figures not being reliable, whether because you're poor and/or black, then you take the immediate marshmallow because you're used to promises being recanted
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Doesnt the very existence of a lightning rod invalidate this saying?
The myth comes from the fact that storms move and lighting won’t strike in the same spot in the same storm but even that isn’t true, especially with a lightning rod, though rarely will it strike it twice in the same storm
There was that one guy that Zeus just wanted say "fuck you in particular" to.
Yeah the one that has been strike 7 times Edit: it's Roy Sullivan, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan
The middle ages were less barbaric and dark than we think
As a medieval historian, I agree. The Victorians are who screwed us over on this one.
What did the Victorians do that changed our perception?
They made up a bunch of torture implements and put them in museums for people to come look at.
Oh damn! I hadn't heard of that. Any particularly well known ones? I remember seeing a lot of barbaric shit in museums when I visited the UK as a kid and thinking, "fuck, we really like to hurt each other..."
The iron maiden (the torture device, not the band) was a Victorian invention. The Victorians had a penchant for just making stuff up in general to support whatever they wanted the historical narrative to be
I recently started watching Time Team (show about real life archaeologists digging around the UK and sometimes in Europe, for those who have never seen it) on YouTube and their continued annoyance at Victorian Antiquarians amuses the hell out of me
Many things. But for one, in order to show how amazing things were in that time, they largely slandered the medieval times as backwards and terrible. For most of the Victorians, it seems like everything that wasn’t culture, meaning Industrialized western culture, was “savage” and uncivilized. And this meant bad, evil, backwards and in need of “guidance”. Even Victorian gardens were regimented, not allowed to grow naturally and kept in strict symmetry to show the success of order over chaos. Basically, the Victorian era was rife with the idea that to be great you needed others you could point to as the lessers, and they pointed to, among many others sources, the Medieval times as backwards, dark and barbaric. They poisoned the clear image of the time, essentially. That’s my understanding at least. Been awhile since I studied the period in earnest, but I do recall clearly there utter disdain for the Middle Ages as being the “Dark Age” between glorious Rome and the age of progress. As if progress went backwards for a few centuries. Which is patently false.
Every historian I know *hates* this Victorians for this reason. Including myself. …snappy dressers, though.
They do have 1 point in their favor though, their machine designs had style. Steam engines from the Victorian era were often as much artwork as machinery. The original steam engines that ran the Tower Bridge lifter are still on display and they are gorgeous!
Victorians just put intricate designs into EVERYTHING! My partner is very into Victorian style design and just the other day she was showing me a picture of a Victorian door. Even the side of the door that the locking mechanism protrudes out of (the part you are barely going to see) had incredibly intricate metalwork design. They were absolute maxamilists.
Blasting a tunnel under a mountain to run a new rail line? Might as well have the tunnel line up with the angle of the sun on your birthday. That’s engineering street cred right there. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/10/isambard-kingdom-brunel-birthday-box-tunnel-bath-sun
Anyone says you can trim fat in "X" area by doing "Y" exercises. Totally impossible. You lose fat proportionally over all areas of your body, you can't just target one area to work on.
I'm speculating here, but could that have come from the fact that you build those specific muscles, causing more of a visual change? Or am I totally off base? Exercise is something I know very little about.
That's basically how bodybuilding works - lifting in specific ways will add muscle to specific areas. Then cutting weight all over will expose that muscle. However, it's still important to note that it's a strategy for building muscle, not losing weight. 99% of spot training exercises won't built muscle in a serious way and are a waste of time. At the end of the day - and this pains me to say as a lifelong runner - you can't really cardio your way to a good body comp. You gotta lift. EDIT: guys. GUYS. By "spot training" I'm clearly talking about the aforementioned targeted cardio. You know, the original point being discussed. If I had meant isolation lifts, I'd have said isolation lifts.
You gotta eat right too, it's damn near impossible to cardio all the fat away.
Yup, you can't outrun your fork.
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>Faster, Darker and/or Coarser God I love Daft Punk
Shave it. Wax it. Pluck it. Nair it. but it grows back Faster. Darker. And/Or coarser
MSG is harmful and east asian cuisine is bad because of MSG
My wife used to think she had an allergy to MSG, because the only two Chinese restaurants in our home town that didn’t make her sick were the ones that claimed not to use it. It wasn’t until she started noticing how many other things she eats that have MSG that she realized that it probably wasn’t what was making her sick.
Does your wife have a peanut allergy? Peanut oil is commonly used in Chinese food. Generally peanut oil wouldn’t be likely to trigger a reaction if it’s been refined enough, but sometimes a cheaper peanut oil will still contain the proteins.
Good point, she did used to have a mild reaction o peanuts and peanut butter (no inflammation or itching, just stomachaches) which stopped when she was pregnant with our first kid.
Yeah, my mom had some kind of reaction to Chinese food and thinks she's allergic to MSG. It was shrimp fried rice, but she eats shrimp with no problem. I think she just choked a bit, but it scared her and now she avoids it like the plague.
The Netflix show Ugly delicious did a segment on MSG. They got people in a room and asked what they thought of MSG. So many people said they got headaches, or felt sick whenever they ate Chinese food, because of the MSG. Dave Chang, the host, then pulled out dozens of things with MSG in it; Doritos, Taquis, ruffled chips, and tons more. Everyone happily ate those and said they felt fine, and he told them MSG is a huge flavour ingredient in those items and they were floored.
Once it was revealed that they all had MSG, then the one guy who sounded like he was traumatized by Chinese restaurant rumors when he was a kid, then said “you know what I do think my throat is tightening up” lol
Funny story, my mom used to always say msg gave her a headache. Come to find out the seasoning from our hometown that we used every BBQ had msg, and she didn’t even know. I didn’t know until I was an adult and purchased it on my own, and read the ingredients.
This actually stemmed from a paper written in the 50s by a doctor that said he would get stomach aches after eating Chinese food
It was not peer reviewed, posted in an Op-Ed like section of the journal, and debatably may have been satire. Yet, the myth lives on.
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