Edit: renamed the topic to fit the material a little better
Ok, these little nuggets of info bother me every single time I hear them. None of them are true but everyone seems to think they are. GAHHH!!!
“Your blood turns blue when it doesn’t have any oxygen.”
-No!!! Your elementary school teacher lied! Blood is NEVER blue, the veins are! Blood with oxygen is light red, without oxygen is dark red.
“We only use 10% of our brains.”
-We only use 10% of our brain at a time. People always love to say mystical things like “oooooh, what if we could use the whole thing? We might be psychic or something.” You use your whole brain. Just like a computer hard drive, you’re never going to access the entire thing at once.
“Camels have water in their humps”
-… really? It’s fat for energy, not water.
“You can see a person hanging in the background in one scene of the Wizard of Oz.”
-It’s a bird, people. Move on.
Whew, I feel better. At least you people know better now. Don’t make me prove myself because I can.
hahahah oh wow. i totally thought a camels hump was full of water until i read this
anyways i think the myth that there will be an apocalypse in 2012 is kinda silly.
“Goats can and will eat anything, even garbage.”
I was taught this as a child by children’s books and kindergarten teachers. Obviously, it’s not true, but children don’t realize that. Goats die because kids feed them plastic and stuff.
I actually didn’t know about that blue blood one (*glances at username). Let’s keep these coming.
Whenever I hear someone mention one of those particular myths (I know all the ones you mentioned, yes the Wizard of Oz one too), I make it my mission to correct them.
Of course, there’s always like, one hundred of them for every one of us.
They’re always willing to jump in at first sight of a disturbance of the herd (Herd behavior) and fight the independant thinkers.
They see the more popular belief, and hop on the bandwagon, ignorantly assuming it’s true because more people believe it. Of course, this makes it all the more sweet to prove them wrong. Depressing, it’s a sad realization that this is the way it has always been, and always will be.
I spent most of my time in high school denying ignorance at every oppertunity.
One myth that really grind my gears is ‘Lysergic Acid Diethylamide stays in your body for 14 years’. False.
I tend to reinforce the myths that I know to be myths but find specially amusing. Paul is dead. Michael Jackson and Elvis aren’t. And don’t get me started on Santa Claus.
On that note: there are exactly three states of matter; blowing the catridge is what makes the game work eventually, not what rots it later on; there are alligators (you pick the size) in the sewers of New York; the Statue of Liberty is green because that’s the colour of hope, not because it’s rusty; the Christ the Redeemer statue on the other hand ain’t cracked, it’s just a weird kind of marble; Lady GaGa has a penis—no she doesn’t, but at any rate she started the rumours.
Flushing the toilet down under makes the water spin clockwise; ducks can smell your fear; we Brazilians are Latinos and thus we speak Spanish or maybe Latin, our capital (as, truly now, two presidents of the United States claimed) is Buenos Aires.
Talk about conspiracy, Europeans and Yanks are instructed in schools that the Amazon forest belongs to humanity and is managed by the UN or the US depending on the story. Ah the Amazon: it is the largest forest in the planet; it is also the lungs of the planet (whatever people imply with that) and that’s the matter with its deforestation.
Anonymous is a secret anarchist organisation with a clear agenda; moot’s name is Christopher Poole; Democracy is the least bad solution; Socrates is the guy behind the Socratic dialogues; Diogenes lived in a wooden barrel; Napoleon was straight (yeah, right ); Atila was a maniac; Cleopatra was pretty; Columbus discovered America (whatever people imply by that); your vote is worth exactly the same as everyone else’s in your country; Starbucks sells coffee.
And that song played backwards is indeed a satanic black mass.
I can’t believe I forgot one of extreme importance.
Ring Around the Rosie is about the black plague
-Absolutely not. The rhyme first started appearing in several variations at the end of the 19th century, not the 14th when the plague was around. The theory of its “origins” was invented in the 1960’s. While the meanings that are given to it fit, that is certainly not what it was conceived for.
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you will NOT be kissed by someone if you post this in 5 more threads, and if you close your eyes and say your crushes name 5 times and then hit f4, nothing will happen. Why would that even work?
Also, contrary to popular belief, if i was murdered as a little girl by my uncle or the pope or whatever and brought into the woods i would definitely NOT haunt the internet. Seriously, who would haunt the internet?
So yeah, anyway, mom, stop sending me these emails.
funny thing is, if these didn’t happen ALL THE DAMN TIME, i would probably find them delightful and charming, the sort of naive, but lovable, wishful thinking (and desire to NOT get killed by some little girl who got murdered by George Clooney.)
Video games are the direct cause of youth violence in the world.
People, including youths, have been killing one another since humanity was brought forth. Video games are just a scapegoat. Just like heavy metal was, and then before that it was rock n’ roll and the blues. Some people just can’t accept the fact that humans are violent for more serious reasons than entertainment.
Michael Jackson molested children.
Nope. I can’t believe how many people still believe this. The family that took him to court admitted later that the actual reason behind the case was trying to extort money from the pop superstar.
Lucid dreaming makes you tired the next day.
Lucid dreaming itself is not responsible. It’s more likely that either using WBTB interrupted your sleep schedule in some awful way or you spent too much time and effort trying to WILD. The actual dream had nothing to do with it.
So keep on reading ^^ Although I’m guessing you all here got better stuff to do when it gets dark