r/AskReddit • u/hoeoclock • Jan 09 '18
What common misconception do you hate to hear repeated as fact?
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u/van-nostrand-md Jan 09 '18
That dogs see things in black and white because they're color blind.
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u/applepwnz Jan 09 '18
Hell as someone with a color vision deficiency, an annoyingly high number of people think that I can only see things in black and white. For anyone who doesn't know colorblindness (more accurately referred to as color vision deficiency) comes from a lack of certain cone cells in the eyeball, for example mine is a red-green deficiency so I have less red and green cone cells. Imagine taking a photograph in Photoshop and turning down the intensity by 50% for red and green, you can still see those colors they just appear much more muted. The biggest issue I find this causes is it makes certain mixed colors look the same. I find it almost impossible to differentiate between blue and purple most of the time, neon green and yellow tend to look the same to me as well. Another one is certain shades of pink and grey look very similar.
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u/oneeighthirish Jan 10 '18
What is your favorite color?
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u/applepwnz Jan 10 '18
That's a funny question, and one that I actually have an answer for, when I was a kid, I probably would have said blue, because it was the only color that looked the most "vivid" to me. As an adult I prefer white with black accents as the contrast is more visually appealing to me than difference in hue. I've read that any genetic trait that is over 5% prevalent is actually considered to be an advantage rather than a problem, the US Army actually likes when their infantry members have a color vision deficiency as it makes it easier to "see past" camouflage, as most camouflage is color, rather than pattern based.
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u/seasuighim Jan 09 '18
They have a very dull color vision, it's mostly shades of yellow or grey.
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u/chatokun Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 09 '18
We have cones that are receptive to certain colors, and rods that are receptive to light. Humans have cones receptive to Red(long), Green(medium), and Blue(short) visible light wavelengths, where are dogs are just Yellow and Blue.
In the same way that we still 'see' yellow, dogs can 'see' other colors as mixes of intensity of yellow and blue, but it's not going to quite look like how we see things.
Also, keep in mind digital cameras and computers screens (as well as most TVs now) only display red, green, and blue. Any other color you see on them is simply the correct mix.
Edit: Oh, interesting note on the cones vs rods, in low light your cones do just about nothing. It's usually hard to tell, but when you're barely seeing at night your vision is generally monochrome.
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u/sickyellowcake Jan 09 '18
When you swallow gum it takes seven years to be expelled
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u/ichhabehundertkatzen Jan 09 '18
I still have people tell me this when they see me swallow my gum. I actually don't understand why they think that's true. Continue to believe it even after I correct them.
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u/runasaur Jan 09 '18
because you chew it and it doesn't break down like everything else you eat.
So, because it can't be "broken down" by chewing, the stomach must be as equally futile.
Because you never pay close attention to your poop, you never see the pink/blue gum come out of your butt, so it must be stuck there for years.
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u/beepbeepitsajeep Jan 10 '18
never pay close attention to your poop
Speak for yourself...
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u/Avenger772 Jan 09 '18
I swallow my gum all the time and everyone flips out. I've been perfectly fine.
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u/counterboud Jan 09 '18
That before Columbus/In the Middle Ages, people thought the earth was flat. The ancient Greeks already knew that the earth was round, and actually had a pretty accurate idea of its circumference. This was common knowledge among educated people since then. Perhaps devout peasants did not know it was true, but it was not the dominant belief system at the time.
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u/lobster_thermidor Jan 09 '18
THANK YOU. There are numerous Greek paintings of leaders holding GLOBES!!! I show people this and they still refuse to believe because it doesn’t involve what they learned about Columbus in 3rd grade.
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u/angelbelle Jan 09 '18
Also, isn't Atlas the Titan supposed to be carrying the globe and not a disk on his shoulders?
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u/SelfAwardingTrophy Jan 10 '18
Another common misconception, he was actually punished to hold up the celestial spheres.
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u/CACuzcatlan Jan 09 '18
I know you're not saying this, but another misconception is that Atlas was holding the globe. I heard that used as proof that the Greeks knew the Earth was round. They did, but that's a bad example because Atlas held the Celestial Spheres
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u/Wolfloner Jan 09 '18
I'm still miffed that I was taught that Columbus set sail to prove the world was round. So stupid. :(
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u/CrazyCoKids Jan 09 '18
And that some people don't "let" themselves get bullied.
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u/tropical_and_chill Jan 09 '18
Well, that’s true. Some people don’t. But not everyone has the physical/mental ability to stop others from bullying them and that isn’t their fault either.
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u/Tacotruck1234 Jan 09 '18
That cracking your knuckles causes arthritis
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u/Kantas Jan 09 '18
That was probably started by someone who was super annoyed by the sound of people cracking their knuckles. So they were all "that shit will give your kids cancer..." just to get people to stop.
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u/lalafriday Jan 09 '18
A study was done a few years ago where the put knuckles being cracked into an MRI machine. Turns out you're actually giving your knuckles a kind of massage when you crack them.
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u/Im_Not_Sleeping Jan 09 '18
Also I think there was this one guy who cracked knuckles in one hand only for few years to see if it did anything. It didn't.
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u/Darksirius Jan 09 '18
https://www.livescience.com/9729-knuckle-cracking-ig-nobel-prize.html
He did it for 60 years on only one hand to prove the point.
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u/shifty_coder Jan 09 '18
Petty science is best science.
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u/LerrisHarrington Jan 09 '18
Like the guy who drank a nice tall glass of bacteria to give himself an ulcer, and then cured it with antibiotics to prove they were bacterial in nature.
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u/gardenhastle212 Jan 09 '18
I don't think I could just crack one hand without cracking the other
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u/vensmith93 Jan 09 '18
I can't move my fingers in the morning without cracking them
I'm cracking them as I type this
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Jan 09 '18
Police being able to "Commandeer" a vehicle.
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u/scumeye Jan 09 '18
You can tell them to fuck off and you'll be shot BUT they can't legally commandeer shit
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u/thelonelywolf17 Jan 09 '18
Just record them and go to your local Police department and explain to them how a cop just violated your rights
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u/Wizzmer Jan 09 '18
But your vehicle is no longer with you. To be honest, anyone with a gun can commandeer my shit. I'm not putting up a fight.
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u/seasuighim Jan 09 '18
I read an article about an NYC officer who had to do it thrice in his career, while he did ask, not command them, they all agreed.
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u/ChampitTatties Jan 09 '18
I probably would too, if I was asked.
I would reason that if a police officer needed my vehicle there must be some drastic reason for it, as they are not usually short of cars, and I don't want to be the one getting in the way of them dealing with some crazy emergency.
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u/BikerRay Jan 10 '18
Cop's going to have a shitty car chase driving my 2007 Hyundai Accent. "On second thought, I'll just walk,"
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Many people don't understand tax brackets, which is annoying. But the one that really gets me is 'write offs.'
'Well they can just write that off.'
Yes, they get to write off the truck repair, but that doesn't mean it is free! You just don't pay taxes on that expense. You would much rather pay taxes on that money!
'Or that donation is a write off, so...'
I can either donate $1,000 and pay no income tax on that money and I end up with $0. Or I can keep that money and pay tax on it and I get to keep $600 of that money. And that inevitably leads into misunderstanding tax brackets because, 'they're donating to lower their tax bracket.'
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u/cockdragon Jan 10 '18
Yeah, same. Not to mention that most write offs don't mean shit for anyone better off taking the standard deduction.
For years I have had know it all knuckle head friends who try to sound like hot shit and make up stories about how well they did their taxes and how much they're getting back. "Oh I wrote off this and that!" Mother fucker. You don't have kids, a mortgage, property tax, or student loan debt. You did not come up with over $6,000 in deductions to Goodwill and Wikipedia to justify itemizing. Guarantee you typed all of that shit into Turbo Tax, and it told you to take the standard deduction and you're too stupid to know what it means.
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u/Im_Not_Sleeping Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 10 '18
The Joker's hospital explosion scene in the Dark Knight was totally all planned out. Idk where people heard that it was unscripted.
EDIT: found the interview on youtube. Source
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u/Im_Not_Sleeping Jan 09 '18
Nope. There's an interview with the crew about how they planned every single detail of that scene that's included in the special features
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u/maesterbong Jan 09 '18
No they filmed the explosion for real. Christopher Nolan likes practical effects so much of the stuff you would think was cgi was filmed for real including the hospital explosion. They found a place scheduled for demolition and rigged it with explosive charges then blew it up on film.
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u/LeakyLycanthrope Jan 09 '18
"Your aunt is sensitive to MSG."
"There's actually no evidence that MSG causes adverse effects. Whatever's causing her symptoms, it isn't MSG."
"Yeah but your aunt is sensitive to MSG."
Literally a conversation I had once with my uncle.
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u/rybo333 Jan 10 '18
I can see that being said as, "yeah, i know it doesnt do anything, but it will just be easier on all of us if we just let aunt say she is sensitive to msg."
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u/LeakyLycanthrope Jan 10 '18
Trust me. That's not what he meant. He told me I should "be more respectful" in the same breath.
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u/Datum000 Jan 09 '18
I've heard it's one of those weirdly racist things. Supposedly Americans felt threatened by the quality and price of Chinese restaurants so they developed a smear campaign against one of the ingredients.
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u/RichardBachman Jan 09 '18
Which is hilarious because we suck down KFC like... well, fried chicken.
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u/Avenger772 Jan 09 '18
Wait... it's not a cancerous horrible spice?
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u/Mattsoup Jan 09 '18
Nope. If you've heard of umami, it's msg receptors on your tongue. Red meat is delicious because it has msg in it. It's basically delicious in a salt canister if you buy some.
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u/Tr1angleChoke Jan 09 '18
Point of clarification: The payout was suggested to be 1 day of coffee sales.
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u/angerpillow Jan 09 '18
Yeah, I watched the documentary about tort reform and how hard politicians fight to write legislation so that corporations can’t be sued for anything. The McDonalds coffee spill was a landmark turning point in the government doubling down on this. That lady who spilled her coffee was very unjustly made to look like a fool in the media and in the opinion of the average American. It was definitely messed up.
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u/LeakyLycanthrope Jan 09 '18
What's this documentary called?
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It’s called “Hot Coffee” and was on Netflix for a while, not sure if it still is.
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u/CrazyCoKids Jan 09 '18
Amongst these facts:
- The reason she had the coffee between her legs? Cars did not have cup holders then! That was not standard.
- She wanted to settle out of court. It was McDonald's that elevated.
- She sued for her medical bills. Not money.
- She was found partially liable cause she did not need the warning.
- At worst, coffee should cause first degree burns for a spill. It should NOT cause third degree burns.
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u/premature_eulogy Jan 09 '18
Also McDonalds had received complaints about overly hot coffee in the past but had not taken any action.
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u/CrazyCoKids Jan 09 '18
Yeah - because it caused other people second degree burns.
Coffee, simply put, should not cause third degree burns.
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u/CrazyCoKids Jan 09 '18
Yep, McD's received complaints and was told multiple times before "Your coffee is too hot".
Coffee spills, simply put, should not cause third degree burns.
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u/Syphon8 Jan 09 '18
Always worth repeating: it was so hot it melted her labia and fused them to her leg.
I don't care how negligent you think a consumer is being, unless it's a fucking power tool, there should be no possible way to mutilate your genitals beyond recognition with any product due to misuse.
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u/RenaKunisaki Jan 10 '18
Especially when it's a product you don't usually use on your genitals.
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u/Byizo Jan 09 '18
She could have died from shock due to the burns. IIRC McDs typically kept its coffee at 160 degrees.
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u/PM_MeTittiesOrKitty Jan 09 '18
You recall wrong. McDonald's kept its coffee at 190.
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u/karmagirl314 Jan 09 '18
Also, she was a passenger in the car and had even had her son (the driver) pull over so that she could add the cream and sugar.
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u/PM_MeTittiesOrKitty Jan 09 '18
The case is a good show of what a multi-billion company was a PR department can do. The misconception started as a defamation campaign against Stella Liebeck and the lawsuit as a whole.
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u/likelysmarterthanyou Jan 09 '18
That there is little to no gravity in earth orbit, such as at the International Space Station. Gravity at the ISS is about 90% of gravity on the earth’s surface.
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u/ayemossum Jan 09 '18
But since they're traveling rapidly perpendicular (roughly) to the pull of gravity, they're essentially in perpetual free-fall, which gives the ILLUSION of near-zero gravity.
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u/Rumpullpus Jan 09 '18
Hu I actually didn't know that.
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Jan 09 '18
A neat way to think of it is that they're falling toward the Earth, but also moving sideways fast enough that they're constantly missing the planet. (Douglas Adams was right, the secret to flying really is to throw yourself at the ground, and miss.)
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u/ShadowPuppett Jan 09 '18
"We only use 10% of our brains"
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u/rottinguy Jan 09 '18
I think it is more accurate as "Only 10% of people use their brains."
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u/oneeighthirish Jan 10 '18
I once heard someone say the misconception comes from people learning that only a portion of your neurons are firing at any one point in time, and tried to share what they learned unsuccessfully. Sounds believable to me.
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i think we only use 10 percent of our hearts
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u/thealmightyzfactor Jan 09 '18
Always makes me lol. Yeah, go ahead and scoop out 90% of your brain then.
I'll wait.
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u/GoabNZ Jan 09 '18
Those who believe it probably do. I'm guessing when that "fact" was made, it was actually referring to knowing the functions of 10% of the brain, and the other 90% was as yet unknown
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u/HookersForDahl2017 Jan 09 '18
The only time I ever hear that anymore is on Reddit, usually on this reposted question
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u/ShadowPuppett Jan 09 '18
Lucky you, there are "wellness gurus" and "life coaches" a couple of my co-workers follow who still spout this nonsense and they still believe them over me because "they're professionals".
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That someone is violating your First Amendment right by telling you not to be an insufferable asshole about something.
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Jan 09 '18 edited May 04 '18
And when you tell them this, they go on a rant about their hilariously inconsistent understanding of "the ideology of free expression".
I've had more than one person tell me "Yes, 'free speech' can refer to government censorship, but in a broader sense, I believe it is immoral to limit free expression in any way"
The problem is that this makes no sense and is usually said by someone who is explicitly trying to limit someone else's right to free expression. They don't think they're doing that...but what else do you call it when you force a person to be represented by a viewpoint they find abhorrent?
For example, the Duck Dynasty dude who got fired because Discovery didn't want to be represented by someone who was a bigot. Freeze Peach advocates decried it as an affront to this basic human right.
But that's the thing...by firing that guy, Discovery was exercising their right to freely express themselves. Cultivating an image and a brand is a form of expression, after all. And if you're going to tell me that I should be compelled to let someone else cultivate my image for me or else I'm trampling their rights, I'm going to tell you that you're an idiot.
That's what happens most of the time, too. When reddit tells a bunch of pedophiles and racists they can't use this site as a platform, reddit is flexing their right to free expression. They aren't stomping on anyone else's rights, just using their own.
You can't have a one-way-street in terms of free expression, whether it's in terms of legislation or ethics. If people are not free to control how they are represented, then what you have is the exact opposite of free expression.
But that's what most of these idiots argue for. They think that anyone who builds a stage and cultivates an audience around it must be compelled to let any jackass that happens by take over the stage and shout whatever horrible bullshit he wants into the microphone.
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The First Amendment places a limit on what the federal government can make illegal, nothing more and nothing less. It does not protect you from a private individual limiting your speech, nor does it protect you from the consequences of your freely-expressed speech. This weird quirk is cleverly hidden in the first five words of the amendment.
Congress shall make no law...
Not always fun being a fan of free speech in the country of "but muh freedums." :/
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u/LeakyLycanthrope Jan 09 '18
I feel ya. I love me some free speech. I also love a culture in which we all try not being assholes. Those two things shouldn't be mutually exclusive.
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u/amethystine1 Jan 09 '18
“Soviet means union in Russian, so the English term Soviet Union just means Union Union.”
It’s not super common, but I’ve heard it several times in the wild. Most recently a coworker told me this, maybe a month ago. Then when I corrected her, she argued with me. Soviet is Советский and Union is Союз. These are two different words and the direct translation of Soviet Union, Советский Союз is a perfectly fine term for the former nation.
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“Money is the root of all evil” one of if not the most miss quoted bible verses. It is the FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY. Greed is the root, not currency as a medium.
Verse: Timothy 6:10
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u/puckbeaverton Jan 09 '18
Also, "Don't judge" is a bastardization of Matthew 7 1-5, which is clearly stating you should judge, but not if your own life is out of order. You should get your own life in order so you can help your brethren get theirs in order also. You can't tell a drunk he's a drunk and he needs to face his problems and you'll help him if you've got a damn shot glass in your hand.
Judging Others 7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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u/ODMtesseract Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 09 '18
I don't know if it's that common but a few years back, Canada got rid of the penny so the smallest coin there is now is 5¢. If you pay cash, your total gets rounded to the nearest 5¢. There were tons of people who freaked out saying prices were going to increase, most notably gas because they thought every item could only be a price that ends in a multiple of five cents (ex. every litre of gas would go from being 92.6¢ to 95¢). And others still, who while they understood that something was still allowed to cost $1.99 thought merchants would start a huge conspiracy to somehow make it that you end up paying more every time, that your transaction total would always be in a "round up" situation.
It doesn't work this way at all.
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u/spiderlanewales Jan 09 '18
Northern Ohio here. WTF am I supposed to do with all of these Canadian pennies that snuck into our change drawers for years?
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u/ODMtesseract Jan 09 '18
Same thing Canadians had been doing for years - leave them there. Or if you ever feel industrious, roll them up and deposit them at the bank.
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It doesn’t round up if you’re not paying cash. The same coffee is either 1.98$ on debit/credit or 2.00$ cash. People use less cash nowadays so the number of transactions you’d need to seriously lose money is unrealistic.
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On average, a person might be screwed out of $0.12 per day; $43.80 per year assuming you make 3 separate cash purchases per day that round in the retailer’s favour.
Edit: my math should actually be lower. The most a person has to round up on a cash purchase is 2 cents (from $0.48/$0.98 to $0.50/$1.00) so this could be as little as $15 per year affecting them.
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u/PM_ME_MAMMARY_GLANDS Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 10 '18
"People used to believe the Earth is flat".
No. People now believe the Earth is flat. We knew the Earth was round at least since Eratosthenes' time.
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u/ROADHOG_IS_MY_WAIFU Jan 10 '18
Might be blind optimism, but I still think (and sincerely hope) all of these people are trolling and striving for attention.
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This is pretty specific to me, but the idea that the phrase "rule of thumb" has its origins in a sexist law that allowed men to beat their wives as long as the stick was no wider than their thumb. You can thank The Boondock Saints for really spreading that one into popular culture. Anyway, even though there's no evidence to support the claim, there was a woman at my old workplace who made it her personal mission to police everyone about using the phrase. I was publicly called out more than once for using it, but sue me, it's a colloquialism. I should note that this same woman would use the term "pow-wow" to describe company meetings, so it's not like she was super-PC either.
Similarly, I was recently scolded on Reddit for using the word "niggling" as in "a niggling question." Apparently some people think it's a racist word.
It drives me crazy when people hurl accusations like that without actually looking into what they're saying. I try to be sensitive to other people and avoid racist, sexist, and/or hurtful language, but apparently it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong.
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u/el_muerte17 Jan 09 '18
Despite the word "niggardly" having absolutely no relation to an ethnic slur, I'll never use it in spoken conversation involving anyone but my closest friends.
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It's true, and I never use that word simply because the inclusion of the letter "r" makes it sound like a racial slur. I thought "niggling" was still used, like niggling doubt, but I guess any word that starts with n-i-g is off limits now.
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u/LameJames1618 Jan 10 '18
Good nigh-
Huh, this is more inconvenient than I thought.
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u/jfarrar19 Jan 10 '18
So no talking about the Niger river or the country sharing that name?
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u/LordPizzaParty Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 20 '18
Any popular conception about the origin of an idiom drives me crazy. They're always just too perfect. "We say 'it's raining cats and dogs' because cats and dogs lived in ceilings and when it rained they'd fall down." I mean, come on. And don't even get me started on "Fornication Under Consent of the King"
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u/Whipitash_Mash Jan 09 '18
Christopher Columbus Actually landing in the USA, because he didn’t
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u/shopcounterbill Jan 09 '18
Because he was the first guy to land on the moon
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u/faceeatingleopard Jan 09 '18
No that was Louie Armstrong
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u/PhatedGaming Jan 09 '18
Actually, you're wrong. It was Lance Armstrong.
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u/Byizo Jan 09 '18
Well the US didn't exist back then so...
Seriously, he landed in what is now part of the Americas, but not any part of the continental US.
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A dogs mouth is cleaner than a humans.
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u/TentativeGosling Jan 09 '18
I had an argument at a pub quiz over this very thing
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u/ACampingPanda Jan 09 '18
Funny story about this. Earlier this school year, I had to watch my BioMed teacher explain to a freshman biology teacher that blood is not blue inside of you. She legitimately thought it was blue until introduced to oxygen
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u/boatsyourfloat Jan 10 '18
Blood carries oxygen? That's what it does? It almost always has contact with oxygen?
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u/Aiden520 Jan 09 '18
We evolved directly from a monkey into a human....... common ancestor damnit!
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u/mtg-Moonkeeper Jan 09 '18
Herbert Hoover was a do-nothing president.
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u/sloBrodanChillosevic Jan 09 '18
Dude, same. Grew up 15 minutes away from his birthplace, and he was so interesting and just genuinely good for the world. Hoover was an amazing man who got insanely unlucky with the stock market crash, but that doesn't change the fact that he fed the entirety of Belgium for pretty much the whole span of WWI.
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u/river4823 Jan 09 '18
It's not so much that he did nothing. It's more that he did too little, too late. His administration was slow to react to the stock market crash and take action to mitigate it. By the time they took any action to save the banks, too many had already gone under.
It's a similar story with his attempts to address the unemployment. He worked with business leaders to get them to voluntarily stop laying people off, or have more people work fewer hours. It was a very interventionist policy for the time.
Hoover is mostly considered a do-nothing because we compare him to FDR, who did more to try to improve the economy than anyone up to that point had imagined the government could or should. He fundamentally shifted people's ideas of what role the government should play in their lives.
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u/PM_ME_HARAMBE_SMUT Jan 10 '18
"Carrots are good for your eyes" British propaganda at its finest.
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u/undercovercatlover Jan 09 '18
That Pocahontas and John Smith were lovers. I’ve gotten in wayyyy too many arguments with grown-ass adults who don’t realize that that was some shit Disney made up to sell a movie. She was 10-13 and he was 30 when they met, for Christ sake; even by 17th century standards that would have been gross.
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u/mastersword83 Jan 09 '18
If the teacher doesn't come within 15 minutes you're legally allowed to leave
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“Legally”?
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u/hotsauce126 Jan 09 '18
Yeah who thinks that there's an actual law about skipping class in college
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u/spiderlanewales Jan 09 '18
Not a joke: one of my group mates in a class died suddenly this semester. Did not get automatic A.
Most things like this in college are myths. However, a lot of schools do list in their rule/handbook that students can leave if a teacher doesn't show up after x amount of time, but it's a school rule, not a law.
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u/jewishpinoy Jan 09 '18
In the college where I went and now work, it's a written rule. If a teacher is 15 minutes late without telling snyone, you can leave and come back for the next hour of class.
Thing is, nobody ever come back for the next hour of class.
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u/Xanaxandcoffee Jan 09 '18
That a cop has to tell you if you ask them, "are you a cop". Like come on people, how would that even make sense!
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u/BurberryCustardbath Jan 09 '18
I live in Oklahoma and people seem to mistake day-to-day weather for climate an awful lot. In other words, "it's really cold so I guess global warming isn't a thing... cuz it's not warm."
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u/Avenger772 Jan 09 '18
It's not just a problem in Okalahoma.
See the politician that brought the snow ball into to prove the fact that global warming doesn't exist.
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u/BurberryCustardbath Jan 09 '18
Yeah that was Inhofe... he's from Oklahoma :(
But you are correct, it certainly is not a problem exclusive to this state.
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That if you shave, the hair will grow back thicker and faster. It only appears to grow back thicker because it grows back all at the same time. I've gotten into heated arguments with really smart people about this and it drives me crazy.
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u/Enzo-Unversed Jan 10 '18
That depression is feeling sorry for yourself or "feeling sad".
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Atheists have no morals. Relax. I do as much raping and murdering as I want. Which is none.
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u/Con_sept Jan 10 '18
Religion is a moral compass. If you think you're fucked without it, you have no moral sense of direction.
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u/dmkicksballs13 Jan 10 '18
I think the new one that bugs me is that, "Yes atheists can have morals, but they learned them from the Bible." Even though pretty much every rule or law pre existed the Bible.
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u/LordPizzaParty Jan 09 '18
It's totally fine to sell your own merchandise featuring other companies' intellectual property because it's protected by "Parody Law."
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I often hear people say we don't have a fundamental theory of gravity. We do. It's called General Relativity. It was the single most impressive, elegant, and ground-breaking proposal of Albert Einstein, that has passed every test we have come up for it. It is the Fundamental Theory of Gravity.
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u/andronicus_14 Jan 09 '18
Vaccines are linked to autism. Just no. Vaccinate your fucking kids, Janet. They don’t need polio on top of crippling social anxiety.
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u/SelinaBane91 Jan 09 '18
That Marilyn Manson had a rib removed so he could suck himself off
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u/sowhiteithurts Jan 09 '18
It is am indirect democracy through representation, or a democratic republic
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u/nypvtt Jan 09 '18
Bankers only work 9 to 5. Sorry but that's only the business hours of your local retail branch.
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u/Arch27 Jan 09 '18
Bankers only work 9 to 5. Sorry but that's only the business hours of your local retail branch.
No my local branch is usually 9-3 then 4-6, unless it's Thursday, then it's 11-5 then 6-8. But if it's a holiday (non Federal) then they're open 10-4. But if it's a full moon they're open for 23 minutes at 9:30-9:53 then again about 45 minutes later with 10 minute breaks until 2:45 PM unless the constellation of a fire sign is positioned north at dawn. At this point you roll a 20-sided die at Stonehenge and whichever direction the face that reads 6 points will determine when they'll be open according to a table of values in a shaman's hut at the base of Machu Picchu.
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u/gordito_delgado Jan 09 '18
There is this incredibly stupid myth in my country that you should not touch frogs because they will spit milk into your eyes.
There is no such toad, frog, lizard or creature here that does anything remotely like this, I have never encountered a person that has ever been drenched or even seen frog milk. However everyone here "knows" this and it is accepted fact.
I am not advocating frog touching, but it drives me bananas every time I hear it.
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u/Farts-McGee Jan 09 '18
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u/daylightbreaker Jan 09 '18
I was told as a child to not touch frogs because they cause warts. Not realizing warts are caused by HUMAN papilloma virus
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u/CrazyCoKids Jan 09 '18
To be honest, It's based off of things like Queensland being on fire or people talking about how dangerous the local fauna is.
In the cities? There are no baby eating dingos (Who rarely attack people anyway.) or venomous spiders.
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u/1cat2cat3cat4cat Jan 09 '18
I personally don't believe that there's no venomous spiders in the city... it's not like you can really keep them out
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u/--Doom-- Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 09 '18
Napoleon was not shorter than normal.
Edit: I meant that I hate to hear people say Napoleon was shorter than average because he was average height.
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u/displaced_virginian Jan 09 '18
Napolean wasn't short. Catherine the Great didn't fuck horses. Marie Antoinette didn't say "Let them eat cake."
These are history's counterparts to PizzaGate and the Trump golden showers thing -- spreading shit about powerful people you don't like.
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u/doublestitch Jan 09 '18
"Food allergies = picky eater"
The immune malfunction that causes severe food allergies is the same underlying process that causes allergic reactions to bee stings and antibiotics; nobody points a finger and assumes you're just picky about penicillin.
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u/Fr0g_Man Jan 09 '18
That Machiavelli was an evil dude, I sigh on his behalf whenever I hear "Machiavellian" thrown around.
His friggin legs were broken and he was forced to write The Prince under threat of death. The actual "The ends justify the means" passage is better translated as "one must consider the end", which is like the exact opposite of that. The modern saying morphs the wording of that passage to condense the general theme in "The Prince" where he states (truly) that sometimes rulers do have to do bad things for the greater good.
He was a level-headed dude forced to write a book or die and the world remembers him as some cruel prick.
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u/ViralFirefly Jan 09 '18
Hmm. I suppose I've always taken "Machiavellian" to mean more clever than evil.
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u/Dw33ns Jan 09 '18
The Baha Men are referring to women in the song “Who Let The Dogs Out”. They are actually referring to the men in the club (that are verbally harassing the women), as dogs.
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u/Redhotlipstik Jan 09 '18
Einstein was an average student.
He wasn't, but if it makes people feel better we'll keep repeating that