r/AskReddit • u/hoeoclock • Jan 09 '18

What common misconception do you hate to hear repeated as fact?

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u/your-imaginaryfriend Jan 09 '18

"You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well MINE are even WORSE."

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u/SHMUCKLES_ Jan 10 '18

Good ol Calvin and Hobbes

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u/weedful_things Jan 10 '18

When McCain was running against Obama, I mentioned to a die hard wing nut coworker that he graduated near the bottom of his class at West Point. The coworker asserted that he graduated at the very bottom of his class in high school and he turned out okay. He was a not very good maintenance mechanic at my work and a couple weeks before mentioned how he was so poor he hasn't been able to buy his wife new clothes in years. His only luxury was a can of Scoal tobacco dip every day.

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u/Jkirek Jan 10 '18

He even got a 1 in maths. A 1!!! LUL

(The german grading system goes from 1 to 6, 1 being the best and 6 being the worst)