Innumerable, but I think "there's no gravity in space" is kinda high up there
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I mean they are "kinda" right. In the sense of "absolutely wrong" but if you go to space you will feel no gravity.
Its wrong in a science context but correct in an individual, human, normal person living their live context.
A roommate once told me that cows "have one hole for babies and pooping", i.e., a cloaca, but he didn't know that word. I told him that isn't true, they are typical mammals so they have the full complement of parts.
I was sitting at my computer so I pulled up a diagram which he said was wrong. Then he asked to show me and started searching for things like, "cow hole", "cow butthole and birth canal", and "cows with just one hole" before I regained my senses and told him to go away.
The worst part though was the next day when my girlfriend was using my computer and saw the searches so I had to explain to her the conversation and he came back in to defend himself and tried to look up cow smut AGAIN.
A mother of three afraid to get prostate cancer, like her own dad.
I had to co-worker to whom I had to explain that women don't have a prostate.
My biology teacher in 7th grade during sex-ed:
The anus is a one way road
Fuck her homophobic ass.*
*Not literally. Something tells me she's not into that.
Tell my gastroenterologist that...
One way road how??
It's a homophobic thing as in "exit only" as in "don't put stuff up my ass even if it gave me pleasure that would make me gay and society would collapse" or smth along those lines.
I'll stop faster because I'm towing a trailer.
My idiot FIL, a chronic tailgater, the last ever time I opted to be a passenger.
If the trailer has very good brakes set to full power even when nearly empty, it's actually true, but I doubt that's the case…
I actually asked him that at the time
Oh, is it a braked trailer?
No.
I am pretty sure physics says "no":
Ff <= µ*Fn
- Fn is proportional to the mass of the trailer, so it is irrelevant for the deceleration (a) if it is empty or not (because Ff = m*a).
- µ is a constant relying on the tire/ground connection. Comparable to the towing car (if you happen to have car tire quality ones on your trailer, which might be doubtful)
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On top of that, typical car trailers use overrun brakes that per definition work by exerting an additional force on the towing vehicle in the direction of movement that is then used to activate the trailer brake.
That is an oversimplified friction model that does not apply well to emergency braking. I still don't think you get a better braking distance with a trailer in a typical situation but thats not the reason why.
Fair enough, car trailers do have garbage braking most of the time anyway. I may be biased because locomotives are so heavy and the traction you get with steel is shit so they actually benefit from some load behind…
Locomotives? What is your profession?
In any case, I seriously hope that you are not tailgaiting ;-)
Freight train driver. I don't tailgate, I like to leave plenty of distance in front of my car.
I meant tailgaiting with your train ;-)
(but yes, I am aware of the systems that prevent that, heard some interesting talks about the topic and seen demonstrations in our local railway museum)
The first ones I could think out of The top of my head:
- Wind turbines are being powered by Diesel Generators
- In The Middle Age people were like 4m tall, which is the reason why the entrance gates of castles are so big.
There are probably way more, that I forgot (my parents are quite deep into conspiracy theories and so is their entire social circle).
In The Middle Age people were like 4m tall, which is the reason why the entrance gates of castles are so big.
This guy clearly never has been to an actual castle or medieval townhouse and bumped his head on every second door...
And the wind turbine one is so bonkers I can't even imagine someone saying that in a non-joke-context...
There are 7 alien spaceships orbiting earth right now the size of Jupiter, but they are invisible. They are not revealing themselves to us yet because we are not ready. But they are mind controlling the world leaders to prevent us from killing each other in a nuclear war. They helped trump win so as to save us all. There are also millions of people living underground in a whole separate society. Hilary Clinton is a lizard person, etc.
Then after he told me all this he said seriously with a straight face. “I will never tell you anything that I don’t know to be true 100%”
This is why you shouldn't hate Trump supporters. They aren't bad people. They are just batshit insane.
Nah... a lot of them are stupid and bad people.
People from Sweden are short, his reasoning was the size of IKEA furniture.
I am confused... What is different with the size of IKEA furniture?
When I go to Ikea with my bf, I always feel like we're walking through a dollhouse.
By now really want to see what a American (you are from the U.S.?) furniture store looks like. Wonder if there is something on youtube, must have a look...
A lot of it is designed to fit in college dorms. So some are on the small side...
But this guy also didn't understand that beds came in standard sizes, and was worried a swedish store (in the US) would be selling bedframes sized based on swedish standards and wouldn't fit his mattress... It was a dumb conversation
Ok, so might be different product offering in the US then. Which makes what he said even doubly stupid.
College dorms are not as much of a thing here in Europe and Ikea stuff here is normal sized, just standardized, mostly with that minimalistic Ikea look and easy to assemble by oneself.
... How does that make it doubly stupid? He wouldn't know what ikea stores sell in Europe. His only exposure was a week known European brand stores offerings.
You before said it was based on the stuff that is used for college dorms, so I gathered he was looking at similar offerings as in other stores but just assumed it to be smaller because of some Ikea-specific reasons instead, so he then had to make up a suitable reason.
But on the other hand, perhaps he knew that College dorms are not a thing in Europe and had to find a reason the Ikea sold small furniture regardless of this.
In that case his remark wouldn't have been stupid at all but a valid speculative thought process based on deeper cultural knowledge.
Who knows...
I think IKEA furniture does read as a little small to Americans because it is European designed and European furniture on average seems a little smaller than American furniture, to my eye at least.
Source: have owned a few IKEA pieces and have also am an American who has travelled to Europe a few times where I often stayed in airbnbs
I had an economics teacher in high school who warned us that we’re better off at the higher end of a lower tax bracket than the lower end of a higher one, because a higher bracket being a higher percentage of taxation meant you’d lose so much more money that you’d be holding less in the end until you pass the threshold within that bracket where you get back ahead of the tax. An economics teacher.
this is true, at least for my income tax
Briefly being around someone with the covid vaccine can mess up your periods and cause early menopause.
Flat Earth Theory.
It wasn't my first time hearing about it, but it was my first time meeting someone in person who genuinely believed in it. My coworker and I got a 30 minute lecture on why he was right, presented wholeheartedly.
The amazing thing about round earth is how easy it is to prove it. Just visit both hemispheres and compare the orientation of the moon.
That green grapes were grapes that weren’t ripe. Couldn’t believe my ears and had to point out that green/white grapes make white wine and red grapes make red wine, there’s no such thing as red grapes that are green because they’re not ripe.
there’s no such thing as red grapes that are green because they’re not ripe.
Son of winegrower here:
Actually, there are.
But you wouldn't want to eat them... :-)
But you wouldn’t want to eat them… :-)
or ferment them. You want the sugar for the fermentation, after all.
(Some folks in my family grow wine for a living. I genuinely miss them.)