Dumb shit you might think is true. - General

god damn it why do I yawn almost every time someone mentions yawning in the thread [editline]01:39AM[/editline] [QUOTE=kittaygal;24022221]Your avitar is scary meepugh, oh and I'm not so sure that 4chan caused 911...[/QUOTE] It was a joke ...?

Tap Water - The 'City and companies competing with each other' crack was just a crack. It was more meant to say 'If Tap Water is clearly dirtier than why would we have it'. Also, you agreed with me. Tap water is cleaner. Yawning one - I wasn't aware of that study, but I appreciate you informing me of it. Yes, I'm conceding that somebody else was right and not being proud of being unaware of something. Jesus - I was using the facts most often related to Jesus that directly correlate to his image. I never ever said 'Jesus absolutely existed' or 'Jesus didn't exist'. I was trying to make a statement that appealed to both sides of the arguement without trying to start a debate. Now I know to never prod at the religion debate, and I thank you for making that clearer to me.

[QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;24022521]Tap Water - The 'City and companies competing with each other' crack was just a crack. It was more meant to say 'If Tap Water is clearly dirtier than why would we have it'. Also, you agreed with me. Tap water is cleaner. Yawning one - I wasn't aware of that study, but I appreciate you informing me of it. Yes, I'm conceding that somebody else was right and not being proud of being unaware of something. Jesus - I was using the facts most often related to Jesus that directly correlate to his image. I never ever said 'Jesus absolutely existed' or 'Jesus didn't exist'. I was trying to make a statement that appealed to both sides of the arguement without trying to start a debate. Now I know to never prod at the religion debate, and I thank you for making that clearer to me.[/QUOTE] Yeah, ok, the point [I]isn't[/I] that you can accept that you were wrong. The point is that you're convincing an uninformed crowd that what you say is right, when it's not. Look up your facts next time. Not only will you be able to correct and check yourself, but you'll have a source if someone decides to challenge you.

[QUOTE=Rubs10;24022309]I don't think there's anything to say about this one, but there's also evidence that the flying pink unicorn in the sky, may actually be purple, and that it may not even use wings at all, but rather flies with fairy dust and the dreams of children.[/QUOTE] Don't dismiss the possibility of the existence of a person just because the nature of his existence is blown out of proportions.

I was using facts that I had seen before. The Yawning one is the best example, I remembered that one from months ago. I admit I should have checked the facts closer, though. If I post any more, I'll cite stuff.

[QUOTE=LuckyLuke;24021669]I've got quite a few: [I]Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter." In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760 In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year In Providence, Rhode Island, it is against the law to jump off a bridge In North Carolina, it is against the law for dogs and cats to fight In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned In California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples In North Carolina, it is against the law for a rabbit to race down the street In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second![/I] [B]NOTE:[/B] These are all from a website I found, these may or may not be true. This website can be found [url=http://www.strangefacts.com/]HERE[/url][/QUOTE] You missed the point of the thread.

With the whole jesus being white thing, i think, the perception of Jesus(if he exsisted etc.) and his bearded face derived from 'The shroud of Turin' which was obviously disproved and thought to have been faked and created by Leanardo Da Vinci.

[QUOTE=Dan2593;24020405][U]Goldfish have a 6 second memory[/U] Nope. That's the stupidest thing since stupid was made. If golfish can only remember the last 6 seconds, how do they know how to breed and eat and shit and swim? How do they know not to go to the surface unless food is being served? Give the goldfish some credit.[/QUOTE] wow I'm hungry I'll have a bit of fish food (6 seconds later...) that looks like some good fish food.... or, fish:hey dude, other fish:hey, and repeat the process [editline]08:06PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Stizzles;24022471]god damn it why do I yawn almost every time someone mentions yawning in the thread [editline]01:39AM[/editline] It was a joke ...?[/QUOTE] So, I know that mr.obvious [editline]08:09PM[/editline] [QUOTE=PonceDeLeon;24020839]I yawned when i read about that yawning part. But, i never did believe the spider shit one.[/QUOTE] yeah me too! :D

[QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;24018960][U]Tap Water is Dirtier than Bottled Water.[/U] You've probably heard this dozens of times from your family and friends, something along the lines of "You don't need to drink from the tap, there's bottled water in the fridge. It's cleaner." But the big point they're missing is that the bottled water was not in fact collected from a mountain spring in some far off mystical land like the label might have you believe. It was still mass produced in a factory setting by stone cold machines, then stored in a warehouse and eventually sent out to stores by diesel trucks. By Comparison, the water from your tap was collected from a local water source and purified, and paid for with your tax money and water bills. If the tap water was dirtier, why would the city even bother trying to compete with bottled water companies?[/QUOTE] For one thing how exactly do they "mass produce" water in a factory, burning hydrogen with oxygen is far less efficient than getting it from a lake and the fact that it was transported by diesel trucks is irrelevant. Bottled spring water can be "dirtier" in a sense because it actually came from a spring and has more minerals in it (which is usually good for you depending on the types of minerals). Bottled purified water is cleaner because it's pure water.

[QUOTE]There are bacteria all around us: in the air, in the water, on our hands and on bottling equipment. In tap water, bacteria are killed by the chlorine or ultra-violet light with which the water is treated. Although the limit for bacteria in tap water is 100 bacteria per millilitre, the normal level found is around 2 bacteria per millilitre. The situation with bottled waters is quite different. In a test of 51 bottled waters taken at random, Chester Public Health Laboratory found only 22 with a bacterial content within the limits set for tap water. Only Purefect 95 and the sparkling waters bottled in glass had levels comparable to tap water. Ten of the other waters had levels of up to 1,000 bacteria per millilitre, eight had between 1,000 and 10,000, while a further eleven were in the 10,000 to 100,000 bacteria class. One bottle was found to contain 188,000 bacteria per millilitre - a massive 1,880 times the limit for tap water. [/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/bottle2.html"]Source[/URL] Tap water is also far cheaper. A well known brand of bottled water is approximately 141 times more expensive per litre (and a big cheer for corporization!) There's also the issue of the amount of plastic waste produed, but this is going of topic now...

[QUOTE=o DefcoN o;24020825]I thought you yawned because when you are tired, you are not breathing efficiently, so the yawn makes you take a deep breath of Oxygen and exhale a lot of Carbon-Dioxide[/QUOTE] You're exhaling more than you're inhaling, so no. It seems to be a contagious thing or something that is wired deep inside on our instinct, and that happens for very diverse reasons. You may not notice, but just thinking of yawning, or hearing people yawn, even over the phone usually triggers yawning either way, no matter on how "awake" are you currently. Don't believe me? Read the wikipedia article on yawning and try not to yawn. [QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;24020812]Here's another one for you. [U]Jesus was a skinny white man.[/U] First of all, do not rage out on me. I am not anti-christian or a bible basher or whatever other cute name you think can describe me in two words. This is just to correct what you might think about Jesus' Christs image - the recognisable white face with long brown hair and matching beard, coupled with a skinny figure. The facts we know about Jesus, if he existed, are described in the bible. The two most common are that he lived in the middle east, and that he was a carpenter. Now, if he lived in the middle east, that would mean he would look, you know, middle eastern. Given what people looked like at the time, he typically would have had tanned skin and black hair. The reason he's pictured as white is because when pictures of him were drawn in Europe, he was figured to look like what most people knew the master race to look like. He has also been depicted as asian in China and South American in Brazil. The other major fact is that he was a carpenter. Think about a carpenter's job for a second - it requires much, much physical labour. A very skinny man couldn't/wouldn't be a carpenter - he would grow muscles. Along with this, long hair would be a serious working hazard, even without power tools. It would constantly get in your way and obstruct your vision if leaning over something. Now then. Please make there be more than 3 people posting content.[/QUOTE] Actually, there are MANY ethnic groups in the Middle East. The more dark skinned ones would be the arabs or the kurds. However, Jesus was a jew. Under the Jewish ethnicity there are many ethnical groups too, the Ashkenazi, the Sephardim and the Mizrahim. Since the Ashkenazi and the Sephardim are located in Europe, it's very likely that Jesus was a Mizrahim jew, who aren't very tan skinned anyhow. There are many testimonies, in mosaics, in paintings, dating from the 5th century, that doesn't paint him as being tan skinned or black haired. As for the carpenter and hair part, Jesus was probably fit, and not particularily frail, a man who lived humbly. However, when Jesus was baptized and after he began preaching, he probably gave that up as a whole. One of the very first things he did after being baptized was fastening for 40 days, which could have easily got rid of any musculature he had gained as a carpenter. As for the hair, he could have just held it back, or just had let it grow after he was baptized. The teenage and young adult years of Jesus are not well described in the Bible, but Jesus figure has remained constant for hundreds of years. It's true that the technique used by some missionaries was to change Jesus' race in order to make his figure more familiar with those who are being converted, but white supremacy is a relatively new concept, to the people of the Roman age, race didn't matter that much as nationality.

Kissing have get girls pregnant. Fucking Sims 1 :psyduck:

[U][B]Supperssor can make a firearm almost silent [/B][/U]This one is believed because of hollywood since according to them any cylinder shaped object, whether it's an actual suppressor or not, will make the gun almost silent. This is blatently not true, what a suppressor does is reduce the muzzle flash and make the firearm around 10-40 decibels quieter, but since all gunshots will be over 160dB, it'll still be loud as hell.

Scientology is dumb shit and I'm very concerned if it's true.

In different areas, you also have different water types depending on the rock type near the water source. For example, in the south of England, you have softer rock, which adds more crap to the water, which is why washing machines break more in that area. Whereas in the north of England, the rock is of a much harder type, so the water doesn't gain as much crap, and washing machines only break if you throw bricks in them in the North. I suppose it's a similar way of working in the US and the rest of the world.

[QUOTE=Viephemeral;24021118]Am I the only one that facepalmed at this post?[/QUOTE] I facepalmed again at the people rating me dumb. Memory != Instinct.

The quality of tap water depends on how close you live to the ocean, it usually has a lot of chlorine in it there.

[QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;24021312]I was pointing out that even the lack of power tools still left long hair as a massive working hazard if you're a carpenter. Thanks for pointing out that I didn't explain it clearly enough though.[/QUOTE] More than what you said in your Jesus post, if he were to be truly Jewish, he'd be short, fat, and have a huge nose. None of which are portrayed in common models of him. [editline]06:48PM[/editline] So much fail in this thread. What most of you people are misunderstand is that all the underscored things in the first post were common things people THOUGHT were true, but really weren't.

[QUOTE=LuckyLuke;24021669][I]In California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing[/I][/QUOTE] I think I just got 200 years.

[QUOTE=40kplayer;24025453]I think I just got 200 years.[/QUOTE] Christ. I could at least understand if they tried to classify pelvic-thrusting as lewd and vivacious behavior. But wiggling?

[QUOTE=Tippmann357;24019573]No[/QUOTE] No, but cockroaches have been known to crawl into people's (mainly homeless or very, very messy people) ear canals for warmth in cold weather. Best way to get them out: pour mineral oil in your ear and drawn the little bastard, then use tweezers to pull it out. Never, ever shine a flashlight into the ear, as this will cause the roach to try and move away from the light. Could possibly damage your eardrum very badly.

We're pretty much forced to buy bottled water. We have a private well, and the water that comes from our taps tastes like dirt. You can actually see bits of sediment and whatnot in it if you put it in a glass. We tried Brita, but it stopped working after a day several times in a row because the filter is used up so quickly.

[QUOTE=Kalamadea;24026321]No, but cockroaches have been known to crawl into people's (mainly homeless or very, very messy people) ear canals for warmth in cold weather. Best way to get them out: pour mineral oil in your ear and drawn the little bastard, then use tweezers to pull it out. Never, ever shine a flashlight into the ear, as this will cause the roach to try and move away from the light. Could possibly damage your eardrum very badly.[/QUOTE] How do cockroaches even FIT in your ear

[QUOTE=Happyfaic;24026344]How do cockroaches even FIT in your ear[/QUOTE] The little bitty ones. Not like the big wood roaches. [img_thumb]http://scienceblogs.com/clock/upload/2007/06/cockroach.jpg[/img_thumb] The big one's are wood roaches. The next size down is a house roach, and I can't recall the name of the tiny one. Yeah, those two can fit in your ear.

[U]You are more likely to be killed by an asteroid than lighting[/U] This is indeed true.

I always thought yawning was your jaw muscles stretching.

[QUOTE=axemunger;24023991][U][B]Supperssor can make a firearm almost silent [/B][/U]This one is believed because of hollywood since according to them any cylinder shaped object, whether it's an actual suppressor or not, will make the gun almost silent. This is blatently not true, what a suppressor does is reduce the muzzle flash and make the firearm around 10-40 decibels quieter, but since all gunshots will be over 160dB, it'll still be loud as hell.[/QUOTE] Apparently it sounds like a firecracker. But I kind of laugh when I see silent guns in movies

[QUOTE=MightyMax;24026593]I always thought yawning was your jaw muscles stretching.[/QUOTE] Makes sense, doesn't explain the deep in and out breath though.

Anybody heard about estrogen not getting filtered out of tap water?

Up until I was in my teens I thought the term "underground railroad" meant a railroad underground that black slaves used, I imagined it looking like the tunnel in the movie the Great Escape.