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Common misconceptions universally accepted

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    #332
    zuroph
    Registered Users Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    Wazdakka wrote: »
    The lamp is a lie
    people dont actually believe the lamp is a lie do they? its a lamp. beside a terrible photoshop.


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    #333
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    That we use only 10% of our brains.... in fact we use almost all of it, we arent sure what bits do what entirely yet, but we use the bulk of it and the majority of that is well mapped.

    DeV.


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    #334
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    DeVore wrote: »
    That we use only 10% of our brains.... in fact we use almost all of it, we arent sure what bits do what entirely yet, but we use the bulk of it and the majority of that is well mapped.

    DeV.

    That story stemmed from a misreporting of a study conducted nearly 60 years ago. The real finding was that only 10% of people use their brains. ;)


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    #335
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users Posts: 7,937 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    DeVore wrote: »
    That we use only 10% of our brains.... in fact we use almost all of it, we arent sure what bits do what entirely yet, but we use the bulk of it and the majority of that is well mapped.

    DeV.


    isn't it that we only use 10% of our mental potential?


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    #336
    wilson10
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭wilson10


    McDonalds chips are not made from spuds


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    #337
    ziggy23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭ziggy23


    Didn't check if someone posted this but a lot of people still believe Prince got some of his ribs removed so he could give himself a bj :confused:


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    #338
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    wilson10 wrote: »
    McDonalds chips are not made from spuds

    Do you mean that that's the misconception or are you correcting the misconception that they ARE made from potatoes? :confused:


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    #339
    ride-the-spiral
    Registered Users Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭ride-the-spiral


    Namlub wrote: »
    Do you mean that that's the misconception or are you correcting the misconception that they ARE made from potatoes? :confused:

    That's the annoying thing about this thread...


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    #340
    stevejazzx
    Registered Users Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    Cool Mo D wrote: »
    Vitamin supplements are good for you.

    In reality, they are a poor substitute for healthy eating, as vitamins are better absorbed from food rather than in pill form. And if you are getting all your required vitamins from your diet, taking vitamin pills will have no positive impact on your health, and taking very large doses may actually be harmful.

    Also, taking extra vitamin C does nothing for you, excess vitamin C just gets pissed straight out into the jacks.

    Also, there is not a shread of evidence that getting plenty of antioxidants in your diet helps your health. Antioxidants play an important role is your cells, but you don't get them there by eating them!

    There's a whole load of similar mumbo jumbo about diet out there.
    dlofnep wrote: »
    Was actually thinking about this very issue on the way into college today.
    aidan24326 wrote: »
    And was written by his wife I believe
    .




    Very true, there's an almighty amount of nonsense about diet and nutrition, and when a spoofer like Gillian McKeith gets her own tv show you know there's a problem.


    The man who won 2 Nobel prizes by himself disagrees as do the former victims of scurvy and countless other vitamin deficiency diseases. I think what you mean to say more accurately is that there is a lot of nonsense about vitamins as absorption is the critical factor but you kind of generalized.


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    #341
    Slugs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭Slugs


    That cracking your knuckles causes arthritis over time. It doesn't!


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    #342
    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,722 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Pff. What does it matter? You're going to get arthritis if you live long enough anyway.


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    #343
    Valmont
    Registered Users Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭Valmont


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    isn't it that we only use 10% of our mental potential?

    No. That is just a different version of the same myth. Devore is on the ball with that one.


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    #344
    Valmont
    Registered Users Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭Valmont


    Misconception= Bears hibernate.

    Truth= They sleep very heavily for up to two weeks at a time but do mooch about, scavenge and the females wake up to give birth. I think the term is 'Torpor'.


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    #345
    amacachi
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    ziggy23 wrote: »
    Didn't check if someone posted this but a lot of people still believe Prince got some of his ribs removed so he could give himself a bj :confused:

    That's rubbish, it was Marilyn Manson.


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    #346
    A Doozer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭A Doozer


    Dog's cannot see what is on a tv screen... Oh yeah, they can.

    Bull's are attracted to red.... Nope. Bulls are colour blind.

    Oh and ducks' quacks do echo. I've heard it on many occassions.


    To the gentleman who can't score in coppers, I think you might be doing it wrong.


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    #347
    Kipperhell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭Kipperhell


    Women can multi-task and men cannot.

    It came from a study in the 50s where woman were asked to conduct a series of house hold tasks and men were then also asked to do the same tasks. The problem with the study was the tasks were ones the women had performed many times where the men had not.

    Recent studies show woman are equally incapable of multi-tasking as men but people familiar with tasks can successfully maximise time by the ability to fill dead time of tasks.


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    #348
    Neamhshuntasach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Neamhshuntasach


    You can't actually tip a cow. They don't even sleep standing up.


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    #349
    AnonoBoy
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    Kipperhell wrote: »
    Women can multi-task and men cannot.

    It came from a study in the 50s where woman were asked to conduct a series of house hold tasks and men were then also asked to do the same tasks. The problem with the study was the tasks were ones the women had performed many times where the men had not.

    Recent studies show woman are equally incapable of multi-tasking as men but people familiar with tasks can successfully maximise time by the ability to fill dead time of tasks.

    Here's another common misconception - some people believe that people believe that only women can multi-task.

    Whereas the truth is that nobody believes that. It's sh*te that's perpetuated by people trying to sell you kitchen paper or some other bollocksie rubbish.


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    #350
    wilson10
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭wilson10


    Namlub wrote: »
    Do you mean that that's the misconception or are you correcting the misconception that they ARE made from potatoes? :confused:

    I was asked for a common misconception universally accepted and I believe this to be one, though I stand to be corrected.

    Perhaps they really aren't potatoes after all.


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    #351
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,811 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    One beaten into us at a early age is ;

    " 2 + 2 = 4 "

    But when dealing with large values of 2 ;

    " 2 + 2 = 5 "

    Edit:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5


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    #352
    asdasd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,185 ✭✭✭asdasd


    But when dealing with large numbers ;
    " 2 + 2 = 5 "

    Fail.


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    #353
    wilson10
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭wilson10


    My Grannie used to say "Money can't buy happiness", and I used to believe her.
    I used to believe in the tooth fairy too.


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    #354
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    The Frosties Kid did not kill himself nor was he beaten to death by bullies.


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    #355
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    wilson10 wrote: »
    My Grannie used to say "Money can't buy happiness", and I used to believe her.
    I used to believe in the tooth fairy too.
    In a way she's right, what you should have said is "perhaps, but having **** loads of money does make you happy".


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    #356
    wilson10
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭wilson10


    ScumLord wrote: »
    In a way she's right, what you should have said is "perhaps, but having **** loads of money does make you happy".

    Gimme the money and I'll bet I can prove her wrong.

    I could be ecstatically happy.


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    #357
    Fuhrer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭Fuhrer


    The Holocaust!


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    #358
    chiliconparmi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭chiliconparmi


    asdasd wrote: »
    Maybe, but it doesnt matter to the logic of the sentence, does it. Its a small step for him, and a giant step ( or was it leap?) for ManKind. He said that as he stepped off the last rung onto the moon.

    It doesn’t make sense

    One small step for Man, one giant leap for mankind basically means one small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind.

    If you think about it, one small step for MAN(when you say MAN it is stating mankind as in humanity, so the sentence contradicted itself)

    it should have definitely been one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind



    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1190819/One-small-mistake--The-proof-Neil-Armstrong-got-famous-One-small-step-man-Moon-landing-line-WRONG.html

    http://www.unexplainable.net/artman/publish/article_717.shtml


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    #359
    Sugarglass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Sugarglass


    irish_bob wrote: »
    was most likely already mentioned but i cant be bothered reading every page


    that frankenstien was the creator and not the monster

    Dr. Frankenstien was the creator. Not once in the book is the creation given a name and no one ever calls him Frankenstein. He is called "monster", "dæmon", "fiend", "wretch" and "it".

    Sorry if this is what you meant but your statement is quite ambiguous, I wasn't sure if you were saying that Frankenstein being the name of the monster was a misconception or that is was the creator's name was a misconception.


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