Accepted facts that turn out to be untrue.

kowloon

So I was told recently that the 10 commandments aren't actually written in the bible. This has me thinking, what other 'facts' just aren't true?
Think QI here, not 'global warming is a myth'.

Dartz

Anthropogenic Climate Change.

That is all. And yes I did read the OP.... but it's become such a bloody religion.

bluto63

It isn't? Wow, that's pretty interesting. So where did the ten commandments come from then?

**Timbuk2**

Who cares?

I'm hungry....

Cupcake_Crisis

Kowala bears arent actually bears!

Doyler92

The JCB phone can be broken :eek:

Jako8

bluto63 wrote: »

It isn't? Wow, that's pretty interesting. So where did the ten commandments come from then?

The stone tablets or something...

PirateShampoo

The Bible.

partyatmygaff

It is in the bible but not in the condensed form everyone has heard, first answer off of google.

http://www.the-ten-commandments.org/the-ten-commandments.html


Anyways

You eat 8 spiders in your sleep throughout your life, absolutely untrue.

Mmcd

Swimming an hour after eating gives you a cramp!

philologos

kowloon wrote: »

So I was told recently that the 10 commandments aren't actually written in the bible. This has me thinking, what other 'facts' just aren't true?
Think QI here, not 'global warming is a myth'.

They are in there two times!
Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, and Mark 10:17-31 builds on many of them also.

Don't believe everything people tell you.

amcalester

Half the stuff written on boards. FACT

partyatmygaff

amcalester wrote: »

Half the stuff written on boards. FACT

So is this post is in the half thats untrue?

Then technically its true buts its untrue too.

I bet you're all confused now :pac:

kowloon

Jakkass wrote: »

They are in there two times!
Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, and Mark 10:17-31 builds on many of them also.

Don't believe everything people tell you.

I could have sworn they were until someone showed me the commandments in their bible and they involved not cooking goats in their own milk or some such nonsense. It isn't really what I wanted the thread to be about, it's just what got me thinking on a Sunday night.

Smoking used to be considered good for you until the 1950's when a survey noted one group of people died younger.

After running the stats on every possible permuntation of lifestyle, work, nutritian etc only smoking fitted!

Photi

Dogs can't look up.














Fried gold.

hooradiation

Dartz wrote: »

Anthropogenic Climate Change.

That is all. And yes I did read the OP.... but it's become such a bloody religion.

yup, it's totally made up. It's the greatest prank science has ever pulled.

Though when you think about it,the time fabricating all that evidence and all those lessons in keeping a straight face while talking about it, probably could have been used to cure cancer and AIDS but nope, giant practical joke time!

House prices can only go up!

the_syco

Mmcd wrote: »

Swimming an hour after eating gives you a cramp!

Swimming less than an hour after eating can cause cramps, if you eat a decent sized meal.

philologos

kowloon wrote: »

I could have sworn they were until someone showed me the commandments in their bible and they involved not cooking goats in their own milk or some such nonsense. It isn't really what I wanted the thread to be about, it's just what got me thinking on a Sunday night.

Ah yes, there are dietary laws that the Jews followed that are no longer applicable to Christians.

In the Jewish scriptures, the 10 commandments are contained twice, once in Exodus, and the other time in Deuteronomy. In the Jewish law there are 613 commandments or mitzvot which determine life from judicial issues when there was a Jewish state in Israel, to issues of cultural living, dress and eating.

There are three types of law in the Jewish text, 1) Moral, 2) Legal, 3) Ceremonial / Cultural. After the advent of Christianity it was only laws of morality that were retained as Christianity included non-Jews as well as Jews.

If you want more information on Jewish dietary law, check the wikipedia entry on kosher eating.

partyatmygaff

"My rights as a consumer"

I have the right to return my 6 month old TV because I don't like it and I expect a full refund.
If something is advertised at a price, I have the right to buy it at that price no matter how crazy it may seem.
Every shop has to accept refunds of things I don't want and if they are being difficult shouting out "I know my rights" makes the manager cower in fear and give in.

KungPao

That smoking is uncool.

Agricola

There are no wimminz on t'internet

PogMoThoin

Guinness for strength, lots of peeps out there still think its true

Ideo

spinach is full of iron. it hasnt got much more than other foods!

partyatmygaff

Using phones or cameras mess up the navigation system on the plane and somehow make it fall out of the sky.

If it was that easy then all any air force has to do is send a flying mobile out instead of missiles to down the enemy.

PogMoThoin

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Guinness for strength, lots of peeps out there still think its true

It makes yer farts strong - does that count.

OutlawPete

Women can Multitask, accepted fact? Yeah right!

If that was the case then how come when my OH is cooking dinner and minding my nephew, as she cleans the floors the dishes - does she feel the need to bite my head off cause I ask her to iron one shirt?

Daemos

A person will eat 7 spiders in their sleep throughout their entire lives - seriously, who ever believed that?

Most of the dust in you house is from your skin - if that's true how come abandoned houses are full of dust?

Professey Chin

partyatmygaff wrote: »

So is this post is in the half thats untrue?

Then technically its true buts its untrue too.

I bet you're all confused now :pac:

False

electrogrimey

That eating before swimming gives you cramps stuff is a complete myth, it doesn't effect you.

Also mixing drinks doesn't make you drunker. It makes you drunker because to mix drinks you have to drink more.

Also, Martin Luther pinning up his beef with the church on a big door and starting the Reformation - never happened.

Cróga

The 9/11 attacks orchestrated by 19 arabs.... lol yeah right

OutlawPete

electrogrimey wrote: »

Also, Martin Luther pinning up his beef with the church on a big door and starting the Reformation - never happened.

Actually, speaking of MLK. That they he was more angry about Coca Cola than anything else. Now.

Faith

Marie Antoinette never actually said "Let them eat cake".

electrogrimey

OutlawPete wrote: »

Actually, speaking of MLK. That they he was more angry about Coca Cola than anything else. Now.

Who was speaking of MLK?

electrogrimey

9 out of 10 people don't enjoy gang rape.

















They all do.

Biggins

Deleted User wrote: »

Smoking used to be considered good for you until the 1950's when a survey noted one group of people died younger.

Very true. I remember an American newspaper advert about them being good for digestion - I kid you not!

See:

Diabhal Beag

That we are alone in the universe. Bull****

OutlawPete

electrogrimey wrote: »

Who was speaking of MLK?

Somebody was .. hang on there a minute, brb.

Hey everyone!! Who mentioned MLK??

Daemos

OutlawPete wrote: »

Actually, speaking of MLK. That they he was more angry about Coca Cola than anything else. Now.

You do know Martin Luther and Martin Luther King were two different people that lived in two completely different eras, right?

OutlawPete

Cróga wrote: »

The 9/11 attacks orchestrated by 19 arabs.... lol yeah right

"You weren't there man!!"

sock puppet

electrogrimey wrote: »

That eating before swimming gives you cramps stuff is a complete myth, it doesn't effect you.

Yes it does. If you exert yourself swimming then eating heavily beforehand almost certainly will affect you.

Banter Joe

DaPoolRulz wrote: »

Most of the dust in you house is from your skin - if that's true how come abandoned houses are full of dust?

Junkies.

OutlawPete

Moon Landings!!

Course ya's did. You's all went up in your likkle rocket ship and landed it on the Moon and the ripped around in your little Moon Buggy's wearing your spacesuits.. wwoooooo weeeee :rolleyes:

OutlawPete

DaPoolRulz wrote: »

You do know Martin Luther and Martin Luther King were two different people that lived in two completely different eras, right?

Nope

Dave!

"We only use 10% of our brain"

NO

Maybe you do, but I use all of my brain

electrogrimey

sock puppet wrote: »

Yes it does. If you exert yourself swimming then eating heavily beforehand almost certainly will affect you.

Why? And how does it give you cramps?

I'm gonna take Stephen Fry's word on this. He is omniscient after all.

Acacia

Edumacation...

Martin Luther

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/craftg/graphics/MartinLuther.gif

Martin Luther King

http://www.lib.fit.edu/pubs/librarydisplays/BlackHistory/494px-Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg

OutlawPete

Acacia wrote: »

Edumacation...

Martin Luther

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/craftg/graphics/MartinLuther.gif

Martin Luther King

http://www.lib.fit.edu/pubs/librarydisplays/BlackHistory/494px-Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg

Well excuse me for not hearing about the first Martin Luther. My school was on a hill.

IvySlayer

That Pete is an Outlaw.

He's just a loveable scamp.

OutlawPete

IvySlayer wrote: »

That Pete is an Outlaw.

He's just a loveable scamp.

Am not *blush*