"Facts" that seem true but are complete BS

banie01

Sir Guy who smiles wrote: »

Did that not happen with Puma and Adidas, and people got it mixed up?

Someone beat me to this, sorry.

Yes, but the mix up regarding Aldi and Lidl is based on the the split between the 2 brothers who controlled Aldi originally.

They split into Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud.
Lidl just gets tagged on as the other German supermarket.

Quantum Erasure

like left twix and right twix...

chooseusername

Sir Guy who smiles wrote: »

Thanks, Neil.

I think he spelled it Niall.
" A Corkman with an inferiority complex thinks he's a good as everyone else"

moonage

Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Canis Lupus

moonage wrote: »

Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

You going to spout a conspiracy theory or is it some kind of semantics over the word atomic?

Capt. Autumn

Goldfish memories are only a few seconds long....

Capt. Autumn

The best thing anyone can say is have a happy, carefree Mitsubishi day.

Capt. Autumn

David McWilliams coined the phrase 'Celtic tiger'.

The first recorded use of the phrase is in a 1994 Morgan Stanley report by Kevin Gardiner

David did invent the term 'Ghost estate' though, which is part of the meltdown rubicon.

kneemos

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

David McWilliams coined the phrase 'Celtic tiger'.

The first recorded use of the phrase is in a 1994 Morgan Stanley report by Kevin Gardiner

David did invent the term 'Ghost estate' though, which is part of the meltdown rubicon.

Celtic Tiger came from Asian Tiger I think,which was in common usage at the time.

Quantum Erasure

Goldfish memories are only a few seconds long....

Hoppy Jack

The Marie Celeste wasn’t crewless when found.

topper75

"Polars are dying off because climate change means they are losing their habitat"
(works best if you imagine it in the whiny voice of a know-it-all teen who hasn't yet learned to question the media propaganda)


Population size estimate graph chapter 10
Global polar bear population size estimates to 2018. From Chapter 10 of The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened (Crockford 2019).

topper75

Hoppy Jack wrote: »

The Marie Celeste wasn’t crewless when found.

Go on.

kneemos

Mother Theresa wasn't all that.

https://www.quora.com/Which-famous-person-in-history-who-is-idolized-was-actually-a-horrible-person/answer/Stewart-Cook-2?ch=10&share=1437d654&srid=axpCI

facehugger99

Life was better 20/30/40 years ago.

By any meaningful, measurable standard, it wasn't .

facehugger99

topper75 wrote: »

"Polars are dying off because climate change means they are losing their habitat"
(works best if you imagine it in the whiny voice of a know-it-all teen who hasn't yet learned to question the media propaganda)


Population size estimate graph chapter 10
Global polar bear population size estimates to 2018. From Chapter 10 of The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened (Crockford 2019).

Jesus Christ, those fcukers look like they're trying to take over.

vriesmays

Mods fought rockers on Brighton Beach in the 1960s.
Only happened in the movie.

Conall Cernach

Hoppy Jack wrote: »

The Marie Celeste wasn’t crewless when found.

Only because the name of the ship that was found deserted was the Mary Celeste.

donegal_man

Hoppy Jack wrote: »

The Marie Celeste wasn’t crewless when found.

The Marie Celeste was invented by Arthur Conan Doyle in his 1884 short story "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement". The Mary Celeste (previously Amazon) was discovered abandoned off the Azores Islands, on the 5th of December, 1872 by the crew of the Dei Gratia and towed to Gibraltar.

diusmr8a504cvk

The League of Ireland is bad.

Wayne Jarvis

vriesmays wrote: »

Mods fought rockers on Brighton Beach in the 1960s.

Partly true actually. I have it on good authority freshpopcorn was lamping the head off rockers on Brighton Beach in 1969 before heading over to New York to lamp the head off hippies at the Woodstock festival.

Forty Seven

vriesmays wrote: »

Mods fought rockers on Brighton Beach in the 1960s.
Only happened in the movie.

The fights are well documented. There's video on YouTube. Photos on images, newspaper reports and I watched an hour long documentary about them just a few weeks ago.
My stepfather has had false teeth since a mod in Brighton rode past on his moped with his helmet over his fist and sucker punched him. Hence the interest.

Hoppy Jack

Humans impact the climate. It’s actually down to rotting leaves and sea currents.

Capt'n Midnight

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

The best thing anyone can say is have a happy, carefree Mitsubishi day.

Especially if they were near the Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance Works or the Mitsubishi Steel and Armament Works on the 9th of August 1945.

Salthillprom

Moon landing

Macdarack

Lemmings walk aimlessly off cliffs.

Macdarack

facehugger99 wrote: »

Jesus Christ, those fcukers look like they're trying to take over.

Introduce a cull, surely?

Insect Overlord

Salthillprom wrote: »

Moon landing

Sentence fragment - consider revising

/paperclip

Quantum Erasure

Macdarack wrote: »

Lemmings walk aimlessly off cliffs.

yeah, they walk off cliffs with purpose

noel1980

Gerry G wrote: »

Women can multi task

I disagree. The other day I saw a woman skillfully drive whilst talking on her phone.