"Facts" that seem true but are complete BS

cj maxx

Sardonicat wrote: »

Women's periods synchronise if they spend a lot of time together/ live in the same house.

Kinda true. I knew girls in a flat of six and at any time 3 of them were pure bitches

Capt. Autumn

Kilmeaden is the fillet of cheddar.

Ted_YNWA

Mods get access to the coke & hookers straight away when they get the gig.

:mad: still waiting

HappyAsLarE

Richard Gere doesn’t like gerbils.

selous

6 out of 7 dwarfs aren't happy..

vriesmays

There are no jobs in Waterford.

Capt. Autumn

Pay inequality still exists between the sexes.

topper75

"Viking bodies were buried by being pushed out to sea on a burning ship."

Evidence for this the viking world - zero so far. It is probably just a myth. They were buried in mounds on land. Yes sometimes even in a ship if they were powerful. And yes sometimes near the water. They are still finding new mounds all the time.

So if you have fantasised about the burning boat as a sendoff for yourself, fair enough. :-) However, it is not a sendoff you share with any actual viking.

Your Face

topper75 wrote: »

"Viking bodies were buried by being pushed out to sea on a burning ship."

Evidence for this the viking world - zero so far. It is probably just a myth. They were buried in mounds on land. Yes sometimes even in a ship if they were powerful. And yes sometimes near the water. They are still finding new mounds all the time.

So if you have fantasised about the burning boat as a sendoff for yourself, fair enough. :-) However, it is not a sendoff you share with any actual viking.

Have they checked all bodies of water?


Surely there would be more evidence on land due the ease of access as opposed to diving under water to search.

completedit

facehugger99 wrote: »

Life was better 20/30/40 years ago.

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

Nah, not buying this. If by having stuff, lots and lots of stuff, then life is better now but I’d say there was a sweet spot(individual factors being equal) about 20 or so years ago that life was probably a little better.

Like if you value social interaction, like lots of it, then you’re definitely poorer nowadays.

Force Carrier

topper75 wrote: »

"Viking bodies were buried by being pushed out to sea on a burning ship."

Evidence for this the viking world - zero so far. It is probably just a myth. They were buried in mounds on land. Yes sometimes even in a ship if they were powerful. And yes sometimes near the water. They are still finding new mounds all the time.

So if you have fantasised about the burning boat as a sendoff for yourself, fair enough. :-) However, it is not a sendoff you share with any actual viking.

At first sight you'd think that there is no way that they would waste a perfectly good ship on a dead person. Although throughout history and prehistory (well-to-do) people were buried with swords, jewelry, slaves and other valuables. An extravagant waste in a world of limited resources. Still the Vikings would probably convince themselves that a perfectly good mound is more than good enough send off. And we won't be a boat down.

HorrorScope

topper75 wrote: »

"Viking bodies were buried by being pushed out to sea on a burning ship."

Evidence for this the viking world - zero so far. It is probably just a myth. They were buried in mounds on land. Yes sometimes even in a ship if they were powerful. And yes sometimes near the water. They are still finding new mounds all the time.

So if you have fantasised about the burning boat as a sendoff for yourself, fair enough. :-) However, it is not a sendoff you share with any actual viking.

Awww come on man, what could be a more awesome death than pillaging your way across the land - then having your body sent out on a ****ing flaming boat while a guy wails out guitar solos on the beach. You have ruined my fantasy :mad:

topper75

Force Carrier wrote: »

At first sight you'd think that there is no way that they would waste a perfectly good ship on a dead person. Although throughout history and prehistory (well-to-do) people were buried with swords, jewelry, slaves and other valuables. An extravagant waste in a world of limited resources. Still the Vikings would probably convince themselves that a perfectly good mound is more than good enough send off. And we won't be a boat down.

I guess in their minds - it wasn't waste; it was going with the human to a hereafter of some kind. All cultures seem to have exhibited some variant of 'sacrifice' of goods in their superstitious systems and the vikings were no different. Celtic La Tène people in Switzerland broke perfect and expensive weapons and threw them in a lake. The Saxons threw ceremonial metalwork in the Thames.
We still bury people in a good suit/jewelry in a coffin that ain't cheap in our culture.

My source is here (should have included it earlier):
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/viking-burial-mound-graveyard

“We have no evidence for waterborne Viking funeral pyres in Scandinavia. I honestly do not know where this conception derives from, and it should be regarded as a modern myth,” says Raymoud Sauvage of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the lead archaeologist on the site. “Normal burial practice was that people were buried on land, in burial mounds.”

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

kneemos wrote: »

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

Are you saying that the idea that she was horrible is BS?

Because I thought the truth about her was pretty common knowledge at this stage.

vriesmays

Rats will go to the same spot all the time in a maze where they found food; they will go to the others areas looking for more food instead.

Sir Guy who smiles

facehugger99 wrote: »

Life was better 20/30/40 years ago.

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

I think you are seriously overestimating how long ago 20 years was. 1999 was not 1979 or 1959!

Average pay was higher compared to the cost of living.

Medical science was almost as advanced-anything developed since is not easily available-but vaccinations worked better because uptake was better. There were waits for treatment but no worse than now.

Employment in Ireland was as close to zero as a modern economy can get, and I'd say there was less poverty too.

We had much of modern technology-mobile phones were cheap enough to be ubiquitous and PCs and the internet were easily available, but social media was not as pervasive.

The Irish economy was thriving but not yet gone into debt driven madness.

While not fully legally enshrined Irish society had become more secular and tolerant and the power of the church had been broken.

Worldwide, the world was mostly more peaceful (outside of some areas in turmoil like Bosnia and Rawanda) as the cold war was over and 9/11 was two years away. I would guess most of the world was financially better off before 2006-2008 than now.

The only people better off now are people in places like the former Yugoslavia which were at war then; and the super rich, who have become super-richer.