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Myths and Misconceptions you would like to dispel?

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  • #32
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    Napoleon was actually taller than most Frenchmen at the time.

    On the other hand, Stalin was only 5 foot 3.
    Is that why Stalin always wore large boots - were there lifts in them?


  • #33
    Huexotzingo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭Huexotzingo


    Widdershins wrote: »
    That Jews were the only victims, or that they were only killed in that one way?

    They were also starved, worked to death and experimented on. The female guards were brutal to the female prisoners.

    Sorry, I meant the common misconception that Jews were killed only in the gas chambers. Many people don't know about the Einsatzgruppen or the Lvov pogram etc.


  • #34
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Huexotzingo wrote: »
    That the Holocaust was only Jews being sent to secret camps and gassed.

    In fact many were shot and dumped in mass graves and massacred in pograms, often while civilians and German soldiers looked on.

    I dont get how the first point and second are related?


  • #35
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    Huexotzingo wrote:
    Sorry, I meant the common misconception that Jews were killed only in the gas chambers. Many people don't know about the Einsatzgruppen or the Lvov pogram.


    The Einsatzgruppen were equal opportunity killers, they didn't just restrict themselves to the murder of the Jews. The Soviet peasentary suffered greatly at their hands during the war.


  • #36
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    And he had a withered left hand.

    He had a fine mustache though - to balance the books.
    Must have combed it several times every day


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  • #37
    Lickin2me
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 45 ✭Lickin2me


    That **** will make you go blind


  • #38
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    If you shave a body part, the hair grows back faster and thicker.

    We only use 10% of our brains.

    It takes 7 years to digest swallowed chewing gum.


  • #39
    ArnoldJRimmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,533 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Chicago is not called the Windy City due to the breezy weather. Its because back in the day, their politicians wouldn't shut the fcuk up about how great the place was, and therefore the people were seen as 'full of wind.'


  • #40
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Lickin2me wrote: »
    That **** will make you go blind


    Huh? Who said that?


  • #41
    CFlat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,099 ✭✭✭CFlat


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    Huh? Who said that?

    Stevie wonder, but then he was very superstitious.


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  • #42
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    Widdershins wrote: »
    That menstruation normally comes with crippling pain. It's not normal to be incapacitated and in agony and shouldn't be accepted as part of the burden of being female.

    That women are tough for bleeding for five days. It shouldn't be that much blood loss.

    Many women who experience extreme pain/ significant blood loss don't realise it isn't normal. When its all you've ever experienced how would you know any different.

    I've read many a women's article of women have diagnosed endometriosis or severe anaemia.


  • #43
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Martina1991 wrote: »
    Many women who experience extreme pain/ significant blood loss don't realise it isn't normal. When its all you've ever experienced how would you know any different.

    I've read many a women's article of women have diagnosed endometriosis or severe anaemia.

    Exactly. I'm not criticising people for suffering and thinking it's normal..I think women accept it as the hand they've been dealt. Maybe if there was a bit of a publicity campaign informing people of the above conditions, and PCOS and Fibroids and things like that, what kind of help they could get, women wouldn't suffer on with it.

    Not only to help women in terrible pain but because some of those conditions can endanger fertility, and other very serious long term problems.


  • #44
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    If you shave a body part, the hair grows back faster and thicker.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuboJiAUMd8


  • #45
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Widdershins wrote: »
    Exactly. I'm not criticising people for suffering and thinking it's normal..I think women accept it as the hand they've been dealt. Maybe if there was a bit of a publicity campaign informing people of the above conditions, and PCOS and Fibroids and things like that, what kind of help they could get, women wouldn't suffer on with it.

    Not only to help women in terrible pain but because some of those conditions can endanger fertility, and other very serious long term problems.

    The problem is for many of these conditions there isn't a massive amount that can be done to relieve the pain.
    I've endometriosis and there's very little that can be done to help me and many others that have the same condition. Its not like there's a cure for it.


  • #46
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Many people believe that Lidl and Aldi are run by 2 brothers. Not true.

    Aldi itself was founded by 2 brothers who subsequently split the company after they couldn't agree on whether or not to sell ciggies.


  • #47
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    The problem is for many of these conditions there isn't a massive amount that can be done to relieve the pain.
    I've endometriosis and there's very little that can be done to help me and many others that have the same condition. Its not like there's a cure for it.

    At least there are treatments that help some people to some extent, better than not even knowing whats wrong. Then you can avail of proper pain relief. There's schemes to help with the cost of going to England for proper specialist excision surgery which nobody seems to be able to do in Ireland, and they will not tell you about that surgery here-it's the gold standard! It seems to offer a chance of the endometriosis not recurring, or at least minimises it.

    Plus if adhesions glue the bowel or other organ to something else you could need surgery and the sooner people catch that kind of thing the better.

    Even if all else fails, at least people might be understanding instead of assuming women are complaining about something natural.


  • #48
    mahamageehad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Aliens did not crash at Roswell, get over it.



    A rogue planet is not going to collide with Earth.



    I am not a wolf.

    Lies Valecub.


  • #49
    mahamageehad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    That there's no wimmins on the Internet.


  • #50
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Thats not entirely true, you can choose diets with lots of anti oxidant rich foods which do fight free radicals within the body

    No, it's completely true. If your liver isn't up to the job of detoxification, you're in big trouble and no diet will save you.


  • #51
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    No, it's completely true. If your liver isn't up to the job of detoxification, you're in big trouble and no diet will save you.

    Whilst the op's sentiment and your supporting post are broadly speaking on the right track the point stands that technically there are substances that when introduced to the body eliminate harmful substances. These exist in many foods and have an antioxidant effect on harmful free radicals.

    It goes without saying that eating a pure or clean diet to begin with is the ideal approach.

    However the OP's contention that no substance introduced to the body could have a detoxifying effect is factually incorrect.


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  • #52
    Adyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    I'm sick of saying this almost; Polar bears are black not white. #notaracist


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There is no difference between a fracture and a broken bone.

    They're the same thing.


  • #54
    cumulonimbus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭cumulonimbus


    That the position of stars in space at the time of your birth determine your personality or influence your day-to-day actions. Unless it's an asteroid heading straight for your location on the planet in which case it might have an impact!


  • #55
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,829 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Huexotzingo wrote: »
    Sorry, I meant the common misconception that Jews were killed only in the gas chambers. Many people don't know about the Einsatzgruppen or the Lvov pogram etc.

    I have a book that a got on Audible called the Rise & Fall of the Third Reich by William L Shriver. Now I will not do a review of the book or some of the authors bias on somethings (homosexuals) but he write a lot of experiments done on Jews for helping the Nazi Armies and it was horendous


  • #56
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    Whilst the op's sentiment and your supporting post are broadly speaking on the right track the point stands that technically there are substances that when introduced to the body eliminate harmful substances. These exist in many foods and have an antioxidant effect on harmful free radicals.

    Again, if your liver isn't doing its detoxification job, get thee to a doctor. Your liver takes care of all this and if it's not doing that, be worried.

    Free radicals do both good and bad for the body. And we manufacture a lot of our own antioxidants. Antioxidants in food might not even be that bioavailable and would be less bioavailable than the ones we self-produce.

    Detox diets are a load of **** and you can't even really measure what good they do for the body. Most of the blurbs about them are a mess of pseudo-scientific claims. They have been well and truly debunked at this stage. Just eat well, exercise and you'll be grand.


  • #57
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    Crystals do **** all for your health.


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    If you shave a body part, the hair grows back faster and thicker.

    We only use 10% of our brains.

    It takes 7 years to digest swallowed chewing gum.

    IF I've read this right...

    Shaving hair has no effect on the follicle, from which the hair grows. Shaved hair is cut bluntly so feels thicker at the tip when it grows out, but shaving has no effect on growth.

    We use nearly all of our brains. The 10% myth is because we only understand about 10% of the brains function, but brain imaging shows that most of our brains show activity over the course of a day.

    And finally, it doesn't take seven years to digest gum. You don't digest it at all and it exits your body broken up, but fairly unaltered.

    I might have read this wrong and you were posting things that are myths, not dispelling them! Apologies if so. :)


  • #59
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    Again, if your liver isn't doing its detoxification job, get thee to a doctor. Your liver takes care of all this and if it's not doing that, be worried.

    Free radicals do both good and bad for the body. And we manufacture a lot of our own antioxidants. Antioxidants in food might not even be that bioavailable and would be less bioavailable than the ones we self-produce.

    Detox diets are a load of **** and you can't even really measure what good they do for the body. Most of the blurbs about them are a mess of pseudo-scientific claims. They have been well and truly debunked at this stage. Just eat well, exercise and you'll be grand.

    Your just waffling the same points.

    You cannot contradict the fact that there are substances that when introduced to the body through food have an anti-oxidant effect on harmful free radicals.

    That's a fact whether you like it or not.


  • #60
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    Whilst the op's sentiment and your supporting post are broadly speaking on the right track the point stands that technically there are substances that when introduced to the body eliminate harmful substances. These exist in many foods and have an antioxidant effect on harmful free radicals.

    It goes without saying that eating a pure or clean diet to begin with is the ideal approach.

    However the OP's contention that no substance introduced to the body could have a detoxifying effect is factually incorrect.
    _Dara_ wrote: »
    Again, if your liver isn't doing its detoxification job, get thee to a doctor. Your liver takes care of all this and if it's not doing that, be worried.

    Free radicals do both good and bad for the body. And we manufacture a lot of our own antioxidants. Antioxidants in food might not even be that bioavailable and would be less bioavailable than the ones we self-produce.

    Detox diets are a load of **** and you can't even really measure what good they do for the body. Most of the blurbs about them are a mess of pseudo-scientific claims. They have been well and truly debunked at this stage. Just eat well, exercise and you'll be grand.

    Here's an interesting boards.ie thread on the topic:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057603665


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  • #61
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Noveight wrote: »
    Many people believe that Lidl and Aldi are run by 2 brothers. Not true.

    Aldi itself was founded by 2 brothers who subsequently split the company after they couldn't agree on whether or not to sell ciggies.

    I think it's Adidas and puma that are run by two brothers??


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