"Facts" that seem true but are complete BS

Insect Overlord · 20-09-2019 8:38am

Wibbs wrote: »

He did, according to the Soviet autopsy anyway.

Hitler has only got one ball
Göring has two but very small
Himmler is rather sim'lar
But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all

NeinNeinNein · 20-09-2019 8:42am

suicide_circus wrote: »

is that true? if so its a perfect analogy for the "gender wage gap"

Careful now.

Sardonicat · 20-09-2019 9:05am

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

EmmetSpiceland · 20-09-2019 9:08am

Wibbs wrote: »

I heard that about otters and the story I heard that those hunting otters(which was a thing apparently) had boots with two sleeves(or shafts) where the hunters would put cinders in the lining so if an otter bit you it would release when it heard the sound of the cinders.

That’s it, W. Twigs in the wellies for the badgers and cinders/charcoal for the otters, minks, stoats etc.

Ger Roe · 20-09-2019 9:11am

The seat head rest mounting bars in your car are designed to be used to break glass in the event of vehicle submergence.....

Busted - https://carseatblog.com/38120/mythbusters-vehicle-headrests-are-meant-to-break-vehicle-windows/

Seriously, think about the awkwardness of trying to detach a headrest in an emergency situation. Much better to spread the word that there are specially designed devices used to easily cut seat belts and break glass, and they are available for a very few euro's.

Why don't internet people spread that helpful information?

sbsquarepants · 20-09-2019 9:15am

Sardonicat wrote: »

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

That ones true, i seen it on modern family. Be afraid:eek:

Sardonicat · 20-09-2019 9:23am

sbsquarepants wrote: »

That ones true, i seen it on modern family. Be afraid:eek:

It's not true. How can it be? Some women are on the pill, which regulates their period. Some are not. For those who aren't, cycle length varies from 21-40 days at the extreme end if the scale. For those who are on the pill, how would they all start their 'first' pill on the same day to end up having their withdrawal bleed at the same time?

It's a complete myth.

Dtp1979 · 20-09-2019 9:36am

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Nope with the eating. You don't need to eat more calories to build muscle.

The rest ....well it depends different individuals react differently to different programs you have to find what works for you and optimizes your personal strengths. Genes and or eh ..substances come in to it a lot.

You’ve spewed a lot of shjte since you arrived on boards, but this has to be no.1. You really do live on another planet.

donegal_man · 20-09-2019 9:42am

Van Gogh cut off his ear after being rejected by a woman he was in love with (or a hooked depending on the version).
He did cut off a piece of his left ear following a row with Gauguin, whether or not he presented it to a prostitute named Rachel remains in dispute.

jiltloop · 20-09-2019 10:27am

A swan can break your arm.

keano_afc · 20-09-2019 11:29am

NeinNeinNein wrote: »

God exists.

People still think posting edgy stuff on internet bulletin boards is cool.

Woke Hogan · 20-09-2019 12:58pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent.

It's true, one of Lenin's English speaking tutors was from Rathmines, but the Rathmines accent of a man of that man's class would have been British.

In any case, I'm sure Lenin spoke English with a Russian accent, just like most Russians then and now

Contemporary sources claim different.

20-09-2019 1:10pm

A fracture is less serious than a break.

They mean the same thing.

Edgware · 20-09-2019 1:30pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

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

Thats not true. They synchronise so that there will be at least one having the period at all times

Capt. Autumn · 20-09-2019 1:37pm

Xmas originated as a secular plan to "take the Christ out of Christmas"

The use of the word "Xmas" in English can be traced to the year 1021, when monks in Great Britain used the X in place of "Christ" for abbreviation, while transcribing classical manuscripts into Old English.

Sardonicat · 20-09-2019 1:41pm

Edgware wrote: »

Thats not true. They synchronise so that there will be at least one having the period at all times

I know it's not true! That's why I posted it on this thread. They don't synchronise. At all. If 4 women living in a house share happen to be on some point of their periods at the same time it's nothing more than coincidence.

NeinNeinNein · 20-09-2019 1:51pm

NeinNeinNein wrote: »

God exists.

keano_afc wrote: »

People still think posting edgy stuff on internet bulletin boards is cool.

Nothing edgy or cool intended.

It is seen as a 'fact' by many when it is complete BS.

jiltloop · 20-09-2019 3:54pm

NeinNeinNein wrote: »

Nothing edgy or cool intended.

It is seen as a 'fact' by many when it is complete BS.

I think you're mixing up a "fact" with a "belief".

I would say the most dogmatic and ardently religious people would still recognise that what they have is a belief in god rather than state it's a fact that god exists.

Of course there's always one or 2 extremes but I certainly wouldn't agree with "many" as you state above.

Sheepdish1 · 20-09-2019 5:05pm

Hazys wrote: »

On average, you swallow eight spiders a year in your sleep.

Yeah spiders aren’t stupid enough to crawl into our mouths, why would they choose to be eaten !

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 22-09-2019 12:18pm

chooseusername wrote: »

K2 is actually higher than Everest , but 'tis down in a bit of a hollow .

If it’s in a hollow, then it’s closer to sea level than Everest, lower in the atmosphere.

And as I said, there are other “highest mountain” measurements but neither mountain wins those.

Mad_maxx · 22-09-2019 12:46pm

The gender pay gap

Sheepdish1 · 22-09-2019 1:01pm

Say Your Number wrote: »

I remember someone saying that if you meet a badger in a field, it will bite your leg and won't let go until it hears a crack, and that if you snap a twig it will let go and save you from a broken leg, when you think about it, it sounds like a load of bollox.

Yeah I agree. If we met a badger in a field it would run away from us unless very sick or badly injured. If someone was stupid enough to corner it then of course it would defend itself.

There is also a misconception that dogs feel guilt......they do not have the capability of feeling guilt. The video with Denver the dog largely contributed to this. The dog is simply reacting to the owners body language, tone of voice and previous experiences he has had. The dog in the video is trying to calm itself down.

Skylinehead · 22-09-2019 1:35pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

If it’s in a hollow, then it’s closer to sea level than Everest, lower in the atmosphere. And as I said, there are other “highest mountain” measurements but neither mountain wins those.

It's all rather arbitrary. Tallest mountain being Mauna Kea because it extends under the surface...but then why doesn't Everest? They all ultimately end at the mantle. Everest is the highest and that's all that really matters. Other than maybe Chimborazo, which due to the Earths bulge is further away than Everest from the centre of the planet.

Hoppy Jack · 22-09-2019 1:37pm

5 English league players in the 60s/70s served in the IRA

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 22-09-2019 1:53pm

Skylinehead wrote: »

It's all rather arbitrary. Tallest mountain being Mauna Kea because it extends under the surface...but then why doesn't Everest? They all ultimately end at the mantle. Everest is the highest and that's all that really matters. Other than maybe Chimborazo, which due to the Earths bulge is further away than Everest from the centre of the planet.

I agree because in my mind, the one that reaches the highest part of the atmosphere is the one that matters for mere mortals. I only mentioned K2 earlier because some people still think it’s the highest using ASL as the ultimate base and it isn’t.

Capt. Autumn · 22-09-2019 2:12pm

Women go for guys with a good personality over good looks.

NeinNeinNein · 22-09-2019 7:39pm

Hoppy Jack wrote: »

5 English league players in the 60s/70s served in the IRA

Is it known if any did?

whisky_galore · 22-09-2019 7:54pm

The Black and Tans were released jailbirds.

Quantum Erasure · 22-09-2019 7:57pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

It's not true. How can it be? Some women are on the pill, which regulates their period. Some are not. For those who aren't, cycle length varies from 21-40 days at the extreme end if the scale. For those who are on the pill, how would they all start their 'first' pill on the same day to end up having their withdrawal bleed at the same time?

It's a complete myth.

well, i mean obviously it doesn't include women who are regulating their own periods. For the others, in theory, their cycles vary until they are in sync

we taste sweet, sour, saltiness etc. with different areas of our tongue
we have five senses

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 22-09-2019 7:58pm

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Orson Welles radio play of the The War Of The Worlds was reported to have caused mass panic among people who thought it was a real news broadcast. In reality in was a fabrication by makers of newspapers who were afraid of losing their popularity to the new invention of radio.

People always forget the follow-up in Quito which was much worse.

https://historyradio.org/2017/01/21/the-war-of-the-worlds-in-ecuador/

In the second week of February 1949, 3 men were charged with provoking the death of over ten people in Ecuador. The method of their crime: creating a radio play based on H.G. Wells and then letting it loose on an unsuspecting public.

It was an incident far more sinister than the panics that followed the 1938 broadcast in America when Orson Welles had first dramatised H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds on radio. Not even the effect of a similar 1944 radio broadcast in Chile could compare when it came to the number of deaths and the level of devestation.

On the fateful night of February 12’th, writers for Associated Press and Reuters reported back to the US and Britain: «The mob attacked and burned the building of the newspaper, El Comercio, which housed the radio station and killed fifteen persons and injured 15 others.»

Sardonicat · 22-09-2019 8:09pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

well, i mean obviously it doesn't include women who are regulating their own periods. For the others, in theory, their cycles vary until they are in sync

we taste sweet, sour, saltiness etc. with different areas of our tongue
we have five senses

You are talking ****e about periods.

Quantum Erasure · 22-09-2019 8:11pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

You are talking ****e about periods.

I don't agree with it, I'm just explaining how it might work...

Sardonicat · 22-09-2019 8:35pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

I don't agree with it, I'm just explaining how it might work...

What for?

Quantum Erasure · 22-09-2019 8:39pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

What for?

because you said "For those who are on the pill, how would they all start their 'first' pill on the same day to end up having their withdrawal bleed at the same time?"
I was just saying the 'myth' was never meant to include women who were on the pill

Wayne Jarvis · 22-09-2019 8:41pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

What for?

Preventing bear attacks maybe?

banie01 · 22-09-2019 8:52pm

Scrummyscrammy wrote: »

Women go for guys with a good personality over good looks.

Well that's you not fúcked in both cases then

banie01 · 22-09-2019 8:55pm

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Honestly I think weights training types would give a women's studies department a run for their money for jargon and bull****.

True, and ILYV clearly has a PHD from both

Sardonicat · 22-09-2019 9:06pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

because you said "For those who are on the pill, how would they all start their 'first' pill on the same day to end up having their withdrawal bleed at the same time?"
I was just saying the 'myth' was never meant to include women who were on the pill

The myth doesn't include anybody. It's simple bolloxology.

Padraig Mor · 22-09-2019 9:38pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

The myth doesn't include anybody. It's simple bolloxology.

On the contrary, it's sort of true....in that it does happen with female mice grouped together (it's called the Whitten Effect) if exposed to male pheromones. No evidence for it in humans though.

rossie1977 · 22-09-2019 9:52pm

All claims by Hulk Hogan all bulls**t

* he once had a tryout with Metallica
* Elvis used to sit ringside at his matches in Memphis. Hogan debuted in Memphis in 79, Elvis died in 1977.
* he drank John Belushi under the table at Wrestlemania 2 in 1986. John Belushi died 1982.
* he fought George Foreman in a boxing match
* Dwayne 'Rock' Johnson broke all Hogan's ribs when performing his finishing move at Wrestlemania 18.

Gregor Samsa · 22-09-2019 10:27pm

Dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago.

Birds are living dinosaurs of the suborder Theropoda.

Quantum Erasure · 22-09-2019 10:29pm

rossie1977 wrote: »

All claims by Hulk Hogan all bulls**t

* he once had a tryout with Metallica
* Elvis used to sit ringside at his matches in Memphis. Hogan debuted in Memphis in 79, Elvis died in 1977.
* he drank John Belushi under the table at Wrestlemania 2 in 1986. John Belushi died 1982.
* he fought George Foreman in a boxing match
* Dwayne 'Rock' Johnson broke all Hogan's ribs when performing his finishing move at Wrestlemania 18.

I was going to add him ever being in the WWE hall of fame, but it looks like he
was re-instated a while ago...

poisonated · 22-09-2019 10:33pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago.

Birds are living dinosaurs of the suborder Theropoda.

I believed they originated in the Mesozoic era.

Quantum Erasure · 22-09-2019 10:54pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago.

Birds are living dinosaurs of the suborder Theropoda.

or were they sufficiently evolved from dinosaurs before the meteor hit 65 million years ago to be classed as 'bird' not 'dinosaur' ...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegavis

The discovery of the type species, Vegavis iaai, demonstrates that the major groups of bird alive today had already diversified in the Cretaceous. This supports the longstanding phylogenetic inferences of paleornithologists.[citation needed] It has been hailed as the first definitive physical proof that representatives of some of the groups of modern birds lived in the Mesozoic

Gregor Samsa · 22-09-2019 11:07pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

or were they sufficiently evolved from dinosaurs before the meteor hit 65 million years ago to be classed as 'bird' not 'dinosaur' ...?

Regardless of their evolutionary state 67 million years ago, birds - both those living then and now - are classified as being part of the clade Dinosauria.

Junkyard Tom · 22-09-2019 11:13pm

Hot tea cools you down.

The wingbeat of an angry Swan can decapitate a man.

23-09-2019 12:01am

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Hot tea cools you down.

Might there not be something in that or is it complete BS? I was told "homeostasis" when I was in school, and not knowing what homeostasis was, made no further enquiries.

Forty Seven · 23-09-2019 12:27am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Hot tea cools you down.

Might there not be something in that or is it complete BS? I was told "homeostasis" when I was in school, and not knowing what homeostasis was, made no further enquiries.

Hot tea killed my father in his 60s. A lifetime of swilling very hot tea gave him esophageal cancer.

Junkyard Tom · 23-09-2019 12:49am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Might there not be something in that or is it complete BS? I was told "homeostasis" when I was in school, and not knowing what homeostasis was, made no further enquiries.

The conservation of energy would be the thing to consider. If you introduce heat to something its temperature increases not decreases. I suspect that the resulting sweating, from drinking hot tea when you're already feeling warm, might give people the impression they're cooling but sweating is a consequence of overheating.

Canis Lupus · 23-09-2019 12:56am

Vaccines cause autism.

"Facts" that seem true but are complete BS

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