Accepted facts that turn out to be untrue.

kowloon · 29-11-2009 08:42PM #1

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 · 29-11-2009 08:43PM

Anthropogenic Climate Change.

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

bluto63 · 29-11-2009 08:44PM

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

**Timbuk2** · 29-11-2009 08:44PM

Who cares?

I'm hungry....

Cupcake_Crisis · 29-11-2009 08:45PM

Kowala bears arent actually bears!

Doyler92 · 29-11-2009 08:45PM

The JCB phone can be broken :eek:

Jako8 · 29-11-2009 08:45PM

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 · 29-11-2009 08:45PM

The Bible.

partyatmygaff · 29-11-2009 08:46PM

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 · 29-11-2009 08:47PM

Swimming an hour after eating gives you a cramp!

philologos · 29-11-2009 08:47PM

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 · 29-11-2009 08:47PM

Half the stuff written on boards. FACT

partyatmygaff · 29-11-2009 08:50PM

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 · 29-11-2009 08:53PM

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.

29-11-2009 08:53PM

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 · 29-11-2009 08:54PM

Dogs can't look up.

Fried gold.

hooradiation · 29-11-2009 08:55PM

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!

29-11-2009 08:55PM

House prices can only go up!

the_syco · 29-11-2009 08:57PM

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 · 29-11-2009 08:58PM

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 · 29-11-2009 09:00PM

"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 · 29-11-2009 09:00PM

That smoking is uncool.

Agricola · 29-11-2009 09:01PM

There are no wimminz on t'internet

PogMoThoin · 29-11-2009 09:02PM

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

Ideo · 29-11-2009 09:06PM

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

partyatmygaff · 29-11-2009 09:06PM

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.

29-11-2009 09:06PM

PogMoThoin wrote: »

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

It makes yer farts strong - does that count.

OutlawPete · 29-11-2009 09:11PM

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 · 29-11-2009 09:31PM

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 · 29-11-2009 09:36PM

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 · 29-11-2009 09:39PM

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.

Accepted facts that turn out to be untrue.

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