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Things we can't stop getting wrong.

  • 24-12-2009 04:18PM
    #1
    lugha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭


    Why is it that some particular fallacies persist no matter how often they are corrected. Driven by equal measures of sobriety and boredom I have compiled a list.

    1. Schizophrenia gives rise to split or multiple personalities
    2. Humans are desended from apes / monkeys
    3. C. Ronaldo might seriously be considered to be the best association footballer in the world. :P

    I kid.

    3. We should all drink about 2 litres of water every day. (I've even seen this doozie on health promotional pamplets)

    So I make it three. Happily the hour is now three, and for Xmas that is not too early to go a supping :pac:. Can anyone embiggin my list? Not fallacies as such, but ones which persist despite repeated correction.


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  • #2
    jape
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭jape


    Rent is dead money


  • #3
    Ciaran187
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭Ciaran187


    A duck's quack doesn't echo - yes it does. I am a seasoned duck echo-er and I know.

    Smoking is cool - It's not. It just makes you look cool.

    Drinking water that has been left in the car gives you cancer - I don't know where to start with this one!


  • #4
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I'm calling shenanigans on number two. While humans didn't evolve from modern day apes we do share a common ancestry.


  • #5
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Ciaran187 wrote: »
    Drinking water that has been left in the car gives you cancer - I don't know where to start with this one!

    Wow. I've never heard this one at all. Who the hell says that?


  • #6
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I'm calling shenanigans on number two. While humans didn't evolve from modern day apes we do share a common ancestry.

    Thats the point made.

    We aren't descended from apes, we are descended from a common ancestor.


    Its that fallacy that has creationists (morons) asking why monkeys don't give birth to humans etc.


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  • #7
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    Eating too many oranges will turn you into an orange.


  • #8
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 19,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Ciaran187 wrote: »
    Smoking is cool - It's not. It just makes you look cool.

    Objective achieved so..... :D

    electrogrimey wrote: »
    Eating too many oranges will turn you into an orange.

    Nah thats just the D4 heads that it makes turn orange :P


  • #9
    Aodan83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I'm calling shenanigans on number two. While humans didn't evolve from modern day apes we do share a common ancestry.
    His point is that they're all wrong.


  • #10
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Aodan83 wrote: »
    His point is that they're all wrong.

    Ah yeah but it's kinda right. :p


  • #11
    lugha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Wow. I've never heard this one at all. Who the hell says that?(Drinking water that has been left in the car gives you cancer)

    Me too neither. Never heard that. Though there must be a truck load of uncorrectable myths about what is and isn't carcinogenic.


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  • #12
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    After years of threads - roma/romanian


  • #13
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    A lot of people think that epilepsy and permanent brain damage are the same thing.
    Its a personal issue with me as I have a family member who suffers from both badly but I know from training and decades of experience that the two differ.
    You can suffer from either one and not from the other.
    Some think the two go a long with each other. They don't.


  • #14
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    You should be in the left lane when you are going straight through a roundabout!!


  • #15
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    You're = you are

    As in - 'You're an idiot'

    Your = something that is yours

    As in - 'Your ma is an idiot'

    GET IT RIGHT PEOPLE!!! :mad:


  • #16
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    :rolleyes:

    That.

    Correct usage: "Jeez, some people :rolleyes:"

    Incorrect usage: "I don't agree with you. :rolleyes:"


  • #17
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    electrogrimey wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    That.

    Correct usage: "Jeez, some people :rolleyes:"

    Incorrect usage: "I don't agree with you. :rolleyes:"

    Cant describe how furious that makes me...


  • #18
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    "to wet my appetite."

    It's "to WHET my appetite", you inbred scum-muppet!


  • #19
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    We still havent found another word for "Dyslexia" thats slightly easier to spell.


  • #20
    Ebbs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Ebbs


    Archeron wrote: »
    We still havent found another word for "Dyslexia" thats slightly easier to spell.

    Or a less cruel word for "lisp".

    Extended periods on the phone cause brain cancer...this has never been proven.

    Silly facts that say cancer has increased "100%" in the last 100 years...nope we just used to diagnose cancer as something else. There is also alot more people, and a better statistics office these days that actually note such figures as opposed to people picking them out of their arse years ago.

    People who take theories as fact. For example string theory et el, yes scienctists can try and prove it thats what science is about, but no its not fact.

    Jesus was born on the 25th of dec...Its not true, any one who looks into it will realise its a symbolic day...Hes made up anyway :P

    Ill stop there before I ruin the xmas spirit


  • #21
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the economy, or voting back in the idiots that destroy it at each election.


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  • #22
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Stercus Accidit wrote: »
    Thats the point made.

    We aren't descended from apes, we are descended from a common ancestor.

    Its that fallacy that has creationists (morons) asking why monkeys don't give birth to humans etc.

    No its not, the bit in brackets is the reason :D

    The whole spider eating in your sleep thing is a load of crap too.


  • #23
    Kevin Bacon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Kevin Bacon


    The immaculate conception was Mary's conception not Jesus' conception. Heard religion teachers even get that one wrong.

    Tesco is not called Tescos as so many people call it.


  • #24
    redorblack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭redorblack


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    You should be in the left lane when you are going straight through a roundabout!!

    You should be in left lane if you are taking an exit before 12 o clock of your entry point of the roundabout, right lane for an exit after the 12.


  • #25
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055682375&highlight=misconceptions


  • #26
    Kevin Bacon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Kevin Bacon


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055682375&highlight=misconceptions

    Keep starting threads that already exist.....

    Another damn thing we keep getting wrong!:mad:


  • #27
    Buceph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    The_Minister wrote: »
    "to wet my appetite."

    It's "to WHET my appetite", you inbred scum-muppet!

    For all intensive purposes I agree with you.

    :x


  • #28
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    defence/defense

    licence/license


  • #29
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Buceph wrote: »
    For all intensive purposes I agree with you.

    :x

    ARRRGH!

    /collapses
    /starts to drool foam


  • #30
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Archeron wrote: »
    We still havent found another word for "Dyslexia" thats slightly easier to spell.

    And lisp has an S in it..

    that's just mean :D


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  • #31
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    Biggins wrote: »
    A lot of people think that epilepsy and permanent brain damage are the same thing.
    Its a personal issue with me as I have a family member who suffers from both badly but I know from training and decades of experience that the two differ.
    You can suffer from either one and not from the other.
    Some think the two go a long with each other. They don't.

    I've never, ever heard that mistake being made!


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