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Things we can't stop getting wrong.

lugha

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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jape

Rent is dead money

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!

AnonoBoy

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

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?

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.

electrogrimey

Eating too many oranges will turn you into an orange.

Kimbot

Ciaran187 wrote: »

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

Objective achieved so.....

electrogrimey wrote: »

Eating too many oranges will turn you into an orange.

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

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.

AnonoBoy

Aodan83 wrote: »

His point is that they're all wrong.

Ah yeah but it's kinda right.

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.

Ostrom

After years of threads - roma/romanian

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.

**Timbuk2**

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

o1s1n

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:

electrogrimey

:rolleyes:

That.

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

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

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...

The_Minister

"to wet my appetite."

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

Archeron

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

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

Pherekydes

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

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

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

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.

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.

m@cc@

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

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:

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

m@cc@

defence/defense

licence/license

The_Minister

Buceph wrote: »

For all intensive purposes I agree with you.

:x

ARRRGH!

/collapses
/starts to drool foam

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

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!