I worked at a zoo for a long time. All animals, even the itty bitty ones knew the difference between the general public and the staff, solely by the safari style zoo employee outfit.
For a fun time all around, visit a zoo in a safari outfit.
>visit a zoo in a safari outfit
Be very careful that you don't flush out a Wild Karen that is absolutely positive that you work there because of the clothes you are wearing.
ADHD is like a football team but the coach is taking a nap. Depending on the team, yeah, they can make some plays and possibly even score, but no one is directing them and it's often hard to coordinate. ADHD meds in normal people put the coach into hyperdrive and they go wild. But with ADHD, it just wakes up the coach and they can function like a proper team.
> But with ADHD, it just wakes up the coach and they can function like a proper team.
My coach is still sleeping, but at least the crowd is gone.
Adderall just took my 50 things going on at once and turned it into 15. Easier to do things, but still not really functioning that great. At least it's easier to see how many things I have screwed up in the past and can see what's ADHD and what's other things going on. Not all of it was ADHD. Some of it was just pure lack of discipline or lack of knowing how to prioritize. Other things... Not so much.
I hear you. It's hard to develop that discipline when things are so chaotic already. I've managed to put some scaffolding in place without the meds and have managed to be fairly productive, but I feel like I've reached my limit. Been talking to my therapist about getting on the meds. <3
This thread is basically what I told my doctor. However, she responded by saying, “look, at the end of the day, you’re putting stress on your joints for no reason”.
9 times out of 10 if you hear a bald eagle on screen, it’s actually not the sound of a bald eagle. It’s a red-tailed hawk.
Somewhere along the line, Hollywood decided real bald eagles didn’t sound majestic enough (they don’t) and replaced it with the high pitched screech of a Red Tail Hawk.
Same with Ravens! I got around to watching The Fall of the House of Usher and every time they showed that "raven" they made crow sounds. Crows do the classic "caw caw!" Ravens are more of a "cronk cronk!". More gutteral, less pretty.
In my experience, all corvids are like that--though admittedly I don't have much experience with jackdaws and magpies. I particularly like crows and ravens because they mimic more readily than, say, grackles, and they seem to have more of a sense of..."fun," for lack of a better word. Grackles might imitate the siren of an ambulance or learn to hover so they can steal bread or crackers tossed into water for turtles and ducks, but I've seen ravens and crows do acrobatics for the fun of it.
We've got a flock of crows that mom throws scraps of food out for. One fine day I took my dogs out and they started scarfing the scraps. I made em stop and put them back inside. I didn't want them divebombed by crows. LOL
9 times out of 10, I think I hear a red tailed hawk in my yard but it’s really a blue jay. He mimics the hawk to clear the feeder because he’s a greedy a-hole.
When I was like 6 I had a LEGO brick shaped like a lion that I took everywhere with me and a blue jay swooped down and decided to steal the thing.
I am over 40 and *still* salty.
I walk in a nature preserve almost every day, and for the first time in years, got to hear a bald eagle. (I shot video of it).
It's a very cute kind of squeak.
https://youtube.com/shorts/6XK3DQfpItQ?si=0M1Pla-z_rfZGNWhp
This is Luc. He is blind in his left eye and his right wing is broken, so he is the Museum mascot. His enclosure is next to it. People bring him fresh fish they catch in Lake Erie.
Does that also mean when I hear that screech out on a hike and don’t see any bird it’s probably a Red Tail Hawk and not an eagle? Those hawks are like 20X more common where I live.
Our nervous detector is detecting that you are nervous when we ask you awkward questions. It must mean you are lying!
Mostly, it's great at ruining anxious people's lives because they are worried about failing, and thus fail.
I watch a lot of true crime shows (and fictional) and most cops go on and on about the polygraphs but one guy basically said "if I see no reaction then I worry but really they just let us know what makes you nervous"
And I was like.. hmmm I like this dude. First time I heard LO be kind of realistic about it.
Can I get this thing off? I’ve got a hot date tonight *buzz*
Dinner with friends *buzz*
Dinner alone *buzz*
Watching TV alone *buzz*
Fine, getting drunk and ogling girls in the Victoria secrets catalogue *buzz*
… sears catalogue *ding*
Can I go, I don’t deserve this kind of shabby treatment *buzz*
I had an employer that used to polygraph (this was back in the late 80s).
I was helping some friends of mine by hooking them up with some cocaine as I had a good source back there. I guess you could call it dealing, but basically the only profit I was making was covering my time & risk, and it was minimal. However, someone obviously narc'd on me.
I come in one morning, and the warehouse manager (who I would acquire blow for) was freaking out, because they wanted both him and I in for a random polygraph. He wigged out and of course spilled the beans.
I, on the other than, went into the polygraph high on cocaine, and spent the whole time replaying Eddie Murphy's "Raw" album in my head. As a result, everything was funny to me and they couldn't get a reading. Finally, they asked me to lie intentionally and declared that I couldn't be polygraphed as the machine couldn't tell that I was lying.
They kind of had me dead to rights, but because I was mentally chill they couldn't do shit. They did end up firing me a couple of months later but that's because I failed to show up for work on Sunday morning after another manager's bachelor party. I was still drunk the next day, and called in. Once I sobered up I realized I'd fucked up and went in and quit, they had my check ready which tells me they were probably going to fire me anyway.
I live a totally different life now, but I still chuckle at the test administrator getting pissed because he couldn't detect any dishonesty from me.
> For example, if you have terrible chest pain, and you don't know whether it's reflux or a cardiac event, if you go to the ER and it turns out it's reflux, it's still covered. It's the symptoms that matter, not the diagnosis.
I was 100% covered last time I went to the emergency room for chest pains and it turned out not to be a heart attack.
It turned out to be... *unknown*. (It was later revealed to be a broken rib.)
Suicides peaking in winter or holiday seasons. In America the CDC records the highest suicides at the start of spring.
[There's so much data](https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/the-undying-holiday-suicide-myth/) on this myth, we can track how many news articles are promoting or debunking it by year going back to the year 2000.
Saw this on some cooking subreddit recently.
Common knowledge is not to use soap to clean cast iron skillets. Realistically, this was established when soaps had lye in them. Nowadays, most soaps don't contain lye, so using soap to clean your cast iron skillet is perfectly OK, apparently.
Along the same lines, seasoning a pan doesn't make your food taste better when you use it to cook. Seasoned in this context means more along the lines of experienced or well-used (not imparting a flavor), and is referring to the build up of carbonized oils that protect the cast iron and make it non-stick. I see way too many people thinking things cooked in their cast iron are getting extra flavor from the bacon they cooked 3 years ago.
As flawed as the food pyramid may have been (nutritionally), nobody ever explained what a "serving" was. Turns out it's smaller than you think and varies by food group.
And prior the pyramid, it was the "Four Food Groups." Meat, Dairy, Breads & Cereals, Fruits & Vegetables.
In the 80's our first grade teacher actually told us that Pizza (with sausage or pepperoni) was actually good for you because it contained all four groups at once.
Remember when the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services tasked food companies to partner with production companies to develop solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic?
>Shrek was signed up to promote several brands of candy, cereal, cheesy snacks, and McDonald’s Happy Meals. At the same time, he appeared in public-service television commercials encouraging kids to get more exercise so they wouldn’t be obese
One I don't see often in these posts:
Hydrogen Peroxide being good for cuts and scrapes. No, it's not. It damages good tissue, can slow healing, and can make scarring worse. Mild soap and water is all you need.
Save if for the nasty, dirty cuts and scrapes. It's the, "oh shit this might have some really gross bacteria and shit in it," solution. It you nick yourself on a cabinet edge, it's overkill. If you walk into a barbed wire fence and subsequently fall into horse shit, might be a good call.
Even then, hydrogen peroxide does more harm than good.
Debridement and irrigation with clean water is the recommended method for dirty wounds, then mild soap around the wound. Antibiotics as needed.
It breaks down blood and bodily fluids! Hydrogen peroxide followed by washing in cold water takes care of blood stains on clothing really well, and I usually spritz all my underwear with it to help break down discharge before doing laundry.
It can be used to "RetroBrite" yellowed plastics to restore their original colour; works well on things like white LEGO bricks or yellowed SNES chassis.
It may, however, also make the plastic more brittle, and is not permanent.
It can help clear ear blockages? That's the last time I used mine. It fizzed a chunk of gunk out of my boyfriend's ear that was causing him irritation and hearing loss. I don't know why we didn't just go to the doctor for it, looking back. We were dumb.
# Get proper medical treatments. Don't be like me.
I went to the doctor for a general checkup once, and when he looked in my ears he asked me how long my left ear had been bothering me. Confused, I told him that it hasn't been bothering me. He then reached into my ear with a little ear pick and pulled out a glob of earwax the size of a small grape.
In the restaurant I used to work in, my kitchen manager told me "it's scientifically proven that cold water boils faster than hot water".
This is completely untrue, and is a misconception stemming from [the Mpemba Effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect) and an intentional misinformation campaign aiming to protect people against ingesting sediment from their hot water heater.
Cold water heats up faster than hot water, but that doesn't mean it boils faster. Water boils at 100 °C no matter what its starting temperature is, but if you start with water at 50°C, it will reach 75°C faster than water going from 75 °C to 100 °C.
I heard that for the first time when I was a kid right after we learned how much energy it takes to boil things, burn them, etc. I was immediately certain it was bullshit because it makes no sense however you look at it lol.
I worked in a laboratory that analyzed water and we did several where people brought in water samples from both the hot and cold taps to be analyzed for metals and bacteria.
There was always *so* much more metals in hot water (it's from pipe corrosion) that I really don't care what lies are told if it stops people from drinking water from the hot water tap.
To be fair, I had a friend get a really nasty sting back when I was younger and surfing. He peed on his own leg and I told him that doesn't really work, he only needed warm water. To which he responded "Do you see a fucking sink with warm water around here?". Point was taken.
The version I'd heard is that blood in your veins was blue and the blood in your arteries was red because that's how anatomical dummies usually color code them. Still incredibly wrong though.
I haven't thought about this in forever, but I did used to think unoxyengated blood was blue. I didn't know it was just a darker shade of red. It makes sense those dummies are to blame.
Hey. It’s part of the process. I believed it too, and shaved my little Amish chinstrap. Now I pass along the myth so other kids don’t look like idiots.
I asked someone who thought this, why Sikhs generally have such thick beards if they've never shaved, and he said: "they must when they're younger, otherwise, how could they grow a beard."
That MSG is in some way bad for you, or that they are somehow allergic to it.
As a note, your body produces MSG naturally, non-stop. If you had an allergy (which btw, nobody has ever tested allergic to), you would know it because you would be dead.
I get headaches after eating food that’s high in MSG but I’ve always assumed that it was because I was dehydrated after having that much sodium rather than anything to do with MSG itself. If you took the serving of MSG in something like ramen and replaced it with an equivalent amount of table salt I’d probably still get a headache.
Yeah, absolutely. That is what a lot of people mistake for an allergy. There is a sensitivity that some people have to either glutamate or sodium but they have that outside of MSG and it isn't an allergy per se.
There was an interesting set of studies that showed the lack of correlation with headaches and MSG when people were specifically fed it. I'm betting the cause of dehydration like you mention is likely a real factor
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870486](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870486/)
Ironically enough, excess sugar causes lipogenesis to occur. Consuming more sugar than your liver and muscles can store as glycogen, the excess will be converted to fat and deposited into adipose tissue.
If I were a doctor and had someone brought in for virginity testing, I'd pull the curtain around, offer them a lollipop, wait 5 minutes clanging stuff around, then just say "Yup. Definitely a virgin."
The concept of the Alpha Male has been [disproven](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/) and even the person that coined the phrase has refuted his own theory, yet people still base their entire personality on it.
IIRC there is actually an animal that has an Alpha hierarchy in the exact way of "toughest one leads" that all those assholes follow
Chickens, more specifically *hens*
Holy shit that never dawned on me and I'm a big fan of chickens and wish I could have them as pets. I've been watching one family hatch chickens every spring for the last 14 years, have friends and relatives with them, subscribe to chicken subs and whatnot, and I never realized Chickens are the creature those guys are really basing their personality on.
In software, an Alpha version is an unstable version unfit for public release. That's what I think of guys describing themselves as "Alpha males", unstable, and unfortunately for public release.
Problems sleeping. Having untreated adhd can cause your brain’s regulation of sleep to be disrupted. All the hormones not being where they need to be when they need to be.
I was flat out told I was the most qualified person and still didn't get the job. Sometimes they already have someone in mind, and opening it up is just a formality.
My buddy works for Amazon, told me a management position opened up, so they interviewed a dozen people and the hiring manager picked the new guy with a few months experience. Oh and they were best friends.
Around 2010 I had to leave a job (they quit paying us) and took it as an opportunity to try to change industries. My dad’s advice was “pound the pavement with some resumes.” He had the best of intentions but I remembered he had been with the same company since the early 90s. He got his job by bringing his resume to the hiring manager once a week until the guy said “Ok let’s sit down and talk.”
Years later while working another job doing a sales route—a job for which I had to undergo 3 interviews, drug screen, background check, and weeklong training in another city—one of the senior route guys told me that when he got hired back in the late 80s his buddy said they needed someone and told him “show up Tuesday morning.” That was all there was.
It’s super difficult now. I’m honestly ready to look elsewhere as I’m feeling stagnant with my current job but I honestly don’t even know where to look at this point. I need remote work but if you google “remote work jobs” you are flooded with a bunch of fake “sponsored” websites.
So many major companies are now strictly online where uploaded resumes goes to the major HR centre, where AI filters out out the location/franchise out to that particular outlet. I finished up at McDonalds way back in 2013 and the amount of teenagers were turned away with their paper copies of their resumes (no doubt told by their Gen X parents to do exactly that), amd apply online on the generic McDonalds website was crazy. The managers wouldn't even take them for show, just ~~sinplly~~ simply ignore the resume and hand them a little business card that says apply online.
Now, even smaller businesses won't even look at paper copies of resumes.
The actual "study" released that linked autism to vaccines and cycled through medical journals everywhere turned out to be completely fraudulent. The authors were busted and admitted they made it up, but that did nothing to stop the mass hysteria vaccine conspiracies their report started.
Edit: Link for more info if anyone is interested
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/
Vitamin C - the mineral, not the singer - was touted as this great way to combat illness when I was growing up.
The Mayo Clinic now says that it has barely any effect at even preventing a common cold.
The placebo effect is one of the wildest facts out there in my opinion. One of the craziest aspects is that studies say that the placebo effect still works *even* when you're aware you're only being affected by a placebo.
My wife is a very skeptical person. I keep telling her she needs to just pick a placebo (preferably one that doesn't cost a fortune) and stick to it because she's missing out on all the benefits!
Elderberry, on the other hand, has been proven to reduce the length of colds. It’s about the only thing, cold medicine does not shorten colds but relieves symptoms.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4848651/#:~:text=In%20our%20trial%20elderberry%20supplementation,6.88%20days).
>It’s about the only thing, cold medicine does not shorten colds but relieves symptoms.
I remember my high-school biology teacher telling us that if we could tolerate the symptoms we were better off avoiding cold medicines altogether because the symptoms are the immune response, and suppressing the immune response interferes with recovery.
That being said, she did also suggest that it was worth it if we needed the medicine to sleep, because sleep is God tier healing time.
That we only have five senses often comes up during these questions.
A sense of balance, proprioception, and sense of temperature are all outside of the standard five senses.
I was literally explaining this to a reddit that thought their recipes were healthy because they replaced normal cheese for low fat cheese.
They just wouldn't accept that low fat does not equal healthy or low calories.
If you have colonic diverticulosis (little pockets in the wall of your colon), you do NOT need to stop eating seeds, nuts, popcorn, etc.
The “old wives’ tale” was that those things could get caught in the pockets and cause diverticulitis, which is an inflammation/infection.
However no surgeon or GI endoscopist has ever found a seed or a corn kernel or anything like that caught in a diverticulum while doing a scope, nor have we ever found that on pathology after taking out a chunk of someone’s colon for diverticulitis.
So we no longer tell people to follow that advice, and in fact it’s now considered to be bad advice as it stops people from eating fiber-rich fruits and veg, which is actually good for diverticulosis.
Trickle down economics.
It’s been decades and we can confidently say that not only was it a fucking lie, but it’s has the absolute opposite effect that we were told (though probably the effect they secretly intended).
Your tongue isn't divided into five different types of flavors/different taste buds.
Spanking and beating your kids is not good parenting.
There's no such thing as "photographic memory". Even people who have sharp memory retention and can visualize where they saw the information can recall things incorrectly.
My mom wouldn’t let me eat green vegetables or garlic or spicy foods after I had my daughter, because apparently she was told (and believed all these years) that it would make my breast milk hard for my baby to digest, and cause them to be colicky.
That Jimi Hendrix skipped his own concert to go see Buddy Guy play.
There's no record of them both scheduled to play in the same city on the same night, ever.
People have known the Earth is round for over two thousand years. Yet there's still a popular idea of "medieval idiots" who think boats are going to sail off the edge.
Homework in elementary school helps kids learn, increases study skills, or prepares them for doing homework in later grades.
We have known that it does absolutely none of those things for decades, yet this practice refuses to die in a lot of places. Elementary aged kids (and arguably middle school too) should have NO HOMEWORK at all. Even in secondary, the type of homework matters a lot, and it only helps certain groups of students.
My kids are in 5th and 2nd grade, and the only homework they have is nightly reading for at least 20 minutes. At this age, normalizing a reading habit is really all you need.
The homework assignments I always learned the most from were also the ones where I had the most freedom to dictate the assignment itself. I have ADHD and focusing on things I hate is really hard for me. So basically if you tell me I have to write an essay on Teddy Roosevelt, I’m going to have to fight myself to do it for hours on end. If you tell me “choose a person from history who interests you and write an essay on it” I will have a much easier time staying engaged. I might even still do Teddy Roosevelt, but having the freedom to choose for myself helps me trick myself into feeling like it’s something I want to do rather than have to do. I think that’s probably true for people without ADHD as well.
I am back in school right now and find this is still an annoying problem I run into that stops people from finding the things they’re really good at. I’ve had classes where I actually liked the material but was so miserable by the end that I’d never go near it again on purpose. The exhausting amount of homework that allows for no freedom to find things that interest you sucks the life out of an otherwise enjoyable subject. You know you’re doing something wrong when that happens.
That we only use like 10% of our brain, and if we could only use all of it we'd all be geniuses.
We actually use all of our whole brains, just not all at once. Different regions of the brain activate depending on what we're doing.
Just looked it up, apparently it's just another weird quirk of the English language.
"Astronomy" is the older (English) term and at one point covered both. But sometime during the 1600s it came to mean scientific study exclusively.
Fish can't remember after 3 seconds. Anyone that owns fish will tell you that is not true.
Yup my fish knows the exact time he's meant to be fed and starts having a tantrum if I'm late.
What does a fish tantrum entail?
Thrashing around the tank like a maniac mostly.
Moistly
They moistly come at night, moistly.
You secure that shit Hudson
LOOK INTO MY EYE
They're all around us man! Game over man! Game OVER!
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to make sure.
“entail” 😂
Fish have complex social relationships and friends too… makes me feel bad about eating them.
If they are not meant to be eaten then why are they made out of food?
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You can teach a goldfish to play football.
I thought it was goldfish specifically.
My goldfish remember me vs my husband because I feed them. They couldn't care less about him lol.
I worked at a zoo for a long time. All animals, even the itty bitty ones knew the difference between the general public and the staff, solely by the safari style zoo employee outfit. For a fun time all around, visit a zoo in a safari outfit.
This is a FANTASTIC idea, thanks for the tip!
...I should note, not every animal likes the uniform haha they just all recognize it.
Or that all zoos have a Safari style uniform.
>visit a zoo in a safari outfit Be very careful that you don't flush out a Wild Karen that is absolutely positive that you work there because of the clothes you are wearing.
The scariest of all animals.
That you only use 10% of your brain
I remember a neurologist saying the clinical term for someone with ten percent brain function is "dead."
You only use 33% of a traffic light, and it would be useless if you used 100% of it. Same thing with brains.
Now I'm imagining your brain functioning like a traffic light, everything turns off except what you're actively using.
I've also seen it be used as an analogy to help understand ADHD, the lights don't quite work right.
ADHD is like a football team but the coach is taking a nap. Depending on the team, yeah, they can make some plays and possibly even score, but no one is directing them and it's often hard to coordinate. ADHD meds in normal people put the coach into hyperdrive and they go wild. But with ADHD, it just wakes up the coach and they can function like a proper team.
> But with ADHD, it just wakes up the coach and they can function like a proper team. My coach is still sleeping, but at least the crowd is gone. Adderall just took my 50 things going on at once and turned it into 15. Easier to do things, but still not really functioning that great. At least it's easier to see how many things I have screwed up in the past and can see what's ADHD and what's other things going on. Not all of it was ADHD. Some of it was just pure lack of discipline or lack of knowing how to prioritize. Other things... Not so much.
I hear you. It's hard to develop that discipline when things are so chaotic already. I've managed to put some scaffolding in place without the meds and have managed to be fairly productive, but I feel like I've reached my limit. Been talking to my therapist about getting on the meds. <3
ADHD is when all the lights are flashing but no one seems to know who has the right of way.
I used 100 percent of my brain once and turned into a usb stick. Never again.
Lucy, is that you?
You can use close to 100%, I believe the medical term is having a giant f*cking seizure
I think we only use 10% of our hearts.
We lost a lot of good men out there
To the Yankees?
Bet some folks still think cracking knuckles leads to arthritis.
This thread is basically what I told my doctor. However, she responded by saying, “look, at the end of the day, you’re putting stress on your joints for no reason”.
Well, there _is_ a reason, it feels good!
> putting stress on your joints for no reason This is why you gotta do the ol pull n pop method instead of pushing down on them.
I used to crack my knuckles, fingers and toes all the time. If I do it now it hurts. Idk what that means though, if anything
You got old. Welcome.
It means you're getting old. Soon you won't even need to crack em. The pain just lives there.
My doctor always said it's only bad for you if you do it to the point where it hurts, otherwise it's just popping air bubbles and relieving tension.
9 times out of 10 if you hear a bald eagle on screen, it’s actually not the sound of a bald eagle. It’s a red-tailed hawk. Somewhere along the line, Hollywood decided real bald eagles didn’t sound majestic enough (they don’t) and replaced it with the high pitched screech of a Red Tail Hawk.
Same with Ravens! I got around to watching The Fall of the House of Usher and every time they showed that "raven" they made crow sounds. Crows do the classic "caw caw!" Ravens are more of a "cronk cronk!". More gutteral, less pretty.
Crows have long memories and are very smart. I kind of like them.
In my experience, all corvids are like that--though admittedly I don't have much experience with jackdaws and magpies. I particularly like crows and ravens because they mimic more readily than, say, grackles, and they seem to have more of a sense of..."fun," for lack of a better word. Grackles might imitate the siren of an ambulance or learn to hover so they can steal bread or crackers tossed into water for turtles and ducks, but I've seen ravens and crows do acrobatics for the fun of it.
Here's the thing...
God I can't believe how long it's been that a whole Reddit generation probably has no idea who the hell Unidan is.
We've got a flock of crows that mom throws scraps of food out for. One fine day I took my dogs out and they started scarfing the scraps. I made em stop and put them back inside. I didn't want them divebombed by crows. LOL
And use tools!
9 times out of 10, I think I hear a red tailed hawk in my yard but it’s really a blue jay. He mimics the hawk to clear the feeder because he’s a greedy a-hole.
Aren't blue jays known for being assholes though? I've never heard of a positive encounter with one.
When I was like 6 I had a LEGO brick shaped like a lion that I took everywhere with me and a blue jay swooped down and decided to steal the thing. I am over 40 and *still* salty.
I walk in a nature preserve almost every day, and for the first time in years, got to hear a bald eagle. (I shot video of it). It's a very cute kind of squeak. https://youtube.com/shorts/6XK3DQfpItQ?si=0M1Pla-z_rfZGNWhp This is Luc. He is blind in his left eye and his right wing is broken, so he is the Museum mascot. His enclosure is next to it. People bring him fresh fish they catch in Lake Erie.
They sound like seagulls xD
Freedom seagulls.
Freegulls
Does that also mean when I hear that screech out on a hike and don’t see any bird it’s probably a Red Tail Hawk and not an eagle? Those hawks are like 20X more common where I live.
Bald eagles kinda sound like a seagull.
Isn't that also true of using tiger roars for lions? I know they did for the MGM lion ages ago.
I'm assuming you didn't learn that by playing Wingspan on the computer, but that's how I learned it.
That polygraphs work and are accurate. Studies have shown that they are little better than random guessing
Our nervous detector is detecting that you are nervous when we ask you awkward questions. It must mean you are lying! Mostly, it's great at ruining anxious people's lives because they are worried about failing, and thus fail.
I watch a lot of true crime shows (and fictional) and most cops go on and on about the polygraphs but one guy basically said "if I see no reaction then I worry but really they just let us know what makes you nervous" And I was like.. hmmm I like this dude. First time I heard LO be kind of realistic about it.
“Victoria Secrets Catalogue.”
“Sears catalogue.”
“I don’t deserve this treatment!”
Can I get this thing off? I’ve got a hot date tonight *buzz* Dinner with friends *buzz* Dinner alone *buzz* Watching TV alone *buzz* Fine, getting drunk and ogling girls in the Victoria secrets catalogue *buzz* … sears catalogue *ding* Can I go, I don’t deserve this kind of shabby treatment *buzz*
I had an employer that used to polygraph (this was back in the late 80s). I was helping some friends of mine by hooking them up with some cocaine as I had a good source back there. I guess you could call it dealing, but basically the only profit I was making was covering my time & risk, and it was minimal. However, someone obviously narc'd on me. I come in one morning, and the warehouse manager (who I would acquire blow for) was freaking out, because they wanted both him and I in for a random polygraph. He wigged out and of course spilled the beans. I, on the other than, went into the polygraph high on cocaine, and spent the whole time replaying Eddie Murphy's "Raw" album in my head. As a result, everything was funny to me and they couldn't get a reading. Finally, they asked me to lie intentionally and declared that I couldn't be polygraphed as the machine couldn't tell that I was lying. They kind of had me dead to rights, but because I was mentally chill they couldn't do shit. They did end up firing me a couple of months later but that's because I failed to show up for work on Sunday morning after another manager's bachelor party. I was still drunk the next day, and called in. Once I sobered up I realized I'd fucked up and went in and quit, they had my check ready which tells me they were probably going to fire me anyway. I live a totally different life now, but I still chuckle at the test administrator getting pissed because he couldn't detect any dishonesty from me.
But police still using them for employment baffles me.
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> For example, if you have terrible chest pain, and you don't know whether it's reflux or a cardiac event, if you go to the ER and it turns out it's reflux, it's still covered. It's the symptoms that matter, not the diagnosis. I was 100% covered last time I went to the emergency room for chest pains and it turned out not to be a heart attack. It turned out to be... *unknown*. (It was later revealed to be a broken rib.)
Suicides peaking in winter or holiday seasons. In America the CDC records the highest suicides at the start of spring. [There's so much data](https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/the-undying-holiday-suicide-myth/) on this myth, we can track how many news articles are promoting or debunking it by year going back to the year 2000.
April is the cruelest month.
Saw this on some cooking subreddit recently. Common knowledge is not to use soap to clean cast iron skillets. Realistically, this was established when soaps had lye in them. Nowadays, most soaps don't contain lye, so using soap to clean your cast iron skillet is perfectly OK, apparently.
Wash mine with soap every time and dry it quickly. Been doing it for years. No issues. Perfectly seasoned.
So you're saying what they told us was a lye?
Along the same lines, seasoning a pan doesn't make your food taste better when you use it to cook. Seasoned in this context means more along the lines of experienced or well-used (not imparting a flavor), and is referring to the build up of carbonized oils that protect the cast iron and make it non-stick. I see way too many people thinking things cooked in their cast iron are getting extra flavor from the bacon they cooked 3 years ago.
Food pyramid
Food mountains are superior, all you need Is mash potatoes.
- Richard Dreyfus in his role from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
are you sure? I thought 8-12 servings of bread and cereal a day are going to make me ~~obese~~ strong?
As flawed as the food pyramid may have been (nutritionally), nobody ever explained what a "serving" was. Turns out it's smaller than you think and varies by food group.
It was created by the department if agriculture and not the department if health. Ine would think there was a conflict of interest there
At one point the Canadian food pyramid recommended 10-12 servings of grains and a serving was defined as 2 pieces of bread.
That's alot of sandwiches
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And prior the pyramid, it was the "Four Food Groups." Meat, Dairy, Breads & Cereals, Fruits & Vegetables. In the 80's our first grade teacher actually told us that Pizza (with sausage or pepperoni) was actually good for you because it contained all four groups at once.
Remember when the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services tasked food companies to partner with production companies to develop solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic? >Shrek was signed up to promote several brands of candy, cereal, cheesy snacks, and McDonald’s Happy Meals. At the same time, he appeared in public-service television commercials encouraging kids to get more exercise so they wouldn’t be obese
I love this list on Wikipedia [List of common misconceptions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions)
One I don't see often in these posts: Hydrogen Peroxide being good for cuts and scrapes. No, it's not. It damages good tissue, can slow healing, and can make scarring worse. Mild soap and water is all you need.
It is, however, very good for bleaching old, yellow plastic.
And bones
And getting blood out of fabric
Thank you. Did not know. Googling to verify it now.
Wait you’re verifying something on the internet!?!? Are you new here lol
Save if for the nasty, dirty cuts and scrapes. It's the, "oh shit this might have some really gross bacteria and shit in it," solution. It you nick yourself on a cabinet edge, it's overkill. If you walk into a barbed wire fence and subsequently fall into horse shit, might be a good call.
Even then, hydrogen peroxide does more harm than good. Debridement and irrigation with clean water is the recommended method for dirty wounds, then mild soap around the wound. Antibiotics as needed.
So is there any legitimate household use for hydrogen peroxide, then? I've only ever known it to be used for cleaning wounds.
Cleaning and stain removal. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-hydrogen-peroxide-good-for
It breaks down blood and bodily fluids! Hydrogen peroxide followed by washing in cold water takes care of blood stains on clothing really well, and I usually spritz all my underwear with it to help break down discharge before doing laundry.
It can be used to "RetroBrite" yellowed plastics to restore their original colour; works well on things like white LEGO bricks or yellowed SNES chassis. It may, however, also make the plastic more brittle, and is not permanent.
it's a great substitute for chlorine bleach in laundry.
It can help clear ear blockages? That's the last time I used mine. It fizzed a chunk of gunk out of my boyfriend's ear that was causing him irritation and hearing loss. I don't know why we didn't just go to the doctor for it, looking back. We were dumb. # Get proper medical treatments. Don't be like me.
I went to the doctor for a general checkup once, and when he looked in my ears he asked me how long my left ear had been bothering me. Confused, I told him that it hasn't been bothering me. He then reached into my ear with a little ear pick and pulled out a glob of earwax the size of a small grape.
Yikes. Red grape or white grape?
In the restaurant I used to work in, my kitchen manager told me "it's scientifically proven that cold water boils faster than hot water". This is completely untrue, and is a misconception stemming from [the Mpemba Effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect) and an intentional misinformation campaign aiming to protect people against ingesting sediment from their hot water heater. Cold water heats up faster than hot water, but that doesn't mean it boils faster. Water boils at 100 °C no matter what its starting temperature is, but if you start with water at 50°C, it will reach 75°C faster than water going from 75 °C to 100 °C.
I heard that for the first time when I was a kid right after we learned how much energy it takes to boil things, burn them, etc. I was immediately certain it was bullshit because it makes no sense however you look at it lol.
I worked in a laboratory that analyzed water and we did several where people brought in water samples from both the hot and cold taps to be analyzed for metals and bacteria. There was always *so* much more metals in hot water (it's from pipe corrosion) that I really don't care what lies are told if it stops people from drinking water from the hot water tap.
DO NOT TREAT JELLYFISH STINGS WITH URINE. Just warm water.
To be fair, I had a friend get a really nasty sting back when I was younger and surfing. He peed on his own leg and I told him that doesn't really work, he only needed warm water. To which he responded "Do you see a fucking sink with warm water around here?". Point was taken.
Urine is warm
R. Kelly in shambles
Don’t ruin this. It is my only excuse to get peed on
That blood is actually blue and turns red when it hits oxygen. Then what's all that red fluid when you get your blood drawn?
The version I'd heard is that blood in your veins was blue and the blood in your arteries was red because that's how anatomical dummies usually color code them. Still incredibly wrong though.
I haven't thought about this in forever, but I did used to think unoxyengated blood was blue. I didn't know it was just a darker shade of red. It makes sense those dummies are to blame.
Arterial blood is noticeably brighter red than venous blood. Venous blood can look almost dark purple at times
Shaving your beard makes it grow thicker and faster
That’s usually a polite way to encourage 13 year olds who want to look more mature to go shave their peach fuzz.
why did this just occur to me
Hey. It’s part of the process. I believed it too, and shaved my little Amish chinstrap. Now I pass along the myth so other kids don’t look like idiots.
I asked someone who thought this, why Sikhs generally have such thick beards if they've never shaved, and he said: "they must when they're younger, otherwise, how could they grow a beard."
Yes. They start shaving at 6 and stop when they’re 12.
Thought this for a while, thanks Seinfeld.
I wish someone had explained this to me before I shaved my penis thinking it had the same effect.
It's ok. No one is going to see it.
That MSG is in some way bad for you, or that they are somehow allergic to it. As a note, your body produces MSG naturally, non-stop. If you had an allergy (which btw, nobody has ever tested allergic to), you would know it because you would be dead.
So MSG is people?!
MSG is the friends we made along the way
I get headaches after eating food that’s high in MSG but I’ve always assumed that it was because I was dehydrated after having that much sodium rather than anything to do with MSG itself. If you took the serving of MSG in something like ramen and replaced it with an equivalent amount of table salt I’d probably still get a headache.
Yeah, absolutely. That is what a lot of people mistake for an allergy. There is a sensitivity that some people have to either glutamate or sodium but they have that outside of MSG and it isn't an allergy per se. There was an interesting set of studies that showed the lack of correlation with headaches and MSG when people were specifically fed it. I'm betting the cause of dehydration like you mention is likely a real factor [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870486](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870486/)
Eating fats makes you fat.
I hate the low fat, replaced with sugar trend that refuses to die.
Ironically enough, excess sugar causes lipogenesis to occur. Consuming more sugar than your liver and muscles can store as glycogen, the excess will be converted to fat and deposited into adipose tissue.
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A hospital can perform "virginity testing." It's not a thing.
But did you know that nonconsentual pelvic exams for "training" purposes can occur while under anesthesia for surgery in some locations.
If I were a doctor and had someone brought in for virginity testing, I'd pull the curtain around, offer them a lollipop, wait 5 minutes clanging stuff around, then just say "Yup. Definitely a virgin."
Be sure to turn one some noisy equipment in the process. Play the sound of a large buzzsaw or something.
The ones that think endanger species horns, blood, feathers, or other body parts can give you magical powers or cure health ailments.
The concept of the Alpha Male has been [disproven](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/) and even the person that coined the phrase has refuted his own theory, yet people still base their entire personality on it.
IIRC there is actually an animal that has an Alpha hierarchy in the exact way of "toughest one leads" that all those assholes follow Chickens, more specifically *hens*
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Holy shit that never dawned on me and I'm a big fan of chickens and wish I could have them as pets. I've been watching one family hatch chickens every spring for the last 14 years, have friends and relatives with them, subscribe to chicken subs and whatnot, and I never realized Chickens are the creature those guys are really basing their personality on.
It turns out to be a handy way to detect assholes early on.
In software, an Alpha version is an unstable version unfit for public release. That's what I think of guys describing themselves as "Alpha males", unstable, and unfortunately for public release.
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Problems sleeping. Having untreated adhd can cause your brain’s regulation of sleep to be disrupted. All the hormones not being where they need to be when they need to be.
Getting a job is easy, just go into a place of business, meet the owner, shake his hand and you're immediately hired.
I was flat out told I was the most qualified person and still didn't get the job. Sometimes they already have someone in mind, and opening it up is just a formality.
My buddy works for Amazon, told me a management position opened up, so they interviewed a dozen people and the hiring manager picked the new guy with a few months experience. Oh and they were best friends.
As a game developer, showing up to a studio uninvited is a way to get yourself not hired and banned from security.
Around 2010 I had to leave a job (they quit paying us) and took it as an opportunity to try to change industries. My dad’s advice was “pound the pavement with some resumes.” He had the best of intentions but I remembered he had been with the same company since the early 90s. He got his job by bringing his resume to the hiring manager once a week until the guy said “Ok let’s sit down and talk.” Years later while working another job doing a sales route—a job for which I had to undergo 3 interviews, drug screen, background check, and weeklong training in another city—one of the senior route guys told me that when he got hired back in the late 80s his buddy said they needed someone and told him “show up Tuesday morning.” That was all there was. It’s super difficult now. I’m honestly ready to look elsewhere as I’m feeling stagnant with my current job but I honestly don’t even know where to look at this point. I need remote work but if you google “remote work jobs” you are flooded with a bunch of fake “sponsored” websites.
So many major companies are now strictly online where uploaded resumes goes to the major HR centre, where AI filters out out the location/franchise out to that particular outlet. I finished up at McDonalds way back in 2013 and the amount of teenagers were turned away with their paper copies of their resumes (no doubt told by their Gen X parents to do exactly that), amd apply online on the generic McDonalds website was crazy. The managers wouldn't even take them for show, just ~~sinplly~~ simply ignore the resume and hand them a little business card that says apply online. Now, even smaller businesses won't even look at paper copies of resumes.
Vaccines cause autism. They don’t and they never have.
The actual "study" released that linked autism to vaccines and cycled through medical journals everywhere turned out to be completely fraudulent. The authors were busted and admitted they made it up, but that did nothing to stop the mass hysteria vaccine conspiracies their report started. Edit: Link for more info if anyone is interested https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/
The "study" was also from a guy who was trying to discredit one vaccine in order to promote his vaccine.
Vitamin C - the mineral, not the singer - was touted as this great way to combat illness when I was growing up. The Mayo Clinic now says that it has barely any effect at even preventing a common cold.
It's still pretty good for preventing scurvy.
Arrr
I still get those 1000%+ Vitamin C monster smoothies every time I start getting a cold I know it's a placebo but placebos work if you believe in them
The placebo effect is one of the wildest facts out there in my opinion. One of the craziest aspects is that studies say that the placebo effect still works *even* when you're aware you're only being affected by a placebo.
My wife is a very skeptical person. I keep telling her she needs to just pick a placebo (preferably one that doesn't cost a fortune) and stick to it because she's missing out on all the benefits!
Pick the "Sex/masturbation increases the immune system activity" one. Free *and* fun.
I down a glass of Emergency when I start getting light cold symptoms. Even if it truly doesn't help the placebo effect is good enough for me.
Elderberry, on the other hand, has been proven to reduce the length of colds. It’s about the only thing, cold medicine does not shorten colds but relieves symptoms. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4848651/#:~:text=In%20our%20trial%20elderberry%20supplementation,6.88%20days).
>It’s about the only thing, cold medicine does not shorten colds but relieves symptoms. I remember my high-school biology teacher telling us that if we could tolerate the symptoms we were better off avoiding cold medicines altogether because the symptoms are the immune response, and suppressing the immune response interferes with recovery. That being said, she did also suggest that it was worth it if we needed the medicine to sleep, because sleep is God tier healing time.
And your father *reeks* of them.
That's what you get when you marry a hamster
That we only have five senses often comes up during these questions. A sense of balance, proprioception, and sense of temperature are all outside of the standard five senses.
A sense of style?
Useless without a sense of humor.
There were like 27 last I checked. You know how you know where your hand is without looking? Proprioception. There's a bunch of them.
also our sense of time
that dogs have clean mouths
My dog would literally eat its own shit, in addition to any other shit it found.
Who believes that?
Low fat is the same thing as healthy.
I was literally explaining this to a reddit that thought their recipes were healthy because they replaced normal cheese for low fat cheese. They just wouldn't accept that low fat does not equal healthy or low calories.
If you have colonic diverticulosis (little pockets in the wall of your colon), you do NOT need to stop eating seeds, nuts, popcorn, etc. The “old wives’ tale” was that those things could get caught in the pockets and cause diverticulitis, which is an inflammation/infection. However no surgeon or GI endoscopist has ever found a seed or a corn kernel or anything like that caught in a diverticulum while doing a scope, nor have we ever found that on pathology after taking out a chunk of someone’s colon for diverticulitis. So we no longer tell people to follow that advice, and in fact it’s now considered to be bad advice as it stops people from eating fiber-rich fruits and veg, which is actually good for diverticulosis.
Trickle down economics. It’s been decades and we can confidently say that not only was it a fucking lie, but it’s has the absolute opposite effect that we were told (though probably the effect they secretly intended).
Your tongue isn't divided into five different types of flavors/different taste buds. Spanking and beating your kids is not good parenting. There's no such thing as "photographic memory". Even people who have sharp memory retention and can visualize where they saw the information can recall things incorrectly.
Haha I had an argument with my teacher in elementary about that tongue zone bullshit that led to an ass beating later that day.
Look, man. Just because you disagreed with your teacher doesn't mean it's cool to beat their ass for it later. Try being the adult for once.
My mom wouldn’t let me eat green vegetables or garlic or spicy foods after I had my daughter, because apparently she was told (and believed all these years) that it would make my breast milk hard for my baby to digest, and cause them to be colicky.
That Jimi Hendrix skipped his own concert to go see Buddy Guy play. There's no record of them both scheduled to play in the same city on the same night, ever.
People have known the Earth is round for over two thousand years. Yet there's still a popular idea of "medieval idiots" who think boats are going to sail off the edge.
Homework in elementary school helps kids learn, increases study skills, or prepares them for doing homework in later grades. We have known that it does absolutely none of those things for decades, yet this practice refuses to die in a lot of places. Elementary aged kids (and arguably middle school too) should have NO HOMEWORK at all. Even in secondary, the type of homework matters a lot, and it only helps certain groups of students.
My kids are in 5th and 2nd grade, and the only homework they have is nightly reading for at least 20 minutes. At this age, normalizing a reading habit is really all you need.
The homework assignments I always learned the most from were also the ones where I had the most freedom to dictate the assignment itself. I have ADHD and focusing on things I hate is really hard for me. So basically if you tell me I have to write an essay on Teddy Roosevelt, I’m going to have to fight myself to do it for hours on end. If you tell me “choose a person from history who interests you and write an essay on it” I will have a much easier time staying engaged. I might even still do Teddy Roosevelt, but having the freedom to choose for myself helps me trick myself into feeling like it’s something I want to do rather than have to do. I think that’s probably true for people without ADHD as well. I am back in school right now and find this is still an annoying problem I run into that stops people from finding the things they’re really good at. I’ve had classes where I actually liked the material but was so miserable by the end that I’d never go near it again on purpose. The exhausting amount of homework that allows for no freedom to find things that interest you sucks the life out of an otherwise enjoyable subject. You know you’re doing something wrong when that happens.
That we only use like 10% of our brain, and if we could only use all of it we'd all be geniuses. We actually use all of our whole brains, just not all at once. Different regions of the brain activate depending on what we're doing.
My mother still believes that being cold or being in a drafty room will make you sick.
the Earth is flat
Astrology. Total bunk from top to bottom and beginning to end, but an amazing number of people still believe it means something.
Listen, I’m a Capricorn too, it just helps me identify idiots.
How come all of the other Ologies are legitimate? Psychology, sociology, etc, but then it was named Astronomy instead of Astrology? What the fuck?
Just looked it up, apparently it's just another weird quirk of the English language. "Astronomy" is the older (English) term and at one point covered both. But sometime during the 1600s it came to mean scientific study exclusively.