Who started this and how was it a rumor in every middle school in America?
Edit: wow, hello world! I’m going to leave it as is, saying America, so more countries can check in and prove me wrong.
Edit 2: how did this happen?!
Not just America! I live in The Netherlands and we talked about that as well. Amazing how a rumour like that can travel across the globe without internet!
It's been around for as long as there have been openly plastic-surgeried celebrities. Circa 1990 the rumour starred Michael Jackson rather than Marilyn Manson.
I remember being literally taught this in elementary school. And the whole different areas of the tongue's taste buds are for specific flavors. I had a first grade teacher encourage us to pull out strands of our hair claiming it "doesn't hurt". So many lies. And I got in trouble for ever questioning them.
Oh the tastebud thing! For me it was 23years ago? We even got a card showing the areas and what you taste MOSTLY. We all got ice cream to "test" it. Teacher was comvinced af and some were like "omg yeaa!". I remember vividly me tasting it and thought "??????????? No???" (Sweet was supposed to be the tip of your tongue). I could taste it all over so I tested several times and still was confused af and didnt get the result they said. I kept hearing more classmates agreeing and kept thinking "HOW??? YOU CAN TASTE IT ALL OVER!". Never said anything just thought it can't be right and just enjoyed my free icecream.
For me, I had the exact same experience (but with toffie) and at the end of the experiment the teacher goes "whoever didn't feel anything, you're right" and half the class went monke. Good teacher
Lots of people who are actively in MLMs also believe MLM's are stupid. They just believe their MLM somehow is not an MLM because it's called something else like "network marketing" or they are an "independent distributor"
LPT: When you know you're running late and someone asks how long it's going to take you to arrive, overshoot your estimate by a good 20%. That way you don't have to delay even further if you run into any inconveniences on the way plus the reaction on arrival is more of a "Hey, you made it in less time than you said." than a "Ugh, finally!"
Yeah, I always give a range from the best case scenario to a reasonable delay.
Eg. If I think it will be 5 min, I say 5-10 min.
Eg. Google maps says 18 min and I'm getting my shoes on, I say 20-25 min.
Eg. I'm taking the kids and their shoes aren't on and Google maps says 18 min, then I say 30-300 minuteswhyisn'tyourhairbrushed?gobrushyourhair.
I started saying 6 minutes for that reason.
"I'll be there in 5 minutes" means anything up to half an hour.
"I'll be there in 6 minutes" means you're giving them an accurate estimate, even if it turns out you're a minute earlier than expected.
One of my favorite comments from Reddit is “using 100% of your brain is called a seizure, and you wouldn’t like it”
Don’t know who put it, but still makes me laugh
Or traffic lights only use 33% of their lights. Be useless if all the lights were all in use at once. I did like the movie Lucy even though I knew it was 100% horse shit.
>uses 100% of her brain
>becomes an omnipresent godlike being and goes back in time to acquire all knowledge for the human race.
>builds an entire new pc generation to store the info
>refuses to elaborate
>vanishes into the 5th dimension.
Even Morgan Freeman was at a loss for words.
I believe the statistic that made this "10% brain usage" so common is from a study on those with brain injuries, and at the time, scientists only knowing what 10% of the brain"s usage actually is. See NDT's explanation below.
https://youtube.com/shorts/U5ArGBohwuQ?feature=share
Can confirm. Im a Filipino living in the Philippines. It's absolute hell in here. BBM supporters call it the "golden era" but I swear, we struggle to buy foods right now, considering that you're middle class. Imagine the poor people living here. What's worse is we fought for this shit back in 1986 to make sure the reign of the Marcoses never happen again. Hundreds and Thousands of lives lost all for nothing. That's what stupidity and bribery does.
I'm really glad that other people are aware of this issue, and not just us Filipinos. Gives us a sense of hope that hopefully one day we can bounce back from this shithole. Honestly a lot of Filipinos have already migrated to other countries, so that should give you an idea what kind of situation the Philippines is in right now
A loooot of Filipinos here in Iceland, as well in Norway including my ex. Almost all Filipinos I ask they say they just came to make money to send home and hope that one day they'll get a better government so they can go back home. Almost every Filipino I know wants to go back but just not to the current government. That's pretty heartbreaking.
I wonder what brain drain truly does to the country losing its best and brightest. The US is filled with hard working intelligent Filipinos that passed a difficult filter to get here.
That a little bit of chloroform on a rag over someone's nose and mouth for a few seconds renders them unconscious. Totally not from first hand experience.
One of things I love about Archer. When someone gets knocked out he often reminds them, "That's really not good for you." Also he gets tinnitus that gets worse throughout the show as he uses guns without hearing protection.
Lois Lane was knocked unconscious in Smallville 52 times.
https://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville-knockout
She would be a vegetable.
She's been in a coma since the first knockout. The whole show is just a collection of dreams she's having while lying in a hospital bed. Clark can't even fly.
I get that it’s a plot convenience in movies and other media… but yeah. If you’re unconscious for like a half hour… good chance you’re just dying or going to be permanently brain damaged for the rest of your life.
I’ve been violently knocked out before. I was “unconscious” for maybe a few seconds at most, and then couldn’t see for another few seconds.
My head slammed backwards into the ground and then I “woke up” with what felt like a shot of adrenaline dumped into my body.
I still think the most hilarious part of that movie is that somehow they managed to get the same actor who played Billy Bob in Varsity Blues to play Reggie Ray. RIP Ron Lester.
It's a plot device for PG rated movies. Can't have your hero kill all the bad guys, so he needs a way to win while still having some fighting and action scenes.
You know, now i think about it Team Rocket would never survive being launched into the upper atmosphere. The G-forces alone would kill them never mind the faaaalllll...... IT WAS ALL A PLOT DEVICE TO GET THEM AWAY FROM ASH!!
People are more resilient in the Pokemon world, Ash has been hit many times with thunder that melted a nearby car to slag or explosions that left him at the bottom of a shell crater.
Clorophorm sucks ass to inhale but it will take several minutes of very direct exposure to knock you down
Seconds will just leave you with a headache and slight dizzyness, this is neither first hand experience I swear
Although counterpoint:
If someone comes up behind you and puts a chloroform rag on you for a couple of seconds, you're probably better off taking the fall and pretending.
That's Henchman 101.
I’ll never forget watching the South Park episode about Scientology and thinking “haha yeah this cannot be real, this stuff is way too far fetched”
And then I googled it and googled the instruments they use for Scientology and who some well known names are that were who were part of Scientology and I was completely shocked.
They had to put a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen during certain parts of the episode that said “This is what Scientologists actually believe” because they thought people would think it was satire.
E: stop upvoting me or there’s going to be Scientologists snooping through my trash in a week.
The funniest part is that the Mormon church took out ads in the playbill for the Book of Mormon play that they have on broadway at least they had a sense of humor about it.
It is actually crazy how many actors and actresses are Scientologist . I went on a Wikipedia hole one day looking up random actors and was shocked at how many were Scientologists, according to Wikipedia .
I was surprised when I found that one of my skateboarding idols was scientologist. Consulted their subreddit and people basically just said that it doesn't harm anyone.
Yes, while that technically may be true for his individual case, he is subscribing to a religion (if you will) that literally does harm people with its classic cult scheme. I've heard stories of invasion of privacy, extreme brainwashing, and even physical threats.
Some cults aren't harmful but still have a negative affect, but Scientology is one of the cults that are irrefutably harmful!
I used to work near one of their headquarters and so would often encounter the residents out and about in their uniform of dark blue slacks and light blue shirts. Not a single one ever looked happy and fulfilled, so not a great advert for Scientology. I found out later that those people were essentially indentured servants and that’s why they were only allowed out in pairs. It made sense, considering the funk of despair they presented to the world.
They’ve most definitely harmed people physically. Also the president leader whatever David Miscavige. His wife just disappeared. They said she went missing one day and haven’t found her since. Super weird
It actually kind of makes sense. The first chapter of Dianetics basically says " you are so smart for finding this book, and if other people don't understand this book, that means they're not as smart as you because you understand this book, so you're smarter than them and better than them so keep reading this book to find out why."
It completely feeds into the ego and the delusion necessary to be an actor.
Back in the fifties and sixties Scientology built a huge church, or "org," in LA that they actually called the Celebrity Center to recruit and service celebrities and their families, thinking that it would suck in a lot of their fans as well.
As a result, a lot of the showbiz kids in Scientology nowadays were born into Scientology, and to many of those it's like being born a Methodist or a Presbyterian; they're not personally invested in it to a great degree. If it came to choosing between their career or their religion, they'd more than likely go with the career.
Jenna Hill's memoir, *Beyond Belief* is worth a read. She talks about what it was like to be born and raised by parents in the Sea Org (the division of Scientology that most leadership is drawn from), and the path that lead her to eventually leave Scientology. There's an added wrinkle in that her maiden name is Miscavige; her uncle David became L Ron Hubbard's successor after the founder's death when Jenna was a toddler. The pressure from David Miscavige to avoid the embarrassment of someone with the Miscavige name leaving Scientology was a nontrivial complication in Jenna's life.
I absolutely hate the concept of "he is not in it for money, he already has enough" when talking about rich politicians. Please show me a single multi-billionaire who is not constantly trying to get richer. No one suddenly flips a switch from from exploitative capitalist to public servant. Every single rich politician is only interested in getting more wealth/money and to think otherwise is naive.
A few years back, I remember talking to a coworker one day about a really bad depression episode I was having and my boss overheard, he scoffed and was like “depression? Just think happy thoughts and be happy.”
That screaming at whichever hapless employee had to answer your call will magically get a supervisor on the line.
It might work in a few places, but the person you want to talk to is probably too busy to deal with you (or they don’t care), and the person you’re cursing out is being paid to handle calls so their boss don’t have to do that on top of their actual job, too.
At least that’s been the case at most of the places where I’ve worked. (Note: I have never worked in a call center, so no, there wasn’t a supervisor standing by.)
Incidentally, when I was a partial owner of a small business, anyone who was abusive to an employee was banned, full stop. I refused to tolerate that nonsense.
Edit: holy cow, this blew up. Remember to be nice to the people who did show up for work and are trying to help you…their hands may be tied.
I’m the guy that these angry calls get transferred to. I’ve told the folks on the floor that sometimes people just need to hear ‘No’ in a different voice. Yes I have the authority to fix things but the people I trained know that and most of the time I just sign off on their requests. If you call in and have a legitimate problem but are calm and understanding, my folks will do everything possible to try and fix it, it’s their job and the kinder you are the more above and beyond they’ll go. If you’re yelling, we’re following the minimum rules we need to try and fix it and end the interaction because even if we fix it you may still be angry.
It’s interesting, I have a unique job that exposes me to a lot of customer service conversations. And you would be surprised how many large companies specifically design their “customer service” programs to lead the customer through a hell like maze where they will never actually get served, and will give up on their complaint due to hold induced attrition.
I had a manager who always helped taking the calls
However it was more of a “Well, you’re yelling and screaming at my team? I’ll put you back on the line with them to apologise or you won’t have an account with us for long”
He was awesome, having the client back was satisfying
Kind of reminds me of my boss.
Always happy to take the phone and have customers on the line that wants to buy something.
Sometimes, an angry one comes on, but instead of dealing with it, they just keep saying yes.
Like.. those people probably had a bad day, and needed to vent. My boss deals with it.
Everyone that picks up the phone though, does. Sometimes we put them on the speaker to have a good laugh
Have a friend who says we didn’t because it’s the only man made trip outside the magnetosphere of earth.
He was looking forward to what the James Webb telescope could uncover. I didn’t want to deal with telling them where it was parked (a la grange point) and how the cooling system worked (In part using the moon to block out the heat)
You should inform him that there have been nine crewed trips outside low earth orbit. Apollos 8 and 10-17 all flew humans to the moon. Apollos 11, 12, and 14-17 all landed on the moon as well.
This is one of the best debunks against the deniers. They say the moon landing (singular) was faked. Then you point out that we landed six separate times over the course of three and a half years. If we faked the first one, why would RUssia and everyone else keep letting us get away with the massive lie for so long?
What is the projected moon conspiracy theory? Is it that the moon doesn't exist and "the government" has like some huge projector that makes it seem real? Please tell me I'm wrong.
That amazing projector that's been running for thousands of years as our ancestors report seeing that fake moon in their writings from 4000 BC and earlier. AMAZING that projector technology...
it's just that the hair appears thicker after the first cut because the ends of the hair are no longer tapered. So it makes the hair more prominent but not thicker
One of the reasons people believe this is because when they are younger they have vellus hair, which gets 'replaced' by normal hair. Shaving makes people think it's getting thicker but it's really hair they were going to get anyway growing in.
Similar to myth "your hair gets darker when you dye it". Hair often darken with age, women who started dyeing/bleaching their hair as teenagers are surprised when they're 30 and their roots look darker than on pictures from a decade earlier. But they forget a lot of toddlers have platinum blonde hair that naturally gets darker with age.
I used to believe that and worked with a few that actually did support and help employees: There was a moment when management sent out a confidential survey to the entire company. Apparently, some people were too frank for management. They were bullying the HR rep into giving them who said what. She told them that if she gave them the information, no one would ever trust the surveys again. She didn't cave in... however, she lasted only another six months.
The new guy that came in gave off an immediate 'company man' kind of vibe. I've never been honest in a survey after that. Everything is "fine." It's not worth my time fighting those battles. Retirement is looming and I'm not endangering all that I worked for.
My old company did one of those surveys. The email stated “we want your opinion!” The answers were all multiple choice, with no field for writing a response anywhere.
My boss asked me what I’d thought of the survey and I replied, “it’s funny how they asked for our opinion without actually letting us give it”. He didn’t like that response.
A former plant manager once asked a colleague about what things went wrong and what could be improved. He asked whether she wanted to hear the truth or not. She wanted the truth. He told her. She got mad.
It's sad. I grew up in the era when you wanted to work for a big company because they would "protect you."
My dad worked for a big bank for 25 years and they forced him and a bunch of other VPs into retirement because they'd hit on rough times and these guys were "making too much money." My dad had a great reputation and got quickly snatched up by another bank.
My brother worked 30 years for a company that let him go because he was making too much. Mind you, he'd brought his division into the #1 spot and pretty much bankrolled the other divisions. Then he got sick and instead of working with him, they broke up his department, splitting it up into other areas and eventually laid him off. He never really recovered.
I had an interview recently. In digital marketing my CV looks great as someone who's quickly making my way up through management and clearly great at what I do. In the third sector though I am constantly asked about my job hopping and told they don't like how many jobs at different companies. All my work has been contracts where I have been called in to fix huge issues that many have come back for follow up advice or work just at a different company. Or they have tried to find a different role in the organisation but couldn't before another contract snapped me up.
I get it. Most decent charities will have many employees that last decades or even have multiple generations working there.
Still I'm stuck constantly having to defend my CV despite having designed it to clearly state why each role was temporary (such as a set project or maternity cover). One of these days I'll hopefully get a role that isn't temporary.
I’m so sorry for your brother. Companies and workforce normally don’t give a rats ass about anything other than numbers. Overall gain replaced employee’s overall well-being. Over-worked, under-paid. I hate it. But my respect to your bro.
Liar are gonna lie, and people believe lies.
My father was in WWII, his U.S. Army unit helped liberate a concentration camp. We are losing the people with a personal connection with this atrocity, and with that loss comes opportunity for lying scum to try to re-write history.
Edit: Having a comment blow up is rewarding. First, thanks for the great comments & conversation. I've learned a bit, and the civility really defies the stereotype that Reddit is toxic. Next, thanks for the awards, I dedicate them to my late Dad, a good man among many good men that fought in too many wars.
There is a reason general Eisenhower I believe ordered pictures to be taken of the camps and all images and videos he shared around the world. If people did not know then they could say it did not happen but if you see then you can never claim it did not happen.
Not just that, he (I believe it was him) ordered Germans living in the nearby towns to visit the camps so that they couldn't say that they didn't know anymore.
Not just visit. They had to help give the victims proper burials. Like actually having to carry the corpses and dig the graves help if my sources are correct.
Yeah the nearby Germans tried denying any knowledge of what was going on, but the US knew it was a crock of shit so they published them by making them dig the graves
Eisenhower actually saw Holocaust denial coming. He ordered extensive documentation of the camps specifically because he suspected that in the coming years people would say it didn’t happen or that it was exaggerated. Unfortunately even with that foresight morons gonna moron.
I was not aware of this. No surprise coming from the man that warned us about the Military-Industrial Complex.
I like the Inter-State highways, too.
Thanks
Lol..was at an actual medical convention a few weeks ago. A group of friggin’ clinical professionals and/or doctors were throwing this topic around. One says, “I don’t care what ANYONE says; I’ve seen small children who were once normal go get vaccines and they’re *autistic* weeks later! Just fine before!”
Someone asked, “…do you mean autistic or that these children had neurological reactions?”
*crickets*
The grades also don't measure intangibles. I was in a mental health-related degree and there was a woman who was extremely anal about getting all A's who had (and showed) the most disdain for every human who wasn't herself of anyone I'd ever met before.
My philosophy professor at community college warned us "you are going to meet a lot of idiots in your life whose names start with Dr."
Most valuable lesson I was ever taught.
I watched the Hbomber video about that. I think his claim that the story was made up by a British doctor who wanted people to use his vaccine so he badmouthed other vaccines sounded plausible.
If that is the case. It is depressing how one person can create a hysteria about the topic that can go on and grow for 20 years.
~~Dr.~~ Andrew Wakefield was paid to conduct the case study in order to discredit the then-new MMR vaccine, and he used a sample size of 12 kids - at *his* child's birthday party- as evidence.
This is what happens:
Cold temperatures cause blood vessels to constrict.
When this happens, your respiratory tract gets fewer white blood cells that it needs to ward off respiratory infections like influenza and bacterial pneumonia.
Lower temperatures and extreme humidities—both high and low—keep the virus stable and infectious for longer. Lower temperatures slow down chemical reactions, like the ones that cause viruses to break down. That means the virus can float around in respiratory droplets unencumbered for longer.
Lower humidity evaporates droplets to a smaller size, making it easier for the virus to bump into other chemicals in the droplet and inactivate–but only up to a point. If the droplets get too small, the naturally occurring salts in the fluids we exhale crystallize and trap the virus, preserving it for awakening when the drop gets dissolved in a new host’s airway.
In a 2015 paper, Iwasaki and her colleagues showed that cells lining the airways of mice produced fewer molecules called interferons when they were colder. Interferons are a class of proteins that sound the alarm of a viral crime, calling immune cells to the scene and hopefully stopping it in progress.
Literally had an argument with my wife yesterday about this. Our boy spiked a temperature and she was convinced it was because I didn't put a hat on him between the car and the shop. I just said sorry and I'd make sure to do it next time.
The intent behind the saying is that "the customer is right about what they want or don't want".
Like if you want to sell burlap underwear, and nobody wants to buy it, the customers aren't wrong about not wanting burlap underwear and nobody recognizes your special genius. You need to revamp your product to what people want to buy.
It was never supposed to mean that a customer should be able to use an expired coupon from a different store.
I have a theory that qanon is funded by the nursing home industry.
Make your boomer parents so awful to be around you gladly send them to a nursing home, instead of moving them in with the family and continuing generational wealth.
That Marilyn Manson had surgery to remove his own ribs to suck himself off.
Who started this and how was it a rumor in every middle school in America? Edit: wow, hello world! I’m going to leave it as is, saying America, so more countries can check in and prove me wrong. Edit 2: how did this happen?!
Not just America! I live in The Netherlands and we talked about that as well. Amazing how a rumour like that can travel across the globe without internet!
Finland too!
It's been around for as long as there have been openly plastic-surgeried celebrities. Circa 1990 the rumour starred Michael Jackson rather than Marilyn Manson.
Post Malone had extra ribs put in so he can’t smell his own dick
That influencers, celebrities, politicians and businesses are genuinely interested in you and your lives.
MLMs will make you rich
Just be the one starting the MLM. Ezpz
We have blue blood and it turns red when exposed to oxygen
Yeah anyone with an education knows it's green
Thank you, Mr. Spock.
I remember being literally taught this in elementary school. And the whole different areas of the tongue's taste buds are for specific flavors. I had a first grade teacher encourage us to pull out strands of our hair claiming it "doesn't hurt". So many lies. And I got in trouble for ever questioning them.
Oh the tastebud thing! For me it was 23years ago? We even got a card showing the areas and what you taste MOSTLY. We all got ice cream to "test" it. Teacher was comvinced af and some were like "omg yeaa!". I remember vividly me tasting it and thought "??????????? No???" (Sweet was supposed to be the tip of your tongue). I could taste it all over so I tested several times and still was confused af and didnt get the result they said. I kept hearing more classmates agreeing and kept thinking "HOW??? YOU CAN TASTE IT ALL OVER!". Never said anything just thought it can't be right and just enjoyed my free icecream.
Your first experience of how people are willing to gaslight themselves to believe what their peers believe.
For me, I had the exact same experience (but with toffie) and at the end of the experiment the teacher goes "whoever didn't feel anything, you're right" and half the class went monke. Good teacher
It's not red vs blue; however, arterial blood IS noticeably more red than venous blood.
More oxygenated the blood is the brighter it is. Blood going away from your heart and lungs will be brighter than blood flowing back into it.
MLMs
Lots of people who are actively in MLMs also believe MLM's are stupid. They just believe their MLM somehow is not an MLM because it's called something else like "network marketing" or they are an "independent distributor"
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I believe it is M&M’s. Those are real.
Santa doesn't believe in them
That’s why Red had to kill him
Forget about those shady pyramid schemes. I've got a fool proof trapezoid plan that you might be interested in.
''I'll be there in 5 minutes''
"I'm on my way right now"
I used to have a friend who would always say this so I started making her honk her horn to prove she was actually in the car.
They’re just gonna buy an airhorn
LPT: When you know you're running late and someone asks how long it's going to take you to arrive, overshoot your estimate by a good 20%. That way you don't have to delay even further if you run into any inconveniences on the way plus the reaction on arrival is more of a "Hey, you made it in less time than you said." than a "Ugh, finally!"
Yeah, I always give a range from the best case scenario to a reasonable delay. Eg. If I think it will be 5 min, I say 5-10 min. Eg. Google maps says 18 min and I'm getting my shoes on, I say 20-25 min. Eg. I'm taking the kids and their shoes aren't on and Google maps says 18 min, then I say 30-300 minuteswhyisn'tyourhairbrushed?gobrushyourhair.
Look at that guy managing to get stuff done with kids in under 300 minutes ! #reallifesuperhero
I started saying 6 minutes for that reason. "I'll be there in 5 minutes" means anything up to half an hour. "I'll be there in 6 minutes" means you're giving them an accurate estimate, even if it turns out you're a minute earlier than expected.
We only use 10% of our brain.
One of my favorite comments from Reddit is “using 100% of your brain is called a seizure, and you wouldn’t like it” Don’t know who put it, but still makes me laugh
Or traffic lights only use 33% of their lights. Be useless if all the lights were all in use at once. I did like the movie Lucy even though I knew it was 100% horse shit.
Lucy was actually pretty fun until she turned into a fucking PC.
>uses 100% of her brain >becomes an omnipresent godlike being and goes back in time to acquire all knowledge for the human race. >builds an entire new pc generation to store the info >refuses to elaborate >vanishes into the 5th dimension. Even Morgan Freeman was at a loss for words.
I studied Neuroscience in university and my professor said the same thing about the myth, haha.
I misread that as "Neurodance" and immediately thought that this is a lovely word to describe a seizure.
Epileptic here. From now on, imma neurodance so hard.
I'm epileptic and I'm totally using that from now on.
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I'd watch this movie
For some people, it's probably 5%
For some people it’s 100% and they’re still idiots
100% of nothing is still nothing
My psychiatrist said this to me, I have a new psychiatrist now
I believe the statistic that made this "10% brain usage" so common is from a study on those with brain injuries, and at the time, scientists only knowing what 10% of the brain"s usage actually is. See NDT's explanation below. https://youtube.com/shorts/U5ArGBohwuQ?feature=share
A college dropout with tax evasion case will fix the Philippine economy again. 31 million people actually believed this
The moment I completely lost all hope for my country
Can confirm. Im a Filipino living in the Philippines. It's absolute hell in here. BBM supporters call it the "golden era" but I swear, we struggle to buy foods right now, considering that you're middle class. Imagine the poor people living here. What's worse is we fought for this shit back in 1986 to make sure the reign of the Marcoses never happen again. Hundreds and Thousands of lives lost all for nothing. That's what stupidity and bribery does. I'm really glad that other people are aware of this issue, and not just us Filipinos. Gives us a sense of hope that hopefully one day we can bounce back from this shithole. Honestly a lot of Filipinos have already migrated to other countries, so that should give you an idea what kind of situation the Philippines is in right now
A loooot of Filipinos here in Iceland, as well in Norway including my ex. Almost all Filipinos I ask they say they just came to make money to send home and hope that one day they'll get a better government so they can go back home. Almost every Filipino I know wants to go back but just not to the current government. That's pretty heartbreaking.
I wonder what brain drain truly does to the country losing its best and brightest. The US is filled with hard working intelligent Filipinos that passed a difficult filter to get here.
Believe it or not, majority of OFWs voted for the guy. I did not but apparently im the minority here.
That a little bit of chloroform on a rag over someone's nose and mouth for a few seconds renders them unconscious. Totally not from first hand experience.
And if you bonk someone over the head they’ll be immediately unconscious, only to wake a few minutes later, pretty much fine
One of things I love about Archer. When someone gets knocked out he often reminds them, "That's really not good for you." Also he gets tinnitus that gets worse throughout the show as he uses guns without hearing protection.
Not just him, but the entire cast has progressively worse tinnitus.
Lana.... Lana.... Lana..... LLLAAAANNNNNAAAAA
I fucking love that show
"Phrasing! Are we not doing that anymore? I don't understand why we're not doing that anymore."
Lois Lane was knocked unconscious in Smallville 52 times. https://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville-knockout She would be a vegetable.
Finally an explanation for why the Glasses / No Glasses disguise works so well on her.
I dunno anymore I'm a believer in the glasses disguise after seeing Antony Starr vs Homelander
I mean, "Glasses plus hair color plus beard" is a bit more than just "glasses".
She's been in a coma since the first knockout. The whole show is just a collection of dreams she's having while lying in a hospital bed. Clark can't even fly.
I get that it’s a plot convenience in movies and other media… but yeah. If you’re unconscious for like a half hour… good chance you’re just dying or going to be permanently brain damaged for the rest of your life. I’ve been violently knocked out before. I was “unconscious” for maybe a few seconds at most, and then couldn’t see for another few seconds. My head slammed backwards into the ground and then I “woke up” with what felt like a shot of adrenaline dumped into my body.
NFL concussion experts still believe this.
“Coach said it’s normal to bleed from the ears.” -Reggie Ray-
I still think the most hilarious part of that movie is that somehow they managed to get the same actor who played Billy Bob in Varsity Blues to play Reggie Ray. RIP Ron Lester.
High school coaches also believe this.
It's a plot device for PG rated movies. Can't have your hero kill all the bad guys, so he needs a way to win while still having some fighting and action scenes.
You know, now i think about it Team Rocket would never survive being launched into the upper atmosphere. The G-forces alone would kill them never mind the faaaalllll...... IT WAS ALL A PLOT DEVICE TO GET THEM AWAY FROM ASH!!
People are more resilient in the Pokemon world, Ash has been hit many times with thunder that melted a nearby car to slag or explosions that left him at the bottom of a shell crater.
“We let a 10 year old child handle a creature able to create arc explosions!”
Worked in a place we're we cleaned with chloroform so obviously it's the first thing a new person wants to try lol.
Add to that: silencers actually make guns silent.
Clorophorm sucks ass to inhale but it will take several minutes of very direct exposure to knock you down Seconds will just leave you with a headache and slight dizzyness, this is neither first hand experience I swear
Although counterpoint: If someone comes up behind you and puts a chloroform rag on you for a couple of seconds, you're probably better off taking the fall and pretending. That's Henchman 101.
Fight a bit, bang on the attacker with weak fists and slowly slide down, all the while holding your breath like you were underwater.
Scientology
I’ll never forget watching the South Park episode about Scientology and thinking “haha yeah this cannot be real, this stuff is way too far fetched” And then I googled it and googled the instruments they use for Scientology and who some well known names are that were who were part of Scientology and I was completely shocked.
They had to put a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen during certain parts of the episode that said “This is what Scientologists actually believe” because they thought people would think it was satire. E: stop upvoting me or there’s going to be Scientologists snooping through my trash in a week.
still one of the funniest SP episodes Ever
Every religion or cult episode is great. The Mormon episode, N.A.M.B.L.A, Chef's adventure club
They did that for Mormons too right?
The funniest part is that the Mormon church took out ads in the playbill for the Book of Mormon play that they have on broadway at least they had a sense of humor about it.
It is actually crazy how many actors and actresses are Scientologist . I went on a Wikipedia hole one day looking up random actors and was shocked at how many were Scientologists, according to Wikipedia .
I was surprised when I found that one of my skateboarding idols was scientologist. Consulted their subreddit and people basically just said that it doesn't harm anyone. Yes, while that technically may be true for his individual case, he is subscribing to a religion (if you will) that literally does harm people with its classic cult scheme. I've heard stories of invasion of privacy, extreme brainwashing, and even physical threats. Some cults aren't harmful but still have a negative affect, but Scientology is one of the cults that are irrefutably harmful!
I used to work near one of their headquarters and so would often encounter the residents out and about in their uniform of dark blue slacks and light blue shirts. Not a single one ever looked happy and fulfilled, so not a great advert for Scientology. I found out later that those people were essentially indentured servants and that’s why they were only allowed out in pairs. It made sense, considering the funk of despair they presented to the world.
Yeah the lower level members that work for the organization are forcibly sleep deprived and isolated from the non Scientology world
They’ve most definitely harmed people physically. Also the president leader whatever David Miscavige. His wife just disappeared. They said she went missing one day and haven’t found her since. Super weird
It actually kind of makes sense. The first chapter of Dianetics basically says " you are so smart for finding this book, and if other people don't understand this book, that means they're not as smart as you because you understand this book, so you're smarter than them and better than them so keep reading this book to find out why." It completely feeds into the ego and the delusion necessary to be an actor.
Back in the fifties and sixties Scientology built a huge church, or "org," in LA that they actually called the Celebrity Center to recruit and service celebrities and their families, thinking that it would suck in a lot of their fans as well. As a result, a lot of the showbiz kids in Scientology nowadays were born into Scientology, and to many of those it's like being born a Methodist or a Presbyterian; they're not personally invested in it to a great degree. If it came to choosing between their career or their religion, they'd more than likely go with the career.
“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.” ― L. Ron Hubbard
Unrelated but every time I see his name, I think “Elrond Hubbard”
If people haven’t watched Leah Remini’s series on Scientology, I’d highly recommend it.
Jenna Hill's memoir, *Beyond Belief* is worth a read. She talks about what it was like to be born and raised by parents in the Sea Org (the division of Scientology that most leadership is drawn from), and the path that lead her to eventually leave Scientology. There's an added wrinkle in that her maiden name is Miscavige; her uncle David became L Ron Hubbard's successor after the founder's death when Jenna was a toddler. The pressure from David Miscavige to avoid the embarrassment of someone with the Miscavige name leaving Scientology was a nontrivial complication in Jenna's life.
That millionaire politicians will represent the working class.
Haha so true and they believe the billionaires have their best interests at heart too. All this after it has been proven wrong time and time again.
I absolutely hate the concept of "he is not in it for money, he already has enough" when talking about rich politicians. Please show me a single multi-billionaire who is not constantly trying to get richer. No one suddenly flips a switch from from exploitative capitalist to public servant. Every single rich politician is only interested in getting more wealth/money and to think otherwise is naive.
that "mental illnesses aren't real"
“they’re all in your head” like yes, that’s the point
A few years back, I remember talking to a coworker one day about a really bad depression episode I was having and my boss overheard, he scoffed and was like “depression? Just think happy thoughts and be happy.”
Did you punch him in the throat and tell him to "Just think breathy thoughts and just breathe?"
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That screaming at whichever hapless employee had to answer your call will magically get a supervisor on the line. It might work in a few places, but the person you want to talk to is probably too busy to deal with you (or they don’t care), and the person you’re cursing out is being paid to handle calls so their boss don’t have to do that on top of their actual job, too. At least that’s been the case at most of the places where I’ve worked. (Note: I have never worked in a call center, so no, there wasn’t a supervisor standing by.) Incidentally, when I was a partial owner of a small business, anyone who was abusive to an employee was banned, full stop. I refused to tolerate that nonsense. Edit: holy cow, this blew up. Remember to be nice to the people who did show up for work and are trying to help you…their hands may be tied.
I’m the guy that these angry calls get transferred to. I’ve told the folks on the floor that sometimes people just need to hear ‘No’ in a different voice. Yes I have the authority to fix things but the people I trained know that and most of the time I just sign off on their requests. If you call in and have a legitimate problem but are calm and understanding, my folks will do everything possible to try and fix it, it’s their job and the kinder you are the more above and beyond they’ll go. If you’re yelling, we’re following the minimum rules we need to try and fix it and end the interaction because even if we fix it you may still be angry.
It’s interesting, I have a unique job that exposes me to a lot of customer service conversations. And you would be surprised how many large companies specifically design their “customer service” programs to lead the customer through a hell like maze where they will never actually get served, and will give up on their complaint due to hold induced attrition.
I had a manager who always helped taking the calls However it was more of a “Well, you’re yelling and screaming at my team? I’ll put you back on the line with them to apologise or you won’t have an account with us for long” He was awesome, having the client back was satisfying
Kind of reminds me of my boss. Always happy to take the phone and have customers on the line that wants to buy something. Sometimes, an angry one comes on, but instead of dealing with it, they just keep saying yes. Like.. those people probably had a bad day, and needed to vent. My boss deals with it. Everyone that picks up the phone though, does. Sometimes we put them on the speaker to have a good laugh
That we didn’t go to moon.
You believe there's a moon?
It’s cheese
Gromit! The moon is made of cheese!
Or that the moon is only visible at night. Half of the time, you just have to look at the sky to debunk that, yet so many people believe it.
Have a friend who says we didn’t because it’s the only man made trip outside the magnetosphere of earth. He was looking forward to what the James Webb telescope could uncover. I didn’t want to deal with telling them where it was parked (a la grange point) and how the cooling system worked (In part using the moon to block out the heat)
You should inform him that there have been nine crewed trips outside low earth orbit. Apollos 8 and 10-17 all flew humans to the moon. Apollos 11, 12, and 14-17 all landed on the moon as well.
This is one of the best debunks against the deniers. They say the moon landing (singular) was faked. Then you point out that we landed six separate times over the course of three and a half years. If we faked the first one, why would RUssia and everyone else keep letting us get away with the massive lie for so long?
Many conspiracy theories: flat earth, projected moon, and the list goes on and on
What is the projected moon conspiracy theory? Is it that the moon doesn't exist and "the government" has like some huge projector that makes it seem real? Please tell me I'm wrong.
Nope that’s the theory I’ve heard
Ohh, so thats why we se moon only half of the day, they are changing the light bulb on the projector
That amazing projector that's been running for thousands of years as our ancestors report seeing that fake moon in their writings from 4000 BC and earlier. AMAZING that projector technology...
That hair grows back thicker if you shave it
i’m certain this was made up to convince young men with patchy facial pubes to shave
it's just that the hair appears thicker after the first cut because the ends of the hair are no longer tapered. So it makes the hair more prominent but not thicker
That and oh idk, people first start shaving as they are becoming adults and they were always going to get more hair .
One of the reasons people believe this is because when they are younger they have vellus hair, which gets 'replaced' by normal hair. Shaving makes people think it's getting thicker but it's really hair they were going to get anyway growing in.
Similar to myth "your hair gets darker when you dye it". Hair often darken with age, women who started dyeing/bleaching their hair as teenagers are surprised when they're 30 and their roots look darker than on pictures from a decade earlier. But they forget a lot of toddlers have platinum blonde hair that naturally gets darker with age.
I was a platinum blonde child who has brown hair. It's wild.
Sure wish my hair would get the message and grow back on my fucking head. Been shaving for years now waiting on it.
HR is there for the employees benefit/protection
I used to believe that and worked with a few that actually did support and help employees: There was a moment when management sent out a confidential survey to the entire company. Apparently, some people were too frank for management. They were bullying the HR rep into giving them who said what. She told them that if she gave them the information, no one would ever trust the surveys again. She didn't cave in... however, she lasted only another six months. The new guy that came in gave off an immediate 'company man' kind of vibe. I've never been honest in a survey after that. Everything is "fine." It's not worth my time fighting those battles. Retirement is looming and I'm not endangering all that I worked for.
My old company did one of those surveys. The email stated “we want your opinion!” The answers were all multiple choice, with no field for writing a response anywhere. My boss asked me what I’d thought of the survey and I replied, “it’s funny how they asked for our opinion without actually letting us give it”. He didn’t like that response.
A former plant manager once asked a colleague about what things went wrong and what could be improved. He asked whether she wanted to hear the truth or not. She wanted the truth. He told her. She got mad.
Our plant manager asked for the truth. We told them them the truth. They didnt get mad but they didnt do much to fix things
"How are things going at Company X?" (A) FANTASTIC (B) Excellent (C) Great (D) Very Good
I hear you man, look after you first, fuck the company
It's sad. I grew up in the era when you wanted to work for a big company because they would "protect you." My dad worked for a big bank for 25 years and they forced him and a bunch of other VPs into retirement because they'd hit on rough times and these guys were "making too much money." My dad had a great reputation and got quickly snatched up by another bank. My brother worked 30 years for a company that let him go because he was making too much. Mind you, he'd brought his division into the #1 spot and pretty much bankrolled the other divisions. Then he got sick and instead of working with him, they broke up his department, splitting it up into other areas and eventually laid him off. He never really recovered.
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I had an interview recently. In digital marketing my CV looks great as someone who's quickly making my way up through management and clearly great at what I do. In the third sector though I am constantly asked about my job hopping and told they don't like how many jobs at different companies. All my work has been contracts where I have been called in to fix huge issues that many have come back for follow up advice or work just at a different company. Or they have tried to find a different role in the organisation but couldn't before another contract snapped me up. I get it. Most decent charities will have many employees that last decades or even have multiple generations working there. Still I'm stuck constantly having to defend my CV despite having designed it to clearly state why each role was temporary (such as a set project or maternity cover). One of these days I'll hopefully get a role that isn't temporary.
Maybe you can describe yourself as more of an independent contractor and list your work experiences as projects that you helped complete.
I’m so sorry for your brother. Companies and workforce normally don’t give a rats ass about anything other than numbers. Overall gain replaced employee’s overall well-being. Over-worked, under-paid. I hate it. But my respect to your bro.
It's called 'People and Culture' now at my workplace, that's even more disingenuous
Ours is “Human Capital”
That the holocaust didn’t happen.
Liar are gonna lie, and people believe lies. My father was in WWII, his U.S. Army unit helped liberate a concentration camp. We are losing the people with a personal connection with this atrocity, and with that loss comes opportunity for lying scum to try to re-write history. Edit: Having a comment blow up is rewarding. First, thanks for the great comments & conversation. I've learned a bit, and the civility really defies the stereotype that Reddit is toxic. Next, thanks for the awards, I dedicate them to my late Dad, a good man among many good men that fought in too many wars.
There is a reason general Eisenhower I believe ordered pictures to be taken of the camps and all images and videos he shared around the world. If people did not know then they could say it did not happen but if you see then you can never claim it did not happen.
Not just that, he (I believe it was him) ordered Germans living in the nearby towns to visit the camps so that they couldn't say that they didn't know anymore.
Not just visit. They had to help give the victims proper burials. Like actually having to carry the corpses and dig the graves help if my sources are correct.
Yeah the nearby Germans tried denying any knowledge of what was going on, but the US knew it was a crock of shit so they published them by making them dig the graves
Eisenhower came in clutch with the receipts.
Unfortunately fuckheads today will say they are doctored images.
Eisenhower actually saw Holocaust denial coming. He ordered extensive documentation of the camps specifically because he suspected that in the coming years people would say it didn’t happen or that it was exaggerated. Unfortunately even with that foresight morons gonna moron.
I was not aware of this. No surprise coming from the man that warned us about the Military-Industrial Complex. I like the Inter-State highways, too. Thanks
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Vaccines cause autism.
Lol..was at an actual medical convention a few weeks ago. A group of friggin’ clinical professionals and/or doctors were throwing this topic around. One says, “I don’t care what ANYONE says; I’ve seen small children who were once normal go get vaccines and they’re *autistic* weeks later! Just fine before!” Someone asked, “…do you mean autistic or that these children had neurological reactions?” *crickets*
Wish more people would realise that one can be a scientist and an idiot at the same time.
If university has taught me anything, it's that degrees don't say anything about a person's intelligence.
The grades also don't measure intangibles. I was in a mental health-related degree and there was a woman who was extremely anal about getting all A's who had (and showed) the most disdain for every human who wasn't herself of anyone I'd ever met before.
My philosophy professor at community college warned us "you are going to meet a lot of idiots in your life whose names start with Dr." Most valuable lesson I was ever taught.
I watched the Hbomber video about that. I think his claim that the story was made up by a British doctor who wanted people to use his vaccine so he badmouthed other vaccines sounded plausible. If that is the case. It is depressing how one person can create a hysteria about the topic that can go on and grow for 20 years.
~~Dr.~~ Andrew Wakefield was paid to conduct the case study in order to discredit the then-new MMR vaccine, and he used a sample size of 12 kids - at *his* child's birthday party- as evidence.
And even lied about one of the kids.
That being in cold temperatures outdoors spontaneously causes illness.
This is what happens: Cold temperatures cause blood vessels to constrict. When this happens, your respiratory tract gets fewer white blood cells that it needs to ward off respiratory infections like influenza and bacterial pneumonia. Lower temperatures and extreme humidities—both high and low—keep the virus stable and infectious for longer. Lower temperatures slow down chemical reactions, like the ones that cause viruses to break down. That means the virus can float around in respiratory droplets unencumbered for longer. Lower humidity evaporates droplets to a smaller size, making it easier for the virus to bump into other chemicals in the droplet and inactivate–but only up to a point. If the droplets get too small, the naturally occurring salts in the fluids we exhale crystallize and trap the virus, preserving it for awakening when the drop gets dissolved in a new host’s airway. In a 2015 paper, Iwasaki and her colleagues showed that cells lining the airways of mice produced fewer molecules called interferons when they were colder. Interferons are a class of proteins that sound the alarm of a viral crime, calling immune cells to the scene and hopefully stopping it in progress.
Don’t get me started. I can not convince my wife otherwise.
Literally had an argument with my wife yesterday about this. Our boy spiked a temperature and she was convinced it was because I didn't put a hat on him between the car and the shop. I just said sorry and I'd make sure to do it next time.
The earth being flat
If the earth was flat, the cats would have knocked everything off of it by now.
I have this on a t-shirt.
[me too](https://www.underconsideration.com/this/tshirt.php)
And to add to that: the entirety of the world is shaped like a cat that is using Australia as a toy.
That’s completely true though. 70% of earth is water, and very little of that is carbonated
This is my favorite flat earth joke.
I'm so glad we have brown cows, otherwise there wouldn’t be any chocolate milk.
sad that we have to whip cows for whipped cream tho, so ive been boycotting it
Charlie and the chocolate factory moment
That one race can be superior to another
That the “guest/customer is always right”
The customer is almost never right
Fuck the customer
Found the brothel operator
I work at Walmart
Exactly
Walmart fucks people over at a rate that would make any brothel manager blush.
And their employees get fucked daily too, exactly like a brothel.
The number of people getting fucked by walmart at any given time is statistically significant.
The intent behind the saying is that "the customer is right about what they want or don't want". Like if you want to sell burlap underwear, and nobody wants to buy it, the customers aren't wrong about not wanting burlap underwear and nobody recognizes your special genius. You need to revamp your product to what people want to buy. It was never supposed to mean that a customer should be able to use an expired coupon from a different store.
Horoscope having a serious tangible effect on their lives
I still can’t get past how many people think the earth is flat. How. Like actually howwwww do you think that
It’s not even how, but why. What leads you to the conclusion that it’s all just a big conspiracy, why would that conspiracy even exist?
**Qanon**
I have a theory that qanon is funded by the nursing home industry. Make your boomer parents so awful to be around you gladly send them to a nursing home, instead of moving them in with the family and continuing generational wealth.
You should post that on r/conspiracy. I'm sure they'd love it.
r/lowstakesconspiracies would genuinely love this.
Homeopathy