By this I mean myths & rumours that are so common, they have become widely believed.
Mine are:
1. Water drains down plughoes in different rotational directions depending on what hemisphere you are in on the Earth. Uh uhhh. Wrong.
2. You can't get pregnant the first time you have sex. Uh uhhh. Wrong.
3. Humans only use 10% of our brains. Uh uhhh. Wrong.
4. Men think of sex every 7 seconds. Uh uhhh.. it's not *THAT* often
5. Lemmings commit mass suicide and love to jump off cliffs. Uh Uhhh.. damn computer games corrupting the minds of our children
2007-02-12 03:21:57 · 20 answers · asked by Robin the Electrocuted 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I used to tell my friends at school that my dad worked in the marmite mines of Angola since he wasn't around much.
I had nearly a whole year of students thinking that marmite came out of the ground, genius.
2007-02-12 03:31:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 00:32:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. That your hair grows back thicker and darker after shaving. This isn't true as, one, I'm living proof and two, if it were, why do men have thick dark leg hairs? Also, linkage: http://health.yahoo.com/topic/men/overview/article/why-do-men-fall-asleep-after-sex/898F0CCC-9EF1-8D8D-43B97947A543669F
2. That if you are sick, like with the flu, it's bad to drink milk because it curdles in your stomach. Oh, NO it' doesn't. I read it in either Reader's Digest or Popular Science.
3. It's illegal to drive barefoot. One, how would the cop know? And also, there are the factors that make a good law and one of those is that it has to be inforcible and it isn't. Since the cop can't see straight down into your car unless (s)he is driving on a motorbike right next to your car. There are no laws (in the US) that say this.
2007-02-12 16:24:55 · answer #3 · answered by Smo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Number 1 and 5 are true dumbby!!!
no 1 - the water drains clockwise in the northern hemisphere because of the magnetic field, as it goes counter clockwise in the south because it is oppostie to the north
no 5 - lemmings don't enjoy jumping off of cliffs, they do it when their population numbers become too great and they start to diminsih their food sources, did you never pay attention in science??
I think humans use a little more than 10% by the way, don't make a question and start dissing common knowledge without the appropriate facts to back the damn thing up!! mongo
2007-02-12 04:30:33 · answer #4 · answered by smiley 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
One of my favourites is that guinness is good for you because it is loaded with iron! Wrong, it has about one spinach leafs worth at most.
Following on from an answer above, the stereotyping of different races is annoying. I come from Wales and was once asked by a londoner if we had electricity in Wales!! I said no and told them that we had a gas telly. yes, they believed it!!
2007-02-12 03:34:18 · answer #5 · answered by bottomburps 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never put plants in your bedroom. They'll suck up all the oxygen. What a load of rubbish - I feel cheated for thinking that I believed this for 20 years!!!
2007-02-12 03:27:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. That men don't know how to change a baby. I did it for mine.
2. That you can derive spiritual thruth by talking.
2007-02-12 07:24:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha ha. My aunt used to get prescibed a pint of Guiness a day by her doctor because she suffered from iron defficiency.
2007-02-12 04:19:56 · answer #8 · answered by jake k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grimm's fairy tales are for children. The first version that came out was quite gruesome, so much in fact, that they had to tone down the violence and re-print it.
2007-02-12 03:29:35 · answer #9 · answered by germaine_87313 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
haha no we only use 0.01% our brains!!
i hate it when people say all irish people drink guinness all time!
im actually asked when in england "so does youse drink guinness all time" actually i hate the way they think we real primitiave and still taking donkeys to the fair!! i was asked do we have tescos for goodness sake!
2007-02-12 03:29:07 · answer #10 · answered by dollymixture 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋