6 (allegedly) commonly-believed things that aren't true

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6 Commonly-believed things that aren’t true:

  1. Medieval people believed the world was flat
  2. Spacecraft heat up on re-entry due to friction
  3. Men have one less rib than women (Who actually believes that one, though?)
  4. The body loses 21 grams when we die (never heard of that one, so it can’t be TOO common)
  5. The rule of thumb was originally that a (British) husband could beat his wife with anything no wider than his thumb.
  6. Eating chocolate causes acne

stupac2.blogspot.com/2006/10/six … -that.html

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Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11 :slight_smile:

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Saddam was an OK leader and preferable to an invasion. :smiley:

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Everything you read on the internet is true.

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That’s a
LIE!

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[quote=“Vay”]6 Commonly-believed things that aren’t true:

  1. Medieval people believed the world was flat
  2. Spacecraft heat up on re-entry due to friction
  3. Men have one less rib than women (Who actually believes that one, though?)
  4. The body loses 21 grams when we die (never heard of that one, so it can’t be TOO common)
  5. The rule of thumb was originally that a (British) husband could beat his wife with anything no wider than his thumb.
  6. Eating chocolate causes acne

stupac2.blogspot.com/2006/10/six … -that.html[/quote]

  1. Whilst it hasn’t been proven that we do lose 21 grams, neither has it been proven that we don’t.
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[quote=“Tyc00n”][quote=“Vay”]6 Commonly-believed things that aren’t true:

  1. Medieval people believed the world was flat
  2. Spacecraft heat up on re-entry due to friction
  3. Men have one less rib than women (Who actually believes that one, though?)
  4. The body loses 21 grams when we die (never heard of that one, so it can’t be TOO common)
  5. The rule of thumb was originally that a (British) husband could beat his wife with anything no wider than his thumb.
  6. Eating chocolate causes acne

stupac2.blogspot.com/2006/10/six … -that.html[/quote]

  1. Whilst it hasn’t been proven that we do lose 21 grams, neither has it been proven that we don’t.[/quote]

Prove that without disproving that you can’t believe everything you read on the interent or insulting Allah.

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[quote=“jdsmith”][quote=“Tyc00n”][quote=“Vay”]6 Commonly-believed things that aren’t true:

  1. Medieval people believed the world was flat
  2. Spacecraft heat up on re-entry due to friction
  3. Men have one less rib than women (Who actually believes that one, though?)
  4. The body loses 21 grams when we die (never heard of that one, so it can’t be TOO common)
  5. The rule of thumb was originally that a (British) husband could beat his wife with anything no wider than his thumb.
  6. Eating chocolate causes acne

stupac2.blogspot.com/2006/10/six … -that.html[/quote]

  1. Whilst it hasn’t been proven that we do lose 21 grams, neither has it been proven that we don’t.[/quote]

Prove that without disproving that you can’t believe everything you read on the interent or insulting Allah.[/quote]

That would be impossible since proving that we don’t lose 21 grams upon death would only prove that some things we read on the internet are true and all it takes is one false statement to prove that you really can’t believe everything u read on the internet which I can prove:

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I heard that one. That’s something about the mojo leaving the body when you die.

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So basically our soul weighs 21 grams, overweight or skinny doesn’t matter …

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Chou doufu is something that normal people eat.

Women don’t watch porn.

Old people are boring to listen to.

Being popular is something everyone should aim for.

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LOVE dou choufu;

men always cheat (a lot are loyal and lovely!)

British girls just lie there (I bat my eyelashes occasionally)

Asian men aren’t big…

Hold your breath to cure hiccups (doesn’t work for me, unless I have unusually vituperent ones)

Eat your crusts to make your hair curly

Errors in the ‘news’ too numerous to mention, tho we Europeans are skeptical about anything reported

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And that there were WMD in “Eyeraq”. :smiley:

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God, that’s a biggun - remember sense of growing helplessness after the march in London, and the first time I realised it wasn’t a real democracy or any choice (I was THAT naive!). It’s a crazy world we live in, beautiful despite that.

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Not too important but I hear it a lot (and I only learnt it wasn’t true myself about a year ago) - there are no snakes in Ireland. There are apparently, a very few members of a species of grass snake. Only a very few so it’s almost true.

Oh yes, I could also make a few comments about a certain well-known politician in Northern Ireland but that would be off-topic… :slight_smile:

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[quote=“Vay”]6 Commonly-believed things that aren’t true:

  1. Medieval people believed the world was flat
  2. Spacecraft heat up on re-entry due to friction
  3. Men have one less rib than women (Who actually believes that one, though?)
  4. The body loses 21 grams when we die (never heard of that one, so it can’t be TOO common)
  5. The rule of thumb was originally that a (British) husband could beat his wife with anything no wider than his thumb.
  6. Eating chocolate causes acne

stupac2.blogspot.com/2006/10/six … -that.html[/quote]

every single one of those was a movie line :unamused:

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Bush didn’t steal the election.

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More probably because when you die your sphincter relaxes and you have the additional indignity of defecating all over yourself (in addition to being dead, that is).

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More probably because when you die your sphincter relaxes and you have the additional indignity of defecating all over yourself (in addition to being dead, that is).[/quote]

So please, before you die … have a dump … :roflmao:

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[quote=“bismarck”]More probably because when you die your sphincter relaxes and you have the additional indignity of defecating all over yourself (in addition to being dead, that is).[/quote]The bladder muscles release also. It can be most inconvenient.