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The fingers on my two hands wouldn’t be enough to count how many times I’ve heard that Einstein was bad at school math. Or that bulls go into full-on rage mode when they see red.

Turns out, many of those are just urban myths disguised as common knowledge. So what other nonsense do we, my fellow human beings, all blatantly believe in? This thread on r/AskReddit may give us some answers as people share some of the most annoying myths we all are guilty of trusting in.

Have any annoying myth on your mind to add to this list? Hit us in the comment below!

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That certain animal 'parts' have healing/magical properties. Like tiger whiskers protect the wearer or rhino horn cures impotence and hangovers.

storm_in_a_teapot , Dave Stokes Report

#2

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That vaccines cause autism, are made by the government to control you etc etc.

Bona-fide1 , Gustavo Fring Report

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That gold fish can life in small fish bowls. Worst possible thing to do to them. They die so quickly because they are messy fish and ultimate swimming in toxic water. The need twice the water a regular fish needs to dilute the ammonia their food and waste create. Goldfish can grow up to 12-14 inches and live 10-15 years in a proper habitat! Just because your parents’ parent did this or you see them at the fair doesn’t mean it’s right. Same goes for most animals kept in small cages/tanks. If you aren’t going to do it right, then you should not own that pet. Do your research. End rant ha

icpainsme , lina smith Report

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Not sure if this fits here exactly, but the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit being a frivolous case filed by a money hungry customer. That poor lady was a real victim who suffered legitimate injuries who only wanted her medical costs covered.

Jed1M1ndTr1ck , Wikimedia Commons Report

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Stephanie Did It
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She suffered third degree burns to her upper thighs and lower lap! McD's even acknowledged that the coffee was dangerously hot.

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Karin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She was hospitalized for 8 days and underwent 2 years of treatment! Trivialize that McPigs!

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Zaza
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Their coffee was literally scalding hot, 180 to190 F or 82 to 88C. The lady was sat in a parked car and held the coffee between her knees, it spilled when she took off the lid (so not from driving over bumps or something). She had 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body and lesser burns on other parts. You can pretty much say all her ladybits fused together from the burns. She needed skin grafts and extensive hospital stays and care. She suffered permanent disfigurement. She only requested 20.000 from McD to cover her medical bills and a small amount of money for her daughter who had to take time off work to take care of her. They refused and offered less than 1000 dollars to settle the matter. The lady then went to an attorney, McD refused every offer to settle, so eventually they ended up in court. Also she didn't exactly get all the millions most people think she got. The jury awarded something close to 3 million, but the judge reduced that to a bit over half a million

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Solo dos preguntas 1) ¿Cómo fue capaz de sostener un vaso de plástico/papel con sus rodillas si el café que contenía estaba a esa temperatura? 2) ¿Cómo esperaba que el café no saliese disparado si lo aprieta con sus rodillas cuando se sorprende porque se salpica al abrirlo?

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tuzdayschild
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She originally only wanted McD's to help her with her medicine bill which was about $3000. They refused, a lawyer got involved...the rest is history.

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Rissie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup, it's the American system that's effed up. But her case was valid.

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chi-wei shen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was already known to McDonald's that their coffee was dangerously hot because this was not the first incident.

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KittyMommy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the prior victims were mostly small children. You know, the ones who dart under foot, and don't realize why they shouldn't. But McDonald's figured it was cheaper to pay occasional damages versus turning down the temperature of the water for the coffee. The hotter the water the fewer the coffee beans needed. It was a cost saving measure, and if some people got hurt,oh well.

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glowworm2
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one! They always made this one sound like one of those "dumb customer" stories when in reality, it was actually quite sad.

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Lorrie Rothstein
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a documentary about her called hot coffee. She was severely burned but late night tv turned it into a joke

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Michael Sanders
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was also going to mention this. Highly recommended. It talks about the overall push for tort reform in the 1980’s. The case about the guy who sued the phone company after getting hit by a drunk driver in a phone booth was the most fascinating one to me. Reagan talked s**t about it, and it is not at all what people think.

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An Co
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The coffee machine was set for 180 F - 190 F, as per the official manual. The Shriner's Burn Institute says coffee should not be drunk above 130 F. 50 to 60 degrees to hot was criminal.

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Tu lo has dicho: "no debe beberse", eso no quiere decir que se confeccione a esa temperatura. Resulta que un café necesita alcanzar los 100ºC para hacerse o no es café.

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Leigh C.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine what that would have done to her mouth of she drank it. The water temperatures fast food places have it set to is hazardous for customers and employees, and employees get burned all the time. Ask yourselves if you make your coffee with searing, boiling water and drink it immediately without allowing it to cool.

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D. Pitbull
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The saddest part is that there's a requirement (legitimate NEED) to have a lawsuit *just* to get medical costs covered. Legit, medical needs. Seriously.

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Jim Day
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She originally wanted to just have her medical expenses covered, approx $10,500.

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Bob Belcher
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes!!! I remember reading all about this and how the fast food industry spent so much just to smear her name but didn't help her with simple medical bills.

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Karin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The saddest part: Liebeck died on August 5, 2004, at age 91. According to her daughter, "the burns and court proceedings (had taken) their toll" and in the years following the settlement Liebeck had "no quality of life", and that the settlement had paid for a live-in nurse.

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Bobby
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are plenty of cases of frivolous law suits in the US, why don't they get the attention this legit one did

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David F
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

McDonald's coffee use to be hot as s**t! Before that happened everybody knew their coffee was dangerous. Every McDonald's you went to it was like that. You'd ask your freinds, why the f**k is their coffee so hot?!?!?

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Princess Toadstool
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

HBO made a documentary about this case and similar cases called hot coffee :)

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Teresa Taylor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The media made it sound like she was money hungry crying over spilt coffee. They conveniently left out the 3rd degree burns she suffered and the surgeries needed to repair the damage. Late night hosts made jokes about it. Because of the misinformation and downright wrong information pushed about this and similar cases, Tort Reform and "Frivolous Lawsuits" are big buzzwords. However, those changes will only protect the corporations, not the consumers. No one cares about the consumer, so Tort is the way to make corporations accountable for their dangerous products.

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Teresa Taylor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes!! The law suit would NEVER have happened if McDonald's weren't such jerks in the first place. All she wanted was the few thousands to pay her medical bills. I forget how much she asked for, but they offered $800. She went to court.

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Debra Robinson
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHY. DOES. IT. HAVE. TO. BE. SO. FUCCKING. SCORCHING. MUTILATING. BLISTERING. HOT?!?!

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Teresa Taylor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because they're a$$holes that don't give a crap about anyone. I used to tell them to put ice in my coffee if I got it to go. If I had it there, I told them to leave room for the ice. Now, I just never get their coffee unless I'm really desperate. I'll get a Monster or something like that before I get a cup of McScaldMyMouth.

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Lola
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve had their coffee and it is HOT. There is no reason for any beverage to be that hot. I think they changed the temps after this happened.

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Joe Reaves
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe that it was either because that way it would stay hot for drive through customers or, and this is way worse but i don't know which was their actual reason, they were giving refills on coffee and when it was that hot people took longer to drink it and so asked for less refills. Either way they had had several people get hurt before but they figured it was more cost effective for them to pay out damages occasionally than make coffee that wasn't superheated. That justification was also why the jury gave such high punitive damages - they wanted to make sure companies learnt it is more cost effective to not hurt your customers.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The franchise owner was warned and cited by health officials that their coffee was 1 degree below boiling. That lady was absolutely mutilated.

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Gillbella
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah I agree, having your genitals welded together is not a small injury

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Tracy Sellars
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just watched a video on this, the doctors actually thought she would die because her burns were so serious. There had been 700 cases before her. It's just shocking.

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Lucy Snatchko
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the coffee was so hot she required skin grafts that's TOO HOT FOR COFFEE

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Daniel Marsh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The injured woman sought $20,000 initially, but she was awarded $3 million (back in the 1980s) in "punitive damages," so the fact that she only wanted her medical costs covered precisely validates the cause this case is usually cited with: that lawsuit verdicts were too high.

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CincyReds
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, she tried to get McDonalds to just pay her medical bills, and they refused. She she brough forth the suit. She suffered awful burns. And they were told many times at that MCDonalds that the coffeee was way too hot Serves them right

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Pamela Scott
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She had 3rd degree burns and had to have multiple skin grafts

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marnidarr
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've always known this was real. When the heck did it turn into a myth? They don't put warnings on things because they haven't happened: "WARNING Content may be hot" is because of her!

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Lisa Chambers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She was disfigured from the burns. Like skin melted off. The only reason they kept the coffee so hot is not to waste a pot that has been sitting there forever.

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John Montgomery
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw a post on Facebook saying most "frivolous" lawsuits are results of business trying to make the people suing look bad. They're drastically simplified. It made me think.

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Luka Verheijen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly, history is written by the winners, and in cyrrent day, big companies are the winners...

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Chaotic-Pansexual (she/they)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Smh. My parents still think this story was fake and that it was just someone tryna rob a business of money. When I tried to defend her they just shot me down (as they tend to do). Angers me so much

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very true. We actually covered that case in my pre-law class in college - yet the myth persists that's it's the perfect example of a frivilous lawsuits.

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Vivian Ashe
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember when McDonald's used to serve coffee that hot. You had to let it sit 15-20 minutes or it would burn your mouth really badly.

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Smelli Mel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perhaps in Australia it'd be considered frivolous because we have most medical costs covered by Medicare.

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Nina
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was very hot, but McDonald's didn't tell her to stick it between her bare thighs, take the lid off and spill it on herself. She still is an idiot. Lucky for her, she's an idiot in a country that gives money to these people because of reasons.

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Marmen Pass
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vengan a Europa, pidan un café y cuando se lo sirvan recién salido de la máquina, como debe ser, pongan una denuncia. Las risas atravesarán el Atlántico.

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Marmen Pass
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Temperatura que alcanza el agua cuando hierve: 100ºC. Cuando se sirve un café la temperatura sufre un descenso progresivo al contacto con el vaso, azucar, cucharilla, traslado hasta la mensa.... etc. Es imposible quemadura de tercer grado (quemadura en epidermis, dermis e hipodermis) salvo que la persona afectada permanezca deliberadamente expuesta al calor para provocarse mas daño.

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if you are a coffee drinker and of her age, well then it’s common sense that coffee is f**cking hot

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Signe Manat Hansen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Coffee is not supposed to be that "f*****g hot" and if you learned how to read, that would be obvious.

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The thing people are upset about which, is understandable is that she was awarded millions of dollars not just her medical care costs. While there are thousands of people out there who deserve compensation for injuries they have suffered and they get nothing. Current limitations on orthopedic surgery malpractice suits are not taken by anyone no matter how injured you are because they successfully lobby the government to limit suit to $250,000.

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Zaza
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The jury initially awarded her close to 3 million, but she never got that much. She got about 600k and she used that for medical bills and the care she needed after the incident. She did not become rich after a minor incident like people seem to think. She almost died, her ladybits were fused together, she suffered the rest of her life because of it

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I don't understand much of this case... I mean, if you spill hot coffee on yourself, it's not the fault of the person (or place) who gave you the coffee. It was an accident, of course, poor lady, but if I buy a bottle of acid and I spill it on myself accidentally, it's just my fault. I don't get it, may be this is the logic why many people think she is a hungry customer. Coffee is always hot, everybody knows...

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I learned about this in Paralegal school. They gave her the cup of coffee and she put it in her lap, but the lid popped off and gave her 3rd degree burns.

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Ok, but is not coffee hot??? Maybe near boiling? Do steak knives need a "Danger sharp object", Does a bicycle need " Warning balance required" I regret the woman was burned but hot coffee is reasonable.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Go back & read the comments. The coffee wasn't just hot. I was once given coffee as hot as she was, I couldn't drink it. I couldn't even hold the cup. I asked for something less hot and was told they didn't have it, 'everyone' wanted it extra hot. I reckon if that was true, 'everyone' was an idiot.

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All coffee and quite a few food dishes are dangerously hot. Most of us don't try to hold them between our legs.

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granted way hotter than it should be...... hot coffee is supposed to be......hot. sorry n s**t

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Yes, the coffee was too hot. (Dunkin Donuts has the same problem.) However, she literally tried to drive while holding the coffee cup between her thighs, which was monumentally stupid.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You are so rude. By the way, she wasn't driving the vehicle. She was in the passenger seat.

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Doesn't change the fact that there's still too many BS lawsuits filling the courts.

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Karin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not the point of this post. Start your own. That would be interesting too! Stating that here is like saying, Well men get raped too when we're talking about violence against women and children. See? Valid point. Deserves its own discussion. But here it's derailing the topic. <3

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What about the one that put a cup between her knees at a drive through? Aren’t people responsible for their own actions anymore?

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Karin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course they are. But should two years of medical procedures and tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills (Thanks, US medical system!) be the punishment for a moment of inattention? Does the corporation not bear any responsibility for distributing a dangerous product? Especially when they had already received numerous complaints about that very problems, burns from it being too hot? (from 1982 to 1992 the company had received more than 700 reports of people burned by McDonald's coffee to varying degrees of severity, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000) The legal system frequently relies on the Reasonable Person doctrine. Would a reasonable person expect to receive third degree burns over six percent of her skin for opening a cup of coffee? Would a reasonable person expect a company who received complaints that their coffee was too hot, turn the heat down to a reasonable temperature?

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If you spill hot coffee on yourself, that's on you. If I were McDonald's, the entire time the case was going on I'd serve lukewarm coffee to prove that nobody wants that. You shouldn't need to be told that a hot drink is hot!!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The real story is that McDonalds served the coffee at a temperature that was dangerously hot. She only wanted her medical bills covered, but McDonalds were offering her an insulting amount (even though they admitted to knowing about the risk), so she went to trial (still only for her medical bills) and the Jury awarded her $3 million because they felt McDonalds wasn't taking the risk seriously (and there were another 700 cases of similar injury from the coffee temperature at the time too which McDonalds was also dismissing).

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Poor people are poor because they don't know how to manage their money

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That the customer is always right.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"...In matters of TASTE." Yes ma'am that orange plaid looks wonderful on you! Let's wrap it up.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In You can "detox" your body from toxins and parasites by drinking certain teas or taking some weird medication.

Repeated diarrhea and frequent urination doesn't indicate toxins leaving your body, your liver and kidneys do the job. If your liver is not functioning or you have a kidney disorder, obviously you need help but it won't be teas that someone on Instagram is boasting about.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Many people still believe hymens are like plastic food seals that cover up the hole and get popped when you have sex for the first time, and if a girl doesn't bleed she's not a virgin.

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Thorfin Wolfsbane
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The whole idea of “virginity” is made up BS to manipulate and control people. Particularly women.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Fish only have a 5 second memory. My fish are fed automatically on a timer and they know dinner time better than my goddamn cat.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We used to have a fish called Grimnos who chose what he was fed with. Crumb, Flake or pellets. We would line them up in front of his tank and he would swim to the one he wanted and stare at it until we picked it up, and he would swim to the top and wait. We tried giving him one he didn't choose once, and he refused to eat!

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That violence in the world is getting worse and worse. Actually, in relation to the world's population we live in the most non-violent era in history. The problem is that, while 500 years ago you might have not even heard all the news from within your city, we can now hear all the horrible news from all over the world (and we're also more people). But still, human interaction and conflict in general is much less violent than it used to be.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This. The news love to spread negative news because they think to made more audience that way. But looking around in less main stream media is obvious that we, as humans, are going in the right way. Still a lot of work to do but we should be glad to be born in these times.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That historically, corsets were extremely dangerous. That is false. “Tightlacing”, which is basically just what’s seen in the movies, where they make the corset as tight as they can, was not very common, and only used in the extremely upper class. Most people wore corsets completely safely, lacing down very little, if at all. Women climbed mountains, biked, did sports, and everything, in corsets.

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Stephanie Did It
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes I think a comfortable corset would feel much nicer than a contemporary bra!

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That if you touch a baby bird, its mother will abandon it because of the smell. Birds actually have a very bad sense of smell.

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SentimentAndBadJokes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah, this ones good for children though. It stops them reaching out trying to 'play' with the bird, ultimately damaging them. Helps children show respect of animals. For adults though....

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That woman can hold their period like we can hold our pee. I am still pissed at that teacher...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's just a bigoted comment and your teacher should have been fired for that.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like a lot of things this is a combination of lack of knowledge (deliberate or not) and the desire to keep women in their place.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't have full blown OCD but do have some compulsive behaviors. For example if I see my nails and enough has grown for me to bite (I'm a yucky nail biter) it will "scream" at me until I bite it off. Then I can continue my day as per normal. For my aunt, skew or crooked things "scream" at her until she fixes them, so she doesn't go to restaurants with purposely crooked art anymore. Human brains are weird.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Flushable wipes are flushable

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#17

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In You swallow 8 spiders a year in your sleep. The thing was created to see how easily fake news spread.

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#18

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Astrology: that your horoscope tells something about your personality

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"hihi sorry for crashing your car, but I'm an asparagus and it's in my blood" 🙄🙄🙄

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In The five second rule.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We all know it's not 5 seconds till it's too dirty to eat, it's really just 5 seconds before other people judge you for eating off the floor.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In You have to wait 24 hours before filing a missing person's report.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the opposite. If someone been missing over 48h then most of clues or evidences already dried out

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I have a black cat with white spots on her belly and people have made comments about never having a black cat because they are bad luck or evil. Dude, it’s a cat. Also, hear often comments regarding not breaking mirrors or sweeping over someone’s feet. Its 2021 we really still believe this?!

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Caroline Nagel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Black cats are rarely adopted from shelters because of this stupid superstition.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That dairy cows just "make" milk.

Cows aren't any different than the rest of the mammals. They make milk when they have a baby. Humans just take the baby away after it's born.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is fairly obvious, but their young still get looked after, and *spoiler alert* the cows end up as burgers and leather after they've finished their usefulness as dairy cows.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That carrots improve eyesight. It was actually British propaganda from World war II, I think to explain how they kept on shooting down German planes at night, in order to conceal their invention of a new type of radar I believe. More funny than annoying, I just want to say it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Cat's Eyes" Cunningham was the man behind the myth. His plane was equipped with airborne radar and they told the kids he was just eating his carrots and could see at night.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space. First of all, it's not, and second, other ones are.

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#25

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Organic means no pesticides used. As I understand it, it means that no synthetic pesticides were used.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly! I used to work with governmental regulation of pesticides, and can confirm that we do have pesticides approved for organic agriculture

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Not a myth per se, but the number of people who grossly misunderstand how evolution and natural selection works is crazy high.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

most people can not comprehend billions of years of evolution because we only live for 80ish years , billions of years is mind boggling to think of

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Ostriches bury their head in the sand when confronted. The fact that Ostrich legs and claws are powerful enough to kill any predator makes a mockery of the myth. In actual fact, they don't make nests but bury their eggs in warm soft soil. They then frequently turn the eggs over in the ground to stop them overheating giving the appearance that they are sticking their heads in the ground from a distance.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those buggers can and WILL kick the crap out of you if you give them the chance. They may look derpy but they are dangerous.

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#28

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In MSG - a lot of people still believe it's basically poison. It's no more harmful than regular salt.

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#29

That margarine is "one molecule away" from being plastic.

Firstly, "one molecule away" makes no sense. It is a meaningless phrase.

Secondly, being "one atom away" is also meaningless, because a change in atomical structure means the substances are different.

A molecule of H2O has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. H2O is water.

H2O2 has two hydrogen atoms and two oxygen atoms. H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide.

But we don't caution against drinking water by saying that it's "one atom away" from being hydrogen peroxide, because that one atom completely changes the makeup of that substance. Water isn't "almost" peroxide or vice versa.

This is an oversimplification, obviously, but suffice it to say that you shouldn't take advice from someone who claims that margarine is "one molecule away" from being plastic. It's a complete misnomer.

I don't even like or eat margarine but this drives me up the freaking wall.

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#30

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Schizophrenia is the same thing as Multiple Personality Disorder

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Metaniel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or that every schizophrenia is same and we all hear voices, see s**t and wants to murder everyone. Ugh

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Scholars in the middle ages didn't believe the Earth was flat. The ancient Greeks knew that [stuff] was false. The myth of the flat earth was a post-Romanticism fancy in pop culture, not a serious scholarly movement.

That line from Men In Black has pissed me off ever since I learned the truth.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

2021 - now it's once more "trendy" to believe in the flat Eart. Makes you look "rebellious" and "wild". What, you're gonna listen to those evil mainstream media?

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“We care about your privacy” AbsoluteBollocks™️

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That cutting your hair off makes it grow in thicker.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It just takes off the thin or split ends so the hair looks fuller and thicker.

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#34

We only use 10% of our brains. If you don't know what 100% is, then how do you determine what 10% is.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After reading most of these beliefs people have I' positive they are using only 10% of thir brain power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#35

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Cracking your knuckles makes them bigger/gives you arthritis.

This is an ongoing battle between myself and my older coworkers.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dr Donald Unger disproved this one by cracking the knuckles on one hand every day while never cracking the knuckles on the other for 50 years. He did not get arthritis.

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Shark fins / shark products are great for health

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shark fins don't add any flavour to the soup either, it's purely to show off wealth.

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That historical armor was basically useless, only increasing the chance of maybe deflecting a blow if you were lucky. You still see it in movies, shows and games where a knife or sword or arrow will go through armor like it's cardboard.

In reality armor was very useful. Very good armor, like a knight's suit of plate, made the wearer virtually invincible. The best plate could stop even early firearms. A knight in full plate and wielding a shield was pretty much the tank of the medieval battlefield. Doubly so if on horseback. Specialized weapons and a concerted effort was needed to defeat one, although typically no one would try to kill a knight since you can't ransom a corpse.

But even simple gambesons, which were made from layers of fabric, could resist a sword cut. High quality gambesons could resist all but the strongest cuts from specialized cutting swords.

Also: that swords were super heavy. A typical one-handed arming sword from the middle ages weighed around 3lbs, 4 max. A two-handed long sword could get up to 5lbs. Rapiers weighed around the same as other swords, which is contrary to popular belief.

Yes, swinging around a 3-4lb object would tire someone out, but the people doing so were generally more fit than the people reading this thread.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Piggybacking on this, the myth that the sword was the most important weapon on the medieval battlefield. Nope, your primary weapon was a sort of polearm - spear, lance if on horseback, halberd, pike, bardiche, naginata, you name it. The sword was actually the sidearm, the weapon you used after your spear broke or became ineffective (tight in melee, for example) or the one you took with you everywhere, even in context where you were unarmored. Sure, there are examples of fully armored knights fighting with two-handed swords, but that's sort of an edge case, because that usually requires a full plate harness and some specific circumstances to pull off and it's debatable wherever it doesn't straddle the border between sword and pole arm anyway, especially later examples, like the Zweihänder of the German Landsknechte, which was popular in the 16th century - those guys even had smaller swords (usually some type of messer) as sidearms to their swords...

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#38

Bulls get angry when they see the color red. It's not true..

Bulls are actually red-green colorblind. What actually triggers the bull's anger is the movement in front of them.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you see mythbusters test the "bull in a china shop"? Calm, sensible, and didn't break a thing

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In If you lift your hands above your head while pregnant you will strangle the baby. I am sure it was started by smart women who didn’t want to do all the housework while pregnant and tired. I still hear it every now and again.

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#40

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In People think bats are blind. They aren’t.

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#41

The highest tax rate means your entire income is taxed at that rate

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I HATE this one! It's used deliberately to reinforce the idea that the rich shouldnt be taxed somehow - yet it's usually perpetuated by people who are middle class at most (since a lot of the ultra rich either fully understand the tax system, or can employ people who do on their behalf). It's a mindset that leads to "you cant have a 75% tax rate because *when I'm earning more* you'll be taking more off me". Like the whole thing where people who were several tens of thousands of dollars off being affected were protesting because of some hyperthetical future pay rise they were going to someday maybe get.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That Napoleon was short. He was average height

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was about 5'7" in English measurement, 5'2" by French. Also he was affectionately dubbed The Little Colonel by his troops, likely because his bodyguards and some officers were taller. Another source says that when he was victorious in Italy, he was a young, inexperienced and relatively unknown officer so it was a derogatory moniker. Either way, the nickname stuck.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In that myth about how nasa invented ballpoint pens for space while the USSR just used pencils... basically completely untrue

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pencils would be terrible. They create dust when writing, more dust and shavings when sharpened, and then whole pieces of graphite can break off - all of which spells doom for the precision machinery.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In That Vikings wore horns on their helmets.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Undercover cops have to tell you they're cops.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got in trouble for charging an undercover cop coffee when I was working at Tim Hortons. I was told "You'll know them when you see them." No I won't and if I do they are not undercover or crappy at their job.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Einstein was bad at school math.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That one is interesting. Einstein went to school in Switzerland, where grades are opposite of other countries (in Germany i.e. 1 ist best, 6 is worst / Swiss 5 is best, 1 is worst). Einstein had a 4-5 in math, meaning the best to second best grade in swiss. It's just a Transmission error.

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#47

That you can spot-reduce fat. Far too many quacks on the internet talking about “toning” and “melting belly fat” with a hundred sit-ups a day.

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Caroline Nagel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sit-ups are bad for your back. No good physiotherapist would tell people to do sit-ups.

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50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Black belts have to register their fists as weapons... I can't believe I was dumb enough to fall for that.

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#49

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In Lightning never strikes the same place twice.

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History is filled with this stuff, but I'm gonna go with general misconceptions due to an inability to read history in context.

Often if you read a funny and strange story where you go 'haha those dumb superstitious people in the past' in reality there isn't superstition behind it, there's politics and power. For example, if you hear of someone being excommunicated and declared a witch / heretic for some odd reason the truth is the given reason is just a made up excuse, and the real reason is political intrigue.

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