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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!

#1

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

#3

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

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#4

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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#5

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

phoooooenix , Chronomarchie Report

#6

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

Pantominist , Lisa 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

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

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#7

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.

bitterherpes , Andy Melton Report

#8

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.

Vixrotre , Cassidy Dickens Report

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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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#9

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.

Osr0 , C Watts Report

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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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#10

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.

mediocre_medstudent1 , Lindsey Turner Report

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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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#12

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.

grmidnight , Susanne Nilsson Report

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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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#13

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

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Leigh C.
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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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#14

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In A lot of commonly believed stuff about the female reproductive system/anatomy, like vaginas getting loose if a woman has a lot of sex, or that having a lot of sex somehow drastically changes the look of a woman's labia.

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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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#15

50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In People with OCD just repeatedly wash their hands and like things clean and organized. This is how it presents in some people. There is so much more to this mental illness that people aren’t aware of that lead to people not getting diagnosed or help.

Oss251817 , Catt Liu Report

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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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#16

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.

JustAnAverageBrit , Jim, the Photographer Report

#18

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

Metamorphosed_ , MiraCosic Report

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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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#19

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

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JennyLaRue
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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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#20

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

popthetab , Skybluesrich 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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#21

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

From my time in a shelter, black cats have two loads of bull people put up against them - this and "but if they are black, tht means they won't show up on the photos I post on instagram well enough!" =.=

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

In my country they are considered lucky. Edit: still rubbish, cats are cats. Being able to have and love any animal is lucky!!

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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

Only if they trip over a black cat while walking under an indoor ladder with an open umbrella.

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

I've always had the best luck when I owned a black cat! My current one is the most loveable kitty I've ever had!

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

I have a black cat because he had been at the shelter for months!

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

My black cats never brought me bad luck. It was a calico that I tripped over and broke four bones.... ;-P

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

If a person that hurts black cats out of superstition crosses the street in front of your car, keep going.

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

I've always thought having a black cat was one of the luckiest things to happen to me!

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Harsh5000
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Black cats are actually good luck. Look it up, it's a thing. It was actually the Roman-Catholic church that started the superstition before the bubonic plague and people started killing black cats in Europe which led to more rats which eventually led to the bubonic plague.

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

I have a completely black cat. She a barn cat but super friendly (more than the house cat) and the best mouser I have ever been around. I think she has spent too much time around our dogs and acts more like them than a cat sometimes. Best cat ever.

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

I have a black cat. I am not dead today, so that is good luck!

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

Here in the UK, black cats are lucky. Often an image of a black cat, along with horse shoes were used at weddings

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

The superstitions around cats used to be even worse than now!! Some people used to think that in the middle of the night cats would come in and steal the breath of a person sleeping. We have active imaginations

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

I hate the "I'm not superstitious but just in case I will go around that cat". Umm that makes you superstitious!

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

Black cats are actually prone to be more affectionate with very sweet dispositions.

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

There was no sweeter animal than my cat, Milo. He was black as night, and loved every creature he ever met. He slept in my arms most nights, and I miss him terribly.

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

"Dude, it's a cat." Right on. They're all evil, but we love 'em anyway.

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JE Cummings
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've had many black cats in 50 years and I have one now. They are adorable, sweet, and GOOD luck.

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Monique Miller
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love our black cat, Oprah! She picked my daughter at the shelter, and had a great personality.

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Bart S
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love black cats. They are just as sweet as other cats.

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

What happens if you break a mirror? You have a broken mirror. And teeny splinters all over the floor. That's enough bad luck for me.

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

The notion of breaking a mirror caused bad luck came about in the days when the wealthy ladies had maids who helped them dress, do their hair, etc. Mirrors were imported from other countries and expensive, so only wealthy people could afford them. The "bad luck" curse discouraged a disgruntled servant from "accidentally" breaking them.

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

At lease these days, Black cats have more chance of being adopted because more people know the BS behind this superstition.

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

Around here it's considered bad luck if a black cat crosses your path. Once, on my way to work, I watched two men practically dancing in the middle of the street trying to avoid a poor black kitty who was trying to cross. She got scared of them and darted, still crossing their path in the end. And mine too. I just stood there and laughed my ar$e off at them. I wonder, if a black cat crosses your way back and forth, is the jinx cancelled or doubled? 😂🤪

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

My Mom always told people that said that that it is actually good luck to own one as long as you treat it well you have the best of luck.

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

Black cats are elegant, beautiful and the very nicest cats in the world,

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

it was made up because their fur is dark and looks more mysterious

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Jaybird3939
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you ever look up origins of superstitions, it's crazy. Things about hats on beds, shoes, umbrellas, ravens, etc. It's really quite interesting.

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

I have a black cat and she’s the sweetest little babygirl/cuddlemonster. Let idiots believe this. I’ll adopt more black cats.

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

We had a ginger cat (called yellow in some places}. It was female. So many people told us this was not possible. Even in late pregnancy they were talking about "growths" "he" might have. It took four healthy kittens to shut them up!

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

It's actually very rare to find a totally black cat. It's thought that because they were often killed as being a witch's familiar, black cats started having at least one patch of white on them. A case of genetics working out the problem (I'm not sure that I fully believe this, but it's a good story)

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

Also, this should be higher. We need to end this ignorance now. The workers from the Florida building collapse recently found a kitty survivor... After a long time of no other survivors being found. Guess what color the cat was???!!! If you can say black cats are unlucky after that you must also think the earth is flat.

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

OMG don't they know that if you own a black cat, no black cat in the world can bring you bad luck. It is the only way how to break black cat's magic, or so is the superstitious believe in my country - czechia ;)

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

And yet in other countries/cultures, black cats were also seen as being good luck! And some ships would only bring a black cat with them ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cat ).

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

Nah, black cats are good signs. The void is noisy and wants chicken.

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

It’s 2021 and people still believe in magic, miracles, gods, lying to children, trickle-down-economics, libertarianism...

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

A black cat crossing a road... super bad luck - for the cat that is, if a car comes by that very moment the cat is crossing the road.

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

I was raised in belief that when you break a mirror, it's just a sign of a big change in your life - neither good nor bad. Your reflection broke so you 'no longer will be the same' but it doesn't necessarily suggest a bad thing, it's just neutral. I am not superstitious but I really like this one. :)

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

Why we adopted a senior totally black cat. And yes, it's hard to get a photo but who cares?

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

I'm from Balkans.Here it is : Don't cut your nails at night, it's bad luck.Don't sit on the concrete you'll get kidney/ovaries inflammation.Don't walk under the ladder it's bad luck.Don't walk over your kids - they won't grow.No draught in the house, you'll get pneumonia.Don't wash your hair and go out, you'll get face paralysis. Don't whistle in the house you're calling either mice or demons ,and many others.Trust me, our lives were very limiting at times :)

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

My black cat gives me just as much bad luck as my siamese does

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

In the UK and Ireland black cats have traditionally been considered lucky, but the domination of the internet by Americans has caused the idea of them being unlucky to become widespread :-(

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

I found my black cat in the trash as a kitten, I suspect because of this superstition.

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

I thought black cats were lucky? Guess it shows how little i get out😂

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

As someone who owns a black cat, the dratted thing keeps trying to kill me by having me fall over him in the dark! 😉. I really love him though, I’ve had him over 16 years now and counting.

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

I thought black cats were lucky. I had one as a kid and called him Lucky.

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

zophra im not even going to look at that bc just the word dog bites makes me think ur trying to tell me that im wrong about pit bulls rottweilers and dobermans. i can tell u right now that if a dog bites its either untrained, protecting its owner or the idiot owner trained it to do so/gave it attack training thinking itll help make a great guard dog. i trained dogs for years i cant tell u how many kisses ive gotten from these dogs. and u posting this article just proves the irrational fear i was mentioning. the fact that someone did this study means they have that dumb fear. dog fighting rings and idiot owners gave these dogs a bad rep

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

I once broke a mirror and was very worried about having 7 years bad luck. Luckily I had a good lawyer and he got me off in 3. (yeah that was a Steven Wright quote)

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

In the UK black cats are lucky since they’re considered to be witches’ familiars so, if it’s crossing your path, it is going in a different direction to you hence it’ll be someone else they cast their spells upon.

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

I volunteer with a feline rescue, and I had a seemingly intelligent woman fall in love with a black kitten. She would not adopt it because her husband told her they were evil and she could not come home with a black cat.

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

As a kid I had 3 black cats at one point. We lived in an extremely rural area where people were super superstitious, and for like a week before halloween and a few days after we wouldn't let them out. I've heard of kids tying a string of cans to a black cat's tail (and that's the best thing that could happen).

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

A friend's daughter used to have a black dog rescue, making trips to southern states to pick up black dogs at shelters because apparently southerners believed black pets are bad.

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

All cats are evil. It has nothing to do with color. #dogsrulecatsdrool

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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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Neil Bidle
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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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#24

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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