Various ‘Life Truths’ Gen X’ers Were Told As Kids Turned Out To Be Utter Nonsense, Like These 30

We're also walking around with a phone, a phone book, an address book, a clock, an alarm, a stopwatch, a timer, a library, a stereo, a gaming console, a newspaper, a word processor, a photo album, interactive maps...

It's still not a bad idea to know basic math functions.

This was true for a good 15 years after I was out of school. Who would have guessed we'd be walking around with a computer in our pockets that track our every movement?

The smartphone is a marvel of science. In the American History Museum in Washington DC, there is a room filled gadgets and and appliances that can all fit on a smartphone.

I didn't own a mobile until 2007. So for 36 years I didn't have a calculator in my pocket.

Great history teachers teach you how to think for yourself and drawn your own conclusion even if it's not popular. If you think you need to "unlearn" history at any point, then your history teachers failed you.

A classic hero is someone who possesses characteristics that separate them from their contemporaries. It doesn't mean they should be worshiped, faultless, or accepted blindly. Hercules had to complete his 12 labors because he killed his family. We should all be ashamed of the way Thomas Jefferson treated black people but his actions to bring about democracy was a heroic milestone in the history of this world. To reject him outright is throwing the baby out with the bathwater by rejecting all the good things he did because of the other filth involving him. That filth should not be ignored but we need to teach our children about flawed people who still accomplish heroic feats because we are all flawed. Even this jerk was able to do something amazing.

I highly recommend the book, "Lies My Teacher Told Me," for anyone taking a High School American History course. I was lucky to have a teacher who was as subversive as he could get away with. He was very clear that the curriculum he had to teach was more about raising proud, patriotic citizens than it was about teaching history.

Sounds like the Ron DeSantis School of History.

I grew up in Tennessee, and we were all taught that Andrew Jackson was apparently the greatest president who was ever elected, solely because he came from Tennessee. If you know, then you know. Let’s just say that I can understand the OP's frustration.

of course major matters, Engineers make money, soft humanities do not unless they go to law school after

I never heard anyone claim that Majors do not matter.

Or just skip college, train to be a, plumber, carpenter, electrician, etc, and likely get payed while learning, and make a sh**load of money forever !

I know that "The College Experience" is the be all and end all for many but for me an apprenticeship was the best decision I ever made. It meant I always had a trade to fall back on throughout my working life.

My first job subsequent to my Bachelor of Arts degree? Secretary. And I only got that job because I could type 80 wpm. I majored in Graphic Design with a minor in Marketing.

We never figured employers would just pivot to expecting one person to do the work of three.

Newsflash: to your employer, the perfect company has 1-2 executives to suck out all of the profits, and the rest is automated. They'll take ALL of our jobs if they can get away with it. And so far they are.

There's enough wealth, production, food, etc., for everyone to work 20 hours a week, less if everyone who could work, did. Massive hoards of wealth are aggregated at the top, it's absolutely vile.

I'm bored trying to figure out how to board bosses!!

Yeah, we would have a hard time filling all of ur leisure time.

The fact that we are supposed to be satisfied with a trickle in the first place, it's like expecting a dog to be satisfied with crumbs from a table...

There's only one thing that 'trickles down' and it ain't cash..

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I hope Ronald Reagan is burning in hell right now

Reagan also open the door to allow the government to "borrow" billions from the social security pot, without the requirement of repaying it. He started the destruction of the S.S. financial issues.

I lean left hard but I was quite disappointed with Bush Sr when he was elected. He campaigned against Reagan in '79-80 saying trickle down economics does not work and is a scam. I expected him to act on those words when he got power. He didn't.

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Yes! I remember being told off for killing trees when I chose paper instead of plastic at the grocery store.

Yep. This is just like how nowadays they have the gall to call man-made plastic based cloth materials "vegan leather."

I don't know about "save the earth", but plastic requires less energy to recycle. When you recycle paper, you have to add new pulp to the recycled stuff. So you are using more energy adding/making, new pulp. Plastic, you melt it and re-blow it.

ain't advertising grand?

Oh gosh, I didn’t know this was a thing

I could do without a lot of the ones who get fertilized and emerge as human beings

Same with butter. It's an on and off thing.

One thing's for sure—they're delicious for me.

Same thing happened to the poor old potato - the current thinking being, it's good to eat cold potato or rewarmed to less than 65c

The thing you need to realize about these "studies", isn't based so much on science and research, it's the money behind the research. A company pays for a study, they are going to expect certain results...or guess what, they go somewhere else to get the results, they want.

Close to the TV doesn't cause bad eyes, bad eyes cause sitting close to the TV

That applied to the old tube TVs (not that you were going to go blind). With flat screens you are supposed to sit somewhat close to get the benefits

That was never exactly true, but it was said of CRT TVs, which point an electron gun at your brain, causing stress.

it does f**k up your eyes