30 Common Myths That People Have To Finally Stop Believing

As an autist, I would happily join you

I had to join BP just to give you an upvote!!

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Wow, violence? Yikes

Right there with you.

OMG. are you saying that my musty dusty crusty kim kardashian sized a** won't protect me from STD's?

Indeed.

I have always wanted to know, why advertise all the time for viagra or some other erectile disfunction medication and have that sex life, asaand... make more babies who will be not yours you claim, and if yo do, not pay child support or any monetary or physical help to the mom? Viagra should advertise condoms along with their pill and provide them with a free sample. Now that dummies overturned Roe vs Wade, there will be more unwanted babies, kids in foster care, abused kids, because along with Viagra and slamming down RVW, there is no provision or bill to help all these extra kids that will be flooding the system in a few years. Sorry to go off but why not let the limp ones remain limp or provide mandatory vasectomies to men that prove themselves super baby makers and proud of it, but never support said babies. A mistake happens once, maybe twice but over and ofer? Oops.. we are cutting your chords so you can screw yourself crazy. And females that use a pregnancy to trap a man? No

Nothing beats the feeling of a burning Barbie... or GI Joe, or... oh s*** I was a pyromaniac...

My (male) cousins and my brother were sliding my barbies on the hardwood floors into the wall, the barbies were naked and sitting/sliding on their butts. I didn't really care for the barbies so I didn't mind and even joined the boys in the "game".

I played with dolls as a boy - they did not become action figures

What's the big difference anyway?

Proper etiquette for imaginary tea is essential for real tea as an adult. You can come to tea with me any time

I absolutely love this!

Your logic is unassailable

But but thats different, it's not a doll it's an action figure

Do not let your kids play with reanimated corpses!

That's not true.

But everybody would be living better

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Not true, depends how much

S**t for brains Truss

You'd get my vote DC. The idea that wealthy people kick start the economy because they'll have swimming pools installed, buy flash cars, get extensions built and employ more people like window cleaners (all examples of what they'll be doing with their extra money I've heard this past week). The rich don't stop doing these things as the economic crisis doesn't impact them. They're rich! Most aren't self-made as well, they happen but it's more rare than people like to accept. Most wealth is passed down (another kind of trickle down altogether!). The other argument is that they create businesses yet the past proved that to be untrue as employment dropped and growth stayed still. If they do create businesses it didn't grow the economy, so other businesses must have failed to have created that rise in unemployment. It benefits the individuals in governments, who tend to be far from poor.

I think this is saying that just standing outside when it's cold will make you sick.

Yes, yes, all of that but that's not what the claim or belief was. The cold weather might provide a host of reasons why getting a cold is more likely but the CAUSE of an infection is contact with viruses via contact with other people. Nothing else - those other factors increase risk but that's not the same thing. Without the virus it's not going to happen. Which is OPs point - the old belief was that going out in the cold was itself the sole cause. Just that, nothing more. We know it isn't. It leaves out the fundamental factor that is the absolute reason why we get a cold, the exposure to a virus. So saying it's based on truth is more a case of based on a host of factors that they didn't know about and leaving out the important one. Based on a massive misunderstanding quite frankly.

Also, your body can divert energy from your immune system to keep you warm, which makes you more vulnerable to diseases.

Also being out in the cold can have an impact on the person's immune system, adding to the effect. Yes, it is still the virus and not the temp, but OP is incorrect in saying it has "nothing to do with the outside temperature."

Uhm no it's not...i walk around with wet hair in any season and still haven't gotten sick. It's like saying, drinking ice water will give you pneumonia

Oh don't be silly! Being out in the cold with your hair wet is fine! It's when you're out in the cold with your hair wet AND eating ice cream that'll kill you!

Being outside with wet hair in freezing temperatures is bad for your hair. Bit you don't get a cold.

Mistie are you my gran???

If bats get tangled in your hair they lay eggs and when the eggs hatch you go crazy....Barney Fife

Not what they mean though. Without the virus all the other factors are irrelevant. People used to believe just being cold was enough and the only reason. So not based on truth, just based on not knowing. That the cold has aspects that increase risk is accurate but it isn't the understanding behind this belief. Think of it this way, if I am right about something but my reasons are wrong it means I am coincidentally accurate, but what I am saying is not therefore true. These are not the same.