40 Times People Came Across Such Confidently Wrong Statements, They Just Had To Share ‘Em
Some people are so wrong you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. And unfortunately, they are often also the ones that proclaim their ‘truths’ the loudest. That’s why their incorrect statements have to be refuted loudly as well, and what better way to reach a vast audience than turning to the good old internet?
Refuting false information is exactly what the ‘Confidently Incorrect’ subreddit is for. To be more exact, it’s “for those times when people are way too smug about their wrong answer”, according to their own description. Even though the community was started just a few years ago, in 2020, it has already amassed nearly 990k members, eager to show just how wrong—yet confident—some people can be. We’ve gathered some pretty colorful examples of that, so scroll down to find them on the list below and enjoy.
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Metric System At It Again
The sciences like astronomy and medicine use the metric system as a standard regardless of what country you're in (yes that includes the US). The metric system is all based on tens and it's very easy to convert between units of measurement, which reduces errors. Check any medication label, it's going to be in mg or micrograms
Yeah, the one time they goofed up and used the imperial system they crashed a lander into the surface of Mars.
Load More Replies...I work at an American company in the US and all our measurements are in metrics. We are neither science nor medicine; it's just more practical.
I'm a (US) carpenter and I curse my measuring tape every time I use it. Why can't we just have metric??? 11/16"? 3/8"? 2-11/16 minus 1-3/4??? Arrrggghhhh
I genuinely find it interesting how some people use imperial measurements for some things. There are several non-American Youtubers I watch that use feet and inches and I don't think it's for their American audience considering pretty much the entire world uses metric. Like, an Aussie used the mile as their lap measurement for the mock marathon they were running, as well as feet and inches for the canoe they were refurbishing. A Canadian outdoorsman used feet and inches to measure snow but also used kilometers to describe the distance they were going to hike. I'm not arguing about which is better just or whatever as I couldn't care less. Obviously us American use metric in certain instances and Ive found it interesting when the reverse happens.
I'm British. I use metric in general, but when baking I use imperial weights and volumes, and when I'm sewing I use inches to measure rather than cm. I have no idea whatsoever why.
Load More Replies...All the sciences use the metric system, even in the U.S. How did anyone not notice that when they were in H.S?
They can't handle the idea that Americans aren't knuckle-dragging paleolithic idiots?
Load More Replies...Oh give it up on metric vs imperial. A Roman mile isn't an imperial mile (irony much) and an ell i8sn't a legit measure anywhere, so just accept that STEM is metric and love the 10s. We still all tell time the same oddball way, let's just hug each other over that, please?
When it matters (in anything built at all, so, if you can see it and touch it) metric is used in the UK. Weirdly, people will still say they’re 6foot tall and 13 stone, but thankfully there’s no issue if that measurement is out at all so we carry on
Sex = Suicide
I'm not even sure how they got that correlation. Sexual liberation is not peaking like suicides. Not in the public health data, anyway. We are, in fact, less "liberated" than 20 years ago in the US.
Load More Replies...You heard it here folks! The best way to avoid suicidal thoughts is to be celibate! /j
It's always wonderful when someone religious eludes to a person burning in hell and being happy about it. That's so healthy. /s
And burglaries are committed by people who eat a lot if ice cream, too...
American Math
If that isn't a joke, I'm more offended that 4k+ people liked that tweet presumably because they think the math is correct.
And this right here is one of the reasons why one shouldn't post anything online while high.
Cripes. More of the world watches football (aka soccer in the states) than is even interested in watching American football. I’m an American who’s not a sports fan, so don’t have any interest in watching either.
Watching someone dig their own grave by being smug about their wrong answer can be surprisingly amusing. However, misinformation online is quite a prevalent problem in this day and age. And it’s likely that the internet is where such mistaken people find the false information in the first place.
Even if that’s not where they learn it, they might find supporting statements online nevertheless. Pew Research Center pointed out that, according to a 2016 study, people tend to seek information online that aligns with their views. (Even—or maybe especially so?—if they’re far from the truth.)
Pew Research Center also revealed that after the election in 2016, 64% of adults believed fake news stories can cause a great deal of confusion. However, as much as 23% of them admitted to have shared fabricated political stories themselves, whether by mistake or intentionally.
Google Is Free
Or stayed in Sweden. Not sure which direction things go.
Load More Replies...No, they're both wrong. As per Calvin's school report: bats are bugs! (& please do not correct me if you do not know what I am referencing . )
This is so embarrassing. Outing yourself as your Swedish family's example of what a dumb American is.
Just Had To Post This
An American here...we're trying to get that guy voted off the island!
Oh my fellow Americans how you embarrass me more than I care to admit.
"Your" is ownership. "You're" is "You are". Right now, you are dumber than I thought.
According to Pew Research Center, the way fake news spreads is based on people’s primal quest for success and power, which is why it’s likely to persist in the future. Experts predict that, “manipulative actors will use new digital tools to take advantage of humans’ inbred preference for comfort and convenience and their craving for the answers they find in reinforcing echo chambers.”
Another enabling factor for the spread of misinformation online is the fast pace of technological change. It is believed that the rising speed, reach and efficiency of the internet, together with an abundance of online applications, can magnify the aforementioned human tendencies to the extent that false information crowds out reliable information.
"Those Countries Don't Have Blacks"
To dazzle and distract from the lack of thought or logic
Load More Replies...I feel bad for this person taking time to present facts to the average bigot.
If I ever travel abroad, I'm gonna wear a maple leaf pin on my chest so people will believe I'm Canadian.
I was abroad during the Al Gore / George Bush who-is- predident saga. I used a British accent ( half British ) to avoid embarressment.
Load More Replies...Oh, God. This is an argument I'm constantly seeing in my country in Eastern Europe. We have very, very few POC, you can literally live your entire life and not interact with anyone who isn't white. So a lot of people are watching the news, say from France, and in their logic, we don't have lootings and riots because we don't have POC. I stopped arguing with them. There's no point.
Mt Everest Ha Relocated To South Dakota
Did they import all the bodies of the fallen when they moved it?
everyone has heard of the great sherpas of Sioux Falls
Load More Replies...Oh that's scary. Not being very familiar with the geography of South Dakota, is there a mountain with a name that may have been confused for Everest? I'm clutching at straws, but desperately trying to explain stupid.
They might be thinking of Mount Rushmore??? I’m as confused as you are
Load More Replies...Seems like that would be disappointing for Nepal to discover they are in the US.
Load More Replies...Mount Rushmore isn't even the tallest mountain in SD. It is only about 5700 feet in elevation.
Load More Replies...Yeah, it has the faces of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse carved into it.
Synonyms…
I used a whole bag of flower a while back. Knocked me on my butt for days.
Weed is flower. If Bro used the whole bag, somebody gonna be mad!
Studies reveal that nearly 40% of kids believe everything they read on the internet. But children can’t be the only ones who take whatever they read online for a fact. It’s likely safe to assume that most of us have bought something we saw online that ended up being false information at least once.
It Was Proven… On My Edited Video On A Conspiracy Subreddit
Put drag queen and grooming in the same sentence and my mind races to hairspray and foundation
Grooming them darned kids into good makeup skills and fabulous creative design
Load More Replies...Since they only care about the safety of children, they're going to support legislation that lessens the rights of straight people, right? Since by sheer numbers straight people groom way more minors than any other group. What about the Catholic Church? Well known for it's pedophile issues. Going to make it illegal for them to host children and take away their tax exempt status, right?
You want logic and consistency from these chuckleheads? Don't hold your breath. Meanwhile, all of the "anti-drag" laws are actually targeted towards making being trans in public a felony.
Load More Replies...It's getting really bad when the site itself says it's conspiracies, yet people quote it like facts! 🙄🤦🏼♂️
Wrong thinking on so many levels. Drag performers aren't necessarily gay. So they are grooming kids to wear high heels and cocktail dresses? Oh, the horror!
Drag queens do groom, but they groom themselves to look as amazing as they do.
Load More Replies...I'm sure there might be some drag queens who grooms, just like there's plumbers who groom, or lawyers, or politicians, or teachers... Groomers are regular people and drag queens are regular people. How on Earth is it possible to ban an entire category of jobs because of what some people, who coincidentally did that job, behaved? Blame the people, not the job. I'm pretty sure there have been many more cases of grooming priests (and many that did way more than grooming BTW), but I still see priests around, don't I?
Chow
I think he means “ciao” which is an Italian word used as an informal greeting or parting. Also, you say that America is a safe country yet there are people like you shooting guns while smoking joints, seems bout right.
I am more worried about the ones shooting guns while holding a beer and quoting the bible. Most pot smokers want nothing to do with that crowd. But keep up the hate
Load More Replies..."the most powerful yet safest" as an american, i can confirm that this is a lie wtf
Safest country in the "north hemisphere"? Dude, you're not even the safest country on this continent!
I don't pity their lack of knowledge, you can always learn. I pity their satisfaction in staying ignorant and no desire to learn.
Load More Replies...America is not the safest country in the northern hemisphere. Not even close. What an idiot. And yeah great idea get high and use firearms. Im sure that will end well
Do your country and the world favor by aiming your guns toward your empty head. Chow for now..
And He Was Correcting Somebody Else
A metaphor is comparing two things without using like or as. "Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks." Similes are comparing two things with like or as. "She is as dumb as a post." I hope this helped
“Their comment was the explosive diarrhea of their mouth merging with the constipation of their brain.” Too bad the person who tried to school them in the difference between simile and metaphor was simply too shocked at the stupidity to write something like that.
Load More Replies..."I metaphor sex, but she slapped my face and walked away when I asked." -Eddie Dean, The Waste Lands (by Stephen King)
Ya know, I get how Grammer can be difficult for some people, there plenty of things I get confused too. The internet and all the short-handed out there today probably aren't helping things. Don't double down when someone corrects you without at least looking it up to make sure you're correct first. That's when you actually make yourself look dumb.
"Similes are indirect comparisons that use the word “like” or “as.” Metaphors are direct comparisons that state one thing is another."
Load More Replies...This was high school English (maybe junior high?) for me (maybe other learned it earlier, but I was in French Immersion.but even I know a simile uses like or as. Also, have these people never heard of Google?
But then why do we continue to believe the online world, you may wonder? Well, Forbes delved deeper into that and pointed out that looking for information online is easy—why go to a library when you have an array of webpages ready at your fingertips? Moreover, there are also no gatekeepers scanning and filtering information.
“Instead of browsing a small carefully curated set of high-quality informational streams, our online citizenry are thrown into an ocean of almost limitless low-quality information, forced to expend considerable effort to forage for the rare bit of accurate insight,” the article read in part.
It pointed out that nowadays, instead of turning to a competent person, equipped with all the necessary knowledge, people tend to do a quick online search and click on the first link, whether it’s reliable or not.
The Amount Of Likes Is Concerning
I know it is difficult, but these people really need an education. If you can reach but one...
Load More Replies...I’m American, and sure as s**t hope I don’t get lumped in with the morons in the postings here. Cripes. We really f****d us our education system, didn’t we? Some of these people should still be trying to graduate from 5th grade—-driving their cars to elementary school, then going to their full time jobs after school, and reserving the weekends to spend time with their spouses and children.
I should go tell my S.African coworker he was born in a country that doesn't exist...🤔😂
Mankind is truly screwed. So glad I will not be here in 50yrs but also gutted my daughter will probably have to live through this....
Two Separate Pipes, Fellas
This is why health class and s e x education are important for everyone! We all need to learn about everyone's body and functions. These are the same people who want girls to "hold their periods in." 🤦♀️😭😫
Right up there with the people that wonder why girls don't just "push it out all at once".
Load More Replies...No doubt. You know, everything having to do with the human body is dirty, dirty, DIRTY. Just ask the ill informed r*d necks and their brethren.
Load More Replies...A brief glimpse into the world of middle-aged moms' basement dwelling virgins
Tbf when I used tampons I usually did change it before having a wee as I always managed to get a pissy string!
Just had to give my little brother the “magical third hole” talk the other day. Smh it’s in literally every basic anatomy textbook.
well thank goodness you were there for him. people don't know what they don't know until someone shows or teaches them, nice job!
Load More Replies...Ha Ha, What's Next, Seamonkeys Aren't Monkeys?
I'll share my Aleve with you :( I'm not sure I'm gonna survive this whole list XD
Load More Replies...There is LITERALLY a song that goes "oops there goes another rubber tree plant."
I have High Hopes, but feel sure I will be disappointed.
Load More Replies...Well, as stupid as this moron is, I've still learnt something new. I didn't know the sap was particularly pungent. Double checked and apparently it is pretty nasty.
Did you know that Indians used to collect the sap of the rubber tree and dip their feet into it to make their feet into a sort of rubber boot to work in boggy areas to protect their feet
This thread is causing me to have an existential crisis. I know for a fact that I'm not the most intelligent person on Earth, but to understand that there are this many people not merely less intelligent than I am, but actually terminally stupid is depressing and demoralizing. It's really hard to not think we're doomed.
Similarly to counting on the things online to be true, we tend to also believe the confident people around us. As a matter of fact, our brains are wired in a way that allows them to influence our beliefs.
According to a 2017 study, people base their beliefs on three main factors: personal experience, views of the majority, and views of the confident people. The study of 23 individuals revealed that the first two were positively linked to the reward system in our brain, responsible for how happy we are after choosing something. Yet, the third one—the opinion of confident people—was the only one to have an additional effect on that reward system.
Comments On Video Of Woman Who Is Color Blind. Chick Here, Is Just Blind To The Truth
I have a friend who is blue/green colorblind who uas had more than one eye doctor tell her she cannot be colorblind because "only men are colorblind". Apparently, she's just been faking it her whole life!
Literally learned this in biology undergrad, if not before.
Load More Replies...Women are colour blind less often, because the gene for the most common type of colour blindness is sex-linked.
A lot of people would do well to spend more time on Wikipedia. It can't be considered as offering proof of anything and the accuracy isn't guaranteed, but it is an excellent starting point, often has the links to the information of high quality, and has generally been pretty reliable in my experience. I think it gets its reputation as a joke only due to anyone being able to edit it (although that's not entirely true) and because teachers don't let you cite it (which is appropriate). But it really is a fantastic source of knowledge and a gift to mankind. Why Wikipedia Works https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/why-wikipedia-works.html
Load More Replies...Wow I guess I'll go tell my friend to just stop being colour blind then
Are going to have to get ridof the internet so people can start thinking? Oh right conspiracy thinking started way before internet contribution. Research is not a dirty word and just because it's published doesn't mean it's true.
Darn it, Rachel Trafford, you lied about being yellow/brown colourblind!
I'm a woman and I'm colorblind. It's annoying but I've learned which colors are which because people have told me. I'll see lime green as like a weird kinda teal color but how I know that color is line green is because people have told me that over time. But I guess I'm just crazy since girls can't be color blind so whatever ┐( ̄ー ̄)┌
Hmm, I’m Not Sure That’s How That Works. Can Someone Let Me Know?
And it would actually be "over time" as well, with a space between the words.
I feel like for every one of these posts, I lose an IQ point
I wonder what Language’s overtime rate is. Time and a half or double time?
Think Before You Comment
Also, that Taiwan and Thailand is not one and the same.
Load More Replies...Wait 'til you tell them that are two Georgia, one state, and one country.
I remember when Russia invaded Georgia. All the rednecks in the south were running around with guns wondering where the ruskis were.
Load More Replies...the worst part about a lot of these is there's a little thing called Google,
I still like to think of Taiwan as "Formosa". It's because in Italian it means "Voluptuous". True story, I learned the difference between China and Taiwan (ROC) at their consulate when I went to get my visa to travel there. They were surprisingly tolerant of my ignorance.
I would be happy if there were no Washington, D.C. and only the vaguely-United States.
The instances from the ‘Confidently Incorrect’ subreddit are excellent examples of why one should never blindly trust everything they see online or learn from confident people. Or at least, why they should fact-check the information. Luckily, a 2022 survey revealed that as many as nine in ten Americans actually do.
Eggs Apparently Are A Dairy Product…
I *think* eggs are only close to dairy in shops in the USA. There are regulations there requiring eggs to be washed. This strips them of a coating, and means they have to be refrigerated. In other countries eggs don't have to be kept in a fridge, and so aren't kept near the milk. Where I live, the eggs are kept beside the baking aisle (flour, sugar, etc).
Load More Replies...I grew up in the states, during the 60's & 70's. There was something called the food pyramid as guide to different food groups. One group was 'eggs and dairy'. I am sure there are people who link the two together.
Stupid then when it literally says they're not the same thing.
Load More Replies...Does that mean brown eggs are made from chocolate milk?
Load More Replies...To be fair, i was taught in school at a young age thanks to stupid things like the food pyramid that egg's were dairy
Old McDonald had cows and chicks on his farm, so they must be related. 😅
80k People Choose To Belive This Without Any Kind Of Evidence And Then They'll Call Themselves Free Thinkers
Guys! John Wayne Gacy has killed way more people than I have in my entire lifetime, so we should just forget about that murder I did.
You could add a couple more and still be in the clear
Load More Replies...According to the U.S. Geological Survey, published scientific estimates of the global CO2 emissions for all on land and submarine volcanos “lie in a range from 0.13 gigaton to 0.44 gigaton per year.” This is a fraction of the CO2 produced by human activity. In 2021, the global CO2 emissions from energy combustion & industrial processes alone reached a record high of 36.3 billion tonnes (or gigatons, GT), data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed. “On a global level, volcanoes currently emit just a few percent of the man-made CO2 production,” Bechkne said, highlighting that CO2 emissions of human activity have dramatically increased in the past decades, while volcanic emissions have not." https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-volcanoes-co2/fact-check-volcanoes-do-not-produce-more-co2-emissions-than-human-activity-idUSL1N2XV1HA
Wait, what? What volcano?? We have active volcanoes in Greece? Where are they? Am I safe? Should I flee the country?
How are you still conscious with all the CO2 in the Greek air?? What are you, some kind of Avenger or something??
Load More Replies...Here's what I think the problem with his math is. He calculated both as on time events. And while volcano is a one time event, the human contribution is ongoing. He likely used a number like xx billion metric tons in 2021. What he fails to account for is year to year contributions.
Here, this might help: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcanoes-can-affect-climate TL;DR:Volcanoes are not guilty of the charges here, Humanity has the title for top polluter.
Load More Replies...I haven't done the research. Volcanos do indeed dump a ton of CO2, but unless it's a super volcano I doubt it is more than what humans have managed to do. I'll look into it though. I haven't done a deep dive into volcano LORE in a while.
Get the "volcanoes and earthquakes" app. It will give you all the emissions levels on all eruptions.
Load More Replies...See JayWantsACat's comment with link below. The original tweet is very wrong.
Load More Replies...At first I was skeptical but then I read that he double checked. I mean, how could he possibly make the same mathematical error twice, guys? I trust him. Also, he's clearly a geography expert as well, soooo...
Why Are Small Towns Breeding Grounds For People Like This?
Typical, a religious (christian) person who doesn't know his own holy book.
That's because their minister discouraged him to actually READ the book. Just to believe what nonsense he preaches. In most countries, in order to be allowed to call yourself a minister, you must at least have a diploma in the field.
Load More Replies...As someone raised christian Im pretty sure that the bible said "man shall not lay with boy"
It's in Leviticus chapter 18. But Leviticus also prohibits eating pork and wearing mixed fabrics. Why aren't those literalists picketing clothing shops or butchers that sell bacon?
Because when Jesus died he came to make a new commandment. The reason Christians don't eat kosher foods like Jews is because of Romans 14 when it says we can eat all foods. Basically, when Jesus came he got rid of the old laws which required sacrifice and stiff and made new ones because we no longer need rituals and sacrifice to get to heaven we just need to believe in him and accept his ultimate sacrifice
Load More Replies...These people are also US Constitution humpers yet don't even know what it actually says, so it's not surprising they don't even know their own bible.
However it never says a woman should not lay with a woman I think so... I'm in the clear
Ye but it regularly refers to the human race in general as men but still includes women because otherwise the bible would be huge because everything would have to be repeated but swapped for women instead of men
Load More Replies...Biblical rules apply to Christians ONLY. It's your holy book, not mine. (Mine is "The Princess Bride" which only has two commandments. I have never been involved in a land war in Asia, nor have I gone up against a Sicilian when death was on the line. My soul is clean. How's yours? Before you answer, go read Leviticus and see how many you've violated.)
That's right after the commandment that says, "Thalt shall not sneeze while squeezing toothpaste!" isn't it?
The original text in the Bible was changed from 'man shall not lay with boys'. It was changed to fit the narrative of gays = bad.
The aforementioned survey also revealed what social media platforms Americans trust the least with Facebook taking the lead—42% of the surveyed users said they frequently see debatable content on it. It was followed by TikTok and Twitter with 35% and 32% people respectively stating the same about them.
Posts that end up on the ‘Confidently Incorrect’ subreddit come from all sorts of social media platforms, which is why there’s always new content for its members to enjoy. If you’re done with all the examples of this list and would love to see more, check out our previous editions of people being smug about their wrong answers here, here, here, and here.
Ahh, An Age Old Classic
Is it weird that I read all of these in a different accent? (I read yer in my accent, which is like the average American accent, y'all in a southern accent, and youse in a stereotypical New York accent criminal dude)
Load More Replies...Why can't so many english language native-speakers make the obvious distinction between the meaning of you're and your? No, not just US-people, are also the brits and aussies. Maybe, they should learn their own mother-tongue language as a foreign one in schools, to pay more attention on grammar things ....
Exactly, I'm not from an English speaking country but I think I know more grammar.
Load More Replies...Common Cold Is Not A Health Problem. It's A Detox And You Want To Get A Cold!
You’re wrong, well actually you’re right, but you’re still wrong because of this unrelated thing you never even argued.
because of lack of electric magnetic radiation in the 400 nm to 800 nm in adequate doses?
Load More Replies...It's worse than that. You catch it and then it takes over your body to make more copies of itself and forces you to cough and sneeze so that you give them to yet more people. It's also several orders of magnitude smarter than the OP.
It's not so much the ignorance that bugs me, it's the arrogance of skiing down the slopes of Mount Dunning-Kruger.
No, it's even dumber than that There are people who believe you are responsible for making your own illnesses (unfortunately, my sister is one of them).
Load More Replies...I wonder how many of these posts are genuine stupidity and how many are deliberate trolling for shits n giggles.
This is real, there are people who reject germ theory Just another crazy conspiracy theory that appeals to certain intellects.
Load More Replies...A cold is one of the last things I want, they're so annoying
Ducks Are Not Birds
Wait till they find out about mammals living in the ocean full time.
Shhh.🤫 Don't tell them. If their head explodes, all of the hot air escaping would be bad for global warming.
Load More Replies...Don't tell them that.. their heads will explode.
Load More Replies..."MALLER" duck? Do they mean "mallard"? Or do they mean a duck that hangs out at the mall? Do malls even exist any more?!
I call them budgies. A duck is a water budgie, a penguin is a deep water budgie, a kiwi is a mini walking budgie, an ostrich is an angry giraffe budgie, an emu is the other angry giraffe budgie and seagulls are steal your food budgies
So what about actual budgies? Are they just budgie budgies?
Load More Replies...but what about part time birds that only bird in the evenings and on weekends?
Ancient Babylonian Pagan Cult
Well if they're worshipping Lucifer they're obviously Christian...as far as I know that's the only religion that believes Lucifer is the king of hell or whatever.
Yea I don't think Christians are worshiping Lucifer.... kind of the opposite I believe.
Load More Replies...And Pagan is NOT synonymous with satan, satan is a Christian construct, not a Pagan one.
Hey pandas. Would some of you be able to tone down your anti-religous stance? I am not a religous person, but religion in all forms is important to a lot of people, and treating it like a joke or something to be held with contempt is harmful to the people on here who are. While there are some churches and branches of religion that are actively harmful or hateful, this does not represent religion or religous people as a whole.
If your belief cannot withstand scrutiny, skepticism, or critique, that's a you problem
Load More Replies...When you're so abysmally stupid, you don't know the history of your heretical Christian sect, and you think Lucifer is a pagan Babylonian sun god. Or the etymology of the name Lucifer, for that matter. (And a HUGE shoutout to my 10th grade English teacher who insisted we memorize Latin and Greek word roots. Hope you're doing well, Ms. Chesnicki, and I loved your class.)
That's pretty common programming for fringe evangelicals. Catholicism is seen as a "fallen" church and their particular denomination has found its way back to true righteousness. It comes back to the insecurities we all have and the need to put other people down to ignore our own flaws. It's easier to point fingers than it is to change. The fact is the Gospel is hard, factual or not. It calls us to help others where they are (not judge them) and change ourselves.
You haven't been to the ruins of hanging gardens in Italy (formerly Babylon)?
Load More Replies...Given that the origin of Lucifer is Latin for ‘light-bringing, morning star’ (i.e. enlightening) it's not surprising that the zombie cult considers it evil.
Tik Tok Commenters Never Fail To Baffle Me
Ma'am i'm going to have to ask you to move away from the camera
The Tiktok app won't actually start filming until they see the whites of your nostrils.
Load More Replies...????? No culture “invented” braids, they’ve been used by everyone throughout history
I'd say braids were invented the day after cavemen figured out knots
Load More Replies...Egypt must have been on the same plane as Mt. Everest. It's always nice to meet new land formations while emigrating.
No. Just go ahead. It's the only way some people learn.🙂
Load More Replies...There is nothing new. no one is appropriating anything. it's not that hard to figure out how to twist three strands of hair together. I'll braid my hair if I choose to.
If I had a dollar for every person I came across that didn’t realise Egypt is in Africa - I’d be driving a Ferrari, it seems to be a common one
But ... Egypt is in Africa (well, to be more accurate, it straddles Africa and Asia).
The Three Parts Of The U.S. Gov
Executive, judicial, and legislative. Right now I'm really questioning the judicial, the other two have always been in question.
I thought the three houses were the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.😜
Load More Replies...I wanted to see the parts where Red doubles down on their stupidity because too many people seem to not be able to admit they're wrong. Or they'll just ignore it or ad hominem attack. Aka right wing reply plan.
If u graduated 4th grade you should know this (if u live in the US)
Executive (President), Legislative (Congress, both houses), and Judicial (Supreme Court). Bet they’re clueless about checks and balances as well.
When I was in high school, I had to take a class called "civics" that went over this stuff. Clearly it is no longer required in schools. Maybe it should be.
Despite what I was taught in school, I've always that the actual three branches of the US government were Wall, Street, the Patriarchy, and Shitkickers For Jesus. This explains so many things that the standard trio don't.
aMen$ (I tried to combine them into one but I don’t think it worked out very well… Much like what’s happening in the U.S. - Oooo!)
Load More Replies...Who is betting even when the first guy follows the link and reads it, he'll think the person who wrote it is wrong
“Men Can’t Be Bisexual. As A Man, I Should Know”
Again, I don't think that word means what you think it means. Step up your wiki game.
Ah yes feminism. The true origin of bisexuality. I engaged in a bit too much feminism last year and caught a bit of bisexuality for a couple of weeks. Scary stuff.
Feminism makes you bi? Well, guess I'll have a big ol' coming out party then.
Oh, I am SURE this person doesn't know what feminism is 😂😂😂
Load More Replies...Damnit all my old bi men friends I can think of either transitioned or realised they weren't bi I can't make a smart a*s comment
But that's also fine. However those male friends didn't shy away from exploring their sexuality. Figuring that being Bi was not their flavor.
Load More Replies...Cuz of my username, I have to do this lol "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means..." ~Inigo Montoya
Commented On How Stars Move. This Is The Reaction I Got
I hereby summon Stardust! She knows her astronomy, she'll educate this person right quick XD
I’ve been summoned and the idiot in the post has absolutely no idea what they’re saying
Load More Replies...I just wish they'd colour code the name censoring so I could keep track of which dumbass was saying what :P
At this level of both idiocy AND confidence you cannot argue. You're simply wasting your own time..
Can be entertaining to kick the wheels and watch them spin, though. Like Emir said, I would love to hear this person describe the firmament and all the things that entails.
Load More Replies...Do you have to be a flat earther to think like this or just stupid or uneducated?
Flat Earther, stupid, and uneducated are synonyms.
Load More Replies...The downside to the Internet...the gullible gain confidence erroneously.
This Person Was So Sure Of Themselves. Some Star Wars Fans May Actually Envy Them For Only Being Aware Of The Original Trilogy…
i've never seen star wars and i don't know who natalie portman is but i know she's in it
Look sir, most of us fans try to convince ourselves the prequel triology never happened but it did. And she's in it.
She wasn't in Star Wars. She was in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. ;-) [I refuse to acknowledge those two movies are in the same universe as Star Wars.] And besides, that's Keira Knightly. (I'm not mistaking the two actresses, I'm building a conspiracy theory.)
I despair for the knowledge that seems to be leaking out of brains .
People like this blow me away.....do they not know Google can answer that? n
There are still some people who are in righteous denial of that nonsense Lucas put out with the frog alien and the weird child jedi-jesus thing.
How To Maths Good
I don't know but I think they're on a whole other level of cowculous.
Load More Replies...Algebra? I want more letters in my algebra... Oh, and I'd see 0,99999999999 as more or less 1.
I wonder how long this person would hold out if they were offered 0.99999999999999999999999 billion dollars? If they had any sense it would be 0.99999999999999999999999 nano seconds. :o)
"No One Has To Choose Between Death Or Insurmountable Medical Debt In The Us!"
I wonder why someone would rather risk death than spend the next 45 years of their life working to pay off a medical bill. Such a mystery. We will never know.
Not to mention potentially losing their home, if they even own home to begin with
Load More Replies...Read post entirely please. The reason but only half the cause. The other half of the cause is that those Americans pushing 'universal healthcare' are naively or calculatingly pushing only one model - single payer. And the reactionary element resisting the radical element is too stupid to realize there are so many other options that can keep privatized healthcare and provide healthcare for all. Basically, the US is dumb. As an American I should know :)
Load More Replies...I just can't understand why a 16 year old didn't use their city college degree to organize their finances better.
I too have refused medical attention because of no insurance. It was just a concussion but couldn't afford a $2000 ambulance or the minimum $1000 ER visit.
That is so sad. And something I (as European) can only imagine ...
Load More Replies...My grandparents had to sell their house and move to an RV park to pay for my grandfather's cancer treatment. To add insult to injury, he died 2 years later.
As someone who lives in the US I can confidently say that I would rather die than have to go into hospital debt, I already have enough debt from collage.
Number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the US in medical debt.
stupidity at its worst in the greedy US My parents lost their home due to medical debt even when making monthly (on time) payments for years the hospital deemed they weren't paying enough fast enough tell me again how this doesnt happen in the precious US??? STFU with your ignorance
Trees Can't Smell! They Don't Have Noses
No, no... This is emitting the odor of fish.
Load More Replies...Trees have been observed to smell chemical signals that were given off by nearby trees in distress. They take in air through their stomata, and can detect some chemicals in that air. Indeed, it can even be said that every living being on this Earth, even single celled ones, can communicate using the sense of smell. Noses are only a way of stopping cell membranes from drying out, thus ensuring chemical transfer between the air and the cells lining the nose. Other organisms (Eg. Fish and insects, but also plants) have other ways of keeping cell surfaces moist.
Thank you. Reading that conversation, without mention that the entire reason that trees emit an odour is to warn the other trees that there is a threat in the area; made my head hurt even more.
Load More Replies...Danial Webster is famously quoted as replying to a woman who said, "Sir, you smell! No, Ma'am, I stink, you smell."
So...just pick the definition that suits ur argument and ignore the rest listed then? That's what we r doing now?
Leave The Pajamas Out Of It!!
The X represents the Greek letter Chi, which is where the word Christ actually originated from. It is not "crossing Christ out" as some people seem to think.
Wait. . . Hold up. That's why some people make it a big deal?? They think it's a way of negating the Christ part? I'm a Christian, so's most of my family and friends. (But we aren't the crazy type. We'll, except for the one aunt, but we love her anyway.) Noone I know has a problem with Xmas and understands the X represents Christ. I thought people had a problem with in the same way some religions will write G-d instead of God, only in reverse. You have blown my mind and educated me. Thanks!
Load More Replies...Xmas, to me, means Xtra spending, Xtra eating, Xtra drinking and being Xtra broke. 🙃
This one bugs me so much. X has been used as a Christian symbol and to represent Christ from the earliest days of Christianity, and maybe predates the idea of Christmas itself (certainly the idea that Jesus was born on 25 December). People will object to Xmas but proudly put a fish symbol on their car. Grr!
I had a friend whose mother named him "Xopher" instead of Christopher. I called him Chris but others called him "X".
Others might not but I feel like that’s a really cool way to spell it, though I keep reading it’s Zopher
Load More Replies...I was surprised to find out recently that the use of Xmas for Christmas dates back at least to 1935. It's not nearly as recent an invention as I thought.
You might be even more surprised when you find out it was used in the 16th century
Load More Replies...Oldass example from someone who's late for work!: X on a doc to show where signature goes. But why? Before common literacy, people still had to make their mark, even if they couldn't spell their name. People frequently used X for the same reason people use it for the same reason as Xmas. As Strawberry Pizza said, X=Christ. Similar correlation: criss-cross
According To This Person, Plants Don't Produce Oxygen
When did the plants go on strike? I missed that news flash.
Just recently, in support of the WGA/SAG-AFTRA walk-out.
Load More Replies...If you asked him which plants don't produce oxygen, he'd reply, "Well, manufacturing plants obviously!"
Pho-to-syn-the-sis. I know it might be a little bit of a long word for your smooth brain to process...
W is correct, if you're still using the two-fold phylogeny, from which "plant" gets its literal meaning. Traditionally, "plant" referred to any sessile organism. In newer phylogenies, there's an attempt to group things into "clades," so that no one type of organism gave rise to both other organisms of the same type, and to organisms not of the same type. This makes the use of English words to describe such clades virtually impossible, as not only are "jellyfish" and "starfish" no longer "fish," but neither are lungfish or sharks. And yes, "chickens" are "feathered dinosaurs."
I- I just can’t believe the level of stupidity in this post right now 😅
Congratulations. You now officially graduated from Walmart bag high school (sorry @ 𖤐 a m y 𖤐 I had to do it 😭)
Guy Has Never Heard Of Fire
Before electricity, you had to rub the tea leaves together really fast
No, no. Documented evidence shows that rubbing tea leaves together was a myth. They used to hold their cups of tea in front of the village idiot while he blew hot air.
Load More Replies...I mean, in a modern home with no fireplace or fire pit you probably couldn't. Or it would be unreasonably dangerous.
Thats the beautiful thing about natural gas.. When my power goes out I can still cook on my range and take a hot shower thanks to my gas water heater.
He is right, you know. Electricity is a major component of tea; not the tea-making process, no... tea! Oh, tea the American way, I should add.
I Think One Or Two Irish People May Disagree With You Mate
Yeah, Ireland isn't a gender, it's a type of drink.
Load More Replies...The Irish literally fought for their independence. So from my entire country. Don't call us the UK.
There was this YouTube video, can't find it now. "Literally any Irish folk song: Oh Dilly-dilly-dilly, oh dilly-dilly-dee, kill a f*****g English man and throw him in the sea".
Load More Replies...This is, geographically, culturally and historically... bullsh*t of the finest caliber
A metric s**t-tonne/f**k-tonne of complete and utter b******t, seems appropriate if you need to reference it in terms of weight, or amount.
Load More Replies...Im not irish and agree. Also want to offer you my help with disposing of the trash.
Load More Replies...Nothing formerly about it. Holland is part of the Netherlands.
Load More Replies...A few years ago, I was talking to a fellow I found very appealing, and he said he’s from Rotterdam, and have I ever been? I said no, that the closest I’d been was Holland. He looked as if I’d struck him with a wet fish, and I didn’t know why. Later on, I twigged to what I’d said and desperately wished I could find him to explain that I’d had a momentary blip in my brain, but I never saw him again. Don’t blame him one bit. I’m STILL wincing about having said that!
You're almost right. Deutschland is one of the Gers. There are many Gers that make up Germany - hence the name. Nobody need to argue with me on this. I double checked the math.
Load More Replies...Vertical Distance And Horizontal Distance Are Hard Concepts
I want to see 5280 feet on one animal! Ok, not really, but a shoe-salesperson might.
Nothing wrong with the original post. 2000 ft is the vertical distance. 1 mile is the length of the slope. Implying an angle to the gradient of about 22 degrees
Right on. If each step averages 1.9075 ft from front to back a climber would traverse a mile. If each step is 8.6705 inches vertical than the initial statement is still true. However here is more information about the Manitou Incline: Length: About .9 mile / 1.4 km (plus nearly 3 miles / 4.8 km down Barr Trail) Elevation Gain: 2,020 ft / 615 m Base Elevation: 6,530 ft / 2012 m Summit Elevation: 8,550 ft / 2606 m Average Grade: 41% Steepest Grade: 68%
Load More Replies...The trail is a mile long with a 2,000 foot climb in elevation. The original post is completely correct.
It’s on the list because of the reply, not the original comment.
Load More Replies...The response indicates a lack of understanding. To rephrase the original post; There are 2768 stairs, which climb 2000 vertical feet over the distance of a mile. I've been there.
“Google Is Your Friend”
My mom said it's my turn to date Pete Davidson, but I don't wanna. 😭
Load More Replies...I'd like to know the context they're using barbarity and sadism in. While the two words do mean different things you could them interchangeably in some situations. If you're treating a person barbarically you could probably substitute sadistically in the same situation.
Barbarism can be just primitive, while sadism is the liking to cause harm to others. Not necessarily synonyms.
A Story About Rhesus Negative, Apes And Covid Jabs
Oh yes I remember standing in that long line in 1960 to get my Monkey vaccine in a sugar cube. Started loving bananas that day.
I used to be a wolf, until they infected me with ape blood. I didn't even get a sugar cube. :(
Load More Replies...Those damn Rhesus monkeys going around with syringes of their DNA, jabbing people. It's quite an epidemic, you know /s
Is someone mistaking the Rhesus factor in blood typing as having some connection to Rhesus Macaque monkeys?
It does somewhat have a relation besides macaque blood being used in its discovery. At least all vertebrales have the RH group genes. Monkeys, being somewhat closely related to humas have less genetic difference, including RH proteins.
Load More Replies...Just using percentages you make up does not make things actual facts...
How can you possibly be this dumb and still live? Must be the monkey blood! :)
Oops. But nobody saw me do it & you can't prove anything.
Load More Replies...If You’re Gonna Be A Pedantic A*s, Be A Correct Pedantic A*s. Otherwise You’re Just An A*s
Ohhh THAT Bush, I thought they meant the US president lmao
Load More Replies...He didn't even get that right. It's supposed to be "Pïss up a rope, fückstick."
Load More Replies...“P**s up a rope”. Never heard that one before. But wouldn’t you just end up pissing on yourself if you pissed up a rope?
Some of these postings were Europe vs the US which I am tired of seeing.
Big Brain Moment /S
42 making the sister the answer to life, the universe and everything
We are so far down the list that the logic stopped logicing
Urdu Is Not A Language
Urdu speaker here. Tell me one word of English that is original. Fun fact, the English word pajama/pyjama comes from Urdu, which in turn takes it from the Farsi words of “pi” (leg) and “jama” (cloth)
English also nabbed veranda and bungalow from you as well!
Load More Replies...ALL WORDS ARE MADE UP!! It doesn’t matter the language. People made up the words. No language is pure
Please stop using any language until you realize that languages are pretty much combinations of languages
That’s Where Dairy Comes From
Every time I try to milk a cow, I get muscle tissue just squirting out the teats.
A vision I didn’t think I would ever picture so thanks for that 🤣
Load More Replies...This whole list is making me dumber by the second. I need to stop reading.
Load More Replies..."Awfully Close"
Careful I think this level of confident stupidity may be contagious, and the health workers are going on strike
Load More Replies...Depending on the number of people in the poll, the difference between 60% and 50% may not be statistically significant. Learn a lot of statistics, folks, and ALWAYS state how many people were polled. A very rough guide is that the number of people in in the poll has to be the inverse square of the difference in percentages. So on this case you'd need to poll about 100 patients to confirm that the results are different from 50%. Did the poll include 100 patients? Pigs ar*e it did.
It’s Not Trespassing If It’s Public Land, Right???(/S)
I'll admit. I just googled "blm land". Bureau of land management. For a second I was really worried they'd come up with a new and exciting way of being racist.
Tell me you don't live in the west without telling me you don't live in the west. BLM owns a whole lotta land out here that people work on, do recreation on, lease, hunt, fish and otherwise use. If it is leased to someone for a specific purpose, sometimes you can be charged with tresspassing. Pages and pages of rules and regulations on use.
Load More Replies...Then I plan to take a stroll into a piece of public land called Fort Knox. I hear they have just piles of souveniers there for the taking by the public.
From A Post Mocking Someone For Calling A “Frog” An Animal With 3 Letters On Family Fued
A startlingly large number of people don't know the difference between an "animal" and a "mammal". A major flaw in our education system.
Oh wow... I had a friend who believed the exact same thing - well she mixed up mammals and animals and insisted birds and fish were not animals but birds and fish... and she got super angry/triggered when I tried to tell her that she was wrong. I never thought there were more like that out there!
Pregnancy Cures Autism, As Explained By This Intellectual
Yup, it's called pregnancy brain. "Damn where did I leave my keys, c**p lost my autism again ..."
That's the way it feels when the autism is crawling out
Load More Replies...So I just need to get pregnant and be cured? As a cis male, that shouldn't be too difficult...
I See This View Way Too Often
I tried that once, I got the response that you can't use per capita statistics as the US has more people, I gave up at that point.
Yes unfortunalty 'per capita' would not apply here because people's heads are statistically smaller in circumference in the UK compared to the US so the results would not show a proper rendition of population size - lol isn't it a frustrating experience to argue with people who don't understand the basic structure of argumentation, let alone the point being debated.
Load More Replies...Their Reply Wasn't Even Grammatically Correct
The Real Meaning Of The Word Sir !!
Where do they come up with this stuff? "Sir" derives from the honorific title sire; "sire" developed alongside the word "seigneur," also used to refer to a feudal lord.
to much time with your own thoughts? And if I think it, it musts bee true?
Load More Replies...Now they're just making things up! Can I start creating my own "facts" as well?
No genius, it was derived from "sire", an honorific title and was first used in England in the 1200s. But nice try.
Fun fact, in Italian "sire" (pronounced see-reh) is a title used to call kings. Like, "Sire, could you not have my husband decapitated, thank you so much"
Load More Replies...And cheese is a way of separating the good genetics from the impure and intolerant. Let's see what else we can twist to fit our agenda! Ooh, the bible hasn't been rewritten in a while!
Ciao comes from the venetian "sciao, sciavo", literally "slave", implying "I'm a slave for you, I'm your slave".
Sunshine Wants To Stay In The Dark. (This Is My Post, Can Confirm Facts)
thats one of the reasons the franklin expedition to find the north west passage through the artic failed. the Innuit told them not to eat the polar bear livers but the far more inteligent english lord didn't believe them and many of the crew died. they started eating polar bear because the tinned foods they took with them had been sealed with lead which sent many of the men insane. on the few human remains found there have been tool marks on the bones which is an indicator of cannablism. the doctor who found this out was vilified by the uk government because an english gentleman would never resprt to cannablism. Dr John Ray was correct, but he still is pretty unknown among explorers but he is the main source for early contact with the canadian innuit and learned much from them before even starting his adventures
Dude. I worked vitamins/supplements for almost three years. I'm no expert, but I did a LOT of research so I didn't sound like a moron at work/when recommending products. You absolutely CAN get vitamin toxicity. The so-called "fat-soluble" vitamins (A, D, E, K) CAN cause damage and even death if you overdose on them, because they get deposited in our fat deposits for long-term use. If you take even SLIGHTLY too-high doses of some of the fat-soluble vitamins, hypervitaminosis can happen rapidly. Sun, in the above conversation, is a moron.
Never ever eat the liver of a carnivore - that includes human livers. The symptoms of hypervitaminosis A are not very nice to put it mildly.
I just can’t bring myself to eat liver because its actual function grosses me out. Not for any other reason. Just personal preference, and revulsion. Anyone who loves liver, go ahead, and eat all you want. Power on. If they’re passing out plates of liver, you can have my portion. Enjoy. You do you, and I’ll do me. Me ain’t eating liver, period.
Load More Replies...I remember in high school, this girl was eating flinstone vitamins, like candy. I warned her, you can get sick eating a lot of vitamins. She told me, that isn't true. Half an hour later, she mentioned to me that she felt sick. I just looked at her and she said, it has nothing to do with that.......IIRC, i think the problem was the iron, in vitamins.
Casinos Hate This One Weird Trick!
In fairness to the moron, everyone who visits a Casino is a moron. If they weren't, then they wouldn't be in there in the first place.
Load More Replies...If a coin came up heads 50 times in a row, I would bet for it to come up heads the next time. Because I would suspect that it was not an evenly balanced coin. It is true that each flip does not affect the next one. But each flip gives you information about the fairness of the coin. If a roulette wheel comes up black a significantly disproportion amount of the time, you have to consider the possibility that the wheel is rigged. [You may be amazed to learn that this has actually occurred.)
Fluid Dynamics Is Hard
Speaking as a fluid dynamics researcher, I just want to say ... Pmsl.
This Guy Thinks He Knows More Than The Dubbing Actor Of Goku In Spanish
This looks extremely fake. The paragraphs of text seem photoshopped - they aren't in the usual Twitter font, they're sharper than the rest of the picture, and the topmost one is too far to the right if you check near the username
They were translated from their original language. That always looks funny.
Load More Replies...Mario says the original Japanese audio in an original Japanese cartoon isn’t dubbing. Other person says Mario is dumb for thinking it isn’t dubbing. Mario replies with definition of dubbing to prove himself correct.
Load More Replies...A Little American-Style Socialism Math With Your Morning Coffee
They look at the highest tax bracket and think that applies to *everything* you earn. Here in Australia, even the highest tax bracket will pay only 2% of their taxable income towards Medicare (the NHS).
Load More Replies...By adding up the average for my state, with the cheapest options in each category, the best I came up with was 250,000 for what he's talking about, not counting books, board, copays, out of pocket etc. And if they go out of state or to private school, you can triple or quadruple that. Add anything above a BA and triple THAT. Get a medical emergency and there's no feasible way to determine the cost whatsoever. This post is delusional.
We pay around 20% in taxes in the UK and have universal health care, education etc
Is that for the highest tax bracket? Even then you wouldn't be paying 35% on ALL of your taxable income. Only the amount that is in that bracket.
Load More Replies...Racism Was Invented By Black People
Nah, he's always been a cracker but with this post, he's gone CRACKERS me thinks XP
Load More Replies...Someone just euthanize this person already. They're using up too much oxygen on the planet despite not having a brain in their head.
No. Racism and all the other -isms have always existed, as there has always been a fear of the unknown “other”, and we tend to fear the unknown and lash out at what we fear. We also dehumanize anyone we think of as the “them” to our “us”. Racism just got a huge boost when Christian dogma taught people that light was good and dark was evil. You know it wasn’t long before the colonialist powers jumped on that concept and simply applied it to skin color, thereby dehumanizing indigenous people in places the colonialists wanted to take over and drain of its resources. The darker skin “others” were looked upon as less than human, ignorant, sinful, and in need of “saving” from their “evil ways”—-enter the missionaries and their abuses, and even more colonizers who relegated indigenous people to second class citizen status. That’s the baked-in attitude that too many white people just cannot let the f**k go off. We are more alike than we’re different, ffs.
As a white chick that had never had to personally deal with racism, I can assure you that racism has existed ever since the first Homo Sapien smacked a Neanderthal upside the head with a stick
“Bryan Cranston In Breaking Bad Should Have Won An Oscar”
I want to win an Oscar just for existing. Or a Nobel prize, I don't mind. I'm not fussy 😄
Wait til they hear about someone who achieves winning EGOT. (If you know, you know.)
Or, if you need to know after reading your comment, you look it up 😅
Load More Replies...Cranston was so good that they should just change the rules of the Oscars, just so that he can get one.
He'll still always be Hal, after Malcolm asked for rollerblades.
Load More Replies...White Christmas Women Always Come Up With The Wildest Conspiracy
Bro thats an og joke not a satanic message. I’m a Christian and that is funny.
The reverse is the dyslexic devil worshipper who sold his soul to Santa.
Load More Replies...And where in the Bible do you have Santa? I love it when Christians get their nickers in a twist over other people's holidays, only to turn around and celebrate their god with an easter egg hunt (curtesy of Ostara, the goddess of love and fertility)...
Wait til they hear about the Roman and Pagan festivals and gods/goddesses, and their connections to Christian religions. Saturnalia and Christmas, Liberalia and both Catholic Confirmation and Jewish bar/bat mitzvah, Easter and Eostre, the Roman goddess of spring. Oh, and Santa is derived from Saint Nicholas, who was a Turkish Bishop known for his great kindness which is why he was sainted, and who morphed into Sinterklaas. Father Christmas, Père Nöel, Kris Kringle, and Santa Claus, and other incarnations, depending on where you’re from and what time period you lived in.
Load More Replies...Satan... Santa... we never see them together at the same time, either!
The screen shot was a comedic moment, went straight over the OPs head
Load More Replies..."The Sun Has No Power In The Winter."
If the sun has no power when it’s cold, then why do people risk snow blindness if they don’t shade their eyes when skiing, walking, or whatever on snow when the sun is bright in the sky? Why do some people ski on bright sunny days while wearing bathing suits and other warm weather clothing if the sunshine reflecting off the snow doesn’t generate enough heat to feel warm, but not melt the snow? Then there’s the light the sun gives off all year round. Hell, even in Alaska when it’s dark in winter, there are still a couple hours of light during the day, though the sun stays low on the horizon during those hours—-then they have midnight sun all summer. And let’s not forget the effect of solar flares and sunspots on the Earth. Heat is not the only power the sun has.
I live in New England where it gets quite cold in the winter. My municipal electric company generates quite a bit of its own power from our community solar farm. We never run short...lol.
When will they learn solar power comes from UV radiation and not heat?
I wouldn't hold your breath while waiting for it...
Load More Replies...Someone's Never Seen My Cousin Vinny
Yep it's all trial by combat over here. That's why we need all the guns.
LOL! Be careful or people outside the US will totally believe you. They seem to think we all live in the 18th century Wild West. :)
Load More Replies...Why Aren't All Apes Turning Into Humans? Take That, Leftists!
Red Just Can’t Get Passed This,
Back in the day, when we were kids, I would try to correct one of my brothers on this kind of thing. Since it was before Google, I'd hand him a dictionary. Then he'd respond, "It doesn't say that," and walk out of the room. It was stupid coming from a 12-year-old boy. It's beyond assinine coming from a grownup.
After telling the OED it had got English wrong, Red went on to lecture NASA on how the moon landings were faked, then wrote a letter to the Pope telling him he was Catholicking wrong.
“Gay People Have Always Been Accepted In America”
Ah yes. So nice to live in a country where everyone from the LGBTQ community has always been seen as equal and don't have their rights stripped away on an almost daily basis. Oh, wait...😭😭😭
Of course not. The LGBTQ Community has always been “equal”. They’ve never had their rights stripped away, never been gay-bashed, never been fired, never been shunned, never been committed to mental institutions, never been sent to be tortured at conversion camps, and never been sent to prison simply because their sexuality was considered immoral/unnatural/ILLEGAL at the time. Sure. None of that ever happened. Uh-huh. Right.
Load More Replies...Florida not only can’t spell “gay”, it doesn’t even know where it would fit in any sentence in the memo. DeSantis probably wiped his putrid a*s with it.
Load More Replies...Matthew Shepard, Harvey Milk, and countless others would like a word.
I do remember joining the Army when there was the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. 🤔
On A Post About The Columbus Blue Jackets Hockey Team. Dumbo Isn’t Listening
Ah yes, who could forget about those famous redcoat Union soldiers? Who needs standardized education🤦♀️
We need to ask this person when the War of 1812 was fought, and see if they know the answer. (I wouldn’t put any of my money on them knowing it.)
Load More Replies...Well, there were units from certain Native tribes fighting on the Confederate side.
Load More Replies...Well, both sides had branches that used blue (infantry, Confederate marines) or red (artillery, ordnance) trim, and some wore more ornamental red (e.g. certain Zouave units). But wrong stays wrong.
Because of its states'rights rhetoric, the Confederacy had trouble standardizing its military. Units were raised by state governments, and those governents picked any color of uniform they pleased at first. Some blue-clad Southern units changed the color of their uniforms because they got tired of being shot at by their own side.
Load More Replies..."Bimbo" Is Derived From An Antiblack German Slur And Doesn't Mean Anything Different In Italian
It´s true that "Bimbo" was or is used as an anti-black slur in German. How that should negate the fact, that is also a diminuative for child in Italian is beyond me.
Didn't know this, I always thought it was a woman with loose morals. Love learning something new everyday
Load More Replies...I hate these kinds of passive-aggressive PSAs. Tumblr is notorious for them. Every single one is formatted like "hi!! friendly reminder that (normal, genuinely not offensive word) is actually SUPER OFFENSIVE and a SLUR and if you ever use it I'm going to hunt you down and siphon your brains out through your nose with a Crazy Straw!! You are a disgusting human being :)) check your ism"
Well, "curva" in Italian means "curve", but in Romanian is a slur. Same sounding words can have different meaning in different languages, you know... Another example: the Swedish word "Fika"... In Italian there's a word that sounds exactly the same, only spelled with a C, instead of a K, and the meaning is ehm very different.
Rambo is a slur meaning a sheep that sleeps around.
Load More Replies...Maybe OP ought to refer to themselves as Dumbo instead...? On second thought, nevermind. I'd rather you not insult the cute baby elephant...
9 Billion People On Earth. Huh
Sweet baby Jesus - can you imagine this planet if there were 83 billion people?!?
I had to look it up, one of the meanings is 'at this point' and that one makes sense in this picture, so I guess it's that one.
Load More Replies...About A Survey That Finds Most People Don't Care About Beer Companies Associating With Trans Woman
Dude, 4k+ participants in a study is freaking amazing! I wish I had those numbers
I have no idea what your study is for; however, I will gladly volunteer nonetheless.
Load More Replies...I would like to know how the pollsters compiled their list of random people that by the book Scientific Method requires you to sample from. Considering the outcome, I highly doubt those 4401 people were a truly random sample, as the vast majority of the population really couldn’t give a fat rat’s a*s if a beer wants to expand its sales by appealing to a new demographic. Hell, more power to them if they actually succeed in attracting an entire new segment of the population to start drinking their beer.
Survey companies do go to a great deal of trouble to obtain truly random samples. It is essential to their jobs, and they would be quickly out of business if they didn’t produce reliable and reproducible results. I don’t know how you arrived at your claim about what the population gives a rat’s a*s about. Did you take a survey?
Load More Replies...I wonder how many responses he would feel sufficient for a survey result he approved of.. (Probably after he ran out of fingersxand toes, he'd say "Well, I'm sure that's enough!]
My Local News Station Published An Article Stating That 167 Swimming Pools Have The Same Amount Of Water As… The Atlantic Ocean. The Literal Ocean 🤦🏻♂️
Nice. They did the math to get their answer. But this is a perfect example of starting with an invalid assumption yielding an invalid answer. Actually, the Atlantic Ocean holds 8.2 x 10 (followed by 19 zeros) gallons of water).
I'm waiting to find out how much it costs to chlorinate the ocean,167 times
Just slipped up on the decimal point. Easy to do.
Load More Replies...The Restaurant Listed Their Hours As 11am To 12pm
12hr is midday making it 12pm. 24hr is midnight or 12am. It's a tricky bit of the clock that even though it is the 24th hour it is represented as 00:00 and consider the following day
The first second of the noon minute is meridiem, though. It literally means "midday". The other 59 seconds of the noon minute can't possible be before the meridiem, which just happened a second ago, therefore noon must be PM.
I positively hate people whe refer to 12 am and 12 pm. No it's not, it's midday or midnight.
Hate to break it to you, but those aren't mutually exclusive terms. 12am is midnight, and 12pm is midday/noon. They are both things, not "only" midday or midnight.
Load More Replies...Just Saying
The PH of your blood is pretty specific, significant changes in your blood PH can straight up kill you.
Yes, blood is highly buffered, making the pH stay constant. It is deadly when the pH changed.
Load More Replies...Yea, well, that turns out not to be true. On the pH scale, acids are defined as having a pH of less than 7 (low pH). Just saying.
thanks fore using the right spelling (pH)! talkes about pH but don't know how to wright it..
Load More Replies...(No Idea If This Is A Repost, Found On Instagram)
One doesn't have to be American to understand that melanin is a pigment occurring in the hair, skin, and iris of the eye in people and animals. Melatonin is a hormone that your brain produces in response to darkness. It helps with the timing of your circadian rhythms (24-hour internal clock).
Which is why Melatonin is sold as an OTC sleep aid.
Load More Replies...Aha! So Americans aren’t the only dummies in the world! Wonder where this person is from, since they couldn’t resist dissing someone for being American. Anyone can be stupid, which carries connotations of being incapable of learning, or merely uninformed, which means able to learn. To be brutally honest, long ago I decided there are really only two kinds of people in the whole world. Nice people and a******s. A******s can sometimes be nice, and nice people can sometimes be a******s, but we’re all one or the other—-and we can’t choose which one. It’s up to other people to decide which we are. I can try to be a nice person, but I suspect I’m actually an a*****e.
You're not American, but you're wrong. Melanin is the pigment in your skin; melatonin makes you sleepy. Sincerely, an American who's bloody tired of the xenophobia exhibited by people who would lose their shît if such behavior was aimed at them.
I Guess Compasses In The Southern Hemisphere Point South Now
Did you know, compasses have to be tuned for a specific latitude. If you change your latitude too much then it will stop working. In one hemisphere, the north pointing needle has to be heavier, in the other hemisphere the south pointing needle has to be heavier. To compensate for the dip in magnetic field lines into the Earth which is opposite in the other hemisphere.
On A Review For A Moisturizer
I looked up the word "pilling". It is a British term for "peeling". I had never seen the word before.
I don't know what the comment/review refers to, but I think of pilling as something fabrics do (looking at you, previously comfy sweatpants that have been washed too many times.) I can't make either term make much sense referring to what the moisturizer does.
Load More Replies...Confidently Incorrect... But Understanbly So
Yep. Here are the calculations: 7,500 x 5,000,000 = 37,500,000,000, and 44,000,000,000 / 7500 = 5866666.66667. So yeah, he could’ve given 7500 employees a cool 5 million each, and had 6.5 billion left over.
Load More Replies...Today I Learned That Witcher 3 Isn't An Rpg Because "You Can't Make Your Own Character"
The trouble with RPG as a genre is that the edges are *really* fuzzy. Some things are definitely RPGs, some things definitely aren't, but there's a whole grey area between those two where it's harder to be sure. I'd argue that Witcher 3 is less of an RPG than Witcher 1, and both are less of an RPG than Baldur's Gate, but how about something like Tom Clancy's The Division? It's got a well developed narrative and lots of stat-based character development so it definitely has RPG elements; to me it doesn't "feel" like an RPG but I would also not argue with anyone who considers it part of the genre.
Load More Replies...As someone who has been playing video games for more than 30 years I can tell you.... stfu
The sad part is more and more of these morons are going out into the world thanks to America's terrible education, especially here in the south. My city is planning on spending 2 billion dollars on an upgrade to the football stadium while I can't find a non private school for my middle schooler that isn't a F school.
Right now in Florida middle school students are to be taught that slaves, in a way, had been taught life skills while enslaved.
Load More Replies...Most of these people are lost causes. There is no arguing or reasoning with stupid. Hallmarks of intelligence are considering new information, critical thinking, research, admitting when you don't know something and the willingness to learn. Some people just cannot be helped.
Felt like when I once read way too long about what Mr. Trump did or said, wanted to stop but somehow couldn´t ...
I'm delighted that almost all of these are real examples of moronic thought, rather than just a minor brain malfunction or just an unpopular viewpoint.
The sad part is more and more of these morons are going out into the world thanks to America's terrible education, especially here in the south. My city is planning on spending 2 billion dollars on an upgrade to the football stadium while I can't find a non private school for my middle schooler that isn't a F school.
Right now in Florida middle school students are to be taught that slaves, in a way, had been taught life skills while enslaved.
Load More Replies...Most of these people are lost causes. There is no arguing or reasoning with stupid. Hallmarks of intelligence are considering new information, critical thinking, research, admitting when you don't know something and the willingness to learn. Some people just cannot be helped.
Felt like when I once read way too long about what Mr. Trump did or said, wanted to stop but somehow couldn´t ...
I'm delighted that almost all of these are real examples of moronic thought, rather than just a minor brain malfunction or just an unpopular viewpoint.
