Bigger myth: every time we turn a guy down for sex, we experence multiple orgasms, not technically true.The biggest urban myth: The female orgasm.
Idiotic urban myths
- Thread starter Mary Ann
- Start date
That must have been a pretty old secret experimental model, since all production cars have had electronic fuel injection for the past 25 years or so.I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the experimental carburetor that will allow a 5000 pound car to achieve 40 miles per gallon of gasoline. It seems like everyone has a friend of a friend of a friend's uncle who bought a new car and was mistakenly given the secret experimental model with the magic carburetor!
I've heard it'll make you go insane.The old “pleasuring yourself” will make you go blund.
It may not make you go blind, but I hear it might make you make spelling mistakes.
In that case, I'll just do it till I need a shrink.
I've never encountered a railroad crossing that didn't have the tops of the rails flush with the road surface. And don't RR crossings have flashing lights, warning bells, and automatic gates where you live?
Last edited:
I saw a bumper sticker that said "it takes a train 10 seconds to go through a crossing whether your car's in it or not"
The old "pleasuring yourself" will make you go blund.
It may not make you go blind, but I hear it might make you make spelling mistakes.
Who siad that!!!, come out into the light so i cen saw you.
Eye strain, sure. Trouble with eyes from not blinking? Sure. So maybe some decreased vision requiring glasses, cataracts, or things like that. Sure.
But blindness? I don't buy it and I personally have never seen any studies or information to support that sitting too close to the TV causes blindness. Strain and problems from being there too long, not blikning and stuff like that? Sure. But blindness? Nope.
Infact, here: LINK
- From HERE.
HERE
HERE
So, it seems, that for the most part it was once "true" because TVs in the '50s emitted freaking x-rays but it seems that's not been a problem for close to 40 years, or for the most part everytime I've ever been told this growing up it was wrong.
A friend of mine is convinced he can get rid of his shortsightedness by training the muscles in his eyes. I'd file that under "idiotic myths" too.
In Germany, there's one that says you can drink beer and then wine, but not the other way around, because that would make you sick.
...which is stupid and just not true. It's irrelevant in what order you drink beer and wine; if you drink too much, you'll get sick either way- if you don't, you'll be fine no matter what you drink first.
I heard that one for the first time when I first came to Germany a few years back (so I've got no idea whether it's an international urban myth).
No matter how many times the thing gets disproven on the telly, radio and whathaveyou, people are reluctant to let it go. It's annoying.
...which is stupid and just not true. It's irrelevant in what order you drink beer and wine; if you drink too much, you'll get sick either way- if you don't, you'll be fine no matter what you drink first.
I heard that one for the first time when I first came to Germany a few years back (so I've got no idea whether it's an international urban myth).
No matter how many times the thing gets disproven on the telly, radio and whathaveyou, people are reluctant to let it go. It's annoying.
This is based on an old saying about social classes, wine being an upper class drink and beer being the drink for the lower classes. So, it's good to climb up from beer to wine, the other way around, not so much.
Huh. It seems to be the other way around here. Mythbusters even did an episode based on the phrase: "Liquor then beer, in the clear. Beer then liquor, never sicker."
Of course, I'm equating liquor with wine, which some people might not. I don't drink, so it doesn't really matter to me.
Of course, I'm equating liquor with wine, which some people might not. I don't drink, so it doesn't really matter to me.
The lights and bells are standard. Gates seem to be less common, particularly on smaller roads. Regardless, however, I've seen all of those systems malfunctioning often enough (usually active for no reason rather than the opposite, to be fair) to be weary.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
The cats thing may not be true, but the dog one sure is here, and in Korea and Mainland China.
Here's one that some people will come along and say that I'm wrong and it's true: that sugar gives kids a rush and makes them act hyper.
You look it up. I'm not doing it again.
Here's one that some people will come along and say that I'm wrong and it's true: that sugar gives kids a rush and makes them act hyper.
You look it up. I'm not doing it again.
Not so much. The rail road crossing on the block I grew up on just has a wooden X-shaped sign that says "railroad crossing," no lights, no bells, no cool arm things that lower down. With the trees on either side of the road, if you were going faster than say 25 as you approached the tracks, you wouldn't be able to stop in time if you saw a train coming as soon as the trees allowed you to see it.
When I was in Japan dog was on the menu, cat too but less.
This one drives me batshit crazy:
"Never buy a <insert item here> made on a Monday or a Friday."
People are particularly fond of using this for automobile purchases with this false assumption that workers are hungover on Mondays and too worried about getting off work Friday thereby ignoring quality control. Hey, dumbasses -- there's no "born on date" for cars that denotes what day of the week the car was made. Most items come with a Month/Year date of manufacture.
"Never buy a <insert item here> made on a Monday or a Friday."
People are particularly fond of using this for automobile purchases with this false assumption that workers are hungover on Mondays and too worried about getting off work Friday thereby ignoring quality control. Hey, dumbasses -- there's no "born on date" for cars that denotes what day of the week the car was made. Most items come with a Month/Year date of manufacture.
Stupid bullshit about "all odd numbered Trek movies suck". 
Probably bindun but I missed out the middle pages 
Different areas of your tongue are for different tastes. That one is probably one of the most enduring biological myths and is still taught in primary school the world over - generations have now grown up utterly convinced they can taste 'sweet' better with the tip of their tongue, etc. A German scientist published an thoroughly debunked paper about it in 1901 and we've been learning it ever since.
Different areas of your tongue are for different tastes. That one is probably one of the most enduring biological myths and is still taught in primary school the world over - generations have now grown up utterly convinced they can taste 'sweet' better with the tip of their tongue, etc. A German scientist published an thoroughly debunked paper about it in 1901 and we've been learning it ever since.
Even more idiotic myth: the thing about vaccines and autism. That's also been thoroughly debunked, yet some ignorant sheeple still believe it. And diseases flourish because of it. 
