No, that's not true.

[Kibbin]

That's how it was told to me, they put their hand int he shape, told me to copy an thent old me to lift my fingers and thmub in roughly that order, of course you don't know what they are talking about and cockily lift each one up till you get to the ring finger and then the other person gets to laugh at you'r puzzeled expression.

It’s all to do with the lack of muscles in the hand itself and how it’s all controlled through the wrist. There is a pressure spot on the wrist that when pressed can cause fingers to clench and what not but its hard to find and activate when conscious about it as it’s not that strong or anything.

I like it because it’s like the whole licking you’re elbow thing, when you tell people they always have to try it for themselves

 

[Nardpuncher]

Last year I brought up at work that the sugar rush is a myth.

It is absolutely not a myth. I still get sugar rushes as an adult.

And thus we come back to the thread title.

There's no sugar rush. It's just food in your blood. It may get there earlier and easier than protein and/or fat or slower burning carbs, but there's nothing to make you hyper. Maybe I'll google stuff later.

 

[RoJoHen]

It may get there earlier and easier than protein and/or fat or slower burning carbs,

But that's exactly why it does give you a rush, assuming you have enough of it.

Although maybe your idea of "rush" and mine are different, but I definitely get a lot of energy when I consume a large amount of sugar in a short period of time. You should have seen me the night I ate 12 cupcakes in 5 minutes...I was running around like a maniac!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Anybody who doesn't believe in sugar rush hasn't met my Niece.

I just thought of an argument that I had with my Uncle Joe when I was a kid-- one of many. He's one of these religious types who only believes in things that don't have proof. When I said something about people being mammals, he informed me that we're not mammals-- we're "manimals."

Come to think of it, he also didn't believe that fish are animals.

 

[K-Star]

My dad's colorblind, and we were playing Cranium. The dice landed purple side up and he insisted it was blue. He KNOWS he's colorblind. We TOLD him it was purple. He refused to believe us and went off into a rage about it. Made me and my little brother cry (I think I was in jr high at the time, which means my bro would've been in 5th grade at least).

We don't play Cranium anymore...

 

[Miss Chicken]

Anybody who doesn't believe in sugar rush hasn't met my Niece.

I just thought of an argument that I had with my Uncle Joe when I was a kid-- one of many. He's one of these religious types who only believes in things that don't have proof. When I said something about people being mammals, he informed me that we're not mammals-- we're "manimals."

Come to think of it, he also didn't believe that fish are animals.

I once argued with a woman on line who didn't believe insects were animals. She accepted mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians as animals but little else.

 

[Finn]

Anybody who doesn't believe in sugar rush hasn't met my Niece.

I just thought of an argument that I had with my Uncle Joe when I was a kid-- one of many. He's one of these religious types who only believes in things that don't have proof. When I said something about people being mammals, he informed me that we're not mammals-- we're "manimals."

Come to think of it, he also didn't believe that fish are animals.

I once argued with a woman on line who didn't believe insects were animals. She accepted mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians as animals but little else.

I was once asked whether snails were insects or animals.

 

[sojourner]

Heard coming out of "Apollo 13" at the theatre:

Man to son, "Don't worry, nothing like that really happened".



I would have corrected him, but he looked a bit of a redneck.

 

[RoJoHen]

Anybody who doesn't believe in sugar rush hasn't met my Niece.

I just thought of an argument that I had with my Uncle Joe when I was a kid-- one of many. He's one of these religious types who only believes in things that don't have proof. When I said something about people being mammals, he informed me that we're not mammals-- we're "manimals."

Come to think of it, he also didn't believe that fish are animals.

I once argued with a woman on line who didn't believe insects were animals. She accepted mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians as animals but little else.

I was once asked whether snails were insects or animals.

Neither. They are clearly aliens.

 

[Miss Chicken]

See this very cute animal. My son loved them when he was a little boy

One day my son's teacher asked the class what their favourite animal was. My son said a dik-dik and my teacher told him off for saying naughty words. My son tried to explain it was a real animal but his teacher wouldn't believe him. I had to send him to school with a wildlife card to prove to her that this animal existed.

 

[RoJoHen]

No offense, but that looks like somebody photoshopped a picture of a deer!

 

[Miss Chicken]

well it is a small species of antelope.

Dik-dik on Wiki

When my other son drew an okapi for the same teacher she thought it was a picture of an imaginary animal. She obviously wasn't interested in wildlife.

 

[RoJoHen]

I want these animals to be in America. They're cute.

 

[gturner]

Just go down to Staples and get an office dik-dik.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_4kn-7y9E[/yt]

 

[Nardpuncher]

It may get there earlier and easier than protein and/or fat or slower burning carbs,

But that's exactly why it does give you a rush, assuming you have enough of it.

Although maybe your idea of "rush" and mine are different, but I definitely get a lot of energy when I consume a large amount of sugar in a short period of time. You should have seen me the night I ate 12 cupcakes in 5 minutes...I was running around like a maniac!

I normally wouldn't be a jerk like this, but since it's a thread about believing things that are false, ahem:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2747/does-giving-sweets-to-kids-produce-a-sugar-rush

Now of course I thought there was such a thing as a sugar rush too, but when I read somewhere that it was a myth I had to accept it.
Same thing with toilets flushing the opposite way in the southern hemisphere...they don't, but I'm sure someone will come along soon swearing they do and that they've seen it.
I believed that one too, who wouldn't? Then I found out that it was not true also.

 

[bluedana]

I put the sugar-high thing in the same category with the bundle of symptoms kids get just before teething (runny nose, ear pulling, drooling), which many pediatricians say is a myth but most parents have observed repeatedly over time with each kid. It may be a matter of nobody has yet figured out the precise connection.

On a complete different note: Every so often on American Idol, some contestant will sing Donna Summer's "She Works Hard For The Money." And every time, the interweb comments will include any number of "OMG, I can't believe she sang about a prostitute!!" When, actually, the song is about a waitress.

 

[John Picard]

People who repeatedly parrot that the Christian Bible is the most accurate and oldest written history on record.

 

[Deckerd]

On a complete different note: Every so often on American Idol, some contestant will sing Donna Summer's "She Works Hard For The Money." And every time, the interweb comments will include any number of "OMG, I can't believe she sang about a prostitute!!" When, actually, the song is about a waitress.

All I can hear is Hank Azaria's Mexican 'maid' singing it in The Birdcage.

 

[Udat]

See this very cute animal. My son loved them when he was a little boy

One day my son's teacher asked the class what their favourite animal was. My son said a dik-dik and my teacher told him off for saying naughty words. My son tried to explain it was a real animal but his teacher wouldn't believe him. I had to send him to school with a wildlife card to prove to her that this animal existed.

Now I`m boasting, I`ve seen these in the wild, cute really cute..

 

[John Picard]

See this very cute animal. My son loved them when he was a little boy

One day my son's teacher asked the class what their favourite animal was. My son said a dik-dik and my teacher told him off for saying naughty words. My son tried to explain it was a real animal but his teacher wouldn't believe him. I had to send him to school with a wildlife card to prove to her that this animal existed.

My high school biology teacher argued with me that horses and ponies slept standing, with their legs locked, because their rib cages could not support the weight. I told her I thought I'd know as my family had ponies all growing up, and we'd enjoy watching them sunning themselves in the winter, either bedded down or flopped out on their sides. Nope, she said I was wrong and being a distraction in class