No, that's not true.

[Udat]

I also attended a non-sectarian private school from grade-school through grade 12. Every year, the student body spent the month of March studying a significant event in the history of the world. In grade 10, it was the Holocaust. All students in grades 7 - 12 were required to read the book All But My Life, by Gerta Klein. At that time, my mother also forced me to attend Sunday School. I had made a comment to one of the other guys in the class (we all attended different schools) about how we were studying the Holocaust and one of them launched into the dissertation how it was all a lie by the Jews, it never happened, etc. I countered about the period film records the US troops had that we watched, and even the Holocaust survivors who spoke at our school, which included Mrs Klein as well as Robert Clary, who played LeBeau in Hogan's Heros. Mr Jackass gave me a snotty look and continued that it was all a lie. I was ready to punch his face in right there, and to this day I wish I had.

Sadly my Grandfolks believe this is true, even though my Grandfather fought in the Second World War. I`ve had many arguements regarding the Nazi dealings with the Jews and homosexuals, as a gay man this turns my stomach. No longer talk to them...

In happy news lmao reading this thread!

 

[Nardpuncher]

I find it funny when people form their opinions on the spot.

Last year I brought up at work that the sugar rush is a myth. Kids will get all crazy at a McDonalds or a Chuckee Cheese because there's a party or something, not because they had too much sugar. A couple of coworkers hit me with that old patronizing "Hmm, I don't know"
So I said, that's right. You don't know.

 

[Michael Chris]

Not to my knowledge.

 

[RoJoHen]

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.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Maybe it's not so much a sugar rush, but a caffeine rush (kids at McDs or Chuckee will probably drink a lot of pop)?

 

[RoJoHen]

Well, maybe, but sugar rushes in general can and do happen.

 

[Finn]

I just thought of something. There were times when someone would tell me they have a sore or strained muscle in their carpals or tarsals. I try to tell them that there aren't any muscles in the toes and the fingers, perhaps very little muscle under the ball of the foot and in the palm area. they wouldn't get it when I try to tell them that pain does not always equate to presence of a muscle.

 

[propita]

Not sure about the sugar v. caffeine rush. What I do know is that a co-worker asked me to not have a sugary, caffeinated soda at lunch--as I would be bouncing off the walls all afternoon. One or the other was fine (sugar OR caffeine); both, and she wents nuts trying to keep up with me. Very hyper.

 

[propita]

I just thought of something. There were times when someone would tell me they have a sore or strained muscle in their carpals or tarsals. I try to tell them that there aren't any muscles in the toes and the fingers, perhaps very little muscle under the ball of the foot and in the palm area. they wouldn't get it when I try to tell them that pain does not always equate to presence of a muscle.

Is that why, when my foot hurts in the heel, ankle, or across the top, I'm told it's tendonitis (and not a pulled muscle)? I get that rather easily as the muscles which are in the areas are rather tense, all the time.

 

[Finn]

^There are some sheaths of muscles in the heel, I believe. But there is not much muscle in the foot in general, and almost none in the hand IIRC. It has been a while since I've taken anatomy though.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Do you know anyone who refuses to believe a simple fact no matter what proof is shown them?

I am not talking about topics like more complex like religion or evolution etc but things that can be easily proven.

I have a friend who will not believe that John Astin is still alive. She insists she remembers him dying and even though I have shown his entries on IMDB and Wikipedia and interviews with Sean Astin when he talks about his dad in the present my friend still insists that John Astin died several years ago.

I thought he died of a heart attack years ago.

 

[Deckerd]

I've had people I thought were reasonably intelligent telling me with a straight face that the aurora borealis is sunlight reflecting off the ice in the arctic.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Not sure about the sugar v. caffeine rush. What I do know is that a co-worker asked me to not have a sugary, caffeinated soda at lunch--as I would be bouncing off the walls all afternoon. One or the other was fine (sugar OR caffeine); both, and she wents nuts trying to keep up with me. Very hyper.

I have never gotten buzzed off sugar, but I do with caffeine (I take my coffee plain).

 

[RoJoHen]

Not sure about the sugar v. caffeine rush. What I do know is that a co-worker asked me to not have a sugary, caffeinated soda at lunch--as I would be bouncing off the walls all afternoon. One or the other was fine (sugar OR caffeine); both, and she wents nuts trying to keep up with me. Very hyper.

I have never gotten buzzed off sugar, but I do with caffeine (I take my coffee plain).

You clearly never had a Pixy Stix eating contest.

I mean, it takes a fair amount of sugar to get a buzz from it, but sugar is a carbohydrate, and carbohydrates give you energy. It just takes less sugar for little kids to get a buzz because they're small.

 

[scotpens]

I have a friend who firmly believes that dogs can't look up.

Can't look up what? I guess the average dog would find it kind of hard to use Google.

EDIT: Didn't know it was a reference to Shaun of the Dead. I've never seen that picture.

 

[scotpens]

. . . Also just fyi there is apparently a poisonous layer between Earth and the moon, that if we passed through it, we would die, just thought I'd warn you all

I assume you're referring to the Van Allen radiation belts. The Apollo spacecraft moved through the belts in just 30 minutes, and the astronauts were protected from the ionizing radiation by the metal hulls of the spacecraft. Dosimeters worn by the astronauts showed they received about the same amount of radiation as a chest X-ray.

But try telling that to the conspiracy kooks.

 

[Kibbin]

^There are some sheaths of muscles in the heel, I believe. But there is not much muscle in the foot in general, and almost none in the hand IIRC. It has been a while since I've taken anatomy though.

From what I know that's true.
Place you're hand on a desk/table/etc with the palm several inches off and all fingers and thumb touching the table like a spider or other bug type thingy. Now curl you're middle finger under and lay the middle bit of this curled finger also on the table.
Now try and lift, you're thumb, then you're index, then you're little finger. Now try and move you're ring finger.
If I explained that right you should be occupied for a while

. . . Also just fyi there is apparently a poisonous layer between Earth and the moon, that if we passed through it, we would die, just thought I'd warn you all

I assume you're referring to the Van Allen radiation belts. The Apollo spacecraft moved through the belts in just 30 minutes, and the astronauts were protected from the ionizing radiation by the metal hulls of the spacecraft. Dosimeters worn by the astronauts showed they received about the same amount of radiation as a chest X-ray.

But try telling that to the conspiracy kooks.

Yeah, I love that bit, it sorta just says we're passing through some radiation so don't stick you're head out the window and we should be fine

 

[scotpens]

. . . I also had a co-worker who insisted, just INSISTED, that the reason cat scratches got infected so easily was because cats had poison glands that injected mild toxins through their needle-like claws.

They've been covering up the truth for years about our furry friends. The world is full of EVIL VENOMOUS PUSSYCATS!

You think that's weird? Check out this girl's expert opinion on why the English and German languages are so similar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9_P6gFi-I

 

[Marc]

. . . I also had a co-worker who insisted, just INSISTED, that the reason cat scratches got infected so easily was because cats had poison glands that injected mild toxins through their needle-like claws.

They've been covering up the truth for years about our furry friends. The world is full of EVIL VENOMOUS PUSSYCATS!

You think that's weird? Check out this girl's expert opinion on why the English and German languages are so similar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9_P6gFi-I

And then people wonder why they are treated as idiots when they try and use youtube videos to deny AGW for example.

 

[propita]

Place you're hand on a desk/table/etc with the palm several inches off and all fingers and thumb touching the table like a spider or other bug type thingy. Now curl you're middle finger under and lay the middle bit of this curled finger also on the table.
Now try and lift, you're thumb, then you're index, then you're little finger. Now try and move you're ring finger.
If I explained that right you should be occupied for a while

I got all but the ring finger off the table. I could almost get that, too, while keeping the middle part of my middle finger on the table, but it involved changing the angle of my arm and/or lifting the middle finger off the table.

As for thinking people are dead, I keep thinking Louie Anderson joined the other ... somewhat hefty ... comedians and died. He's appearing in Vegas soon, so I'll assume he's still fine.