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An urban myth-what is the truth?

The Imperial Navy
22-04-2005, 12:23
The Myth: Mixing Fizzy drinks and fizzing rock candy will make your stomach explode.

Does anyone know what happens? Has anyone ever tried it? You tell me.

The Myth: Feeding pidgeons rice will make them explode.

Has anyone ever seen this? Has it been proven?

The Myth: Stripes are slimming.

Anyone seen this one in action? Are stripes truly slimming?

Try to solve my myths, or prove them.
Pure Metal
22-04-2005, 12:24
*explodes*
The Imperial Navy
22-04-2005, 12:26
*explodes*

Oi I got an hour before next lesson-get on MSN!
NERVUN
22-04-2005, 12:26
Well I know www.snopes.com has the first two, but couldn't tell you about the last. I prefer solid black. ;)
Pure Metal
22-04-2005, 12:27
Oi I got an hour before next lesson-get on MSN!
need to get dressed (and pick myself off the floor)... brb
The odd one
22-04-2005, 12:28
The Myth: Mixing Fizzy drinks and fizzing rock candy will make your stomach explode.

Does anyone know what happens? Has anyone ever tried it? You tell me.

The Myth: Stripes are slimming.

Anyone seen this one in action? Are stripes truly slimming?

Try to solve my myths, or prove them.

dont know about the fizzy drinks and poprocks, but don't put skittles in beer, it fizzes up really quick (which looks cool if it's in a can) and then it's just flat, the beer won't taste like skittles, and the skittles won't taste like beer.

it's vertical stripes that create the illusion of people/things being slimmer& taller, horizontal stripes do the opposite. It's all about perception.
Waterana
22-04-2005, 12:33
The rice myth - not true click (http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/wild.asp#wild)

The pop/candy myth - not true click (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/poprocks.htm)

The stripes myth - sort of true. Vertical stripes do make a person appear thinner, but horizontal stripes do the opposite.
BackwoodsSquatches
22-04-2005, 12:36
Neat little television show in the Discovery Channel called "MythBusters".

They prove, or debunk these kinds of myths, by doing most of them under controlled environments, then just for kicks, excentuate the expiriments until they DO WORK.

The Pop-Rocks and carbonated beverage thing....its crap.
According to them, you would need to eat so many pop-rocks that you would throw them up before anything else happened.

But...just for fun...they added a shit-ton of pop rocks and cola to a sheeps stomach, and waited.

'It did eventually blow up, but it took far more than any human could actually eat.

Rice to pigeons?
Thats true I believe, becuase it is now illegal to throw rice at a wedding.
Reason?
Birds eat the dry rice, wich expands in the stomach, and will kill the bird.
They dont explode, they just die.

And the stripes thing....probably an optical illusion.
But if you have a big fat ass...it doesnt matter what you wear.
Eddytopia
22-04-2005, 12:49
I believe none of these, maybe the 3rd, but with the rice i think it works with panadol because they cannot release gas and eventually explode
Canland
22-04-2005, 13:02
the rice in the birds stomach is false,it was banned becuase it gets in people eyes(seriously,im not joking)
www.snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com) has all the answers to myths to keep you occupied for hours.
Hammolopolis
22-04-2005, 13:13
the rice in the birds stomach is false,it was banned becuase it gets in people eyes(seriously,im not joking)
www.snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com) has all the answers to myths to keep you occupied for hours.
"This silly myth pops up periodically, and it is absolutely unfounded," responded rice expert Mary Jo Cheesman at the USA Rice Federation.
http://www.snopes.com/weddings/horrors/birdrice.htm

There are "rice experts" and a "Rice Federation"?
What in the hell? :confused:
NERVUN
22-04-2005, 13:21
There are "rice experts" and a "Rice Federation"?
What in the hell? :confused:

If you think that's strange, try coming to Japan. Some of my Japanese friends tell me that people will pay through the nose for rice from a specific part of Japan. Indeed, theft of such high value rice is a problem. Now THAT'S taking rice too seriously. ;)