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Since I mainly post rants, and football (NFL) stuff, I thought I'd tried something diffrent. Post the silliest Myth or Urban Legend that you've ever heard. Here's mine

Mr. Rogers (the children TV host) used to be a sniper/gunman/militatry person in Vietnam. I just find that funny because I just keep on imaging him running through the jungle saying "Won't you be my neighbor?"

Bias of the Liberal media.


Never heard of the Mr. Rogers myth.

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For those that are interested:

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp

Somebody, (can't remember who) lost a look contest, about themselves.

What's even sillier? This one's true.

MY Favourite MYths of all time,
Any Religious myth, Gods Deities and all that
The Aitkins Diet (or Atkins) is a healthy diet option
Elvis Lives.
The Roswell Alien Autopsy
French Cooking is the Best in the world, and the French make the best lovers

Bias of the Liberal media.


Never heard of the Mr. Rogers myth.

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For those that are interested:

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp

*sigh* can we PLEASE keep politics out of this? I just want a fun and carefree thread without politics.

Socialism actually works.

Now that is a silly myth.

*sigh* can we PLEASE keep politics out of this? I just want a fun and carefree thread without politics.

What?

Yoy asked for a myth and I gave one.....

*another sigh* why do people drag politics into everything.

IF yall are having trouble finding Myth/Urban Legends go to www.snopes.com

What?

Yoy asked for a myth and I gave one.....

www.snopes.com Find a better one.

Humans only use only 10% of their brain.

We use our entire brain just not all at once. At any given time we are only using 10% of brain function but every part of the brain is used in our daily activities. Sorry for all of you who thought there are some hidden powers in the 90%.

Somebody, (can't remember who) lost a look contest, about themselves.

What's even sillier? This one's true.

Charlie Chaplin.


http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/1746/chaplin8tq.gif


:Edit:Relevent Snopes link (http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/chaplin2.htm)

Humans only use only 10% of their brain.

We use our entire brain just not all at once. At any given time we are only using 10% of brain function but every part of the brain is used in our daily activities. Sorry for all of you who thought there are some hidden powers in the 90%.

That sucks. Now I have to look to technological augmentation for my planned telekinesis, telepathy and world domination by global-scale mind control.

That sucks. Now I have to look to technological augmentation for my planned telekinesis, telepathy and world domination by global-scale mind control.

I'm glad I could help steer you in the right direction. :D

Plane trails in the sky are actually mind-control gas being distributed over the people

I'm glad I could help steer you in the right direction. :D

That's good. For that, I will let you voluntarily be my strong right hand and Oppressor of The Human-beasts, rather than bending your mind to my will and compelling you. Sweet deal, huh? :D

There is an international conspiracy of Jews/Freemasons/Reptilian humanoids that secretly run the world.

That's good. For that, I will let you voluntarily be my strong right hand and Oppressor of The Human-beasts, rather than bending your mind to my will and compelling you. Sweet deal, huh? :D

Sounds like a deal to me. Let me know what I can do to help. :)

communism can easily work on a national level.

utopias are possible.

since the bible says that all non-judeo-christian religions are wrong, it preaches their destruction. I'm sorry, but if that was true, then atheists should go around killing people because atheism says that there is no god, and, therefore, all religions(bhudism is more of a philosophy) are wrong.

the us government made invisible ships. Sorry, but unless they meant invisible to radar, those conspiaricy theorists are wrong.

I've always found the "Alligators in the New York sewers" to be pretty damn funny.

And the one about the "Don't Worry, Be Happy" guy committing suicide was pretty good too.

I like how everyone I have ever met over the age of 40 really believes that it takes 7 years for chewing gum to digest if you swallow it.

Or how I heard from at least 15 people when I was pregnant that if I put my arms up over my head that the baby would get tangeled up in her umbelical cord.



I have a lot of tax myths that I hear frequently as a tax professional, but they are so large in number that I dare not start to post them, for fear of boring all of you. ;)

Or how I heard from at least 15 people when I was pregnant that if I put my arms up over my head that the baby would get tangeled up in her umbelical cord.





What tripe!

What tripe!
yeah, I know, they really believed it too. They kept saying "don't take a shower, because you have to lift your arms over your head, take a bath instead":rolleyes: Like suddenly by sitting down my head is in a different place in relation to my arms:rolleyes:

I asked them, "how will I brush my hair?" they had no real answer, but my cousin who "lifted her arms up all the time, had a baby who was tangeled up", it never occured to them that everyone lifts their arms up pregnant or not and that sometimes stuff like that just happens. She really thought it was her fault, it took me at least 3 months to prove to her that it wasn't. :(

Dan Brown books. The Da Vinci Code especially :rolleyes: Good grief the number of people I've met who've formulated anti-religious 'arguments' based on the 'facts' in those books almost makes me weep with despair.

It's the "five-second rule": you can eat food dropped on the floor if it's picked up within five seconds. In reality, you can probably eat it anyway unless the floor is especially dirty or you have a defective immune system.

Another funny one, especially when considering the sincerity of the people who believe it, is the leftist media (in American, "liberal media") in the US. Obviously, they've never seen leftist media, if they think that the completely neocon-controlled media is leftist.

yeah, I know, they really believed it too. They kept saying "don't take a shower, because you have to lift your arms over your head, take a bath instead":rolleyes: Like suddenly by sitting down my head is in a different place in relation to my arms:rolleyes:

I asked them, "how will I brush my hair?" they had no real answer, but my cousin who "lifted her arms up all the time, had a baby who was tangeled up", it never occured to them that everyone lifts their arms up pregnant or not and that sometimes stuff like that just happens. She really thought it was her fault, it took me at least 3 months to prove to her that it wasn't. :(

3 Months? What'd she need? A bloody diagram?
Man, I'd say stupid people annoy me, but I'd prob. be closer saying those who ignore common sense/logic irk me the worst.

Bravo on getting her to stop believing that bullshit :)

Dan Brown books. The Da Vinci Code especially :rolleyes: Good grief the number of people I've met who've formulated anti-religious 'arguments' based on the 'facts' in those books almost makes me weep with despair.

You left out all the Religious people who have to make sure everybody knows that the book is a novel even though the book has "NOVEL" on the cover.

You left out all the Religious people who have to make sure everybody knows that the book is a novel even though the book has "NOVEL" on the cover.

In fairness though, there are an aweful lot of people who believe that it has facts in it.

It's the "five-second rule": you can eat food dropped on the floor if it's picked up within five seconds. In reality, you can probably eat it anyway unless the floor is especially dirty or you have a defective immune system.


Are there any real belivers of that?

I view it more as a joke since there is also the 3 second rule. If you are really tired it's the 30 second rule, the minute.....

The belief that there is any true difference between the Democrats and Republicans other than a superficial disagreement over abortion. Nonsense!

It's the "five-second rule": you can eat food dropped on the floor if it's picked up within five seconds. In reality, you can probably eat it anyway unless the floor is especially dirty or you have a defective immune system.

Another funny one, especially when considering the sincerity of the people who believe it, is the leftist media (in American, "liberal media") in the US. Obviously, they've never seen leftist media, if they think that the completely neocon-controlled media is leftist.

Actually, left and right are relative. Every political system has a left and a right. Sure, American left is European right, but who cares? We have our far left and far right and you have yours. It's like saying my left hand isn't left because I'm to the right of you. So, according to the system used by many, I should call my left hand right because most people are on my left. That's how flawed it can be.

3 Months? What'd she need? A bloody diagram?
Man, I'd say stupid people annoy me, but I'd prob. be closer saying those who ignore common sense/logic irk me the worst.

Bravo on getting her to stop believing that bullshit :)
she really isn't all that bright, it's sad really. :(

It's also very fun to mess with her, because she will fall for just about anything, one of my other cousin's who is evil, told her that she could get cancer by drinking bottled water if the bottle had been in the freezer.

You left out all the Religious people who have to make sure everybody knows that the book is a novel even though the book has "NOVEL" on the cover.

And the incredible amount of really stupid people who, despite that, still base said arguments on it/them.

Actually, left and right are relative. Every political system has a left and a right. Sure, American left is European right, but who cares? We have our far left and far right and you have yours. It's like saying my left hand isn't left because I'm to the right of you. So, according to the system used by many, I should call my left hand right because most people are on my left. That's how flawed it can be.
I disagree with the assumption. I don't believe that the left and right of Europe are so different in the USA. Democrats support the same "welfare by the state" system as the leftists in Europe.

The real problem is that it's all OK for the right-wing media to use sneaky propaganda tricks, but the leftist element in the media is the evil if it does that. (It is, incidentally. The point being, both are.) The media caught in the crossfire is the moderate, reasonably objective, non-extremist media with a professional attitude. They get called evil leftists and then the entire media is "liberal".

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=15066

A link to a myth site I just found on i-am-bored

And the incredible amount of really stupid people who, despite that, still base said arguments on it/them.

Haven't run it to that. Just amazed at our Religious types that want to get the message out that "you know this stuff isn't factual; right?" Duh! There are even many books about it now.

In your case, might be an English thing! :p

1. Using a tanning bed long enough will cook your insides.
2. If you get shot, you'll go flying.

considered myths, even though they were proven to be true:
1. exploding water. Incidently, you can get pure(and I mean pure) water hot enough to boil and it won't boil unless there is some sort of contaminate or something in the water.
2. exploding jaw breaker. The inside gets hotter(which means more pressure) faster than the outside when microwaved.
3. You can survive getting shot by a high-powered rifle by jumping in water. The bullet disintegrates when it hits the water.

Since I mainly post rants, and football (NFL) stuff, I thought I'd tried something diffrent. Post the silliest Myth or Urban Legend that you've ever heard. Here's mine

Mr. Rogers (the children TV host) used to be a sniper/gunman/militatry person in Vietnam. I just find that funny because I just keep on imaging him running through the jungle saying "Won't you be my neighbor?"

Don't underestimate Mr. Rogers:

Ultimate Showdown (http://media.putfile.com/ultimateshowdown)

Socialism actually works.

Now that is a silly myth.

Haven't got out of the country much, have you?

Hitler was Jewish

Complete bilge, utterly unfounded and irresponsible.

Alternatively; England will win the World Cup

I sincerely hope so, but frankly, we're too erratic, and not cohesive enough.

I disagree with the assumption. I don't believe that the left and right of Europe are so different in the USA. Democrats support the same "welfare by the state" system as the leftists in Europe.

Some, and I do mean some, registered Democratic voters may believe as you say. There isn't a Democrat politician currently in power that does, though. They are all corporatists, because that influx of money from corporations is absolutely necessary in order to get elected in our media oriented culture.

The real problem is that it's all OK for the right-wing media to use sneaky propaganda tricks, but the leftist element in the media is the evil if it does that. (It is, incidentally. The point being, both are.) The media caught in the crossfire is the moderate, reasonably objective, non-extremist media with a professional attitude. They get called evil leftists and then the entire media is "liberal".

Exactly correct. Might I also add that the institution if an independent press is SUPPOSED to be anti-establishment with a focus on bringing the mighty down a peg. This is another check on the power of those who would try to wield too much in a free society. Unfortunately, the "right" has been taught that anti-establishment means liberal, when anti-establishment could just as easily mean libertarian.

Nuance is often lost when the media becomes pro-establishment (and really, how much help do those ALREADY in power need?)

Using a tanning bed long enough will cook your insides.Well, yes, if you lie there long enough. Of course it would require laying there long enough for something, probably the sun going nova, to come along and cook you.
Everything is true if you wait "long enough", because if there is no "long enough" you can't satisfy that condition.

If you get shot, you'll go flying.True, if you're shot with a catapult, for example.

You can survive getting shot by a high-powered rifle by jumping in water. The bullet disintegrates when it hits the water.you can survive "getting shot AT". If you actually get shot, it's probably over. (The mythbusters tested this myth, and the clue is that the bullet desintegrates in the water before it gets to you.)

Don't underestimate Mr. Rogers:

Ultimate Showdown (http://media.putfile.com/ultimateshowdown)

I could have whupped Mr. Rogers.

http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/

kick ass funny ones here

you can survive "getting shot AT". If you actually get shot, it's probably over. (The mythbusters tested this myth, and the clue is that the bullet desintegrates in the water before it gets to you.)
Good episode. Especially when they shot their first water tank with the shotgun

Haven't run it to that. Just amazed at our Religious types that want to get the message out that "you know this stuff isn't factual; right?" Duh! There are even many books about it now.

In your case, might be an English thing! :p

I can remember a poll showing 30% of Canadians believed that all the "facts" in the book were historically accurate.

I'll see if I can dig it up.

It's the "five-second rule": you can eat food dropped on the floor if it's picked up within five seconds. In reality, you can probably eat it anyway unless the floor is especially dirty or you have a defective immune system.


Actually, I think the five second rule is more of a social rule than a hygenic one. You could probably increase it to thirty minutes and it wouldn't be any more or less safe, but then there would be questions about the ownership of item dropped.

One other thing for that matter: people drop food outside and would just assume leave it alone, but someone that drops a lit cigarette will pick it up and put it back in their mouth without so much as a second thought.

The conspiracy theory about liberal professors has a lot of good myths to supposedly prove it. There's the one about the department chairpersons who wouldn't consider tenure for Republican professors. There's the one about the professors who yells at students for saying evolution is wrong. There's the one about professors who spend every lecture telling the students how stupid it is to believe in God. There's the one about professors who let students miss class to attend a protest against some conservative government policy but doesn't let students skip class to attend the counter protest. There's the one about professors who spends every lecture talking about the importance of [insert liberal policy].

When a South Park episode had some college freshmen say that their professors told them all about how evil corporations are, some people might have thought it was making fun of liberal professors instead of everyone who believes in the myths.

I can't believe how many people are bashing the five second rule. It's such a fun creation of the mind.

This is one of my favorites, although I supose its more a conspiracy theory. http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm

The Jew 9-11 phone-call one is pretty absurd.

I don't know that one. could you post it please?

"men think about sex every 7 seconds". complete and utter sexist bullshit. My favourite is the The Bricklayer (http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/). Very, very funny.

That the football (soccer) world cup of 1958 was actually made by TV-stations to get it more interesting (or something like that).

Hitler was Jewish

Complete bilge, utterly unfounded and irresponsible.

I think it was founded from him making a point of destroying all the records of his family history, suggesting he had something to hide.

One of my all trime faves is the Boy Scount leader/general/NRA member who takes the anti-gun activist ranting about how guns make everyone into murderes to task with the quip about having a penis makes all men rapists.

The "true facts" list that seem to get posted here every few months also crack me up - especially when some idiot insists that you can't lick your elbow, then gets upset when I demonstrate how stupid that statement is by explaining how easy it is to lick your elbow, especially since they never specify the outside of the joint.

There's the one about professors who spends every lecture talking about the importance of [insert liberal policy].

I had a geography prof at the University of Houston who did almost exactly that. He set aside the last 5 minutes or so of class to talk about his little pet policies or to give time to 3 or 4 of his favorite student environmental type groups (including PETA).

"men think about sex every 7 seconds". complete and utter sexist bullshit.

Yeah, that's stupid. Like we ever stop thinking about sex.

*sigh* can we PLEASE keep politics out of this? I just want a fun and carefree thread without politics.
now this is an urban myth :D

It's the "five-second rule": you can eat food dropped on the floor if it's picked up within five seconds. In reality, you can probably eat it anyway unless the floor is especially dirty or you have a defective immune system.

I've only heard the variant "3-second" rule

Yeah, that's stupid. Like we ever stop thinking about sex.
I generally stop when I'm asleep...

I generally stop when I'm asleep...

Oh. You're a woman, then?

How about the whole CIA/Mossad/Bush staged 9/11 thing?

There's, apparently, a super intelligent race of lizard men living on Venus who manipulate how we see the planet because they don't want us to find out about them!

Now that's tellin' ya!

Socialism actually works.

Now that is a silly myth.
well in that case... Great Brittain and the Netherlands And Germany are myths to (I live in a myth!!!:cool:)

well in that case... Great Brittain and the Netherlands And Germany are myths to (I live in a myth!!!:cool:)

And therefore I assume you are not British, since our particular brand of oppurtunist, vile socialism is inherently injust, disengenuous, and untenbale.

And therefore I assume you are not British, since our particular brand of oppurtunist, vile socialism is inherently injust, disengenuous, and untenbale.
You know Chris, I think your politics and mine are exact opposites. Where I'm economically more on the left you're more on the right. Where I'm foreign policy wise a bit neocon, you're more isolationist (from the posts I've read). You're the anti-Drunk Commies.

Oh. You're a woman, then?
no... I just generally stop thinking about sex when I'm asleep.

You know Chris, I think your politics and mine are exact opposites. Where I'm economically more on the left you're more on the right. Where I'm foreign policy wise a bit neocon, you're more isolationist (from the posts I've read). You're the anti-Drunk Commies.

Only politically I hope....:)

Only politically I hope....:)
Yeah, I guess so. Hey, maybe I'm the Anti-Chris!

Yeah, I guess so. Hey, maybe I'm the Anti-Chris!

One "t" away from infamy...:p

This isn't so much a myth as a joke my friends played on a friend of theirs in our class.

They told this girl she could get pregnant from giving oral sex to a guy and swallowing. She got so distraught that she ran to one of the gym teachers and asked her about it. The gym teacher saw the humor in it and said that yes, she could get pregnant that way. The girl was mortified till everyone admited it was a joke.

just you wait... send it to a few friends and it soon will be...

And therefore I assume you are not British, since our particular brand of oppurtunist, vile socialism is inherently injust, disengenuous, and untenbale.

Since when was the UK socialist?

Since when was the UK socialist?

Back in the days of Orwell, the Labour Party fancied that it was socialist.

1. Using a tanning bed long enough will cook your insides.
The problem with this is that flesh is UV-absorbent. But there is radiation that can cook your insides: röntgen and gamma radiation.

considered myths, even though they were proven to be true:
1. exploding water. Incidently, you can get pure(and I mean pure) water hot enough to boil and it won't boil unless there is some sort of contaminate or something in the water.
It's that water bubbles must start somewhere. If there's nothing (like impurities, dust, such), then they don't.

3. You can survive getting shot by a high-powered rifle by jumping in water. The bullet disintegrates when it hits the water.
This is not so surprising if you think how the high-velocity bullet works, as a technology. It hits the human body like if it was liquid water, and the shockwave given does the damage.

Back in the days of Orwell, the Labour Party fancied that it was socialist.

I can pinpoint the change better than that: 1995, when they dropped the lines

"To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service"

from their constitution and replaced it instead with

"The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few. Where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe. And where we live together, freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect."

I can pinpoint the change better than that: 1995, when they dropped the lines

"To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service"

from their constitution and replaced it instead with

"The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few. Where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe. And where we live together, freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect."

Well, despite their statement, they are hardly socialist now.

Well, despite their statement, they are hardly socialist now.

Yes, that's what I'm saying: up until 1995 they at least espoused the principles of socialism, but that has been replaced with mealy-mouthed blather. It would be mistaken to read 'democratic socialist' as a brand of socialism.

Yes, that's what I'm saying: up until 1995 they at least espoused the principles of socialism, but that has been replaced with mealy-mouthed blather. It would be mistaken to read 'democratic socialist' as a brand of socialism.
You finally have the brand of politician we have over here:

One who bases his election campaign on promises of a certain philosophical bent, and then turns around and does the exact opposite.

since the bible says that all non-judeo-christian religions are wrong, it preaches their destruction. I'm sorry, but if that was true, then atheists should go around killing people because atheism says that there is no god, and, therefore, all religions(bhudism is more of a philosophy) are wrong.

The idea that if the bible, when taken literally, advocates horrible, evil, disgusting things then athiests must advocate the opposite, though equally horrible, behavior isn't a myth, it's just faulty logic.

Plane trails in the sky are actually mind-control gas being distributed over the people

i heard that one too...however i heard it was "chem trails" that the government(us) was laying out.

it even has a back story if i remember correctly.

the story i heard,and find kinda interesting is that they are being caused by a group(governmental) called harp based out of alaska.

harp supposedly means h.high a.altitude r.research p.project

they are exsperimenting with the gulf stream and other predictable wind patterns to alter the weather.

it originated back in the cold war and the plan was to shift weather patterns to destroy the ussr's ability to have decent grain or agriculture production.and of coarse to enhanse our production.

the theory was,and this is what i find interesting,that they trailed a chemical vapor of some sort,which would then create a sorta wall in the sky to deflect the wind patterns.

the idea and it does seem to ring true,is that high altitude contrails from comm/mil flights tend to be disbursed rather quickly by the wind(if you do watch the sky as i do,you will notice the majority of the time,a contrail will quickly disburse and then just dissappear,whereas..and i have myself noticed,certain contrails seem to just hang there for an hour or so without even being diss jointed.

time for a tinfoil hat for me?:p

Fass isn't gay.