The "Everything You Know Is Wrong" Thread

[Barbarossa]

Here is where you can list popular beliefs, superstitions, and urban myths and legends, that are not true, but that many people think are true.

I am going to attempt to start a new craze of factual knowledge :smilie4:

For ideas/reference, please go to www.snopes.com

I'll start us off, then :ermm:

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The nursery rhyme "Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses" is NOT about the Great Plague/Black Death.


The word Nylon did NOT come about from joining the names of the cities New York and London.


A "sirloin steak" is NOT so named because a mad English king liked it so much he decided to knight it.

I'll add some more on when I can think of them :dabs:

[manker]

It's an urban myth that on average a person in the UK doesn't ingest at least seven spiders per year when they crawl into your mouth and lay eggs while you sleep.

'cos they fucking do.

[Barbarossa]

sod off sabotaging my fred :fist:

[manker]

sod off sabotaging my fred :fist:
I saw it happen once.

I was reading and a big spider with hairy legs crawled up the bed toward teh sleeping missus, I was like meh cos I don't mind spiders -- but then, quicker than a flash -- the spider crawled on her face and as she inhaled, disappeared forever into her mouth. I saw a leg snake out from twixt her lips but it was too late, she swallowed the spider.

No doubt it laid eggs too before it died so I'm just waiting for her face to explode due to the mass of baby-spiders seething below the surface.

[Chip Monk]

All the stuff about the coreolis(sp) effect and bogs is pish.

[100%]

If you want a romantic experience with your lover, you do not need to go to Paris (France).

[Chip Monk]

Not all people from Edinburro are whores and drug addicts.

[Barbarossa]

If you want a romantic experience with your lover, you do not need to go to Paris (France).

Conversely, if you go to Paris (France) you are not guaranteed a romantic experience with your lover :pinch:

[Chip Monk]

Unless it's Gay Paris* (France).



*Pronounced Paree.

[manker]

Contrary to popular belief, accountancy isn't boring.

After a long day of doing nothing but accounts, it is entirely possible to go home and have a chat with someone completely unitiated in the black art and entertain them with tales of your abacal triumphs.

[Chip Monk]

No-one said accountancy is boring.


It's fucking accountants.


At least so your missus claims.


There are so many places to go with the words, fucking and boring that I can't be bothered, just do it yourself. Please remember you have adjective, verb and nounal forms to chose from.

[Busyman]

Contrary to popular belief, dick size matters to women. It's mental and physical.

Some little dick psychiatrist fella probably started the "size doesn't matter 'bit'".

If a woman tells you it doesn't she's just being "nice".

[Mr JP Fugley]

Busy has a wee cawk.

[100%]

Muslims are not necessarily terrorists.
nor is
The media always right.

[Busyman]

Busy has a wee cawk.

:sadwalk:

[100%]

The "Everything You Know Is Wrong" Thread

Everything does not begin with E.

[DorisInsinuate]

You are not saving the environment if you decide not to drive to work one day.

[MCHeshPants420]

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

[manker]

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.
All I'm saying is that had better be CrabBurd who made the post and not Chebus.

That's all I'm saying.

[100%]

Even though he is a one of us type of guy, Manker is actually a prophet.

[100%]

"Aisha" is not actually a 4 year old little girl

whom my friend is the father of.

She is in fact too pure to be with the father,

according to the cult to which her mother belongs to.


(on a side note check "aisha" in regards to religion... )

[CrabGirl]

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.
All I'm saying is that had better be CrabBurd who made the post and not Chebus.

That's all I'm saying.

Wasn't me. :unsure:

[Mr JP Fugley]

Busy has a wee cawk.

:sadwalk:

However he's just a wee guy, so it looks elephantine.

[Gripper]

Men with big noses,feet,etc do not have big dicks.

Manker is not God.

Missie is not a missie.

[Proper Bo]

Men with big noses,feet,etc do not have big dicks.


None of them?:unsure:

My feet are size 12:ermm:

[Gripper]

Men with big noses,feet,etc do not have big dicks.


None of them?:unsure:

My feet are size 12:ermm:

No, just not al of them,we all know that you are a huge geordie studmuffin.:D

[Proper Bo]

:blushing:

[Seedler]

Indian people DO NOT smell like curry.

[Gripper]

:lol:

[Proper Bo]

Indian people DO NOT smell like curry.

Some of them do.

[Gripper]

Indian people DO NOT smell like curry.

True,Curry smells nice,most I have met smell garlicy,which isn't nice doesn't matter what race you are.

[gamer4eva]

I know lots of indian people and they do not smell like curry. They love it and eat it but dont sweat it :lol:

[manker]

They love it and eat it but dont sweat it :lol:
I wasn't worried about it in the slightest - but thanks for the concern.

[DanB]

Indian people DO NOT smell like curry.

True,Curry smells nice,most I have met smell garlicy,which isn't nice doesn't matter what race you are.

:glag:

Burn him, he's a witcheffigy :shifty:

[MagicNakor]

16 year-olds don't know everything.

:shuriken:

[Wolfmight]

ooo urban legends.
I love the one about the guy who ran from the police and ended up falling off a steel fence and impaled his head onto one of the stakes, tossing his headless body onto the ground.

FACT* the case is documented.

[Mr JP Fugley]

ooo urban legends.
I love the one about the guy who ran from the police and ended up falling off a steel fence and impaled his head onto one of the stakes, tossing his headless body onto the ground.

FACT* the case is documented.

I love people who read the words but don't bother interptreting what they mean, rather they just see what they fancy seeing and react accordingly.

[DorisInsinuate]

I just love these fucking idiots.

[Barbarossa]

ooo urban legends.
I love the one about the guy who ran from the police and ended up falling off a steel fence and impaled his head onto one of the stakes, tossing his headless body onto the ground.

FACT* the case is documented.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/decapitation.asp

Yes, but that one actually is true. :frusty:

[Mr JP Fugley]

Barbie wins the niceness competition.

[Barbarossa]

These people suffer enough. I'm just trying to make the world a better place for them. :(

[missie]

Missie is not a missie.

:O

[Mr JP Fugley]

She's a hittie.

[Notor|ous]

No shes not! :)

[missie]

She's a hittie.

/me hopes JP just made a simple spelling mistake there. :fist:


Straight Vodka on the skin is good for tightening up large pores.
A damp cloth dipped in ash will remove hair dye from your scalp.
Rubbing a lemon slice on your finger nails will remove nicotine stains. :happy:

[Mr JP Fugley]

She's a hittie.

/me hopes JP just made a simple spelling mistake there. :fist:


Straight Vodka on the skin is good for tightening up large pores.
A damp cloth dipped in ash will remove hair dye from your scalp.
Rubbing a lemon slice on your finger nails will remove nicotine stains. :happy:

What :blink:

I said you weren't a miss, you were a hit. That's a good thing, Shirley.

[missie]

That's ok then, I guess.
Was hoping for either hottie, or hitter.


Guess it could have gone horribly wrong there if you called me Hitler. :unsure:

[Mr JP Fugley]

That's ok then, I guess.
Was hoping for either hottie, or hitter.


Guess it could have gone horribly wrong there if you called me Hitler. :unsure:

No offence, mate. However you keep refusing when I PM you asking for pics, so I can neither confirm nor deny the "hottie" situation.

Just think of hittie as a mixture of hottie and hitter, a hybrid if you will, then we're sound.

[Proper Bo]

That's ok then, I guess.
Was hoping for either hottie, or hitter.


Guess it could have gone horribly wrong there if you called me Hitler. :unsure:

No offence, mate. However you keep refusing when I PM you asking for pics, so I can neither confirm nor deny the "hottie" situation.

Just think of hittie as a mixture of hottie and hitter, a hybrid if you will, then we're sound.

Ewe should have asked me, like.

Not sure how pics of me would help you confirm or deny it tho'

[Mr JP Fugley]

No offence, mate. However you keep refusing when I PM you asking for pics, so I can neither confirm nor deny the "hottie" situation.

Just think of hittie as a mixture of hottie and hitter, a hybrid if you will, then we're sound.

Ewe should have asked me, like.

Not sure how pics of me would help you confirm or deny it tho'

Why would I want phoaties of you, Gaylord.

[missie]

:o