Contrary to Popular Belief

[TheRightToArmBears]

Contrary to popular belief, apparently, opinions on gun control are facts. It's certainly news to me.

Contrary to popular belief (of fools!) the direction someone's eyes go in when they talk has nothing to do with if they're lying. That's just silly.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Librarians actually do have to work hard and learn how to become librarians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_technician

Also: We will hate you and make your lives as miserable as we can if you think all we do it sit and read books.

 

[Baldry]

Death doesn't always wear blue, and he, in fact, can fall. (Cookie for reference)

The Megas disagree.

Money CAN buy you love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_wife

Money CAN buy you happiness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty

Oh I thought you were going to say these http://www.buysomehappiness.com/

 

[Moth_Monk]

*Moth Monk goes on thread about common misconceptions*

*Sees that users are actually just arguing about personal OPINIONS*

*'Seems legit'*

Contrary to popular belief, this is not a thread about things contrary to popular belief...it would seem

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

The original Horsemen of the Apocalypse were CONQUEST, War, Famine and Death. Or, if you want to take the original Book of Revelations by face value, Some dude on a white horse, some dude on a red horse, some dude on a black horse, and Death (on a pale horse).

Also, eye for an eye is a call for fairness in judgement, not for always getting revenge. It was a suggestion made to replace the general policy at that time, which was a life for an eye.

(I realize these are both biblical, and I don't really know why, but hey, whatever.)

Contrary to popular belief, the "eye for an eye" mentality came from the Code of Hammurabi, which was the BASIS for Biblical law (Mosaic law). Which segues me right into my O.T. post.

*Warning, bit of the ol' Bible fires burnin' below this point*

The Code of Hammurabi is the reason why the the Old Testament is not as "harsh" as people believe it is today. They only say it's harsh now because they don't realize what life and society was like under the Code, BEFORE Mosaic law came into effect (prior to that, people would have KILLED for an "anarchistic" legal system like what Moses brought, if only for some breathing room).

Which ALSO segues me into another factoid - Christians are not supposed to judge or condemn homosexuals (or anyone for that matter). I'M LOOKIN' AT YOU, WESTBORO! The only reason it says in the Old Testament that men laying with other men were to be killed was from, again, the Code of Hammurabi, which was, again, what Mosaic law was based off of. In their society, it was wrong to be gay, just like it was wrong to have a disease, or to leave your chewed gum on the underside of a counter [citation needed]. The New Testament does NOT say anything about homosexuals, save for a few loose Greek translations that scholars are still unsure of the meaning. Nevertheless, when Jesus came, he essentially rendered the Old Testament laws void, to make way for the new age of societies that were rising up (such as our own, two thousand years later). Jesus SAID not to judge LEST YE BE JUDGED, and to basically love and tolerate the SHIT out of everyone. That's four points of Biblical history against Westboro's beliefs right there...

*End of Bible-Homosexuality correction*

And just to make sure this wasn't a COMPLETELY God-filled post, I'll add a gaming point...
"The Sith Lords" was better than the original K.o.t.O.R.

Excellent post, and true. I knew Jesus nulled the Old Testament, but now I also know where Mosaic Law came from.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

*Moth Monk goes on thread about common misconceptions*

*Sees that users are actually just arguing about personal OPINIONS*

*'Seems legit'*

Contrary to popular belief, this is not a thread about things contrary to popular belief...it would seem

I noticed that many people were posting personal opinions as opposed to actual facts. ¬__¬

 

[C. Cain]

*Moth Monk goes on thread about common misconceptions*

*Sees that users are actually just arguing about personal OPINIONS*

*'Seems legit'*

Contrary to popular belief, this is not a thread about things contrary to popular belief...it would seem

I noticed that many people were posting personal opinions as opposed to actual facts. ¬__¬

Eerily reminiscent of the latest 'Historical Facts' thread, n'est-ce pas?

OT: Abraham Lincoln was most definitely not a vampire hunter.

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

OT: Abraham Lincoln was most definitely not a vampire hunter.

Fact: This man is lying.
OT: Ghengis Khan was not dull savage, but, backed by a bloke called Subutai one of the greatest tacticians ever.

 

[Jaeke]

Mormons aren't polygamists.

Yes, yes... I know you saw that episode of Family Guy too, but trust me. We aren't.

Those crazy fundamentalists though, *whew*... feel free to go to town on them.

 

[mgirl]

The correct plural of octopus is octopodes.

Octopi is incorrect, octopuses is acceptable.

It's all to do with the root language of the words.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

This is true for both men and women. People don't like to admit it but it's the truth!

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Oh, and size matters.

Perfect.

That's a brilliant example of a misconception, you even got the whole 'alpha' thing going too.

I love it.

 

[The Funslinger]

This is true for both men and women. People don't like to admit it but it's the truth!

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Oh, and size matters.

I think you missed the point of that movie.

By a long shot. It's a satire of 80's Yuppy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppy] culture. Those guys are meant to be overblown stereotypes of misogynistic excessively consumerist wankers.

 

[lacktheknack]

Hitting women in the groin does cause pain... and it's usually worse than what men experience.

Source, pls.

I've talked to a couple girls that have been kicked in the groin, and they compared to having their foot stomped, except higher and causing more adrenaline rush.

A knee to the balls, in comparison, is similar to having someone shove a red-hot knife into your arm for a second, then letting you deal with the aftermath (some extrapolation used).

OT: Contrary to popular belief, teenaged girls ARE psychopathic, and many will freely admit it.

(This not-very serious observation has been used in lieu of any factoids not already mentioned.)

 

[sageoftruth]

While violent crime may not go down, it's harder to shank large numbers of people to death than shoot them, which would at least reduce the number of massacres which seem to be so popular in America.

The weird thing is that they aren't that common. However, whenever they do happen they become a massive deal, completely forgoing the twelve other instances where this person was stopped. Frankly, I still maintain that if there had been a single person with a concealed carry permit in that Aurora theater, we'd be reading about a hero that stopped a potential massacre rather than some fucked up college student.

In regards to your desire for sited evidence, I would be doing that, but I didn't bring my laptop to college with me and all my saved data regarding firearms threads on the escapist was saved on my desktop. I apologize, I'll see if I can find it.

OT: Contrary to popular belief, shotguns are actually pretty effective past 2 feet, people can't just pick up handguns and shoot super-accurately, and without the US Army Rangers at Pointe du Hoc, D-Day would have had many, many more losses.

The Aurora theater was in Colorado. Do you really think no one had a gun in there?

 

[lacktheknack]

This is true for both men and women. People don't like to admit it but it's the truth!

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I....I don't even....

do you live in anything that resembles the real world?

Keep in mind that people who do think like that tend to be extrapolating their own pathetic outlooks onto anyone else.

I don't really care what my girlfriend/wife looks like (within reason), as long as she's someone I can LIVE with. I also find it annoying when people take clips from American Psycho (problem is in the title) and tell me I think like that... because.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Cats are not most active at night, but rather during dawn and dusk. This is called a "crepuscular" pattern, as opposed to nocturnal or diurnal.

Toilets do not spin the opposite way across hemispheres.

Power Rangers was not an original American show. It was, in fact, Japanese before America make a few surface changes and marketed it as Power Rangers.

The Lion King was never *confirmed* to be a ripoff of Kimba The White Lion. Any accusations were dropped on the grounds that the Kimba studio said it would be honored *if* TLK were in fact a ripoff.

Most of your childhood famous Disney movies are *really* old -- if you're a twentysomething now, you just saw the 1990's advertising and re-releasing of them and thought they were new. Snow White is from 1937. Bambi was 1942. 101 Dalmatians was 1961. Aristocats was 1970. Unless it was formally in theaters after Beauty and the Beast, it wasn't a hit Disney movie made in your lifetime.

If you are shot and it isn't in a major organ, chances are you'll be just fine. If it's a low-caliber bullet like a .22, you can even rarely survive a shot to the head, as the skull is *really* tough and can ricochet bullets if they hit at the right angle.

If you are impaled by a stick/other object, your best course of action is to cut it off a little outside your body, leave it there, and go seek help. Don't pull it out, because it will encourage more bleeding.

 

[sageoftruth]

As anyone who has ever fired one can attest, most shotguns have an effective range of more than five feet. We wouldn't use them otherwise.

I hate it when games do depict shotguns with shit range.

Also, when people say money cant buy happiness, they are typically not all that worried about money. When you dont have money, than can money buy happiness (or to be specific, piece of mind, which leads to happiness.)

What I really hate is how they're ONLY ever buckshot.

Contrary to popular belief, shotguns have solid ammo as well, often referred to as "slugs." These are actually accurate and still lethal at medium range. Kudos to the old Doom games for actually having these. Goddamn modern gaming and "lolol all that exists in the world is scattershot, hahahahaha."

And as someone who's been struggling with finances for 4 years, I agree on the money part. Having money itself doesn't make me happy, but the peace of mind that comes from it does.

Hell, BF3 is the only game I knowof that actually gave you the option of using different shells. Nothing quite beats sniping someone in bazaar with a rifle-scope shotgun though

Just to add to the list, Metal Gear Solid 4 let you choose shotgun ammunition as well. Still, I had no idea what difference it made, so thanks for the ammunition lesson.

 

[TAGM]

Interesting ones, and I'd like to make two additions:

It's called the book of revelation, not revelations.

*Snip the rest*

Contrary to popular belief, the "eye for an eye" mentality came from the Code of Hammurabi, which was the BASIS for Biblical law (Mosaic law). Which segues me right into my O.T. post.

*snip the rest*

Isn't it almost ironic that I go here to, among other things, show some intelligence on these matters, and it takes only a page for two people to find flaws in my own pointing out of flaws?
(Perhaps flaws is the wrong word but you get my point.)
Not complaining or anything, just saying...

While on this subject, actually:
Irony is not a funny coincidence.
But, also contrary to "popular" belief, it is ALSO not just complete and utter reversal of an expected happening.
There is, for instance, dramatic irony, where the audience knows something within a play or show, but the characters do not.
And, depending on which definitions you accept, (Possibly wrong ones but I'm not sure) sarcasm can be classed as irony in a sense.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Gun-control laws produce increases, not decreases, in violent crime.

Evidence for this?

Edit: nvm manic_depressive13 already said what I was getting at

 

[KP Shadow]

Death doesn't always wear blue, and he, in fact, can fall. (Cookie for reference)

It really depends if he's quick on the draw, for in this town, that is the law.

You get a cookie.

Death doesn't always wear blue, and he, in fact, can fall. (Cookie for reference)

The Megas disagree.

I said that he doesn't always wear blue. While the default color scheme for Mega Man is primarily blue, he changes color depending on what ability he uses. Though he's blue most of the time, that's not always the case. Thus, Death doesn't always wear blue. And, remember, by the time the X series rolls around, the original Mega Man has been deactivated for a long time (He was intended to appear in Mega Man X: Command Mission, though he would have been broken-down and covered in rust).