Misconceptions/Ignorance
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I'm British. I'm a gentleman. I'm sarcastic and cynical. BUT I do not like tea, or crumpets.Midgeamoo said:It is statistically, a fair enough assumption, although they should maybe ask you to confirm their prejudices first xP.Rastien said:The fact that im british i immediatley like tea.
The fact that i do and i make a fine brew is neither here nor there
I know very few people who don't drink tea here, and the look of horror on many peoples faces when they say they don't is pretty hilarious xP
OT: when I tell people I have sociopathic amorality, they either take that to mean full blown sociopath unable to understand emotion, with no morals, or they think I'm a school shooting waiting to happen. It's quite tiring, really.
The fact is I do adhere to a stringent moral compass, and I feel my emotions very strongly.
I hate the misconception that rednecks are bad people. And I am European and spend more time in the city than the country and I think they are generally good people if you exclude the hicks who think gay people are evil.Jodah said:
Shit, now you got me thinking about guns. I'd make a list of a thousand misconceptions I hate, so I'll keep it short.
- only the military and police should own guns
- that gun registration means that a killer with be immediately found with 100% accuracy
- that the term "silencer" is only used by hollywood and videogames
- that certain features on guns make them actually deadlier ("shoulder thing that goes up").
It's like saying a "tuned" Fiat Punto will outrun a Lancer Evo because it has flame decals and neon lights.
Jesus Christ, I've had this before. I usually keep my anger to myself until I turn slightly unwell, Then I can (justifiably) be a right fucking ****.SmegInThePants said:
My fear is that people see how very skinny I am and assume it's because I'm starving or purging to "look pretty". I'm not starving on purpose because I'm afraid of being fat... I'm starving because I have a medical disorder known as Crohn's Colitis. This means that my body simply isn't absorbing nutrients as effectively because some parts of the intestines are damaged. Not only that, but most foods I used to eat any chance I got now cause pain similar to being kicked in the balls every minute or two. Not a pleasant experience to go through, let me tell you.
If someone comes up to me and starts going on about how I should eat a sandwich and not puke like some pussy, they're going to be lucky if I don't go Hannibal Lecter on them.
If someone comes up to me and starts going on about how I should eat a sandwich and not puke like some pussy, they're going to be lucky if I don't go Hannibal Lecter on them.
Anything involving black holes. Sci-Fi have made them out as planet munching monsters that go around the universe eating stuff up. Also that they're some sort of rip in space-time.
If our sun was to turn into a black hole (It wouldn't, but follow me on this...) we would orbit in the same way we do now. We'd all die from the cold of space, but we'd still orbit it. It wouldn't suck in the solar system because IT HAS THE SAME MASS AS THE SUN. Gravity is caused by mass, and you can't create mass, so a black hole is only as heavy and powerful in terms of gravity as the star (Or core of the star...) it came from! And they aren't rips in space or whatever badly written TV shows have you believe. The event horizon, the black part you see (Or don't see, whatever way you look at it...) is just the radius at which the gravity is so strong light can't escape. It isn't a surface, but it definitely isn't some sort of inter-dimensional rift.
Also, that they 'eat up' time. No, time (Like energy and matter...) can't be destroyed or cast into some sort of void, it's just that according to the laws of general relativity the singularity at the center of the black hole has a gravity so strong that time essentially stops at that point. If you were somehow magically unaffected by gravity and you were somehow magically inside a singularity, if you somehow magically managed to GET OUT of the singularity, you'd be an infinite number of years into the future. Considering the universe itself is finite, you can understand the impossibility of exiting a singularity or even the radius at which light can't get out of a black hole.
If our sun was to turn into a black hole (It wouldn't, but follow me on this...) we would orbit in the same way we do now. We'd all die from the cold of space, but we'd still orbit it. It wouldn't suck in the solar system because IT HAS THE SAME MASS AS THE SUN. Gravity is caused by mass, and you can't create mass, so a black hole is only as heavy and powerful in terms of gravity as the star (Or core of the star...) it came from! And they aren't rips in space or whatever badly written TV shows have you believe. The event horizon, the black part you see (Or don't see, whatever way you look at it...) is just the radius at which the gravity is so strong light can't escape. It isn't a surface, but it definitely isn't some sort of inter-dimensional rift.
Also, that they 'eat up' time. No, time (Like energy and matter...) can't be destroyed or cast into some sort of void, it's just that according to the laws of general relativity the singularity at the center of the black hole has a gravity so strong that time essentially stops at that point. If you were somehow magically unaffected by gravity and you were somehow magically inside a singularity, if you somehow magically managed to GET OUT of the singularity, you'd be an infinite number of years into the future. Considering the universe itself is finite, you can understand the impossibility of exiting a singularity or even the radius at which light can't get out of a black hole.
Hehehe. With all the tabletop gaming I do there have been plenty of chances to ask guys what it feels like, usually by starting a debate about what feels worse: a guy being nutted or a girl on her period? I used to say the latter was worse, but now I've changed my mind.Gordon Freemonty said:>SarahSarah Frazier said:
>Feels like getting kicked in the balls
I jest of course.
Wait, people think Canadians are nice? Where I live most people think Canadians are ass holes and if they are being nice its because they want something. I've never believed that they are any worse than Americans but that seems like its backwards from what people think.Regnes said:
Well since there's a prime example right here, how about people who think anecdotal evidence is worth anything.TestECull said:
Always annoying when you're in a debate and someone thinks they can say "Well I did X and Y never happened to me so obviously X will never ever lead to Y."
Let's see what is some other stupid stuff i have got from more than one person. Our sun is not a star because a star will kill us
You can not store an acid it will destroy the container
Alcohol is the only thing that ferments
21 is the global drinking age
Turning the heater up to a higher temperature will make it heat up quicker
Everything freezes at the freezing point of water that is why it is called freezing
(Insert element or compound here)can not be a gas/liquid/solid it is gas/liquid/solid at room temperature
Gas is not a form of alcohol! only things like beer are.
Medications (all of them) are not toxic
We can not survive any level of toxin
You can not OD on Advil/Water/Oxygen
You can not store an acid it will destroy the container
Alcohol is the only thing that ferments
21 is the global drinking age
Turning the heater up to a higher temperature will make it heat up quicker
Everything freezes at the freezing point of water that is why it is called freezing
(Insert element or compound here)can not be a gas/liquid/solid it is gas/liquid/solid at room temperature
Gas is not a form of alcohol! only things like beer are.
Medications (all of them) are not toxic
We can not survive any level of toxin
You can not OD on Advil/Water/Oxygen
"So, you're kind of good with computers, right? ... Does that mean you can hack peoples' Facebook accounts for me?"
You're endangering kittens, people.
You're endangering kittens, people.
I'm just curious to how anyone decided milking a cow was a good idea. I mean i'm glad, but damn. It must have been really disturbing to watch one of your fellow tribesmen do that.
Also, I hate it when people on the forums say "this is being misused" without explaining it. Its' like... well done dickhead, you've contributed nothing at all.
Also, I hate it when people on the forums say "this is being misused" without explaining it. Its' like... well done dickhead, you've contributed nothing at all.
Considering the first two are some of the most over diagnosed conditions in the US people have stopped believing the people who actually suffer from these conditions.Unsilenced said:
*sighs* So many things...
The assumption that I'm a complete loner who hates everyone and everything seems to be the biggest one people have about me.
I say 'Oh, I like X Show' and they're like 'What?! We assumed you hated it because you hate everything!'
I also get sick of people assuming I'm crazy because I'm
clairaudient, or that I've gone insane because of my paraphasia. It's not my fault I sometimes, for example, say 'duck' instead of 'bookshelf', or 'jam' instead of 'house' (I have honestly done both of those at one point).
Oh, those people who assume that all anime/manga is either for children or erotic! They really piss me off...
And any stereotype about me being British. Or Welsh. Especially Welsh.
I do not live on a farm and I do not shag sheep.
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The assumption that I'm a complete loner who hates everyone and everything seems to be the biggest one people have about me.
I say 'Oh, I like X Show' and they're like 'What?! We assumed you hated it because you hate everything!'
I also get sick of people assuming I'm crazy because I'm
clairaudient, or that I've gone insane because of my paraphasia. It's not my fault I sometimes, for example, say 'duck' instead of 'bookshelf', or 'jam' instead of 'house' (I have honestly done both of those at one point).
Oh, those people who assume that all anime/manga is either for children or erotic! They really piss me off...
And any stereotype about me being British. Or Welsh. Especially Welsh.
I do not live on a farm and I do not shag sheep.
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God, the amount of people who don't realise drinking overly high amounts of water in a short amount of time can be lethal...DANEgerous said:
Things people believe that fall under this topic
That life can't exist on any planet not exactly like earth.
That Dinosaurs are a giant hoax created by the government to trick people into believing the world is older than 6000 years
That dinosaur bones were created by the devil to make people doubt the word of god
EDIT:
That the US never landed on the moon
That the world is flat
That an object can have volume but no mass, or vice versa
That life can't exist on any planet not exactly like earth.
That Dinosaurs are a giant hoax created by the government to trick people into believing the world is older than 6000 years
That dinosaur bones were created by the devil to make people doubt the word of god
EDIT:
That the US never landed on the moon
That the world is flat
That an object can have volume but no mass, or vice versa
That Americans are all fat, stupid, ignorant and violent people when really all they know of the country and its people is the behaviour of its successive governments which is wholly unrepresentative of the majority. Im British but the amount of baseless america hate with such ignorance is insulting.
That console gamers are somehow inferior as people or as gamers and that they do not care or know about the industry.
That being more knowlegable than someone else makes you superior, I know this isnt the case for most but it infuriatingly is for some. Linked to this is that being an Athiest makes you a smarter person, a better person (because you havent done bad things yet have no one to answer to yet christians do, completely ingoring the fact that people tend to go with a faith they agree with and thus would only follow the morals of a religion should they intend to follow it naturally anyway) or gives you the right to think/treat anyone else who isnt an athiest with less respect, patronization, generalization or any other kind of negative treatment.
That having a different view means you are insulting someone and dissecting another's argument is insulting them.
I could go on, so I will.
That anything which could possibly hurt the industry or deny it gain is piracy.
That piracy is in any way, on the large ok (though by piracy I do not mean the absolutely harmless and indisuptable situations when you absolutely cannot obtain the game for whatever reason without an actually good reason preventing you), and that the argument made for it are in anyway remotely sensical and not at all entitled. (please dont respond to me about this no ones' mind is going to change and this inst the thread for it).
That the industry is struggling or that game quality has declined from what it was before and that the industry has become more monopolized, which couldnt be further from the truth. Linked to this is that indie devs are somehow naturally better than large companies, respect and loyalty from fans should be earned and not be seen as a granted nor shoul it simply disapear or have less justification when a company is big. They all operate on the same level until they have proven themselves different. I feel most indie devs are like that because they cant be part of the big dogs/think they can do better for themsleves away from the big guys.
Im about done now. Seriously a pinch of reality wouldnt be unwelcome to some people here and everywhere else.
Oh oh two more. That governemnts are evil, when we elect them and therefore are whatever we want. and that corporations are evil when they are simply a-moral as expected. Not to support many of them simply saying hey do things for a reason not to srew us over. Good thing or not is a different matter (I think bad which is why im into natinalisation but hey). Sorry for spelling im pretty tired.
That console gamers are somehow inferior as people or as gamers and that they do not care or know about the industry.
That being more knowlegable than someone else makes you superior, I know this isnt the case for most but it infuriatingly is for some. Linked to this is that being an Athiest makes you a smarter person, a better person (because you havent done bad things yet have no one to answer to yet christians do, completely ingoring the fact that people tend to go with a faith they agree with and thus would only follow the morals of a religion should they intend to follow it naturally anyway) or gives you the right to think/treat anyone else who isnt an athiest with less respect, patronization, generalization or any other kind of negative treatment.
That having a different view means you are insulting someone and dissecting another's argument is insulting them.
I could go on, so I will.
That anything which could possibly hurt the industry or deny it gain is piracy.
That piracy is in any way, on the large ok (though by piracy I do not mean the absolutely harmless and indisuptable situations when you absolutely cannot obtain the game for whatever reason without an actually good reason preventing you), and that the argument made for it are in anyway remotely sensical and not at all entitled. (please dont respond to me about this no ones' mind is going to change and this inst the thread for it).
That the industry is struggling or that game quality has declined from what it was before and that the industry has become more monopolized, which couldnt be further from the truth. Linked to this is that indie devs are somehow naturally better than large companies, respect and loyalty from fans should be earned and not be seen as a granted nor shoul it simply disapear or have less justification when a company is big. They all operate on the same level until they have proven themselves different. I feel most indie devs are like that because they cant be part of the big dogs/think they can do better for themsleves away from the big guys.
Im about done now. Seriously a pinch of reality wouldnt be unwelcome to some people here and everywhere else.
Oh oh two more. That governemnts are evil, when we elect them and therefore are whatever we want. and that corporations are evil when they are simply a-moral as expected. Not to support many of them simply saying hey do things for a reason not to srew us over. Good thing or not is a different matter (I think bad which is why im into natinalisation but hey). Sorry for spelling im pretty tired.
ADHD gets over-diagnosed, or so I hear. It's one of those conditions that's hard to pin down because it can have a number of causes and a wide range of severity. I have it because of a poorly developed prefrontal cortex, a trait which runs in my family.artanis_neravar said:
Depression gets self-diagnosed a lot and is often used as a synonym for "very sad," which is so very wrong.