Misconceptions you hate!

[Silvertongue]

Ugh...where to BEGIN?

The fact everyone thinks that anyone who wears all black is "goth" and the the Columbine shooters were "goth"

The fact people believe metal is all just mindless growling or screaming with super aggressive instrumentation

The list could go on forever. As it stands I'm going to try to stop here to maintain control of my blood pressure.

 

[Aardvark Soup]

The idea that 'organic' food is more somehow more healthy or environmentally friendly to produce in than regular food.

 

[ManInRed]

That .9999...forever is less than 1. When they are in fact equal.

Ooh, the misconception that those two are equal when they aren't is one I hate. They are so close that it doesn't matter if you round up, but mathematically they are not the same.

Mathematically they are the same, two different ways to write the same real number, there is no rounding. It only seems like 0.999... would be smaller than 1. There are a few proofs out there demonstrating they are the same number.

For example:
1/9 = 0.111?
9 x 1/9 = 9 x 0.111?
1 = 0.999?

Or this one:
y = 0.999?
10y = 9.999?
10y ? y = 9.999? - 0.999?
9y = 9
y = 1

If 0.999... did not go on forever but stop at some very large point, then it would be less than 1. The last proof of shifting the digits to the left by one obviously is only possible because the 9's go on forever. It seems weird to people, because it is unusual to deal with infinitely long strings of numbers. It's not the only example of being able to write 1 real number in multiple ways, just a very strange looking one.

 

[Robert Ewing]

The whole Christians are stupid, ignorant, and hate filled morons. We are not. Christians are a divers and large group. We are not all one thing.

But the Christians that everyone knows and or cares about are idiots. I think that's generally the point.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Britain consists of England, Scotland, Whales and (debate-ably) Northern Ireland.

But... that's really not debateable. Britain consists of England, Scotland and Wales, Great Britain consists of the aforementioned plus Northern Ireland.

That's what I think as well, but I've heard people say it is (well I would have said it was part of the UK but whatever). :/

 

[Lord Merik]

The whole Christians are stupid, ignorant, and hate filled morons. We are not. Christians are a divers and large group. We are not all one thing.

But the Christians that everyone knows and or cares about are idiots. I think that's generally the point.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

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

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

Need I go on? All Christians all smart.

My point is that there are douchey Christians and that there are douchey atheists. In fact every group of people has its douches. On the flip side there are some great Christians and there are some great atheists. Your religious affiliation (or lack there of) does NOT determine what kind of person you are.

 

[Nokiro]

When people say I'm not Christian, I'm Catholic.

I facepalm so hard whenever anyone says this.

 

[Quaxar]

Britain consists of England, Scotland, Whales and (debate-ably) Northern Ireland.

But... that's really not debateable. Britain consists of England, Scotland and Wales, Great Britain consists of the aforementioned plus Northern Ireland.

That's what I think as well, but I've heard people say it is (well I would have said it was part of the UK but whatever). :/

I wanna correct myself... Great Britain does not include N Ireland. Confused something there, sorry.
It's actually called the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". That means Great Britain is the whole of England, Scotland and Wales as an island while Britain on the other hand is the island up to the Hadrian's Wall, that is to say excluding Scotland.

So Britain = England, Wales
Great Britain = England, Wales & Scotland
UK = England, Wales & Scotland + Northern Ireland

That is the correct way of saying it.

 

[emeraldrafael]

That there was no real culture in the Americas (or really anyhwere) before Europe decided to come over and "enlighten" the natives.

In the southern states tribes alone they had cities bigger then london (at the time). Clear language and customs. Please get over yourselves, there is no culture ever "enlightened" that wasnt already rich with its own customs.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

I wanna correct myself... Great Britain does not include N Ireland. Confused something there, sorry.
It's actually called the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". That means Great Britain is the whole of England, Scotland and Wales as an island while Britain on the other hand is the island up to the Hadrian's Wall, that is to say excluding Scotland.

So Britain = England, Wales
Great Britain = England, Wales & Scotland
UK = England, Wales & Scotland + Northern Ireland

That is the correct way of saying it.

Good, that's cleared up. But my point about a British accent being non-existent was right. Right?

 

[Quaxar]

I wanna correct myself... Great Britain does not include N Ireland. Confused something there, sorry.
It's actually called the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". That means Great Britain is the whole of England, Scotland and Wales as an island while Britain on the other hand is the island up to the Hadrian's Wall, that is to say excluding Scotland.

So Britain = England, Wales
Great Britain = England, Wales & Scotland
UK = England, Wales & Scotland + Northern Ireland

That is the correct way of saying it.

Good, that's cleared up. But my point about a British accent being non-existent was right. Right?

I would hope so seeing as by this definition Britain contains Cardiff, London, Manchester, and I don't know how many different accent-regions. And saying Welsh English sounds like Manc is just bloody stupid and/or ignorant.

 

[TheRocketeer]

There are certain misconceptions that seem to exist only as fodder for 'clever' people to 'correct' other people, who may or may not be wrong. It's like a secondary level of meta-misconceptions.

For instance, if you've ever used the phrase 'begging the question,' in a way that didn't refer to circular logic, a pedant likely knocked through a crowd of people to smugly inform you that you're using that phrase incorrectly. You know, since the word 'beg' can't be used more than one way.

Or how pseudo-intellects seem to treat the word 'whom' as a 'fancy' version of 'who.'

It's actually hard to come up with examples, but it always burns my ass when I see something like that.

 

[Pegghead]

I suppose I'm not a big fan of the misconception that all Aussies are kangaroo-riding, desert-dwelling, VB drinking combinations of Paul Hogan and Mel Gibson (with women just being that with another X chromosome).

No, I've always been in NZ. I've been transgender as of a month or so ago, too.

...From my understanding, don't you have to be...well, born transgender?

 

[AlAaraaf74]

That all Muslims are terrorists. People who say that are the most ignorant bastards on the planet.

 

[blankedboy]

I suppose I'm not a big fan of the misconception that all Aussies are kangaroo-riding, desert-dwelling, VB drinking combinations of Paul Hogan and Mel Gibson (with women just being that with another X chromosome).

No, I've always been in NZ. I've been transgender as of a month or so ago, too.

...From my understanding, don't you have to be...well, born transgender?

Uhm, I'd imagine that nobody is born transgender unless they're some sort of messed-up superbaby.
You might be confusing transgender [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender] with intersex [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex].

 

[Pegghead]

I suppose I'm not a big fan of the misconception that all Aussies are kangaroo-riding, desert-dwelling, VB drinking combinations of Paul Hogan and Mel Gibson (with women just being that with another X chromosome).

No, I've always been in NZ. I've been transgender as of a month or so ago, too.

...From my understanding, don't you have to be...well, born transgender?

Uhm, I'd imagine that nobody is born transgender unless they're some sort of messed-up superbaby.
You might be confusing transgender [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender] with intersex [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex].

Transgender being the mental condition wherein your mental "gender" and physical "sex" are incongruent. That would be why there are so many cases of children transitioning as young as eight.

 

[SquirePB]

That muscle size equals strength. I may be small but I'm still stronger than most of the muscle bound idiots in the gym because I train as a fighter rather than as a douschebag

 

[blankedboy]

I suppose I'm not a big fan of the misconception that all Aussies are kangaroo-riding, desert-dwelling, VB drinking combinations of Paul Hogan and Mel Gibson (with women just being that with another X chromosome).

No, I've always been in NZ. I've been transgender as of a month or so ago, too.

...From my understanding, don't you have to be...well, born transgender?

Uhm, I'd imagine that nobody is born transgender unless they're some sort of messed-up superbaby.
You might be confusing transgender [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender] with intersex [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex].

Transgender being the mental condition wherein your mental "gender" and physical "sex" are incongruent. That would be why there are so many cases of children transitioning as young as eight.

Well... yeah, yeah it is. There's people that transition at pretty much all ages, though .-.

 

[Pegghead]

I suppose I'm not a big fan of the misconception that all Aussies are kangaroo-riding, desert-dwelling, VB drinking combinations of Paul Hogan and Mel Gibson (with women just being that with another X chromosome).

No, I've always been in NZ. I've been transgender as of a month or so ago, too.

...From my understanding, don't you have to be...well, born transgender?

Uhm, I'd imagine that nobody is born transgender unless they're some sort of messed-up superbaby.
You might be confusing transgender [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender] with intersex [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex].

Transgender being the mental condition wherein your mental "gender" and physical "sex" are incongruent. That would be why there are so many cases of children transitioning as young as eight.

Well... yeah, yeah it is. There's people that transition at pretty much all ages, though .-.

So you're saying you actually started transition a month ago?

 

[Kyoufuu]

When people say I'm not Christian, I'm Catholic.

I facepalm so hard whenever anyone says this.

This. We worship Christ, which is where the word Christian comes from.

Also, that RuneScape is a kid's game. When you have quests where you have to choose between:
-Killing or leaving an unconscious guard alone;
-Doing a difficult puzzle, or murdering helpless slaves (the mouseover action says 'Murder', not 'Attack');
-Killing or freeing an Eldritch Horror that never hurt anyone, and has just been used by the bad guys (hooked up to equipment constantly draining its food-goo, think the jellyfish in that factory that Mr Krabs made in that one episode of Spongebob), and has basically had a shit life up til now, while this music [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63HUqLzDitk] plays;
-Saving one of your two friends (who have been fleshed-out during the quest series) while the other is sacrificed to summon the Big Bad;
you're not playing a children's game anymore.