Misconceptions you hate!

[DrunkenElfMage]

Heres one that I always forget pisses me off until it happens right in front of me: Calling some one a lesbian because they are a tomboy. The most recent rage inducing example: someone on the internet calling Rainbow dash a lesbian.

... I'm not a brony I swear...

 

[danqaz]

That being thoughtful makes you a braggart or elitist, or that showing your intelligence or knowledge is akin to condescension. People used to hate me in grade school and middle school because I'd tell them what kind of scores I got when they asked, not that they seemed to be very interested in doing any better. I certainly never turned anyone down for help and would keep working with them until they understood. Now, I can't engage in my favorite topic, politics, because people either take it way too seriously, roll their eyes at you as though the very idea of talking about what our government or society should work towards is not an acceptable topic of discussion, or get offended because you try to probe their opinions and treat topics with significant depth. The contempt and apathy that people show for discussing public policy never ceases to amaze and infuriate me.

YES YES YES! THIS MAN RIGHT HERE! My agreement with you is nothing short of infinite!

 

[Keepeas]

The misconception that all americans have less IQ than a used yoghurt and that all british people are incredibly upper class and only drink tea and eat scones.

That is probably the one I hate the most..
It just isn't true...

Although it's funny to listen to some people rant on about the
"retarded fat american dicks"
I'm not sure about the fat or dick part,
but we certainly aren't as bad as people around the world think

 

[Slayer_2]

That nuclear power is horrifically dangerous. Erm, excuse me? Coal ash deaths usually rank about 30,000 a year. Nuclear deaths go to about 20.
That humans lose 90% of their heat through their heads. No, more like 15%. The study that said 90% was done by immersing people in freezing water, and measuring heat loss. Well, the brain has to keep running, so of course it's going to lose a hell of a lot of heat. Across the rest of the body, blood flows change to keep your internal organs as warm as possibly.

Pretty much those exactly. I hate how people's ignorance is causing us to ignore a relatively clean and extremely powerful energy source. And the loss of heat from the head thing also pisses me off. You lose far more heat from your chest than your head.

Also, that causes violence. Over time we've had everything from rock music to video-games blamed for this, instead of mental instability.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

That good and evil are real, and not something we've made up, that they're inherently there, whether we are or not. They're both meaningless terms and their definitions vary from person to person, from generation to generation and from culture to culture. NOTHING is inherently good and NOTHING is inherently bad.

First one I disagree with. I'm a guy who really likes the theory of the forms and the idea that a philosopher should be looking for an objective view of something so subjective as good and bad, that's the entire point of The Republic and I find it enticing because of it.

OT: People who harp on about how DLC, DRM, always online (AO) and used game countermeasures (UGC) are ruining gaming. This is far from the truth, especially DLC and UGC. These two are fair methods used by developers and publishers as a means of getting the money they should be getting for extra content and your used game purchase. DLC can be made whenever the developer feels like it and can be put onto the disc and only use an unlock key, it's practical and fair, shut up about it.[footnote]What isn't fair is cutting out plot points and selling them back in (see: Assassins Creed 2)[/footnote]

AO and DRM are a little different, however both are fair practices. DRM does help to some extent, although that measure is currently unknown to me, if it didn't then they wouldn't continue. It's their game and any measure they take to protect their copyright property is a fair practice. It'll cause you minor issues if any. Always online is something I just can't get my head around, I can't see how it would be a major problem. The majority of people have broadband now and are always connected to the internet anyway, if you're going somewhere where you won't have internet you probably shouldn't be playing games anyway and if your internet cuts out then you've just got to put up with not having games until it comes back.

My internet cuts out every time someone calls, so AO would be a problem for me. However, I know exactly how to fix my internet and you should find out too. If you can't pay for internet then you should be leaving video games until you get enough money to pay for it, or just play offline games.

 

[WayOutThere]

That people who reject faith do so because they either lack or don't value imaginiation.

 

[marcooos]

OT: I hate the misconception that in britain anyone under the age 25 goes on a murder-rapey-looting-headbutt-mugging frenzy for shits and gigs

 

[marcooos]

That nuclear power is horrifically dangerous. Erm, excuse me? Coal ash deaths usually rank about 30,000 a year. Nuclear deaths go to about 20.
That humans lose 90% of their heat through their heads. No, more like 15%. The study that said 90% was done by immersing people in freezing water, and measuring heat loss. Well, the brain has to keep running, so of course it's going to lose a hell of a lot of heat. Across the rest of the body, blood flows change to keep your internal organs as warm as possibly.

Pretty much those exactly. I hate how people's ignorance is causing us to ignore a relatively clean and extremely powerful energy source. And the loss of heat from the head thing also pisses me off. You lose far more heat from your chest than your head.

Also, that causes violence. Over time we've had everything from rock music to video-games blamed for this, instead of mental instability.

Finally other people that understand nuclear power <3

 

[Fusioncode9]

That everybody in Texas is a cowboy and rides a horse.

 

[SuperiorityComplex]

that all british people are incredibly upper class and only drink tea and eat scones.

OP: That you can wake up from being unconscious due to a whack on the head for an hour and be totally fine. If you're hit on the head and pass out, that means you got a horrbily bad concussion. If you don't wake up within 10-15 seconds (I believe) you get permanent brain damage.
And I see it in stories all the time! Come on, people, do some research.

Uh, I've done it. Been out cold for an unspecified amount of time (because really, I only know exactly what time I went to bed, not what time I got out of bed again, and I know what time I came round), with a pretty impressive set of injuries from a short (3ft) fall. Nobody even knew concussion was an issue til about ten days later.

And no, I'm not a medical miracle, not by a mile. I was in untold amounts of pain afterwards, though.

OT:
a) that I'm Irish
b) that I'm a redhead
c) that I'm a redhead because I'm Irish

I am not Irish, I can legally hold an Irish passport but I was not born in the Irish State. Neither were any of my family members. I was born in Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. And yes, I'm a redhead, but so is my mother. My Dad is black haired. My mother is English. my Dad is from Northern Ireland.

Just irks me, somewhat, especially the Irish thing.

 

[Phenx92]

Now, I can't engage in my favorite topic, politics, because people either take it way too seriously, roll their eyes at you as though the very idea of talking about what our government or society should work towards is not an acceptable topic of discussion, or get offended because you try to probe their opinions and treat topics with significant depth. The contempt and apathy that people show for discussing public policy never ceases to amaze and infuriate me.

Feel the same there, Lucky for me I've got friends that I can talk to about that.

OP: I'd say people who beleave the US military as a whole is all about shooting things, killing people, and all the other ignorant bullshit that infuriates me to no end. That and people who think Americans are all fat or live like on "Jersey Shore," not only is it not true but I think that show is the stupidest thing ever.

EDIT: I just remembered another one, I despise people who think I worship satan because I listen to metal music. the only kind that fall in that catagory are Doom and Death metal, neither of which I listen to, and not all metal is screaming and growling either.

 

[Der_Bradly]

That all religious people are complete nut jobs who have others tell them what to believe. No, thank you I choose being a christian, so go hump a kangaroo (Australians do that, right?)

 

[SoranMBane]

I know Extra Credits already did an episode on this, but the misconception that making games artistic means making them "less fun." No it won't. Look at Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, Fallout, Assassin's Creed, Psychonauts. These are all "fun" games, but they're all also undeniably art (side-note: I also hate the misconception that "art" refers to quality rather than objective format). Having complex themes about serious issues did not make those games "less fun," it just made it so the people who look for deeper meaning in their entertainment could take something else away from the experience. The whole attitude that games should "just be fun" also smacks of the worst kind of selfishness. So, just because you don't look for deeper meaning in your games, that means people like myself who do want it can't have it? Well, fuck you too, buddy.

 

[OverweightWhale]

That PC automatically means a Windows based computer. Did the meaning of PC change over the last 10 years after Macintosh computers became more popular?

 

[Mr.Numbers]

http://www.techcomedy.com/text_con.php?type=misconception

Take your pick

 

[DMShade]

The Canadian "Accent". We are not all Bob and Doug Mackensie. The only time I ever said Aboot, the novocaine from my dental work hadn't worn off yet. And I've never heard anyone in my age group call someone else a Hoser.

Also the idea that Gamers are inherently lazy. Put someone who watches 3 hours of TV a Night and someone who plays 3 hours of Games a night together, and people will assume the Gamer is the lazier, though the TV Watcher just...sits there for their three hours (Channel flicking notwithstanding).

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Someone please educate people on what socialism and communism are. Thanks.

When people (not gonna lie here its americans) scream "COMMUNISM!" At each other it hurts me. Deep inside my brain.

An interview at Sarah Palins book signing gave the quote "Obama wrote a book all about Stalinism and communism"

I weep.

 

[Azaez]

That because the Mayan calender is going to end in 2012 that the world is going to end to..who makes that crap up?

 

[Grimlock Fett]

I hate when women say that all men are the same! I actually hate any broad sweeping generalizations! Sure there are alot of people who are very alike but we're all different. For better or worse! WE ARE BORG ftw!

that feminism is about female dominance, not gender equality

that a man who transitions to a womin, isnt a real womin (i use this as an example but obviously this goes for a womin who transitions into a man, as well)

Did you intentionally spell woman like that?

 

[Death Wolf113]

thinking that the theory of evolution that Darwin put fourth and the theory of human evolution are the same thing. get's me mad every time Darwin evolution was animal based not human based