Things everybody should know but for some reason, most don't.

[WoW Killer]

why should everyone know that? surely thats only of religious importance?

Someone should explain it to the BNP. Last election they opened their campain by marching a bunch of twits dressed up as crusaders through the streets. Full chainmail and flags and shit. They're a far right group based around kicking out foreigners if you don't know. So yeah... him not being English and having no relation to England is kinda funny.

Ok here's one I'm surprised many people don't know/remember: the first king of Britain was a Scotsman.

 

[krazykidd]

Quebec is a province not a country . It is also the only french province of canada tht is officially french .

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

Absolutely no one else in my school knows what Animaniacs and Freakazoid are...

What sort of blasphemy is this? I'm not too big an Animaniacs fan, but I loved Freakazoid back in the day. One of the best 90s cartoons in existence.

How are people supposed to fap to flat-chested reptile chicks?

Believe me, someone in this world does. There are seven billion of us, after all.

 

[Professor Idle]

Entertainment's only purpose in our lives is to distract us from realizing one day we will die, kicking and screaming, into a deep dark black abyss, and we won't want to go but we won't have a choice...

Yeah man, life is meaningless and all that D: brb slitting wrists

*resumes tvtropes for three hours straight

You may have a point.

 

[illas]

Correlation is not causation.

 

[Quaxar]

The Atomic Bombs killed less than the firebombing of Tokyo.

Bombing Dresden served no strategic benefit.

Is that immediate deaths or factoring in deaths due to radiation and related after-affects?

And I really don't agree with your second statement.
First of all, Dresden was mostly unharmed [EDIT: until late 1944, my bad for missing that part out] due to its location so the bombing was a reminder of the advancement of allied troops not to mention it was, after all, the seventh biggest city.
Plus the Dresden junction was the main route for everything on rails in the wider area, considered one of the most important industrial centres of the Reich and the last garrison town on the eatern front.
I'm not saying carpet bombing it to ashes was a great decision but no strategic benefit goes a bit too far, don't you think?

 

[GoodOmens]

Basic first aid: not necessarily enough to set a bone or something like that, but enough to treat minor cuts, burns, shock, things like that.

Basic self-defense, and the knowledge that real fights aren't like in Bruce Lee movies.

Simple cooking, enough to prepare a meal from scratch. You don't need to be able to make a bechamel sauce, but you should be able to grill a chicken breast, cook pasta decently, things like that.

Number sense and estimation.

 

[Harpalyce]

How to fold a fitted bedsheet.

/still have not mastered this
//they're made of non-euclidean geometry and black magic, dammit

 

[Big_McLargehuge]

I think the worst is teenagers who think that getting pregnant and getting a puppy are the same thing. You do it for "unconditional love" and don't understand the responsibility and money and time that SHOULD go into your child.

My fiancee works at a high school and comes home with horrid stories of girls wanting to, or actually getting, pregnant because they feel unloved...

I mean really, children love you for about ten-twelve years, then HATE you for about eight or nine more, then they start to like you again, but they're adults and so it's a completely different relationship.

Put on a condom and go buy a puppy. They'll love you forever and you'll never have to pay to send them to college. Also, they're adorable. Babies are kinda like... tiny Winston Churchills.

 

[spartan231490]

Pi is 22 divided by 7, just in case you have a calculator without a Pi button and urgently have to calculate the circumference of a circle.

No, it's not. 22/7 is close to pi, but it is not pi. pi=3.14159 . . . 22/7 = 3.14285 . . . a non-repeating, non-terminating decimal can't be a fraction.

OT:
1) Climate change is real.
2) 20/20 is not perfect vision
3) caffeine is actually one of the worst drugs in existence.

 

[spartan231490]

The Atomic Bombs killed less than the firebombing of Tokyo.

Bombing Dresden served no strategic benefit.

Is that immediate deaths or factoring in deaths due to radiation and related after-affects?

And I really don't agree with your second statement.
First of all, Dresden was mostly unharmed due to its location so the bombing was a reminder of the advancement of allied troops not to mention it was, after all, the seventh biggest city.
Plus the Dresden junction was the main route for everything on rails in the wider area, considered one of the most important industrial centres of the Reich and the last garrison town on the eatern front.
I'm not saying carpet bombing it to ashes was a great decision but no strategic benefit goes a bit too far, don't you think?

Dresden was not mostly unharmed. 25,000 people died and 15 square miles of the city were destroyed. As for it's strategic value, yes dresden had value in relation to the rails, but the parts of the city that were targeted weren't the most important parts of the city for the rail system. Bridges, communication centers, and the majority of industrial centers(those that weren't in the heart of the city) were ignored.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

Internet explorer browser suck's, using really anything else.

Chiropractor's are doctors and won't break your neck.

Christmas isn't Jesus Christ's Birthday.

 

[Quaxar]

Basic first aid: not necessarily enough to set a bone or something like that, but enough to treat minor cuts, burns, shock, things like that.

Basic self-defense, and the knowledge that real fights aren't like in Bruce Lee movies.

Simple cooking, enough to prepare a meal from scratch. You don't need to be able to make a bechamel sauce, but you should be able to grill a chicken breast, cook pasta decently, things like that.

Number sense and estimation.

Can we expand the first one with "knowledge when it may be good to call an ambulance compared to being ridiculously incompetent"?
I swear, there are people who call because they slipped while cutting toenails and now don't even bleed, or the good old "I've got a headache since yesterday and now I thought I'd better call an ambulance to make sure it's not a tumor. I hope I didn't wake you." at 3 in the morning and it's always the first call after getting some sleep.

The Atomic Bombs killed less than the firebombing of Tokyo.

Bombing Dresden served no strategic benefit.

Is that immediate deaths or factoring in deaths due to radiation and related after-affects?

And I really don't agree with your second statement.
First of all, Dresden was mostly unharmed due to its location so the bombing was a reminder of the advancement of allied troops not to mention it was, after all, the seventh biggest city.
Plus the Dresden junction was the main route for everything on rails in the wider area, considered one of the most important industrial centres of the Reich and the last garrison town on the eatern front.
I'm not saying carpet bombing it to ashes was a great decision but no strategic benefit goes a bit too far, don't you think?

Dresden was not mostly unharmed. 25,000 people died and 15 square miles of the city were destroyed. As for it's strategic value, yes dresden had value in relation to the rails, but the parts of the city that were targeted weren't the most important parts of the city for the rail system. Bridges, communication centers, and the majority of industrial centers(those that weren't in the heart of the city) were ignored.

Whoops, my bad. Mostly unharmed until 1944. Don't know how I missed that part in my sentence.
I was just pointing out that it did have some strategic values and not to forget the huge moral value, I don't mean to say it was a great plan.

 

[Vivi22]

1) I really, really, really wish that people understood science better. How it's performed, when it's good, when it's bad, and what you can conclude from the findings. Very few things piss me off more than going onto a fluff article on CNN or something about "Eggplant may cure cancer!" and seeing a bunch of "It totally worked for ME..." in the comments. The plural of personal experience is not data! Also, correlation is not causation!

I would add to this a bit actually. Telling people that correlation doesn't equal causation is all well and good, but helping them spot the difference is even better.

Anytime you see an article talking about how A cures B, or may reduce C you need to stop and ask two questions about the original study:
A) Is it an observational study or a clinical study?
B) Did they control their variables?

If the answer to the first is observational, and/or the answer to the second is no, then the study doesn't prove a damn thing and no conclusions can be drawn. Such a study may be used to form a hypothesis that you can later test in more rigorous circumstances, but that's it. Unless it was a clinical study and the variables were controlled so they know some other factor than the one they were testing didn't significantly impact the results then the study proves nothing, and should not be treated as proof of anything by anyone at any time.

And if anyone is wondering what the answers to those questions are for a lot of health, medical, nutritional, etc. studies are it's that most of them are observational and didn't control their variables, yet people (usually those who zealously agree with their conclusions) will happily toss them out there as proof of whatever the topic was, regardless of how weak they are as evidence.

 

[Roggen Bread]

The toilet is NOT a trash can! Paper towels and wet wipes NEVER go in it! Those aren't NEARLY the same thing as toilet paper! Toilet paper is specifically designed to dissolve in septic tanks. You know what isn't? PAPER TOWELS!!!

Interesting. I did not know that. Thanks for enlightening me.

to topic:

You should *NOT* give cats anything containing milk.
Such as cream, butter, joghurt or... erm... MILK!

Ffs, so many people are seriously risking their cat's health.

I've been giving my cat milk her whole life and she's now 17 (in cat years) i'm pretty sure she will outlive me!!

I guess you meant "in human years"(years from your point of view). 17 in cat years is like 2 human years.
My cat is 17 (almost 18) human years as well, this equals about 85 cat years.
(I am well aware, that "in human years" or "in cat years" is tricky. I might be in the wrong here, too. But in my opinion, this is just logic)


Of course there are cats who live a long life. But you just shouldn't. Milk contains too much fat and too much lactose. People also become like 100 years old, heavily drinking and smoking. We don't argue if that's healthy, do we?

 

[Captain__Cookies]

*snip*

While I think you're exaggerating quite a bit with the whole back to the dark ages bit, I'm really tempted to agree with you about people realising what's happening to education.
I am fortunate enough to be in the first lot of people to get the higher fees they're bringing in i.e. I get to be the guinea big for their ridiculous backwards view of education. So I'll see you in 4 years with the largest student debt ever in this country and little or no job prospects

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Absolutely no one else in my school knows what Animaniacs and Freakazoid are.......

-_-

There is no hope for the people in your school.

OT: Everyone should know what Red Dwarf is because it's just that awesome. Sadly only British people will.

 

[Something Amyss]

It will get you close, but don't you use scientific calculators? I suppose shit does happen with those =/

Scientific calculators were used if we had them, but many of us didn't. Graphing Calculators were preferred from some of the stuff we did, but only two people had them. Most of what we did was more practical, so my instructor didn't make a huge deal.

 

[gim73]

Internet explorer browser suck's, using really anything else.

Chiropractor's are doctors and won't break your neck.

Christmas isn't Jesus Christ's Birthday.

to the first: that's your opinion. While there may be many great facts supporting that opinion.

to the second: That's your HOPE. Yes, they are doctors. But you also gotta figure in the fact that ALL DOCTORS ARE KILLERS, without exception. During their career, every single doctor will kill somebody, whether through negligence, malpractice or just plain malice.

to the third: It doesn't matter. Stating facts to a death cult is a waste of time. You could also point out that their holy day is supposed to be saturday, but that doesn't matter either. The cult leaders have a firm reign on the sheep. They tell them that murdering non-believers is okay, then murder happens. Murderous rich guy with a band of thugs wants your crop for taxes? He must be appointed by god to be your king because the cult leader is backing him. Don't have a good reason to keep the figurehead born on a certain day? Winter solstice is a great time in pagan tradition, let's switch it up!

People who use 'you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar' should have feces thrown at them. If they really want to catch flies, nothing will get the flies buzzing towards you faster than a hot, steaming turd. Also, why are they trying to get flies? I'm always trying to keep them out of the house.

'People who don't know history are doomed to repeat it' is very valid, but more valid is, 'People who know history are doomed to point out forever that everyone else is repeating history'

Stalin was an evil man who was going to divide up the world with Hitler. If Hitler hadn't been so greedy and wanted to keep it all for himself, WWII would have been alot darker...

Pro-Life doesn't mean that you value human life, only that you wish for the government to take away freedoms from those who need it. It's funny how many pro-life people are supporters of the death penalty.

 

[applesandoranges]

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