What's the stupidest thing anyone has ever told you as fact?

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What's the stupidest thing anyone has ever told you as fact?

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Briefly being around someone with the covid vaccine can mess up your periods and cause early menopause.

In high school they taught us that Shakespeare’s plays weren’t written down, that they were re-constructed by audience goers who remembered the lines and wrote them down.

Absolute bullshit.

That Jesus had 20kg stones he’d send Earth in the Doomsday. And that would be the day I’d regret not listening to the person saying it.

…mostly because I asked her why should I take the Bible more seriously than the Gîta, the Quran, or the Poetic Edda.

~25y later I’m still waiting those 20kg stones.

I don’t even understand that one… So doomsday comes and all you get is a lousy mid-sized stone?

Imagine stones falling from the sky, on your head. 144k “chosen ones” are spared, everyone else gets fucked. There’s fire, brimstone, and all that folklore. That was roughly her description of doomsday.

And apparently I’m getting rekt because I don’t take this sort of superstition seriously. *yawn*

Are the numbers actually that specific? I like that. We could combine that with the 7 spaceship theory out of one of the other threads. Would make a great basis for some kind of new cult!

Are the numbers actually that specific?

Yes for the 144k people. I’m not sure on the 20kg stones, if it’s part of her religion or if she invented it on the spot.

7 spaceship theory

Genius! And I even know how they’re hiding - below Earth!

Jehovah's Witnesses and salvation - Wikipedia

That green grapes were grapes that weren’t ripe. Couldn’t believe my ears and had to point out that green/white grapes make white wine and red grapes make red wine, there’s no such thing as red grapes that are green because they’re not ripe.
Orange wine made with white grapes would probably blow their mind.

there’s no such thing as red grapes that are green because they’re not ripe.

Son of winegrower here:
Actually, there are.
But you wouldn’t want to eat them… :-)

But you wouldn’t want to eat them… :-)

or ferment them. You want the sugar for the fermentation, after all.

(Some folks in my family grow wine for a living. I genuinely miss them.)

Grape Ripening Time Lapse Video. From Day One (1) To Day thirty Four (34)🕰️⏳

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I’ll stop faster because I’m towing a trailer.

My idiot FIL, a chronic tailgater, the last ever time I opted to be a passenger.

If the trailer has very good brakes set to full power even when nearly empty, it’s actually true, but I doubt that’s the case…

I am pretty sure physics says “no”:

Ff <= µ*Fn

  • Fn is proportional to the mass of the trailer, so it is irrelevant for the deceleration (a) if it is empty or not (because Ff = m*a).
  • µ is a constant relying on the tire/ground connection. Comparable to the towing car (if you happen to have car tire quality ones on your trailer, which might be doubtful)
    .

On top of that, typical car trailers use overrun brakes that per definition work by exerting an additional force on the towing vehicle in the direction of movement that is then used to activate the trailer brake.

Fair enough, car trailers do have garbage braking most of the time anyway. I may be biased because locomotives are so heavy and the traction you get with steel is shit so they actually benefit from some load behind…
Locomotives? What is your profession?
In any case, I seriously hope that you are not tailgaiting ;-)
Freight train driver. I don’t tailgate, I like to leave plenty of distance in front of my car.

I could see where, if the trailer has good brakes and a relatively light load, it could provide additional stopping power.

That’s usually not going to be the case though.

I’m reasonably sure that you’ll never stop sooner, you’ll likely be exceeding the traction from the tires at that point anyway.

The trailer wasn’t braked.

It is my understanding that there are two types of brakes you’ll find on trailers, the ones activated by a weight that swings forward under the force of the truck’s braking, and electric ones. Neither are anti-lock or anything fance, and neither are really designed to provide actual stopping power, the drag they add is meant to help maintain control. Most of the braking force is done by the truck’s front wheels.

I don’t think it’s impossible for there to be a spot on the performance envelope where you’ll stop a few feet shorter with a lightly loaded trailer, but I bet it’s not particularly large.

It is impossible with a trailer with no brakes.

My biology teacher in 7th grade during sex-ed:

The anus is a one way road

Fuck her homophobic ass.*

*Not literally. Something tells me she’s not into that.

Tell my gastroenterologist that…
Animals don’t suffer like we do.