Imperfected
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For a dumbass like me that constantly tries to swallow liquids directly into my lungs, yes.
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Common misconceptions that you believed for a long time
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For a dumbass like me that constantly tries to swallow liquids directly into my lungs, yes.
Spine_Ripper
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The Earth was round
SocksAndShoes
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Choking kills several thousand people a year, so yes.
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/avoiding-dehydration
"The best way to beat dehydration is to drink before you get thirsty. If you wait until after you're thirsty, you're already dehydrated."
gcncontroller
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I thought I could breathe underwater when I was little. I'd always "run out" of air right before I got to the surface and "breathe in" a bit before I actually surfaced. Kinda strange but thank god I didn't go out of my way to test that out further lmao
Also, up until about 4 months ago (i'm 20) I thought that margarine was butter and that butter was margarine.
edit: i'm realizing these may not be incredibly common haha whoops
Also, up until about 4 months ago (i'm 20) I thought that margarine was butter and that butter was margarine.
edit: i'm realizing these may not be incredibly common haha whoops
That's exactly what you guys have been saying. Repeating things doesn't make them true.
They also imply that you should get medical attention for people who are thirsty lol.
We're looking for what the consequences are, and whether they consistently follow being thirsty.
victreeb3l
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Meritocracy. I drank the start up silicon valley kool aid so hard in my early 20s. Sigh.
SocksAndShoes
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Except I didn't say that. The Cleveland Clinic did, and they're an academic hospital.
I thought animals all spoke to each other and bark moo were words.
I thought disciples was pronounced"disk-y-piles"
Both till I was six or seven.
But I knew an adult woman who assumed foreigners all thought in English and had to mentally translate into French, for example.
She was also stunningly beautiful which facilitated her lack of intellectual curiosity.
I thought disciples was pronounced"disk-y-piles"
Both till I was six or seven.
But I knew an adult woman who assumed foreigners all thought in English and had to mentally translate into French, for example.
She was also stunningly beautiful which facilitated her lack of intellectual curiosity.
Imperfected
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It seems to be more baked-in to the way visual processing in the brain works. I suppose if you had a sufficiently extreme aversion it could be categorized as such, but just being uncomfortable with that sort of imagery is borderline natural.
Stormthehouse
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I believed the gum thing for maybe a little too long.
The blue blood thing I got into fights about, sidetracked an entire day of health class in 10th grade arguing about it with multiple people while getting nothing from the teacher. Incredibly frustrating arguing against blue blood and the goddamn health teacher won't help you make your point.
The blue blood thing I got into fights about, sidetracked an entire day of health class in 10th grade arguing about it with multiple people while getting nothing from the teacher. Incredibly frustrating arguing against blue blood and the goddamn health teacher won't help you make your point.
Whatever, the other guy did. I assumed you agreed.
It's not hard to find people saying the opposite.
It's really embarrassing as it's a sexual one, but for the longest time I truly believed that pre-cum cannot make you pregnant. Pretty embarrassing for a woman not to know that, but hey, at least I didn't learn the hard way. I have no childrenThanks lack of sex ed.
One thing that I believed till part way through high school was that women could only get pregnant while on their period.
SocksAndShoes
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I tell you what, stop drinking when you're thirsty for a while. Let me know what happens.
blame space
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i do think in english?
curiouscharles
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neither of these things are even remotely possible.
if you breathed in underwater, you'd fucking choke and/or drown.
if you ever went to a grocery store in your 20 years on earth, you'd see that butter says "butter" on it, and margarine says "margarine" on it - oh, and they both come in completely fucking different packages.
You mean only drink when I'm thirsty? I already do that lol
Doctoglethorpe
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I believed in ghosts and shit until my mid teens. Does that count?
Pee and sperm were the same thing.
It was my 18th birthday party when I was told the difference.
In my defense I kept moving and missing out when middle school explained this stuff. And High School health skipped over it saying "You guys already know this stuff." and it was embarrassing to let the teacher know in the middle of class that I didn't. And of I did asked I was told to talk to my parents, and they pulled the "Talk to your Dad" and "Talk to your Mom" thing on me.
It was my 18th birthday party when I was told the difference.
In my defense I kept moving and missing out when middle school explained this stuff. And High School health skipped over it saying "You guys already know this stuff." and it was embarrassing to let the teacher know in the middle of class that I didn't. And of I did asked I was told to talk to my parents, and they pulled the "Talk to your Dad" and "Talk to your Mom" thing on me.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
Honestly, is it really that hard to believe that you're dehydrated BEFORE your brain sends a signal to indicate thirst? What's the alternative here?
That it tells you to drink before it becomes a hazard.
Without any evidence for it yeah. It makes less sense than the alternative.
I'm very confused
The Hermit
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Mostly diet stuff. When I realized that sugar is the real villain, lost 10 kg and I have much more control of what I eat and my weight.
Still atonished that people think meat and butter is worse. Ive seen doctors saying that estheatosis (fatty liver) is caused by meat and not sugar.
Also was raised with the mindset that USA and capitalism was evil, when it's really not
Still atonished that people think meat and butter is worse. Ive seen doctors saying that estheatosis (fatty liver) is caused by meat and not sugar.
Also was raised with the mindset that USA and capitalism was evil, when it's really not
that bad, just a little
sgtnosboss
Neo Member
I believed the phrase "play it by ear" was play it by year since... Like... Last year..
SocksAndShoes
Banned
So where's the evidence to support your claim then? Any academic hospitals supporting your hypothesis?
LizardKing
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WebMD said:
According to WebMD. Not that it will restore your eyesight to 20/20 or it's some miracle for eyesight though. Just they are "good" for your eyes.
Ah, I see the myth was actually that it would improve your night vision, which is false. But they are good for your eyes.
lightskintwin
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I thought the height of a woman correlated to the depth of their vagina, therefore assumed that taller women were more difficult to satisfy than shorter women, and was kinda intimidated from tall women. LOL
GurgleBot20
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I...may have a few questions.
LordOfChaos
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I was told a number of times in school that the gender wage gap was with identical parameters. It isn't, the numbers cited are usually an average of working populations not accounting for job type or experience, after which (and several other corrections) it's pretty small.
I meant without evidence either way.
I found this article.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/826504
John Kowalski
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I actually think in english a lot and often have to translate words from english to my own language.
the_prime_mover
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Well, the gender-wage gap does attempt to account for a number of conditions, not least among them is the likelihood that men and women will be equally represented in a specific field given similar levels of education and/or training. In reality women are much less likely to find positions in higher paying fields and are largely absent from many professions. additionally life cycle wage growth for women seems to be significantly lower than for men even in the same professional classifications.
ghostofsparta
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Latino was a race
All Mexicans are brown
Brown was a race, like white and black when in reality the "brown race" (or "red race" depending on who you ask) is native American
All Mexicans are brown
Brown was a race, like white and black when in reality the "brown race" (or "red race" depending on who you ask) is native American
Parmadillo Marshmallow
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I used to believe that people are generally good with a few bad ones. That has flipped since around the beginning of 2016.
Such a poorly thought out diagram, so common in classrooms even today! Although I'm talking up to my teenage years when I realised it made no sense.
Haha this isn't true? Shit.
Shit, this one isn't true either? Wtf
That there is such a thing as human races.
Coriolanus
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That's a good way to get hyponatremia.
Just drink when you're thirsty. You'll be fine. Unless you get mad thirsty on the reg or have a legit medical problem wrt thirst obv
People worry too much about this kinda stuff. Were the human body so finicky, we'd have gone extinct long ago.
Yeah. And I'd say what's FAR more important is to drink WATER instead of juices or sodas or coffee.
Strangelove77
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That karma existed.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
Like, why would anybody lie about it being round??
What benefit would that lie produce?
Mineshaft_Gap
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That people are basically good.
Sure! Anyone who speaks multiple languages thinks back and forth. But that's really not what she meant...
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