Only in America

Didn't they fight the emus as well? Lol

Prejudice towards left-handed people has even shaped language. The word "sinister" (as a synonym of creepy/ominous) originates from the Latin word for "left hand", whereas "dextrous"/"dexterity" similarly comes from the Latin word for "right hand".

My step dad was the same. Is left handed but was forced to write with his right hand and was told he was writing rubbish - turns out he was mirror writing with his right hand

My primary teacher was forcing me to write with my right hand (even if i am left handed) then complain for not having nice hand writing.

Well well, look what money can do.

My grandpa had that happen to him, tied his left hand behind his back to force him to use his right. Turns out that writing was the only thing he used his right hand for. Everything else he used his left. He cast with left (fishing), he shot with his left and when doing things like chopping wood again his left. Teachers tried forcing my brother who is younger than me into the same kind of thing our grandpa went through, it was one of the few times my mom stood up and made herself heard.

And that's just one reason why religion is worthless.

My step-dad is left-handed, so things like our family computer were usually set to left-handed orientation. I never noticed until my early twenties that this affected, in a positive way, my ability to use both hands to do some things, including using a mouse, using number keypads, driving using primarily my left hand, etc.

Monet. The great motivator.

My mom was born in 1940 and went to public school in Chicago IL (US). She was left handed and forced to use her right hand when she went to school. She did end up using her right hand primarily, and her hand writing as an adult was beautiful. But she was born left handed and remembered how difficult it was to have to use her right hand as her dominant hand.

And after my son completed suicide my Catholic cousins said it's no longer 'believed' that doing that sends you to hell. Well well, isn't that just peachy news to a Baptist!!!

The church changing their religious beliefs because of money? No way!

Great story! Then again, what was that thing about money being the root of all evil? Lol.

Yeah, he prayed while thinking of money! My mom is left handed and her math teacher hated her for it. I think they probably didn't force her to write with her right hand because my grandparents were the mean town drunks at the time.

Ned Flanders approved

The Latin word "Sinister" meaning "left" is doing most of the heavy lifting here.

Religion is evil. Oh if you make the church rich I guess you can be left handed. F**k those people.

When it comes to money, suddenly nothing is problem.

Greedya** Priest

This teacher probably also thinks girls can hold in their periods.

People who are into the sciences and maths tend to think those are the only worthy professions and the humanities are a joke. I'm not surprised this teacher said s**t like that.

The average amount is around 50ml, which is 3-4 tablespoons, but it varies a lot between one person's different periods and between individuals.

yeah he kinda sucked

A system to prevent the abuse of power has never existed. It is sort of like someone saying, "Make it idiot proof." Can't be done, there is always an idiot that will find a way to mess something up no matter what you do to prevent it. And there will always be people that find a way to abuse power that they have been given.

Nope. You can have excellent grades, but if your social skill-set leaves something to be desired, you won't easily land a highly paid job.

I wish it did. Someone was bullying my friend and threatening to kill people so I reported them and they got suspended and it won't even affect them when they're an adult

While this is true, it is not a valid excuse for being unable to do basic math, just like always having access to autocorrect is not an excuse for being sloppy about your spelling.

i took one look at myers briggs and i thought, "hey isnt that just zodiac signs but more complicated?" lolol

There's an element of truth to this. Sadly the current opioid crisis in the US has lead people to believe that addiction is inevitable, but that's not true either. I used morphine for several months following a major trauma, but slowly reduced the dosage as the pain levels diminished. Not because I was worried about addiction, but because as the pain reduced the feelings it brought of simply not giving a shot about anything are not something I was comfortable with. I knew deep down that I really _should_ give a shot. Some people apparently like this feeling, others like me absolutely do not.

Yeah, and guess what replaced it in most foods? *Yep, sugar* (which is "fat free").

Made from then teeth of dead soldiers, probably - as was the usual method for high quality toothwork at the time.

I've covered this on here before. While that may be the outward explanation given....we still, to this day do not understand HOW anesthesia functions. We just know that it does, and the line between "working properly" and "no longer breathing" is very, very fine even in ideal circumstances. An infant, is about as far removed from ideal as you can get, and an infant that REQUIRES surgery is even further removed. At the time, the risk of using anesthesia on an infant, was greater than performing surgery without....but the average person, let alone parent probably isn't going to accept this. Nor would they accept the more blunt rational of "it doesn't matter if they feel it, because they are never, ever going to remember it" Medicine is about risk assessment. All of it comes with risk, always, you could be the 1 in 1,000,000 allergic to that popular OTC med....doctors have the job of finding the LEAST RISKY course of action.

In America, at least, the federal prison system is so broken that it does more harm than good.

TBF the push to eat more carrots was real; with most foods rationed they were in plentiful supply and were pushed almost as a sugar substitute. The 'good for the eyes thing was not pure invention, but was picked up and exaggerated by the RAF to possibly help hide the fact that some British planes were starting to be equipped with radar. Carrot cake anyone?

If Columbus had truly believed that, he would have never sailed west.

This is a misconception, but not entirely inaccurate. The true statement is that we typically only use 10% of out brain at a time, but the parts of our brain used changes depending on what we are doing. Essentially, we use all of our brain, just not all of it at the same time.

Not only was the Titanic found, but it also serves as bait for rich fools.

But wouldn't stress weaken your immune system, making it easier for harmful bacteria to grow in your body?

I was told that if I ate apple seeds an apple tree would grow in my stomach.

Planethood for Pluto now!

Everyone knows that blood is blue just look at your veins. LOL. A variation of this I have heard is it is red going away from the heart because it is oxygen rich, and blue when returning to the heart because the oxygen has been used up. Nonsense of course, it just looks blue because of the colors that the skin blocks letting only blue to reflect back to our eyes.

That’s just how science works. They find a theory and then they learn more and realise that their theory was wrong. No doubt it’ll happen again in future.

Taking into account that paper bags were previously used, which were practically single-use bags and that to make them it was necessary to cut down trees, it can be said that it served for a time to save the environment as an intermediate step to other types of bag materials.

IIRC, there's a certain gene that can cause baldness, only on the X chromosome. But it's not the sole reason that can cause someone to go bald.

We will eventually run out of oil, though, as it cannot renew itself once depleted.