This Online Group Exists To Shame Overconfident Know-It-Alls Who Incorrectly Correct Other People (New Pics)
Interview With ExpertIt’s very likely that you know at least one person who makes it their life’s mission to show how knowledgeable or smart they are, despite being far from knowledgeable or smart. These people are usually referred to by folks as know-it-alls, and they seem to be invading the online space more and more each day. The anonymity of the internet allows them to go about butting into everyone’s business, believing they know everything while everyone else is simply wrong.
To gladly put them in their respective place, we have a whole list of confidently incorrect people from this Facebook group hilariously failing and choking on their own words. Scroll down to find them, and don’t forget to upvote those instances that made you feel bad for the people who voluntarily put themselves in these situations.
While you're at it, don't forget to check out a conversation with a board-certified clinical psychologist, Dr. Krista Jordan, who kindly agreed to share a few tips on dealing with know-it-alls.
Comment from Psychologist Daniel Hoadley
Some people love correcting others because it reinforces their sense of intelligence and control in social interactions. According to Alfred Adler’s theory of the superiority complex, this behavior can stem from deep-seated feelings of inferiority.
By constantly pointing out mistakes, they create an illusion of dominance, using corrections as a way to validate their own intelligence and self-worth. Rather than simply aiming for accuracy, their need to correct others often serves as a defense mechanism to mask personal insecurities. – Daniel Hoadley
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I believe sometimes people think only bull cows have horns…
Load More Replies...The friendship was a little more mysterious, than that but still real! https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/3131/The-Real-Story-Behind-These-Leopard-And-Cow-Photos-That-Still-Makes-Little-Sense
There had to be a reason why it liked the leopard back.
Load More Replies...Just wait til he learns, only female reindeer have horns in winter...
Both male and female Zebus (a species of cattle in India) have horns. Bulls have much larger horns, so the response was incorrect.
Just don't get started with Swiss German vs. Swiss Germans.
Load More Replies...Lol. I am a Jewish person from Brazil. And I have had MANY Americans tell me I can't be Jewish and Brazilian. I even ask them, "can you be a Jewish person from the United States", and they say "of course". But even then, they won't concede that I can be more than one thing.
I get told that as a British Jew. I can only be one or the other apparently.
Load More Replies...I assume this was an American because we're bred to be confident whether right or wrong. Don't give an inch. Double-down, triple-down, but don't give up the fight to be wrong.
Yeah, but that is different. There is no US state where the official language is Gaelic. Quebec is a (Canadian) French speaking province as you know settled by the French in the 18th century.
Load More Replies...Unless they're not from Quebec. They aren't penned in, they do move around the country.
Load More Replies...How embarrassing to play an instrument for that long and not know it’s name
All this time I thought I was learning piano, and it turns out it's a kazoo.
I can't see how you can confuse a French horn with a trumpet given how they are shaped. Let's be charitable and think that they misread "French horn" as "Flugelhorn"
I think the person playing the French horn for 8 years knows their own instrument better than the "trust me I know instruments" guy
That HAS to be my X-Husband!! He cleans band instruments and is a narcissist!!
To be far more generous than this idiot deserves... if you can play one brass instrument, you can probably play most others as well, as they all function pretty similarly. You won't be as good, obviously, but you should probably be able to manage.
Board-certified clinical psychologist Dr. Krista Jordan tells Bored Panda that if someone is acting like a know-it-all, they're probably trying to cover up their insecurities.
"People who are secure in themselves don't need to flaunt their knowledge and would not risk alienating people or hurting their feelings by bragging. People who need to act as though they know everything are just trying to soothe their deeply deficient self-esteem," she explains.
Right! the 1900s were the 20th century, but were still the 1900s.
Load More Replies...Well, I was born in the 1900's and a (Cunningham's) chocolate soda on Saturday morning was the highlight of my week. But then again, I was 12-13 years old. 😂
Chocolate soda? As in a chocolate flavoured fizzy drink?
Load More Replies...That correction is entirely wrong. I was born in the 1900's which is the 20th century.
It's hilarious how these people confidently try to prove how smart they are, when they're literally holding a computer in their hand and could double check their "facts"! 🤦🏼♂️🤣
The cybertruck is the product of hot air and pipe dreams, with a bit of snake oil garnish for good measure.
These are the people that believe the earth is flat! You can't argue with stupid!
Doesn't the motor use/run off of the gas fumes? I've heard or read that at some point in my life, if I remember correctly
Well, a lot of writers do use synonyms. And antonyms. And homonyms. Etc.
And sometimes she identifies as Robert Galbraith, but still finds time to spread hate about trans folk. 🏳️⚧️
Synonym is a spice. I had synonym rolls for breakfast today.
Granny was an English teacher. She made the best synonym rolls!
Load More Replies...Both nitwits. Don't we all self-identify to various degrees? JK Rowling's name is Joanne Kathleen Rowling. BTW, her pseudonym is Robert Galbraith.
Her name is Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Hence the pseudonym JK Rowling. It's not that crazy really
Wikipedia: "Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, before her remarriage her name was Joanne Rowling, or Jo. At birth, she had no middle name. Staff at Bloomsbury Publishing suggested that she use two initials rather than her full name, anticipating that young boys – their target audience – would not want to read a book written by a woman. She chose K as the second initial, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Rowling, and because of the ease of pronunciation of the two consecutive letters."
Load More Replies...Also, humans as a whole have a tendency to overestimate their knowledge, which makes them think that they know more than they actually do. Even though we often lack the full information, we still believe we have enough for decision-making. This cognitive bias is called the Illusion of Information Adequacy.
If only there was a handy device able to access the worlds knowledge to verify you know how to spell a word. Maybe someday.
If that spelling was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me! ; )
Load More Replies...4 in ggiggles, which I'm doing right now. Oh wait, that's 6 Gs if I'm ggigglingg.
Load More Replies...There is also an apostrophe in the contraction "There's" and possibly a comma after 'ciggarette'.
I'll give him half credit for at least using the right "There"! 😅
Load More Replies...Erm when I went to school albe it 45 yrs ago since I left at 15 lmao there was only one g when the second appear then 😂
I’ve lived 55 years with my green eyes so I guess they’re not that toxic.
Takes time. Slowly over a period of 80-100 years
Load More Replies...Per Google: "Iridology is an alternative medicine practice that claims to diagnose health conditions by examining the patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris. It is based on the belief that the iris is a map of the body and that changes in its appearance can indicate underlying health problems." 🤦♀️
This is literally fúcking insanity. It’s beyond delusional or irrational thinking. Because we all know lunala, ridges & the entire nail matrix is the true map of the body & every known ailment, be it physical, physiological or psychological can be only be safely diagnosed & treated by our fingernails. /s
Load More Replies...My 10th grade biology teacher told us there was no such thing as green eyes… my seatmate (bright green) and I (olive green) both laughed and asked her to explain further.
I have hazel eyes (brown and green). So my body must be only half as toxic!
Thanks for saying that, I have hazel eyes too. Got scared until I read this, ty! Lol
Load More Replies...49 years this year, I have lived with green eyes… have been accused in the past of being toxic so maybe that works out
That's what Linda yelled in Bob's Burgers when she was having bit of road rage lol
Load More Replies...In common British usage, it's a tortoise, as we tend to say tortoise for land-dwelling species & turtle for aquatic ones. Common American usage differs, and there are multiple conventions in use among biologists etc. Turtle, tortoise and terrapin are imprecise common names, so everyone who's totally confident they know the definition for each is just familiar with a particular convention used in a specific community. You're not wrong but not right either.
I'm so happy to be danish, if it has a shield over its body it is a shield toad, and we don't have to remember if it lives on land or in water.
Load More Replies...I mean, we all know the true test is if it wins a race against a hare. #TeamJSlo
Little tip for everyone: All tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. So, if you struggle to remember which is which, you're always going to be safe calling that shelled lizard-bro a turtle.
Combined with naïve realism, a psychological bias that makes individuals think that their beliefs are objective and reasonable, it drives people to assume that anyone who disagrees with them is wrong despite their failure to consider what they might be missing.
It actually is included like the rest of the world, it's just that the US is not the least religious or the most peaceful (by any measure). The reply failed to notice that OP was referring to the countries in red
Load More Replies...Canadian Inuit people and Australian aborigines would like to have a word
Inuit make up approximately 0.2% of the total Canadian population. That's much smaller than the margin of error for such a poll. Australian Aborigines account for less than 4% of the Australian population, which would be around the margin for error. So if every single one of these people were religious and not counted as such, it basically wouldn't change the polls. (Just to clarify: this is not intended to marginalize these people. They've already been marginalized far too much. It's just that they're statistically insignificant when performing the statistically questionable process of boiling their whole countries down to a single attribute.)
Load More Replies...I'm curious on both the definition of "peaceful" and that Ireland is not religious?
They also show New Zealand as on the more religious side, which it definitely isn't.
Load More Replies...It's not. At this point it's mostly culturally religious - so for the festivities. All of my friends in Spain are atheists, and it's not that easy to find people who are actually religious under 40-50. Like it was always weird to us find someone our age who was religious. We'd be the ones asking why.
Load More Replies...It appears New Zealand is so heathen, it disappeared of the 'peaceful' map!
Greenland ought to be red too, as it belongs to Denmark. I didn't know that Iceland was religious.
Yeah, well when Amerika annexes Greenland, they'll be just as peas-ful as the rest of us!
Load More Replies...Sweden may not be religious, but we still have more bombs going off then any other country not currently in war (and we beat some of them as well)
Muricans always think they are included, even when they are blatantly excluded................ (they're not very bright).
Over 230 million girls and women worldwide have been subjected to female genital mutilation, mostly between infancy and age 15, according to the WHO.
Load More Replies...Circumcision for medical reasons are legitimate. Circumcision for religious reasons are iffy at best. Then it should be performed when the person is consciously making the decision after being informed about the procedure including being told all the risks and side effects. Not because the parents think their religious beliefs mandate a mutilation, or even worse "because it's tradition". In the US it's considered the norm, but most of the rest of the world don't do it. Few countries actually legally forbid Circumcision, except for medical necessity, till the legal age of adulthood.
I have a feeling it's quite common in Israel.
Load More Replies...I decided not to cut my son, only to have him develop a condition where the foreskin fused to the tip of his penis. Now I wish I'd gotten it done after all, cuz there's a good chance he'll have to do it as a teenager, and it'll be much more traumatic then!
In none of the countries I have lived and worked in (mainly Europe), circumcision is ever done to newborns. The rate of foreskin-problems is not alarming or general present, either.
Load More Replies...You should be over 21 to decide this. Like tats, piercings, and breast augmentation.
I've never had any complaints about my folks deciding to have it done. My first wife called it a speed bump.
I was cicumcised almosrt at birth, because there was a common infection that could spreasd and cause infertility at that time (1958, UK, Southern England). Never caused me a problem (peeing or sex!)
Right its probably not gonna affect most men but wouldnt you have rather had the choice? Instead of it being made for you?
Load More Replies...Stats on male circumcision: Morocco: 99.9% Iran: 100% Iraq: 99% West Bank: 99% Yemen: 99% Indonesia: 93% Syria: 93% Israel: 92% US: 80% Australia: 58% South Africa: 45% UK: 20.7% (not included: female mutilation).
Keeps the d**k cleaner and cuts that reat of women getting uterine cancer. just saying...
I heard one from a coworker years ago that you might also like. "If I tell you an ant can pull a freight train you just go ahead and harness him up."
Load More Replies...A little. Worth a giggle. Not a full laugh-worth, though.
Load More Replies...If your name is on the guest list, no one can take you higher... A discord mod has said I've got great balls of fire!
Yeah, but are his balls au naturel? Heard how finance bros are getting penile and s*****m injections to increase the size and fullness using hyaluronic acid fillers, fat injections, or botulinum toxin. (Just between us here on BP, hope they wither and fall off.)
Then there's a Dunning-Kruger effect, which deceives people into thinking they're an expert in everything. An issue with this is that individuals experiencing this cognitive bias feel the need to impose their ideas, as absolute truths, making others look incompetent or ignorant.
Bear as in weight *could* be correct. It just depends on what kind of bear you're referring to. A Malayan Bear weighs on average 100lbs, while Polarbears average out at 1,000lbs
Some English words are confusing, I feel for those who have to learn it
The 21st century enters a bar and still has to show ID.
Load More Replies...Happens often when internet "experts" argue...
Load More Replies...Probably because we usually start counting at 1, so it's easy to think that 19 something or 20 something means it's 19 or 20 into the sequence.
Load More Replies...If A.D. was good enough for J.C., it's good enough for me? What is "Christian math?"
Load More Replies...Especially because it would damage the dance floor as well as your own feet.
Load More Replies...But not on the dance floor. Those paws will ruin the finish.
Load More Replies...I hope the bear is still attached. I don't like the thought of amputation. Poor bear!
i just imagine someone in a party/club outfit with those bearpaw slippers :-D
I would wear a pair of those ridiculous bear foot slippers just for this occasion.
As you can imagine, being in the presence of a person who tries to put down others with their false sense of knowledge can be annoying, so we asked for some advice from Dr. Jordan on how to deal with them, online and in real life.
"The best way to handle a know-it-all, whether online or in real life, is to model having good self-esteem," she says. "Which means being humble. For instance, if a know-it-all is saying the earth is flat, you can just say, 'Well, that's interesting, I realize people have different opinions about that. My personal opinion is that it's round, but I know not everyone agrees with that,'" Dr. Jordan suggests.
Well if I'm not an animal, then what the s**t am I? Mineral or vegetable?
Monday mornings before large doses of tea, I am definitely a vegetable.
Load More Replies...Oxford comma FER EV4R!! I'm 71, and you will pry that second comma out of my cold, chapped, and dead hands.
or eats shoots and leaves depending on whether a cowboy who didn't like his lunch or a panda. I always liked how important that comma was.
Load More Replies...After waking up in the morning, I get dressed, eat breakfast and poop.
Look at all the commas being saved. But dont get me started on ellipses . . .
This is my favorite cartoon example. For a real life example ask Google about the Oxford comma lawsuit. oxford-com...5f05f.jpeg
This is solid gold. It's my go to reference as well.
Load More Replies...Look, I know the younger generations are having an incredibly difficult time, but if you dare come at me for using the Oxford coma be ready to fight to the death because that's a hill I'm willing to die on.
Some maths lessons felt like playing chess with constantly new rules introduced. The polish notation on our mandatory type of calculator was the end for me.
Load More Replies...I would like to believe they're using "-" as "to", as in "from 2012 to 2025" and counting up. What's more dumb for me is their complaint that fast-food workers don't deserve a fair wage (assuming they're talking about California; and that's still less than living wage here)
I agree, that's what got me. It's not the workers who set the prices anyway.
Load More Replies...Some of these nutters are doing math as if these restaurants only sell one item per hour, so the amount of pay increase would be fully applied to each burger. Wow.
It's hard to support most conservatard talking points if you stick to reality.
Load More Replies...Am I rolling my eyes too loud at these posts, if yes, I apologize
jesus christ. you can put a person in school but you can't make them learn, i guess.
"That will accomplish a number of things," she further explained, "including 1) avoiding a confrontation, because you stated that you don't expect everyone to agree with you, 2) showing the person who thinks they know everything what a mature and self-confident response looks like and 3) does not debase you in any way because you never asserted that the know-it-all was correct."
I wish humans had evolved from felines instead of primates. The world would be a better place!
Well I must be part cat because I constantly bump into furniture and stuff falls off.
Load More Replies...My religious comment applies again. People are taught by religion that humans are unique and special, so it isn't crazy people think this way.
I should perhaps point out that from the point of view of some religious people, only a select few human beings are primates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_(bishop). 😉
Load More Replies...I was a quadruped for a while, evolved to walking upright, then discovered absinthe and back to being on all fours.
Load More Replies...There is no pride in stating you're above average intelligence when you're surrounded by idiots.
Believes in Bigfoot, that should explain a lot without continuing it
You need 3g each of fat and carbs as well for a proper balanced diet.
Load More Replies...Wow! Is that how it works? Just add water to reduce sodium levels. Now, does this work with calories, too?
Solution : heat it with the required amount of water. Chuck out the salty water, and replenish with fresh water and heat again ! I'm sure it would taste like ...... ? Very little salt though. Same as cooking sausages. They're all terribly salty, so boil 'em. Gets rid of the salt and the flavour is much improved.
My mate thought salt makes you gain weight from the calories in it. She thought it was the same as sugar. 😝
I once accidentally put a spoonful of salt in my coffee thinking it was sugar. I assure you - it is most decidedly not the same!
Load More Replies...Shhhh, let's just sit back and watch their brain catch fire. 🤯
Load More Replies...I guess many people think 50% more means double. Probably the same people who think the unsuccessful +⅓lb burger is smaller than the usual ¼lb burger.
Well, math is hard. And corporations take advantage of people's confusion. Maybe if we prioritized education.... Eh, not going to worry about it. Give me a quarter pounder, 'cause that thirder pounder doesn't have enough meat.
Load More Replies...Social media - allowing people to show off their ignorance to a global audience since 2010.
Most people probably aren't even aware they're being frustrating with their know-it-all behavior, so the last thing we were curious to know from Dr. Jordan is how to avoid becoming too overconfident with our knowledge.
"If you find yourself tempted to show off what you know around others, you probably want to look at your self-esteem. Not just superficially but deep down, how do you feel about yourself? Do you think that you have essential worth, regardless of your accomplishments or achievements? Or do you think you only have worth based on what you DO?"
Due to health conditions, I refrain from additional salt is the correct wording.
Salt has nothing to do with the cooking of the pasta, just the taste.
It makes the boiling point of the water higher so you suffer for it.
Load More Replies...Well, I never add any salt when I’m cooking or eating. I get enough in bread, cheese, cereal, etc.
Hence the teenage joke about mine's twelve inches, but I don't use it as a rule.
Mine ISN’T twelve inches but it smells like a foot…
Load More Replies...Whether it's a rule or a ruler depends on what part of the world you're in (and some Americans do still use slide rules, fwiw). Not sure this one belongs here.
Sure it does. Just because you prefer one term over the other doesn't mean the other one is "wrong", and it is pretty much univerlly the most common of the two, except when used in "slide-rule",
Load More Replies...Rule is acceptable for use. It's common in the toolmaking trade to refer to them as such. "Hand me that rule." Referring to a strip of metal with graduations according to length. Not to be confused with a scale.
I would call it a scale. but then the know twit all would say, "How could you weigh yourself with that?"
The next post is probably something like "The Oxford Dictionary is wrong! They're from England and their English is wrong!"
I’ve heard “rule” used many times, but it was exclusively by elderly gentlemen who are doing woodwork.
A rule is also a specific type of measurement in woodworking, if I'm not mistaken.
Load More Replies...Yah, rule is used in special cases--woodworking, machining; often metal; used for precision and inside measurements.... However, I doubt this idiot measures up to the kind of intellect that knows anything quite that exoteric.
Do you mean esoteric? Otherwise I like the new word you made about exotic intellectuals.
Load More Replies...When I was 16 I went to bowling alley where the sign said "under 16, $2 - over 16, $3" He would not let me in for free
Programmer didn't leave a dither sequence in the code.
Load More Replies...The Dutch language has a special term for it. You say 'tot en met' meaning 'to & with' ie to & including. Just saying 'to' means 'up to' ie under.
We don't have a word for it in English, but to avoid ambiguity we would say "Up to and including..." or "....and over".
Load More Replies...To fix this the all you need to do is edit the top line so it would read like this: if (score < 85) cout<<"FAILED"; Since 85% is the required score, the second line can remain unchanged.
I just had a similar thing with a local restaurang that stated "More then eight people in group must reserve table, less then 6 dont need reservations. I asked what 6-8 people should do and they made fun of me, as they thought they had been "extremely clear". They even did a new post, but still with no understanding that "under" and "over" means that the given number is not included and 7 is totally left out even if it where so.
Schrodinger's cat must have scored an 85%. The equals here was unnecessary on both lines, all that was needed was to define passing exclusively as above 84.
Better would be to remove the first equals sign and change the entire second condition to just "else".
Load More Replies..."A healthy person has a balance of both, knowing that the moment they were born, they had essential value in the world (before they could possibly achieve anything) and they also know that achievements can be a fun source of healthy pride in the self. A person with good self-worth will not base it solely on what they know, or what they do for a job, or how much money they make, or anything external," she concluded.
To what are you referring? The last commentor's reasoning is absolutely correct.
Load More Replies...Remember when Rush Limbaugh said it was called COVID-19 because it was the 19th COVID?
That was actually on the news. Which is why I don't believe ANYTHING I hear
Load More Replies...When you're wrong online. If you're online, you are just a few screen taps away from the correct information. Sigh.
Oooo - well, they just picked that right up off a Facebook meme, didn’t they?
COVID 19 does refer to COrona VIrus Disease, 2019. The facepalm is the SECOND to last commenter claiming that it doesn't.
Load More Replies...A for a-hole? Seriously? People still don't know what covid19 means?
Yep, right after my bday. March 6th. Happy early birthday fellow Pisces!
Load More Replies...My birthday was 4 days after covid 😢 the 15th to be exact
I have a friend from the Netherlands. Tell her she speaks German and she'll ram a wooden shoe up your nether region.
"How British people use more letters for no reason" is the best part 😂😂😂
Lol Americans put Z in words for no reason we don't pick on them... Oh wait we do lol
Load More Replies...Dutch is VERY difficult to learn. Our grammar is terribly complicated. It is riddled with exceptions, and exceptions to the exceptions. Second problem for foreigners is trying to speak to just about any Dutchman, they'll recognize your accent, and switch to either the foreigners' own language or English.
I think Dutch is only easy for people who know French.
Load More Replies...The gall of claiming Brits use unnecessary letters when Americans say "faucet" instead of "tap", "burglarized" instead of "burgled", and "anesthesiologist" instead of "anaesthetist".
An anesthesiologist and an anesthetist aren't the same though. I mean, they are pretty close, but there are differences. (I am a medical biller for Anesthesia services.)
Load More Replies...Actually England don’t use more letters lmao it’s us Welsh as do that ! Pull letters out a hat n make up names being Welsh I can say that 😂
Clearly the person who thinks that Dutch and Deutsch are the same language have never trabelled. They probably don't own a passport.
I've studied German for about eight years. Ich weiß, dass ich Deutsch und nicht Niederländisch spreche. Dutch is the English word for what they speak in the Netherlands. Oh, and American's skipped some letters here and there, because the American news papers charged by the letter back in the day.
The Americans skip letters because Noel Webster wanted to standardise the language across the country and in order to make it as easy as possible he wrote a new dictionary with simplified spelling.
Load More Replies...Ha, ha .... what a dopey answer is the last one. The British use " more letters for no reason ". Really ? They just spell words correctly. It's the English language, not American English.
Be fair, it's LL:6. LL:G would just be silly.
Load More Replies...It's an Australian clock. We use metric time - 1 hour = 100 minutes, etc. Simples.
What time is LL:6 dumbass? The actual time is 9:00 and the temp is 10. Fact is, this clock is sh!t.
That's about what time it would be after I hit the snooze button more than once!
Since there is no such time as 77 after any hour, I agree that the clock is c**p.
like the original commenter and many in this comment section, I didn't realize the ! was a factorial sign and not just a random exclamation point, so I can't really fault the guy
Didn't see it either, but I think that is the point of the picture, just to trick people.
Load More Replies...For someone who doesn't know factorial sign, this is really confusing. Not everybody knows this.
I’d never heard of such a thing, and had to do a quick Google. I knew my math was terrible, but it keeps finding new ways to make me feel stupid!
Load More Replies...I had never heard of this, we didn't do fancy stuff when I was at school, so here is the explanation for numbnuts like me!! "Example: 4! is shorthand for 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 The factorial function (symbol: !) says to multiply all whole numbers from our chosen number down to 1."
Jeez. I’m a math gal and I managed to misread this formula in 4 different ways before my brain finally registered it correctly 😂. I obviously need more tea!
I'm wondering if the background is intended to confuse things. I first read it as 4*4*4
Load More Replies...It has been a heck of a long time since I was in school. Senior citizen now. Am I right in thinking you do the multiplying first and then the addition?
Yes, but there is a "factorial" (!) there. It's easy to miss, however
Load More Replies...yep, it means the number times the number before it times the number before it, all the way to one. for example, 4! = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24.
Load More Replies...How did you get 24? 20 I completely understand ( 4x4 =16 +4) but getting 24 is quite a challenge
Load More Replies...I'm not sure what the image is supposed to show. The answer really is 100, which according to that image is what most people will say. What is the point here?
The reply/comment included at the bottom of the image stating an incorrect answer as the correct one.
Load More Replies...Many years ago here in Australia, there was a sticky tape brand called 'Durex'. In England, at the time, there was a brand of condom with the same name. People were often mildly confused when asking for one in the other country.
Indeed, never quite sure how effective a roll of Durex would be.
Load More Replies...I asked a bodega for some sticky tape when I was in the US - couple behind the counter thought it was hilarious! Everytime I went in for the rest of the trip, they'd ask if I wanted some "sticky old cellotape!"
Cellotape is a brand, sellotape is a British term, I didn't hear it until moving to the UK. They also say sticky tape, which makes me giggle because isn't all tape sticky? Americans usually say clear tape, invisible tape, or Scotch tape.
I'm guilty of calling all small rolls/dispensers of the transparent stuff "Scotch tape", the same way I call all facial tissues "Kleenex" XD
Load More Replies...Love the way all the comments here are going; "isn't it weird how this other country uses a brand name from their country? In our country we use a brand name from our country..."
Tesa in Germany. The manufacturers name evolved into the name of the item itself, even when the package says Scotch. Or 3M.
"Scotch" (on its own) is quite common as a generic term in France, as it happens.
Load More Replies...Here in Brazil sticky tape is still called Durex. I'm from Holland where Durex is a condom brand. My (Dutch) father used to call sticky tape "Sellotape". 🤔🤭
we should be concerned that people gave them a thumbs up
No. That is literally one of newtons laws. A body at rest tends to stay at rest
It sounds hilarious at first sight, but it was an important basis for further technical and philosophical development. Moving requires thus something else present. That ranges between something physical causing movemrnt, or a desire to move of the subject itself. Which then leads to why, how, how much and where to.
Edwin Hubble, after discovering that every other galaxy is moving away from the milky way . . .
Basically, anything elevated has potential energy (including land). Once certain conditions are met (heavy rainfall, an earthquake, or another external force) the friction keeping that land in place is overcome and it begins to move downhill, releasing its potential energy. Same thing with avalanches.
Load More Replies...Fudd's First Law of Opposition states: "If you push something hard enough, it will fall over". (Firesign Theatre)
That is because it's mistranslated. Actual law: "Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.". All bodies in the Universe are being acted upon by external forces. What it means is that the object will ether stay in place or move straight and at a constant speed unless the forces that are acting upon the object cause this to change. Subtle difference but profound.
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theismann
Can we at least all agree on the stupidity of failing to even copy the word "hemispheres"?
Any north south circumscribed division and any point on that division at 90'' which circumscribes the world gives the point "4 hemispheres" I think they were going for the ability to be in both today and tomorrow ( international date line) and two seasons at the equator at the same time.
What's all this about circumcisions??? Oh, never mind......
Load More Replies...True, hemi means half, however the Earth's halves can be divided by North-South or East-West creating four hemispheres - Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere, and Western Hemisphere.
BTW. For anyone who doesn't know. The name of the country is pronounced as 'Kiribass'.
Planning to give up Alaska and Hawaii any time soon?
Load More Replies...There's no such thing as "the" British accent. We have many accents - lots and lots and lots and you really don't want to suggest to the Scots or the Welsh that they talk like us English (it gets much more complicated than that, especially once you take into account our overseas branch in the north of Ireland). I personally have more than one accent - variable speech, depending on circumstances. I don't often pronounce the "t" in often, but it's been known to happen, especially on the telephone.
There's no such thing as "the" American accent either. Both Britian and America have a wide variety of accents.
Load More Replies...I'm feeling knackered after seeing them argue. The "k" is sleeping . . .
American here and the T is loud for me. Never thought about it until this moment. And now I don't know if I say the T because I am currently thinking about whether or not I say the T.
I've never heard that it's supposed to be silent... "Offen"???? Offal
In movies you often hear people say "offen", it sees to be quite common.
Load More Replies...But it has to be written to be either silent or pronounced using any accent.
You shall be hanged by your neck until dead, and shall be buried in the precincts of the prison in which you were last confined.
Load More Replies..."Hung" is the past tense of "hang" when it means "to suspend or be suspended". "Hanged" is the past tense of "hang" when it means "to kill someone by tying a rope attached from above and removing the support from beneath". "Hanged" is only used in a legal or formal context when referring to death by hanging. For example, "He was hanged for murder".
I despute that hanged is only used in a legal or formal context. I would use hanged, and I am not in the legal business and am usually pretty informal. It's just the correct English word!
Load More Replies...Trouble is the point of being "hung, drawn and quartered" is that you weren't hung until you died. You were still alive when you were drawn (disembowelled) and possibly still so as the quartering started. So you were "hung" not "hanged". So my grandfather told me, and he knew *everything*.
I was going to say the same, but you've done it for me 😊
Load More Replies...I think the infinite technicality is that you are hanged until you are dead. If you are taken down not yet dead, then you were hung (like a curtain, which generally isn't killed by the process.) So if you are taken down alive in order to be drawn (have your intestines pulled out and waved in front of your face) before being quartered (hacked into four pieces - which would kill you, you were hung. Sometimes you were also drawn behind a galloping horse before hanging, in which case you might die on the gallows. They'd still do the other bits though as the crowd would feel cheated of entertainment otherwise.
Hung in the sense of being executed, is still correct and proper English. Just that hanged clearly identifies the method of execution. Something like Most Northern and Northern Most. The latter immediately signifies "in the world"
Correct. A jury which cannot agree on a verdict
Load More Replies...I hated school because, well, I just hated school.
Load More Replies...Three times four...I would've done the same as the kid. Four times three and I would've done as the teacher. Commutative property of multiplication makes this irrelevant, however. The teacher is ridiculous.
Exactly, I had to argue this with my nephew's teacher. "Why are you teaching them there is a difference? This isn't a matrix."
Load More Replies...I hope the parents called this dumbass teacher out, for marking a completely correct answer wrong.
There is a reason for marking this wrong. In grade school math, teachers are trying to help students understand that math equations can be read like a sentence. So, 3 x 4 would be read as "three times (we see the number) four." Obviously, the addition can be written either way to be mathematically correct, but that isn't what the teacher is trying to help the students understand. The goal is to help students develop the skill of decoding word problems, so that they can use math to solve real-world problems as well as advanced school applications.
I completely agree with you, having watched the bonkers school math education protocols play out. Give it a couple of years, and this kid will be hailed a genius, when the teachers have to get them all to forgo the rigidity of this type of thought.
Load More Replies...The problem isn't with the teacher's math, it's a problem in communicating what they want. Now the kids just confused, because they're correct in their understanding of commutative property of multiplication, and yet they're answer is still wrong, and there's no real explanation in what the teacher wrote to explain why. Math is hard. Teaching math is even harder.
Middle school teachers often have to reteach math that was incorrectly taught by mathphobic elementary teachers. Things like this lead to kids hating math.
Teacher makes a grammatical error using addition instead of additional and marks the kid down? Bad teacher. Now go sit in the corner.
The teacher is 100% wrong. The problem clearly shows four groups of three- 4 x 3, not three groups of 4. Either way, they’re an a*s.
No, you are incorrect. The problem clearly indicates 3 groups of 4. Not 4 groups of 3. Both equal 12. The point is to recognize the grammatical meaning of the equation.
Load More Replies...To be be fair, there no straight lines when you represent a globe on a 2 dimensional map.
That's why they put "straight" in quotes but they're referring to a line that's straight in 2 dimensions.
Load More Replies...Maine, while sometimes appearing to be the northernmost of the 48 contiguous states, actually ranks sixth after Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota. Latitude measures the vertical distance, in degrees, north and south from the Earth's equator, which is at 0 degrees. The northernmost point of the contiguous United States is in the Northwest Angle, a geographic oddity located in northern Minnesota, though surrounded by Canada. The only way to reach the Northwest Angle by land is to leave Minnesota and drive into Manitoba, Canada, then drive about 50 miles north through Canada, and then re-enter the United States at the boundary of the Northwest Angle. The Northwest Angle is a rural area surrounded on three sides by the Lake of the Woods and has a year-round population of about 200 hardy Americans. I just googled it, because it’s somehow interesting
Load More Replies...Our "president" didn't know who the president of Puerto Rico is.
Load More Replies...Alaska is both the eastern most and western most state because it crosses the international date line.
A Milky Way travels at 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) through our own Galaxy. Sometimes a bit faster, sometimes slower, depending on the speed and direction you throw this delicious chocolate confectionery here on earth.
Did you also nibble the chocolate layer of the galaxy away first and then enjoy the milky interior?
Load More Replies...It always amuses me when people don't really understand the scale of space. We're on the outside of the Milky Way. To get to the centre of our own galaxy would take about 26,000 light years (and using current technology, don't even do the maths, it's huge).
It always amuses me when people... use light years as a measure of time.
Load More Replies...Why is there a skull on this map of the galaxy? To scare aliens away?
Typo: word should be space, not galaxy, because the Milky Way galaxy is constantly traveling through space at 2M km/hr. However, guy2 is an idiot and should stick to watching SpongeBob reruns. And yes, a supernova that close would strip away most of Earth's ozone layer, exposing life to harmful UV radiation, and most life would perish. Except for tardigrades. Those little suckers are practically immortal.
There's life in the strata miles deep. And some of that has an ocean on top.
Load More Replies...In MLA format, the first line of the paper is the student name (obscured in green) followed on subsequent lines by the teacher name, course name, date, and title (centered). Then the essay itself starts. However this is an example of horrific grading. Studies show that the volume of comments are inversely proportionate to their effectiveness - the more comments, the less they stick.
I mean, the writing is of a pretty awful quality, but I agree that the marking is very aggressive and probably ineffective. (And besides, which lecturers/tutors have enough marking time allocated per paper to go into such detail??) On the other hand, if it is an non-compulsory opportunity to submit a draft, if student is keen and engaged with the class otherwise, and if few other students took the opportunity to submit a draft, a keen lecturer might want to point out ALL the things that the student would need to fix to get an excellent grade.
Load More Replies...What kind of a*****e posts someone's paper online and says "look how bad this writing is" f**k you! I hope you were fired jerkoff. Your editing skills are far worse than the skills of the writer
Dude called "mankind" sexist unironically. He is 99% of the problems we currently see worldwide today. He alone.
Load More Replies...They are too quick to denote things as being sexist, so long as the older phrasing is still in popular use. It is typical to use the most popular version of terms, regardless of technical accuracy, as the understanding behind these terms is more relevant. This is why dialects are equally valid, even if not universally understood.
I can only assume the respondent never went to college since the prof's name generally follows the student's name on submitted work.
Some professors in the intro classes had us put their name on our papers. A group of TAs would grade them and that way they could return them back to the correct classes. I only really saw that with 100 or 200 level courses.
That was my exact thought. You are officially validated. (Progeny of an English prof.)
Load More Replies...The correct term is "deviled eggs"; "doubled eggs" is not a recognized culinary term, so if you're talking about hard-boiled eggs with the yolk mixed and stuffed back in, it's always "deviled eggs". Explanation: "Deviled" refers to a cooking style where food is seasoned with spices, often spicy, which is why the term is used for this dish. Key points: Correct term: Deviled eggs Meaning: Hard-boiled eggs with the yolk removed, mixed with ingredients like mayo and mustard, then stuffed back into the egg white. "Doubled eggs": Not a recognized culinary term
Doubled eggs sounds like a word that a super religious person would say if they didn't want to invoke Satan into their food. I knew someone who called them angel eggs. Or, possibly, it's a family joke word like saying smashed potatoes instead of mashed, or pasgetti instead of spaghetti.
Exactly. Superstitious people create their own realities.
Load More Replies...Per Google- The term "deviled eggs" comes from the 18th century culinary term "deviled", which referred to highly seasoned dishes. The term likely comes from the association of spiciness with the hot temperatures of hell.
An example of a mondegreen. Probably heard it wrong as a child and never made the connection all these years.
Who can afforded it in the U.S. now anyway. The are over $6.00 a dozen at my local grocer.
Well, he's not wrong. Frankenstein is the monster in the novel. However, the reanimated corpse he made had a chance at becoming a decent person if his creator hadn't been so awful.
Since the creation considered the creator its father, they are BOTH Frankenstein.
Load More Replies...The monster was named Frankenstein. The creature he created was his victim.
In the original novel, Frankenstein calls his creation a "monster" at least once, the Creature refers to itself as a "monster" several times. In a sense, both Frankenstein and the Creature are monsters: Frankenstein morally, and the Creature physically.
Load More Replies...I've read the novel twice, Frankenstein is definitely the monster, that's one of the main points of the book.
It must have been a long time ago that you read it because you aren't remembering it correctly. "Mary Shelley's original novel does not give the character a specific name. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein variously refers to his creation as the "creature", "fiend", "spectre", "dæmon", "wretch", "devil", "thing", "being", and "ogre". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein%27s_monster#:~:text=Mary%20Shelley's%20original%20novel%20does,%22%2C%20and%20%22ogre%22.
Load More Replies...In the 1922 Noferatu, Count Dracula's name is changed to Count Orlok because the book wasn't in the public domain yet, and the movie creators didn't have the rights to it.
Here we go again. Dr. Frankenstein created the monster, which was then called " Frankenstein's monster "
Just a reminder NZers could have had a Kiwi with laser eyes as our flag. Such a wasted opportunity... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Kiwi_flag
Sounds like your people should have talked to the Boaty McBoatface people
Load More Replies...no, no, no, it's one shoop, two sheep, like goose / geese. Most people don't know because you never see one shoop on its own. Sorry, couldn't resist.
His name is Legolas, and I don't know what LOTR has to do with this conversation. 😇
Load More Replies...we're a country that likes to recycle, we'll use one word for so many things that we can confuse the average American just saying Hi
I was curious about this one, so I decided to spend some time in the OED. Drole is an accepted spelling of Droll. Both "drole" and "droll" are closely related to the French word "drôle". The English word would have come from the Middle French "drolle" which itself is derived from the Middle Dutch word "drol". English dropped the "e" and kept the word as "droll", but sometime in the 19th century it became fashionable to start spelling it as "drole" to re-connect the word with its French roots, but that spelling has once again fallen out of fashion. I've never personally seen it spelled that way outside of French.
Both droll and drole comes from the French drôle, which may be a variation on the Middle Dutch word drolle. Point is, they both mean the same thing.
I think " drole " is French and the English version is " droll " ..... ?
I once worked at a pre-school named Brussels and Sprouts. The babies being Brussels, the older kids, Sprouts. Just sayin'.
The vegetable is named for the Belgium city, Brussels, so the correct term is Brussels sprout. As in, I'm having caramelized Brussels sprouts with supper tonight.
Except that in Belgium Brussels is called Bruxelles.
Load More Replies...Using AI to back you up doesn't mean anything. AI makes mistakes all the time.
But if they do, finally I will stand a chance to win.
Load More Replies...At least the moron who corrected the corrector used a big red sharpie to add the "h"
You don't know what a "highest he'd squealing" is?😆
Load More Replies...There is a 60 cycle (hertz for the scientifically inclined) hum that some people can pick up when an old style tube type TV is on. Don't know if it applies to anything else. My starter wife and her mother could both hear it.
I used to be able to hear the overhead lights in a specific department store and hated going there. Parents didn't believe me till some adult, not knowing about me, mentioned that they could too. It was gone by my teens.
Load More Replies...Yes. But thats fluorescent. Always a hard one.
Load More Replies...Some people can hear electrical buzzing. Apparently it's quite common in autistic people, but it's not limited to them
It's not because of austism or ADHD, but people with those traits are more likely to really take notice and get annoyed by it. It all depends on which frequencies you can (still) hear.
Load More Replies...I used to stand up in classes to leave back in public school, even when my back was turned to the clock. I could hear the electrical signal that kept them in sync at the top of the hour. Annoyed, amused and fascinated various teachers. I lost that ability somewhere in my 20's. Apparently this signaling is "Time Error Correction" and is used to keep power grids in sync. I'd never bothered to look this up, thanks BP!
Um, no.. both my son and I have it, and no buzzing..
Load More Replies...But ... those aren't kanji, those are (kata)kana. I agree that having a system in Braille for Chinese, and Japanese _kanji_, would be a nightmare. (I'm not an expert in the field, and would happily defer to an expert who could inform me differently.)
Chinese characters can all be written using a phonetic alphabet (e.g., pinyin in China, bopomofo in Taiwan) and there is braille corresponding to the phonetic alphabet. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_Chinese_Braille. I'm guessing it's the same in Japan with the phonetic alphabet corresponding to braille (as in the above picture).
Load More Replies...Thats not kanji tho...? thats katakana which is the alphabet thing used to say words that come from other languages.
As a Marine, please don't refer to me as a soldier. I am a Marine, Soldiers are members of the Army.
The distinction is made by individual branches and governments. The generic term of soldier is still ok if you don't mean it for a particular branch. Merriam Webster defines soldier as "one engaged in military service and especially in the army"
Obviously, for those of us who serve or have served, we feel very differently, no matter what branch. Rip that page out and burn it because, It's WRONG
Load More Replies...I had 3 friends in the armed forces, they were all called Phil. To differentiate between them, I gave them nicknames based on which of the forces they were in. Air Phil was in the Air Force, Sea Phil was in the Navy, the last one was in the Army, but he was a bit of a rubbish friend was Land Phil.
"Soldier" primarily refers to army personnel . Navy personnel are usually called "sailors" . Air Force personnel are typically called "airmen" Marines are Marines
Naval ground and amphibious units = Marine. The Marines are a corps within the Department of the Navy. Otherwise they are called sailors, or my personal favorite, seamen. Airmen are indeed from the Air Force. I am hoping that the Space Force has Spacemen. And when I was in the Army, I argued we should be called Earthmen, but my Staff Sergeant told me, how did he put it, "shut the f*ck up Specialist!", so yeah we were boring old soldiers.
Load More Replies...OMG. This is so stupid. Any person who is employed in the military service of any nation is a soldier, regardless of their specific branch of duty. "Soldier" is a general term for a fighter. Other terms like sailor, marine, infantry, pilot describe a soldier's specialization and indicate their branch of service.
😳😳😳oh boy another thicko ! navy forces does not have soldiers good grief did u post that original post lmao try going to a marine n call em soldiers or squaddies icu will be waiting for u 🙈
Load More Replies...Love the way the Marines are getting riled up by this. You carry a gun and shoot at people, you're a soldier.
Marines tend to exist in a "riled up" state. And I have actually seen them throw hands over this
Load More Replies...What about sailors in the Navy, are they not military too? Seamen, ensigns, even all the ranks are distinct from ground troops.
We worked hard to earn the title of U.S. Marine. I am offended when anyone calls me a Soldier. We are Marines for life. One day, if you call the wrong Marine a Soldier, you'll never forget how to address us again
Drinking 10 glasses of alcohol in an American costal city is considered a wild night. 10 drinks in week is considered being a n alcoholic in the Bible Belt. 10 glasses of vodka in an hour in Finland is considered Tuesday
I always thought the Irish and Russians should have a drinking contest, then found out its against the Geneva Conventions.
I believe the Finns scare the Russians when the subject is alcohol. I made the mistake of buying a round of vodka after 5 pints of beer with a table of Finns as a "Good night" toast. The reaction was "Oh! So now we're going to start drinking!" I escaped after two or three more rounds. It got a bit blurry.
Load More Replies...Sure, but this chart is by pure alcohol. If the people in Wisconsin are drinking beer, as the person suggests, and more importantly drinking American beer. That's maybe 3% alcohol by volume. Compare that to wine, which is more like 17% or vodka which is 45%.
Load More Replies...10 litres is 17.6 pints. It doesn't become less by putting it in a smaller glass - a pint is 20 fluid ounces. It might be more glasses, but it's not more pints. Side note - there is no English rhyme for the word "pint".
I say please, please put it in your dishwasher and put in extra just to be safe
You shouldn't put hand soap or dish soap in your dishwasher. You should put only dishwasher detergent in your dishwasher
Well, you actually can use liquid dish detergent in a dish washer but you use about 5 drops.
If you're gonna correct someone, at least put in the effort to spell "quinceañera" right
Since the common misspelling of "año" (year), "ano", means "a**s", I'm going to choose to believe that "quinceanera" means "fifteenth a*****e".
Load More Replies...Bat is Hebrew. Bas is Yiddish. They're interchangeable.
Parts of Ashkenazi Jews also say "Bas" in Hebrew. Historically, the Hebrew letter Tav was pronounced differently depending one where it is in a word. At the beginning of the word it's always pronounced like a "T". In modern Hebrew, it's always pronounced like a "T". In Ashkenazi liturgical Hebrew is pronounce like an "S" when it's in the middle or end of a word, and in Yemenite liturgical Hebrew, in the middle or end of a word, it's pronounce like a "TH". So a Yemenite would call it a "Bath Mitzwah" (they pronounce the vav consonant as a "W").
Load More Replies...In Spanish, quinceañera is the celebration of a girl's 15th birthday. A bat (or less common bas) mitzvah is a Jewish ceremony that celebrates a girl's transition to adulthood.
Load More Replies...Not at all incorrect. Cat scratch disease or CSD is a bonafide possibility for some people since cats can pass on Bartonella henselae via a scratch or bite and it can lead to blood poisoning and death if not properly treated.
Load More Replies...My wife was in bed asleep at 6.15am yesterday when our cat bit her twice to indicate it was ready & desiring breakfast ASAP, if not sooner. Thankfully, my wife is still in robust good health almost 30 hours later
Your wife is lucky, your cat allows her to sleep in! Mine comes in between 4 am and 5 am and will bother me untill I get up and feed her.
Load More Replies...Cat family here (We don't own them, they're my housemate). I guess I'm dead and probably most of my family. My cat bit me when I accidently sat on him, and he drew blood.
They were correct and articulate.... right up to the cat thing. 🤦♀️
I've had cats for over 30 years. Somehow I have escaped that inevitable sepsis so far.
My cat bit me when I saved it from an illconceived attack on a wolverine. My hand swelled up like a cartoon character. My Dr actually said I had Cat Scratch Fever. Little antibiotics . Everything was fine. Sepsis. Prolly not.
Load More Replies...I've therefore been killed thousands of times (I'm 72 and have had cats all my life) maybe they have the power to reanimate in order to maintain regular feeding!!!!!
My daughter was bit on the hand by a cat and within 2 hours her hand was swollen and red. We had to go to the ER.
It happens! Thank god it doesn't get infected bad often. But hands are a really bad place to get bitten because bacteria spreads easily due to all the movements in the hand
Load More Replies...OK, my cat bit me on the hand, teeth went in deep and there was plenty of blood. He had been in a fight and I was checking for injuries on him, which he didn't appreciate. I went to the local emergency clinic, they cleaned the wound and gave me a course of antibiotics, I still ended up with an infection and serious swelling, I had to have another round of different antibiotics, which thankfully worked. Cats can pass on some pretty serious bacteria, if you've been properly bitten and didn't have any issues, great... but saying it's not true based on your limited experience is stupid.
I had to pack up an unhappy cat into a carrier for a trip from overseas to the US, and by then end of the transatlantic trip my hand was the size of a football with cellulitis. Good times. Damn cat eventually divorced me and went to live with the neighbors. Apparently, he preferred their generic cat food to the fancy stuff. My neighbors still haven't forgiven me for his forcible move in.
Nope. Mirror position is irrelevant. If you think so, grab a Mirror and look. Now turn it 90 degrees and look. The image you see is the same.
Load More Replies...10 hrs 1 min and could that symbol be a boat, perchance? It is definitely not a bike.
People who obstruct accessible anything will be reincarnated with missing limbs in the 1500s
Loading/Unloading: Most commonly, yellow lines denote areas where vehicles should only stop momentarily to load or unload passengers. No Parking Zones: In many cases, solid yellow lines indicate areas where parking is completely prohibited.
I'm having a lot of fun hearing "ya Muppet" in my head lobbed as an insult
We have the Banjo Bowl. The name was inspired by former Bombers kicker Troy Westwood, who had referred to Riders fans as a “bunch of banjo-pickin' inbreds” following the 2003 LDC. He subsequently apologized acknowledging that not all of them could play the banjo. True story.
I never understand why it's called 'happy hour', when it's scheduled for a duration of 3 hours? Do they cut you off or end the deals after you've been there for an hour?
It's a be here now thing. I'm betting you were never an alcholic.
Load More Replies...Child support and alimony and disability and a job or social assistance combo with multiple partners involved
Load More Replies...Not yet. It is planned through. It's supposed to be opened in 2032(if ever)
Load More Replies...Oratorio, ossobuco, oregano, overdo, outdo, onto, orzo, ouzo, to name just a few.
I see a broken slow cooker insert, but the comment "you cannot put anything in the slow cooker" has me confused, if you cannot put anything in then wtf is the point of having one.
I don't get it. "you cannot put anything in the slow cooker" ? What happened?
Those bowls are fragile and don't like thermal shock. Hot food/water in a cold bowl, or using it on a hob, or...
The show is the second spin off of the film! The first is Wellington Paranormal, and you should check it out if you like WWDITS.
I honestly don't know. Are there folks who refer to TV shows as "films"? Like, would Countdown be called a film?
I think I had a stroke. Those are in fact cities in Saudi Arabia "thou"
All of this palaver about "race" and "ethnicity" is subject to local (usually national) conceptualisation about what counts as a "race", how many "races" there are, and which "race" someone is allocated to. One's race based on a US conception of race might be very different from one's race based on a Brazilian conception of race. Australia abandoned the (official) race classification system some years ago, and now governments only collect information on nation of birth, and ancestral culture of origin (with multiple responses possible). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander data (one, both, or neither) _is_ routinely collected, based on self-identification.
If it weren't for the spiders, I'd love to move to Australia!
Load More Replies...Biologically all human are of the same RACE. The last other Race to walk the earth were the Neanderthals, who have been extinct for at least 40,000 years
In the US, according to the conservatives, White does not equal Caucasian. White to them has ethnographic and religious connotations and has historically been reserved for Central and Northern, Christian origin people.
But why, if they are claiming that only the white race should be rulers and have rights, did they elect an Orange Baboon to rule them. He's clearly a different species
Load More Replies...@Ellinor, "Race is a way of grouping people based on physical traits, while ethnicity is a way of grouping people based on their cultural heritage." (Per Google AI). For example, my race is white (Caucasian), but my ethnicity is American, which pretty much means I am a genetic and cultural mutt . My ancestry/heritage is primarily northern European with some Eastern European and a bit of west/central African. I hope this helps.
Heck, I'm actually white but I was adopted at birth into a Hispanic family. My maternal great-grandmother was from Mexico. I look white af and I AM white, racially, but there are times when I seriously feel ethnically Hispanic, because that's the cultural environment I grew up in XD
Load More Replies...Alright so I'm purely curious and eager to learn, can someone explain the difference with examples please ?
Some examples of the racial mix in South America: Alberto Fujimori Inomoto, former president of Peru; Eva Perón (Evita), former Argentinian politician; and Hugo Chávez, former Venezuelan president. These three people are racially different but are all from Spanish speaking countries so could be described as Hispanic.
Load More Replies...Sloppy, but not exactly wrong. At the time Arizona territory was the south half of what later became the states of New Mexico and Arizona. Starting in the summer of 1861, the understaffed US Army had to abandon Arizona to armed units of traitors invading from Texas. Patriots in the state of California and territory of Colorado rallied to the flag and reinforced US Army units, which then liberated the Arizona territory in the spring of 1862. The Arizona and New Mexico territories remained free through the rest of the war.
You might as well say goodbye to the Bill of Rights, Constitution and all amendments. They aren't involved in the current U.S. government.
I am sure we will lose all amendments except the 2nd with the current presidency. He will find a way to circumvent the congress and the senate.
Load More Replies...The First amendment is Freedom of religion, speech, and the press; rights of assembly and petition. Second amendment is right to bear arms. It specifically says "a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. I'm looking at a copy of the Constitution as I write. In a small booklet provided by the ACLU.
UK here - yes on bank holidays everyone is off work. Patients are left unattended in hospitals, you need an ambulance you have to wait until the next day. Fortunately, our great British reserve means we all maintain a stiff upper lip if unwell and wait to have an accident or heart attack.
As someone who has a small collection of transformers figures and occasionally expands them, I can confirm they are absolutely insane. They are thinking of Starscream.
To be fair to the person correcting, I think the lack of punctuation has contributed to the confusion here, it should read "Liam Payne's (child)".
The movie Nosferatu was based on Stoker's book Dracula. Stoker's widow sued for copyright infringment.
At least it's not just me! My head is POUNDING after reading these. Pretty entertaining though.
Load More Replies...Can you incoherent me now? I'm unbabble to think straight and my eyes are obscened.
I have officially lost all hope in humanity after reading this post. Humans are doomed
I'm going to risk sounding dumb and suggest that we shouldn't post this sort of thread without including the correct information, please. There are (gasp) topics that I'm not the most knowledgeable on, and then some of the posts are people confidently correcting one another and you don't know which of them is right without looking it up. Certainly, reading the comments is not enough because there are always people defending both sides. I'd love to be able to read the topic and learn something, without doing a bunch of research. Surely I'm not the only one with this issue?
You don't sound dumb at all; a wee bit naively positive and logical, but definitely not dumb.
Load More Replies...It seems to me that there's a whole lot of stupid people who like arguing with each other! In half of these examples, neither party knew what they were talking about!
We need to issue IQ test to determine if people get to interact in the world.
"Ukraine started the war" - as the US vice president firmly believes. The US president admires Putin, who did everything to protect his soldiers after they shot civilian flight MH17 (Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur) out of the air on 17 July 2014. 298 people dead - 192 of them were Dutch. The whole nation watched on television or lined the roads when their remains were brought home in dozens of hearses. The other victims were from Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, UK, Belgium, Philippines, Germany, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa. Trump does not give a toss for that one person with double citizenship of the Netherlands/USA. But the US vice president believes Ukraine started the war and the US president adores Putin because he is a winner. Imagine the 192 had been US citizens.
I feel very stupider. I don't know what to do now. Brain screaming scrambled
Interesting how many of those examples seems to take place in the US.
At least it's not just me! My head is POUNDING after reading these. Pretty entertaining though.
Load More Replies...Can you incoherent me now? I'm unbabble to think straight and my eyes are obscened.
I have officially lost all hope in humanity after reading this post. Humans are doomed
I'm going to risk sounding dumb and suggest that we shouldn't post this sort of thread without including the correct information, please. There are (gasp) topics that I'm not the most knowledgeable on, and then some of the posts are people confidently correcting one another and you don't know which of them is right without looking it up. Certainly, reading the comments is not enough because there are always people defending both sides. I'd love to be able to read the topic and learn something, without doing a bunch of research. Surely I'm not the only one with this issue?
You don't sound dumb at all; a wee bit naively positive and logical, but definitely not dumb.
Load More Replies...It seems to me that there's a whole lot of stupid people who like arguing with each other! In half of these examples, neither party knew what they were talking about!
We need to issue IQ test to determine if people get to interact in the world.
"Ukraine started the war" - as the US vice president firmly believes. The US president admires Putin, who did everything to protect his soldiers after they shot civilian flight MH17 (Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur) out of the air on 17 July 2014. 298 people dead - 192 of them were Dutch. The whole nation watched on television or lined the roads when their remains were brought home in dozens of hearses. The other victims were from Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, UK, Belgium, Philippines, Germany, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa. Trump does not give a toss for that one person with double citizenship of the Netherlands/USA. But the US vice president believes Ukraine started the war and the US president adores Putin because he is a winner. Imagine the 192 had been US citizens.
I feel very stupider. I don't know what to do now. Brain screaming scrambled
Interesting how many of those examples seems to take place in the US.
