The Inuit do not have a large number of words for snow.
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* Conventional wisdom * Counter-intuitive * Drug urban legends * Factoid * List of cognitive biases * List of fallacies * List of memory biases * List of misquotations * List of topics related to public relations and propaganda * Old wives' tale * Urban legend * QI * Straight and Crooked Thinking
― negotiable, Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:47 (seventeen years ago)
I only learned recently that Napoleon was not that small. (after reading Tolstoy.. who didn't debunk this myth)
― Ludo, Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:50 (seventeen years ago)
THIS one is the winner:
Different tastes can be detected on all parts of the tongue[23], with slightly increased sensitivities in different locations depending on the person, contrary to the popular belief that specific tastes only correspond to specific mapped sites on the tongue.[24] The original "tongue map" was based on a mistranslation by a Harvard psychologist of a discredited German paper[25] that was written in 1901.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:04 (seventeen years ago)
In spite of reports of successful non-surgical techniques for penis enlargement, there is no known scientific study that has demonstrated the efficacy of such techniques, other than surgery.[citation needed]
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:06 (seventeen years ago)
Boy is it tempting to vandalize the religion section of that page.
"Jesus was not the son of God and his death didn't redeem anybody's sins, not least because neither God nor sin exist."
― UEK - Big Tempin' (Oilyrags), Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:11 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah!
― Go Go Padgett Binoculars (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)
Most night vision devices do not actually illuminate an environment,
^^ Who the hell thinks they do? Devices that actually illuminate an environment are commonly referred to as LIGHTS
― nabisco, Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:10 (seventeen years ago)
Worthless and self-satisfied. Hell, I caught an error on that page yesterday but fuck it the Wikipedants can fucking die in their ignorance for all I care.
― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥ ＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:49 (seventeen years ago)
Wikipedia is quite useful; this I cannot deny. But have you looked at the talk pages? These people are all paraplegic ground-squirrels or something. The "common misconceptions" page is just a cum-rag.
― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥ ＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:51 (seventeen years ago)
Now I feel gross for having looked at it.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)
ctrl+p? xp
― negotiable, Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)
Shaving does not cause hair to grow back thicker or coarser. This belief is due to the fact that hair that has never been cut has a tapered end, whereas, after cutting, there is no taper. Thus, it appears thicker, and feels coarser due to the sharper, unworn edges.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Ouroboros.png
― negotiable, Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)
Actually....
― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥ ＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)
Sorry to put a CB link here:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=48
― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥ ＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Sunday, 14 December 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)
test
― elan, Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:43 (seventeen years ago)