Common Misconceptions That Piss You Off - a safe place for snobs

[Snusmumriken]

We were taught so much patently untrue and incorrect shit in elementary school in the early 90s but what pissed me off the most was when our biology teacher whipped out this absolute bullshit called a "tongue map" and made us test it for ourselves with differently flavoured strips.
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Me and one other kid in our class of ~30 were the only ones to call bullshit on it, argued with the teacher and the other faggot kids until we got sent to the principal. Most grave injustice of my whole life, i swear

Holy FUCK I forgot about this. I called bullshit on this in the first grade but being in catholic school at the time I was just ignored because if you don’t agree with the common belief then you’re an idiot and that’s that. I refuse to believe the tongue map came from anyone but a cum guzzling prostitute and I will hold that belief until I die.

 

[Turquoise]

It is same kind of cope pedos use for drawn CP . "It is just picture / pixels you incel prude." You subhuman spent lot of time fantasyzing about rape of children you freak. Now please face the wall.

it's not really cope in most peoples cases. they just haven't read any of his other works. Lolita isn't a pro-pedo novel (they're right about that) but the pages and pages of smut - eloquent, hilarious smut - come into a different focus once you realize that it definitely was his own fetish.

bonus titbit for those who haven't read it. humbert's nemisis Mr quilty is a famous playwright who hosts celebrity parties and he also abducts kids and produces cp. in light of what we've learned recently, it makes you wonder what nabokov knew in 1948.

 

[Shamefuru Disprayu]

While we've only explored 5% of the ocean's total volume we've explored 100% of yo momma's box

Heyooooooooooooooooooo

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Related: people who say Coke Zero tastes just like regular Coke are gaslighting me. Coke Zero tastes like poison.

I prefer the taste of Zero but yes, it tastes notably different than normal Coke. Same bullshit as when people claim Pepsi tastes the same as Coke, your taste buds must be fried if you can't taste the difference between the two.

 

[Pelican Bones]

You wouldn't say "Phelonious was sent to the Federal Bureau of Prisons".

Right, because it's Federal Bureaus of Prison.

 

[teriyakiburns]

exceptions that prove the rule

The idea that "exception that proves the rule" means "it demonstrates the correctness of the rule" is itself a misconception. To prove something in this sense is to test it, with the ur-example being alcohol proof, which originally tested alcohol content by applying a flame to a liquid to determine how much alcohol it had. if it set fire, it was labelled as "over proof", with the boundary set as 100 proof. Consider also proving grounds being a place to test things. When an exception "proves" the rule, it is testing it, not confirming it, and in the test the rule is always found wanting, as the exception given always contradicts the rule by its nature.

 

[Lowlife Adventures]

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The idea that "exception that proves the rule" means "it demonstrates the correctness of the rule" is itself a misconception. To prove something in this sense is to test it, with the ur-example being alcohol proof, which originally tested alcohol content by applying a flame to a liquid to determine how much alcohol it had. if it set fire, it was labelled as "over proof", with the boundary set as 100 proof. Consider also proving grounds being a place to test things. When an exception "proves" the rule, it is testing it, not confirming it, and in the test the rule is always found wanting, as the exception given always contradicts the rule by its nature.

Sounds like you're reading into it too much. "Exception that proves the rule", at least the way I understand it, doesn't have anything to do with testing. It's just another way of saying that "here's a case where X leads to Z, therefore it's wrong to say that X leads to Y" isn't a strong argument because if X->Z is such a rare occurrence, then it actually adds support to the idea that in most cases, X does indeed lead to Y.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Sounds like you're reading into it too much. "Exception that proves the rule", at least the way I understand it, doesn't have anything to do with testing.

Except I just explained why it does. The phrase "exception that proves the rule" originally meant the opposite of the current usage. It only came to be used in the current (incorrect) way because the meaning of the word "prove" changed over time, but the phrase didn't change to reflect that. That's what makes the whole thing a misconception.

 

[Lowlife Adventures]

Except I just explained why it does. The phrase "exception that proves the rule" originally meant the opposite of the current usage. It only came to be used in the current (incorrect) way because the meaning of the word "prove" changed over time, but the phrase didn't change to reflect that. That's what makes the whole thing a misconception.

It's just a convenient figure of speech and it doesn't have to be 100% precise with the formal definition of proving a rule. Though "exception that proves the trend" seems like a less confusing alternative.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

Mispronouncing it like that is a military shibboleth. Eisenhower and Carter (a nuclear submariner) said it the same way. People objecting to it are the retards.

"Well I served in [blah whatever] and I pronounce it correctly because I'm not illiterate."

And instead of being president you're here. Consider.

brother there's a whole lotta other shit keeping me from respectable positions of authority. and plenty of presidents have pronounced it the correct way so QED ur gay.

 

[GaryGray]

"box magazine" vs "clip" - most modern firearms use box mags (there are a few exceptions, but not many. The new KelTec PR-5.7 uses clips, bizarrely). STOP CALLING MAGAZINES "CLIPS"

Friend who got me into guns was anal about that and I too now have his mind virus. Only advantage is when idiot lawmakers write gun laws and use incorrect terminology it renders the law worthless or easy to overturn.

On the line of firearms the concept of "winging" a person. Anyone who has actually shot a gun knows how hard it is to hit a moving target. If you are forced to shoot you believe that you will be dead otherwise. Shoot until the threat is eliminated. People do not instantly drop like in a video game it takes a while for death by blood loss.

Thinking that it is being out in the cold that causes more people to get sick in the winter. While being cold can lower the immune response the reason diseases propagate so much more during the winter is the close proximity of people. Everyone stays inside and close together so once an air born disease gets into a group it spreads to other groups quickly. Child gets sick from a classmate, parents get sick from child, office gets sick from parent. IIRC this was tested in the 60's or 70's via a mildly unethical experiment that involved shooting rhinovirus into people who were in regular temps and cold temps then seeing that the same number got sick. Thus it was not the cold temperatures which caused more people to get sick.

The idea that power generation is as simple as gigawatts generated. Apparent power is a vector not scalar. There will never be a 100% nuclear only power generation since demand over a 24 hour period in a country will swing by 40%-60% and nuclear cannot change output at a rate fast enough to keep up. Then there is the issue of maintaining power factor which for all the renewable only fags is a major issue. The loss of that synchronization is what caused the 2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout. Think big pool of water and trying keep a single standing wave while 100 streams of water are all flowing in and 1000 streams are flowing out. While a limited analogy is the best I can come up with.

Accuracy of medical tests. A positive test is not a 100% diagnosis. False positive and false negative exist and what is more important is they are inversely related. It is very important that most tests do not yield a false negative so those rates tend to be below 0.1% and as a result false positives can be 20% or more. Always ask your doctor if they tested twice if you get a positive result. Since the chance to get two false positives in a row is much less likely than just one.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

We were taught so much patently untrue and incorrect shit in elementary school in the early 90s but what pissed me off the most was when our biology teacher whipped out this absolute bullshit called a "tongue map" and made us test it for ourselves with differently flavoured strips.
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Me and one other kid in our class of ~30 were the only ones to call bullshit on it, argued with the teacher and the other faggot kids until we got sent to the principal. Most grave injustice of my whole life, i swear

This one pissed me off when it was being taught to me. The teacher insisted it was true but no one claimed to notice tastes only occurred on a particular part of the tongue before. The teacher then had us do an experiment where we were given various snacks and candies and told to map the tastes in our tongues. For me, any taste was the same no matter where it was and I wondered if maybe I should lie because the teacher seemed pretty committed to this theory. A few of my classmates who started out skeptical started saying they were starting to taste certain tastes on one part of their tongue, and I was one of a few hold-outs. I wonder if this was some kind of experiment like a milder version of one of those conformity experiments from 30 years earlier.

 

[The Last Stand]

“Definitely” spelled as “defiantly”. This one actually doesn’t bother me but it does make me giggle. “I’m defiantly going to bed early tonight” in spite of who? God?

I do that too and JUST noticed that I'm misspelling definitely as "defiant." Thanks.

Thread tax: just because I work with computers doesn't mean I know EVERYTHING about technology. People think I can magically fix whatever issue or blight they're having on their phones or computers.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

This one pissed me off when it was being taught to me. The teacher insisted it was true but no one claimed to notice tastes only occurred on a particular part of the tongue before. The teacher then had us do an experiment where we were given various snacks and candies and told to map the tastes in our tongues. For me, any taste was the same no matter where it was and I wondered if maybe I should lie because the teacher seemed pretty committed to this theory. A few of my classmates who started out skeptical started saying they were starting to taste certain tastes on one part of their tongue, and I was one of a few hold-outs. I wonder if this was some kind of experiment like a milder version of one of those conformity experiments from 30 years earlier.

We had paper strips dipped in sweet, sour, salty water instead of snacks and candies but the overall experience was kind of the same. Except for me and the other kid who adamantly denied tasting different tastes on different parts of our tongues from the get-go, there were a few other kids who initially seemed unconvinced and sceptical only to turn into gutless, little yes-sayers when they heard more class mates claiming "Oh wow, it's like the teacher says!". Same as in your story, the teacher seemed to be very invested in this obvious bullshit and i still don't know why, she must've tried it out herself beforehand (i am not sure if she tasted the strips herself while we had that class) and thus must've known it's bogus.
Regarding your last sentence, i had the exact same thought before. I was immensely disappointed seeing my class mates displaying that kind of conformity on something that was obviously bullshit, i didn't even think something like "Maybe my tongue is not working right", i knew it was bullshit right of the bat. I was motherfucking vindicated a million years later when i discovered Wikipedia's "List of common misconceptions".

 

[The Last Stand]

Some people think that spending money means that they HAVE money. They'll subconsciously buy expensive stuff or splurge often, then others imply that they're well-off. That's not always the case. It could be that they don't know how to manage money.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

It doesn't piss me off, but the so-called dark side of the moon can be fully lit, just like the near side.

Also, Columbus did not go to prove the world was round -- that was known since the time of ancient Greece.

I can do you one better. Columbus did discover India.

India was a European exonym (Indians themselves never called their country India) and at that time - long before any political entity known as "India" existed - the word was used to describe, essentially, all he be dragons territory beyond the Muslim world but not Cathay. It loosely corresponded, basically, to what we now call the Orient although the Orient slowly drifted east from the Near/Middle East.

Columbus was, tautologically, correct that he found India because he found the shit that lays to the east. Even the point about him thinking he was further west than he was is irrelevant because he did not think he had landed on the landmass of the modern day nation-state of India, just that he was clearly over there, which by the definitions of their day - the people who came up with the word "India" before the Hindoos adopted it - he was.

Only later did it become clear that the new landmass was so far away from known India that mentally grouping it with it did not make sense, and even to that extent they still clearly distinguished this through the West Indies and East Indies, the latter now known as Indonesia, or the, you guessed it, fucking INDIA ISLANDS.

This makes me furious ever since I learned it.

Edit: To clarify, the Europeans didn't know there was a Pacific either. Not of that scale.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

calling the cloture rule the filibuster

 

[Snusmumriken]

Frankenstein is the scientist, not the creature. I get autistically annoyed by this more than I should.

On that note, Ratatouille is the name of the movie, not the rat. The rat’s name is Remy. REMY, PEOPLE.

 

[Shamefuru Disprayu]

On that note, Ratatouille is the name of the movie, not the rat. The rat’s name is Remy. REMY, PEOPLE.

So the wooden cowboy isn't called Toy Story?
I've got a lot of apology letters to write.

 

[Ass Dan]

People who think that residential washing machines and dryers are magical interdimensional portals where items go in in a state of Dirty and come out in a state of Clean. These machines operate on basic Newtonian principles and are still bound by the same physical laws as everything else. If you put wet, sandy beach towels in the dryer, they will come out dry, but your dryer will be full of salt and sand. If you put cement-encrusted work boots in the washer, not only will they not come out like-new, your washer tub and filters will be choked with filth that has to be removed painstakingly by hand. And if you throw a muddy pair of shoes into the washer and walk away from it, leaving them to be mixed with whatever the next person puts in the machine, then you better pray for God to have mercy on your retarded soul.