Misconceptions as a kid

[JZStudios]

22 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

Tell that to the poor women in this article. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/southwest-airlines-jennifer-riordan-pasenger-window-sucked-engine-explosion-passenger-philadelphia-a8309891.html

 

Oh wait, she didn't survive getting partially sucked out an airplane window.

Partially sucked, not wholly sucked.

Case still stands.

[wasab]

Cursive teaches good handwriting. I can't read half of the shit written by ppl who do not know cursive. Their hand writting is fcking atrocious. 

 

When you type your essay, pick a cursive font. If your teachers frown on it, tell them to stop butchering proper penmanship. 

[wasab]

My biggest misconception: not wearing warm clothing make you sick. 

 

No, parents, germs aka pathogens caused common colds, not the temperature. 

[Andreas Lilja]

You NEED to go to college.

 

Meanwhile people in trades are making twice my salary.

[Phentos]

Being an adult is fun and liberating. 

 

1 hour ago, wasab said:

Cursive teaches good handwriting. I can't read half of the shit written by ppl who do not know cursive. Their hand writting is fcking atrocious. 

Couldn't agree more. My elementary school (private school) had a mandatory handwriting class in the 5th grade. I can still write cursive fairly decently but more importantly it helped to hone my penmanship.

 

I regularly get praises for my penmanship, though I tend to use block lettering and write in all caps nowadays. But it's so neat and legible compared to the chicken scratches that my friends and coworkers do.

[dalekphalm]

10 hours ago, wasab said:

Cursive teaches good handwriting. I can't read half of the shit written by ppl who do not know cursive. Their hand writting is fcking atrocious. 

Disagree strongly here. Almost every older person that grew up with cursive writing that I've met, their writing is terrible and difficult to read. The only person who's cursive writing I can read easily is my Fiancee's, and she's a millennial.

 

People who have shit hand writing have shit hand writing. It won't matter if they cursive write or hand print.

10 hours ago, wasab said:

When you type your essay, pick a cursive font. If your teachers frown on it, tell them to stop butchering proper penmanship. 

Yeah. This is terrible advice. Don't do this.

 

If you use a cursive font in College or University for an essay, you're likely to fail your assignment, or lose heavy marks for it.

[ARikozuM]

 

10 hours ago, wasab said:

No, parents, germs aka pathogens caused common colds, not the temperature. 

Having a lowered body temp activates most of the common cold pathogens. On the flip side, wearing clothing that is too warm will also cause a decrease in body temp after a while leading to much of the same. 

 

I remembered my other misconception being that plastics make metal transparent. 

[bimmerman]

As a kid, I thought as an adult I'd be able to eat all the candy and junk food and ice cream I'd want.

 

As an adult, that is a pretty repulsive thought.

[SolarNova]

Thinking that once i grew up and left education i would be 'free'.. HA! ..freedom .. a pipe dream.

[ARikozuM]

6 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

Disagree strongly here. Almost every older person that grew up with cursive writing that I've met, their writing is terrible and difficult to read. The only person who's cursive writing I can read easily is my Fiancee's, and she's a millennial.

 

People who have shit hand writing have shit hand writing. It won't matter if they cursive write or hand print.

Yeah. This is terrible advice. Don't do this.

Agreed. If your handwriting starts and ends well, it’s legible. If it starts or ends poorly, it’s crap.

6 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

If you use a cursive font in College or University for an essay, you're likely to fail your assignment, or lose heavy marks for it.

I’ve always used Lucida Handwriting on my papers. If anyone has issues, I can resubmit the paper, but script is largely more fluid for me to read than someone’s chicken-scratch.

[dalekphalm]

19 minutes ago, TheBritishVillain said:

-Teeth would never grow back.

Uhm.... Adult teeth don't grow back. We're not sharks.

[SupremeGOAT]

i thought the reason some balloons didnt float was because the people blowing them were evil inside... (so you want to be my friend? blow this balloon up <_<)

i thought the concept of the flinstones' car was revolutionary in fuel conservation and people weren't doing it because they weren't as smart as me

i thought/think the embodiment of evil was/is the dentist

i thought the girls bathroom was the bathroom for everyone in primary school (you wouldn't have thought the boy's bathroom was a part of school...)

 

[ARikozuM]

6 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

. We're not sharks.

Speak for yourself, sir. 

[Drak3]

17 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Speak for yourself, sir. 

You're not either, Nekomimi.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

22 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

We're not sharks.

What do you know

[dalekphalm]

23 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

I mean I go to my version of Disneyland to get artificial ones installed.  Does that count?

Not really, since they aren't growing back. You're getting dental implants.

7 minutes ago, TheBritishVillain said:

Yhyh, but when i was younger and my first set of teeth fell out, i didn't think they were going to 'grow' back (get my adult teeth)

I see. But that's a distinct difference - baby teeth fall out, and then your adult teeth follow. But they're not "regrowing", and as an adult, if you loose a tooth, it's gone.

[ARikozuM]

39 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

Not really, since they aren't growing back. You're getting dental implants.

I see. But that's a distinct difference - baby teeth fall out, and then your adult teeth follow. But they're not "regrowing", and as an adult, if you loose a tooth, it's gone.

There's a company out there trying to understand  how teeth grow and the process that ends enamel and dentin production in children. Hopefully they can figure it out and make it seamless. 

[TVwazhere]

On 10/6/2018 at 9:29 AM, dalekphalm said:

Fun fact, that was a lie propagated by British/Allied propaganda during WW2. They were able to miniaturize RADAR technology enough to start installing them into combat aircraft, but they didn't want the Axis powers to know this, so they started spreading lies saying that UK pilots just had really good eye sight due to eating so many carrots.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/24-carrot-eyesight/

This might be the coolest thing I've been told, though somehow I feel like I've been informed of this misconception once before.

[dalekphalm]

7 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

There's a company out there trying to understand  how teeth grow and the process that ends enamel and dentin production in children. Hopefully they can figure it out and make it seamless. 

Yes I’ve heard of the research on this. At least one group was looking into shark DNA and how they do it. 

 

It would revolutionize the dental industry if possible. 

3 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

This might be the coolest thing I've been told, though somehow I feel like I've been informed of this misconception once before.

I first learned about it from some random YouTube educational channel - it might have been “today I found out”, but I don’t specifically recall.