What is the most nonsense thing someone has ever told you?
a year ago by ZDawg to c/asklemmy
This sounds like one of the many hispanic old wives tales I have heard through my wife's family. Tickling was one of them,
Babies aren't supposed to see their reflection because it will make them vain
Put a red bracelet on the baby to repel evil spirits
Don't let strangers touch the baby because it will transfer jealousy to the baby
There's so many more, and WAY more not baby based myths that I have learned that could fill this thread.
Makes me want to ask what other kooky wrongness they hold in their head, either in childrearing beliefs or general day to day knowledge.
I really don't want to push things too far with them, but so far I haven't really been able to hold my grandkids except for very brief periods and even then there are rules. No kissing them on the hands or face, the aforementioned no tickling their feet. They don't really seem to be up to letting me watch the grandkids at any point, even though I raised my son and his siblings just fine.
The discipline seems to be completely missing, and I had a talk with my son and he attributed it to wanting to stop generational trauma. What the fuck does that even mean? I took it as though he is trying to say he had a bad childhood. But I had a great childhood, and I would say he did too as far as things like not having any abuse in the house, etc. So how far back does one need to go to round up some trauma. Maybe they are talking about his gf's family? I guess I will have to sit down with him again and see what exactly he means by that.
It doesn't surprise me that you're getting limited access to your grandkids if you are not respecting their boundaries, that is, their rules. That they are kooky is beside the point.
I only tickled one grandkids feet for about a second and no one was looking. Other than that I have been very respectful of their batshit decisions (my personal opinion). But thanks for chiming in.
Spare the rod spoil the child
Their baldness makes them extra aerodynamic.
That's why the military had never allowed long hair or beards.
A lot of things from a particular family member
This month: His buddy who's a "mechanic" touched our car and did a bunch of "extra work" on it for a "great price". Got it back and it sounded like they emptied the transmission fluid in the CVT. I got "it must be the drive shaft" and "don't go down rabbit holes on the internet"
It was missing transmission fluid
All that icky transmission fluid was limiting the performance of the transmission (I'm sure). /s
Foreigners are to blame for everything and kicking them out of your country is key to solving everything.
Lots of autopsies on female cadavers.
Old anarchist still on duty
That there was some guy who heard a voice and then financed and built a 150 meter boat by himself, got a breeding pair of every single land species on Earth onto said boat, and kept them from starving, killing each other, or otherwise becoming unable to reproduce until after the entire surface area of the planet was no longer covered in water.
It's a story about how he spent his entire wealth doing something everyone else said was not only impossible but incredibly stupid, just because of a vision from god, but in the end all those haters drowned.
That's why evangelical Christians love that story.
And then there was this dude that was swallowed by a whale and he just chilled in the stomach and lit a little bit of a fire and roasted some marshmallows and then he was puked up or something later.
Idk if it’s nonsense but when Ozzy died a coworkers told me that Ozzy was an American war hero who fought in the first gulf war and help liberate the people of Iraq, and then showed me a very bad AI photo of Ozzy sitting in a tank and flying a fighter jet.
I'm pretty sure you didn't mean it this way, but was he sitting in a tank that was itself flying in the jet? Because that would be even more awesome.
No it was 2 separate photos of Ozzy in a tank and in a jet, I’ve tried to find it but it was on facebook and I don’t have facebook anymore and I don’t wanna give zuck my info just to look up AI photos.
My stepdad once made coleslaw that smelled like burnt rubber. Me and my siblings told him that we would not eat the coleslaw, it would taste like burnt rubber. And he tried to convince us that since we had never eaten burnt rubber before in the past, that we couldn't possibly know what burnt rubber tastes like, and therefore we should eat the coleslaw.
It turned into an hours-long argument about how you don't have to actually eat burnt rubber in order to know what burnt rubber smells like, and that there's no good reason for coleslaw to smell like burnt rubber.
In the end, me and my siblings won, and we did not eat the coleslaw, but I don't understand how you can cook coleslaw... no, wait, you don't even cook coleslaw!
I don't know how you can prepare coleslaw so poorly as to have it smell like burnt rubber, and I don't know how you can be so married to your burnt rubber coleslaw that you would attempt to force children to eat it, regardless of the fact that it smells like burnt fucking rubber.
Perception researcher here. So you probably are aware that if you have a stuffy nose, your food taste different.
Well. Technically what you experience when eating is a combination of smell and taste sensations.
Molecules from food in your mouth travel up your throat into nasal cavities. And of course. Can come in through the nose.
This combination perception is called "flavor". That's the technical term. Although this word often means "taste" in layman.
Anyway. My point is. That smell heavily influences flavor.
Which is what a lot of people think of as "taste" but taste is exclusively tongue receptors.
So your argument is sound. The experience of the smell is a strong indicator of the flavor.
Also a good evolutionary tool for helping you avoid food poisoning!
I've never considered cooking coleslaw . . . the things I've been missing in my life.
Cooked cabbage can smell quite strange. And bad. Only way I think cabbage is good cooked is briefly stir fried with bacon. That's it.
Anything else or longer and it starts to smell super bad.
Sauerkraut is nice though. But that's adding extra steps and I wouldn't still call it cabbage when the cooking starts.
That's the only "cooked cabbage" I've heard of; can't say I care for it, but my partner likes it.
Boiling cabbage is just ruining the product. The only good way to prepare cabbage is to marinate it with vinegar, shredded carrots and beets, optionally adding some coriander.
Boiled in a big pot with potatoes, carrots, and a large slab of corned beef and spices for several hours.
I once ate some canned olives that smelled like something gasoline-adjacent. Those were the most outstandingly tasty olives I've ever had, by far.
"Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls."
"People used to live to be 900 years old."
I think I laughed too, but it was the Sunday school teacher that shared that with me. I think that may have been the moment where little me learned that not all adults can be relied on for facts.
My cousin told me that wind power turbines are actually amusement park attractions: The blades are hollow and you can take a ride inside while they rotate.
Later, I calculated that you'd experience 15g at the tip of a typical one.
“Think about it. They drained a lot of oil in the Middle East, so there must be cool underground lakes of oil you can paddle around in down there.” -Gas station geologist
I understand that oil isn't just sitting around in big empty voids in the rock, and that those voids are full of gravel and such, and that we're also injecting water and such into the wells to maintain pressure, etc.
But I'd be willing to bet (a small amount, maybe like $50 tops) that out of the thousands of oil wells we've drilled over the years, that through some quirk of geology, some void has opened up somewhere down there with just enough liquid oil and open space that you could probably get a kayak on it and paddle around in a small circle.
I'm thinking probably more like the size of a smallish above ground swimming pool, not a decent sized lake that would actually be worth paddling around on.
Of course there's also the issue of the pressure at that depth, and the fact that any atmosphere down there is probably gonna be natural gas and not breathable air, so you'd probably have to do it in a hard diving suit
I'm with you in thinking that this is not impossible. I think geology is something that can do funny things in some places.
By the way, in some places oil seems to be pretty close to the surface. If you visit the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles sometime, there's essentially an open lake of oil (tar) that you can visit, and as you walk the grounds around it you'll see some spots where the tar is seeping out from the ground and you have to watch out not to step on it.
In the olden days oil reserves were discovered because oil was straight up seeping out of the ground.
Anarchy capitalism is the solution to every nations problems.
If only landlords were required to protect their claims themselves.
Being forced to vote for someone that doesn't represent you is democracy.
Im not sure why the blue conservatives are so worried about a one party government. Just work within the republican primary system and earn your incremental change!
What's wrong, you dont trust how republicans run their primaries?
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
Video on why there is no perfect voting system.
Maybe she lost her taste buds during covid
Honestly, she might have the same thing I do. I don't know if it's got a name or anything, but absolutely all red wine tastes like balsamic vinegar to me, almost indistinguishably so, even when I'm sharing it with someone who's talking about how this one is "fruity" or whatever.
I went through a short phase of thinking I was being pranked. So I'm with your sister on this one, minus the sangria bit lol.
“There are more connections in the human brain than there are atoms in the universe”
Far out man
5G causes Corona virus is a favourite. Most of the biblical claims but those are too obvious. Excluding religion and conspiracy theories, expensive speaker cables produce sound quality that is superior to cheap cables. Turning a phone off in an aircraft improves safety. My daughter's teacher confidently informed me that bicycles are more dangerous than cars. That was probably the most depressing and stupid.
I sympathize with your brother's sentiment, because I hate the texture of dried fruit, especially currants/raisins.
I was experiencing auditory hallucinations when trying to sleep, tried to tell my mom about it. She told me the house was haunted and I was hearing the ghosts.
My father built that house when I was a baby.
Essentially that (they just assumed was a fact) all other countries worldwide follow the American calendar, years, language, everything.
Specifically they were arguing China was in the same exact "year" as the United States.
Or maybe people I watched "speak in tongues." Complete morons.
As it happens, China does have dual dating since 1912 (with some fluctuation), using the Gregorian calendar for most things except traditional holidays, which are celebrated according to the Chinese calendar.
The Gregorian calendar is generally one of the safer things to bet on, in this day. What could be that person's thinking with the languages, however, that I don't know.
The small little nub at the end of a peanut is tastier than the peanut itself. I believed it and kept eating it while giving the rest to them. I got scammed.
TBF it's kinda true for pistachios. The seed itself, excellent. But the thin brown skin that's left in the shell? Outstanding. It seems to absorb all the salty flavor that's bestowed upon the pistachios.
Yeah not only are they not the tastiest, they're the most disgusting. I eat a f****** ton of peanuts, and the bottom of the jar is always filled with the little nubs. Of course I eat them, but nothing gives you a sense of how horrible they taste than getting an entire mouthful at once.
@zachimusprime44@lemmy.world invisible bird people can intervene in your life if you ask to speak to their supervisor
Took me a while to figure out what you were referencing. Time for more coffee before its to late
Trump got elected president of the United States.
Twice.
I thought it was 3 times. Isnt that a conspiracy MAGA believed? That trump was in charge when Biden was president?
Lol they haven't moved on to C+++ yet and probably have no idea what a super pointer is.
"Yes, I'm sure I typed my password correctly."
Working in IT, I can't tell you how many times I've heard that and how many times it's been wrong.
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If you tickle a baby's feet before they are one year old they will stutter. Told to me by my son's girlfriend when I was holding my grandson for the first time. It wasn't a fun fact, it was a rule that I was to obey. So for the record, he should be stuttering by now because I couldn't resist, and they couldn't watch me all the time. :)
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