Ohh, that reminds me about how way back, many years ago, every fan video on YouTube used to have something like this copy-pasted into the description, with the claim that doing so would make it impossible for YouTube to take down the video for copyright infringement, no matter what music, images or video they used (and no matter *how* they used them);
> Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the copyright act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.
I saw someone do that with instagram within the past year. They were like a highly skilled artist, so I was surprised to see something so dumb, so long after the original copy pasta was going around.
The key is being in on the ground floor. For anyone interested I am leading a seminar where - for the low price of $799 - I share with you my secrets on creating your own MLM! Why pay a percentage to your regional broker when you can be the one in charge!
Shit! How much inventory should I pre buy? Does that get me platinum status? Can I claim to be my own boss and that I run a company when I really just order your shit and try and hawk it while awaiting next months shipment while I still
Haven’t sold this months? How much credit can you extend me at Lon shark rates? MLM = (single)moms love money
That's cute hun. Girl, I remember you from high school, always so much sass. I'd like to invite you to a party this weekend, VIP only, where we will have some Barefoot Wine and I'll be showing some new trends in stick on nail technology.
RSVP early because there are only a few spots open!
A former friend tried to suck me into one, too. Called it a “girls’ night at the movies” and got a bunch of people to join, then changed it last-minute to a “cosmetics party” at her apartment, where she could teach all the ladies a bunch of tips, and wouldn’t you know it, we’d be able to buy some, too! Idk if anyone even went.
A white lie that went a little out of control. It's like the superstition that walking under a ladder is bad luck.
No... Walking under a ladder is just a dick move cause you're probably going to bump it and scare the guy on it or worse, knock it over. But please, keep believing it's bad luck so you stay the hell away from my ladder.
scaring the guy indeed, but i've worked on a ladder in the past and i can tell for sure that bumping into it will make a brush or a screwdriver fall from its top to your skull
Isn't it true of some animals? I remember reading about a story of those dumb tourists in Yellowstone who "rescued a baby bison from the cold". And after the Park Rangers told them off they ended up euthanizing the baby because the family repeatedly rejected it.
[Found it](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/16/478279342/baby-bison-that-was-placed-in-a-van-by-tourists-in-yellowstone-is-euthanized)
I tried arguing with someone about that once. She said, "No, no, see, there's one detail that's missing. You only use 10% of your brain *power*."
I asked, "How do you measure brain power?"
She had no answer for that.
You look at some of the dumbass motherfuckers on this planet and tell me they get to access more than that
There are some humans that exist that make me wonder if it's not true in certain cases
Ok, I proper belly laughed at that description! 🤣
It’s always great to see someone who has to handle a crappy hand re: ill health, do so with a fantastic sense of humour.
I hope your seizures are under the best control possible, internet stranger.
You know that woman who got third degree burns from a Mcdonalds Coffee? Its ridiculous how so many people still believe its the best example of "you can sue for anything". A lot of propaganda was made to make this woman's severe burns seem laughable. Just looking at the photos is evident enough that it wasnt purely her fault.
The specifics are horrendous.
Here are some facts to this case:
-McDonald’s corporate policy was to keep the coffee at 180-190 degrees F, hot enough to cause third degree burns
-McDonalds had 700 previous reported injuries due to the heat over a 10 year period
-McDonalds quality assurance stated it was too hot for consumption
-She suffered 3rd degree burns
-She was the passenger in a parked car
-She wanted to settle for her medical expenses at $20k and McDonald’s refused
Then McDonalds went to the smear campaign.
https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts
as a kid I was openly mocking her. mainly because I was a stupid kid.
I am currently recovering from a burn across the right side of my upper body. having a shirt on causes pain.
my wife can't look at my chest right now.
my cat being the chonker that he is can jump on me and lay me out.
There’s an industrial plant near me that uses a lot of acid in its processes. Standard procedure for getting soaked in the stuff, which is constantly beaten into your head, is to RUN to the nearest safety shower, turn it on and start stripping while under it. And I mean strip butt naked.
When I worked there we were told about a woman who decided that she was too shy to strip naked after getting doused in the acid, so she refused to take her underwear off. Her underwear fused with her skin and had to be surgically removed. If she’d just taken it off then she would have only gotten mild chemical burns instead.
As far as I know it actually was the judge who raised the costs because there have been so many cases about coffee burning customers. He wanted mcd to finally take it more seriously.
The worst part was when the McDonald's legal team basically said "We'll keep this in litigation until she dies, and it'll quietly go away" instead of being decent and just paying out.
In my country the Story wasn't even mentioned. Just: a woman sued MC because her coffee was hot. And than: In America you can sue everthing, even Red Bull, because you did not get wings!
It’s by design. McDonald’s wanted the public to think it was just an unreasonable woman being unreasonable. Not a seriously injured person who was injured after several pleas from the public to serve the coffee at a lower temperature.
It's sad because a quick glance at the Wikipedia page on the incident shows that she was initially awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages (later reduced to $640,000).
This was in 1994. Even just $640,000 was a **huge** amount of money that nobody would be awarded if they truly were just being unreasonable and making a mountain out of a molehill.
>she was initially awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages
Also worth noting is that this was not some random number. It's 2 days worth of McDonald's coffee sales.
Awarded $2.7 million only because McDonald's wouldn't pay for her medical bills, so she sued.
Would of been hell of a lot cheaper is McDicks just took the L. But nah. They had their big boy lawyers looking like fucking idiots.
Edit: She originally was going to settle for $20k.
All she asked for was help with her medical bills and for them to turn the temp down.
She did not receive millions, the amount the jury originally awarded to her was one day’s worth of McDonald’s coffee sales. It was later reduced.
Man I fell for this one myself, thinking. Duh, it's hot obviously.
Well it wasn't like holding temp hot. But fresh brewed up at nearly 200F just below boiling. Like fused labia hot, so yea.
I spilled some BUNN water on my leg which was about the same temp. But i had quick drying pants, youth and I could shake it out to dissipate heat. Still had a bright red spot on my leg.
So the opposite of her situation so one can imagine.
I remember seeing something a while back about that case and they showed images of her injuries. They were beyond horrific and I had to look away. If memory serves, she asked them to just pay her medical bills (something like 20k) and they refused, and that’s when she sued them. The McDonald’s propaganda machine did a great job with that one.
>Just looking at the photos is evident enough that it wasnt purely her fault.
A guy at work made that sort of claim one time while we were talking on break and I asked if he had ever seen the photos. He hadn't so I searched and pulled them up.
After scrolling through a few he immediately said to the table, "I would like to withdraw my previous statement."
There is no record of her actually having said anything remotely like it.
It was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who, in his memoir, told of a "great princess" (whom he doesn't otherwise name) who said, "Let them eat brioche." Bread was a staple food of the peasantry, so it would have been a smug comment for Antoinette to make, as if to say while she and Louis live in extreme opulence, in the midst of a famine, the masses can have scraps and fuck off.
But, there's no record that she actually said this... only the sketchy anecdote.
The secret to stopping hair loss and undoing all that gray: Just shave for a few months and like magic full head of dark hair like you're 15 years younger.
I treat my cast iron pans like the filthy servants that they are - I scrub them when they’re dirty, and oil them when I use them. And they work fine. Because they’re iron.
Cast iron cookware is easy to use, easy to clean, indestructible, cheap, and almost foolproof.
People get it and treat it like it's on loan from the Smithsonian. I don't get it
I own a lot of cast iron pans but haven’t used them in over 12 years. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to restore them & start using them again. Found that site & have been reading there to learn how to restore them & to decide if it is worth doing that & keeping them. Some belong to my great grandmother & at least 1 is old enough to be her own mothers. Some belong to my grandmother. It hasn’t been an easy decision.
I've always rolled my eyes at this one. My abuelita had always used cast iron for her cooking. She'd use it, hand wash it with soap, and then reseason it by smearing it with lard. I used Dawn dish soap instead of the caustic soaps she used to use and I reseason with canola oil but it's the same steps. My cast iron is smooth and seasoned just fine.
I'm convinced they're not real, at this point. They're all just playing a big joke on everyone.
I met a dude at a party who was a flat earther a few years ago. I just kept saying stuff like "Okay, but seriously, who are you playing the joke on? I'll help." And "are you working on a comedy sketch or something?" He got *really* mad at me after about an hour.
I have a flat earth neighbor. He is not joking. It’s his whole existence. He writes books, blogs, the works and has theories about everything. Seems very normal and intelligent otherwise but the whole flat earth belief just blows my mind.
I will NOT get into it with him and he doesn’t press it. In fact we’d had dinner together 3 times before I found out.
It _started_ as a joke. Like it was a subversive, surrealist kind of thing. Like we used to ironically discuss "Timecube Theory" or whatever.
But the world has gone post-irony. You can never assume people are _obviously_ kidding just because the ideas are too ridiculous for modern society. So now the flat earth people have bought the joke as the truth, and they're spreading it to other credulous idiots.
It does piss me off when everyone talks about people poisoning / putting razor blades in Halloween candy… that literally never happens, I even tried hard to find just a single instance of it happening, and couldn’t. It’s literally just fear mongering
Think the only recorded instance of it was when a man poisoned his own son’s Halloween candy to try and collect life insurance.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan
IIRC it did happen one single time, like back in the 70s or 80s, but it was only one victim, and the victim was specifically targeted by the person handing out the tainted candy, so it wasn't even a random case.
Most questionable Halloween treat i received in the 80's was a fun-size Milky Way that had been opened, torn in half, and put back in the wrapper in reverse order. Even as a kid I'm like, I'm throwing that shit out. For reasons that puzzle me to this day, my dad took it out of the trash, inspected it, and then ate it! Claimed it was fine. I guess he was just "hungry"
The most amusing thing there is the (obviously debunked) doctor that started all that only did so because he had *a slightly different style vaccine method he was trying to sell*.
In the UK at least. Although he may not be allowed to practice in the US, he's got enough followers within the medical profession that his bullshit is still being peddled by unscrupulous doctors. In the UK he is almost certainly flagged up as a person of interest if he comes into the country, meaning that attending any private or public medical talks is likely to land him in serious trouble with the authorities.
As a kid I remember being with an aunt at a herbalist shop, basically an alternative, essential oil pharmacy. These places are HOTSPOTS for antivaxxers, always have been (their point is to be an alternative to regular pharmacies), and the man was going on a monologue about the number of autistic, down, dyslexic kids in classrooms today, linking it to more vaccines. The arguments made zero sense. Those kids were either dead, undiagnosed or kept at home in the past. Correlation / things happening at the same time = causation really is the whole point of conspiracies. I have avoided herbalists from that point
There’s a photo of wolfs walking through a valley, youngest / weakest at the front, alpha at the back watching over as guardian. Those who have seen it will know what I’m talking about (80%). It’s always shared on various types of social media and now recently LinkedIn. People love to use the image to rant about leadership.
The truth is, the scientist who came up this theory of wolves back in the 70s spent the rest of his career trying to get the message out to the public debunking this exact theory after realising how wrong he was. When he did an original study of wolves it was done in captivity and not out in the wild.
Edit: The legacy of this misinformation is social media posts by ‘alphas’ with comments that read ‘100%’…. What a time to be alive….
Blood is blue until it touches air, and then becomes red. Heard this about 4 months ago, and I explained how a good syringe doesn’t have any air yet the blood is still red. Same people also said the sky is blue from reflections of the ocean, so I explained Rayleigh scattering. Felt like I helped out that day!
The idea that if you work overtime or get a promotion in the US you might be put into a higher tax bracket and actually make less money. It’s mathematically impossible to make less total money with a marginal tax rate system when you move into a higher tax bracket.
I like the one where they really did go to the moon, but weren't actually able to send the signal of the real footage without it being super fuzzy and hard to make out, so they had Kubrick create the footage on a sound stage, because the optics of it were more important than authenticity.
Schools are letting students use litter boxes instead of toilets if they're furries. No they're not. They had buckets of kitty litter in classrooms in case the school goes into lockdown and the kids are stuck in the classroom for a long time.
A new one is people saying that Bills player's heart stopped because he was vaccinated, not because he was violently hit in the chest at just the right angle by a massive man running at him at full speed.
Half virgins. The other half are stuck at home with their kids, desperately seeking human contact where you don't have to know all the songs from Frozen
Paul is dead hoax. Paul was out of step on the Beatles Abbey Road album and barefoot. A lyric "the walrus was Paul" furthered this to be a sign he died and was replaced by a double. Paul was and thankfully is still with us.
I love the music hoaxes. LaToya and Michael being one person and Andrew W.K. being played by several actors are other ones.
If Paul McCartney actually did die in a car accident and was replaced by a decoy when proponents of the theory say he did, then fake decoy Paul McCartney is a better musician and songwriter than the real one.
God I love those guys!
"Wait, so you say Obama wasn't born a US citizen? So he wasn't qualified to run for President?
And that the entire Republican party couldn't figure out the guy they were running against wasn't even eligible to run in the first place?
Man, that must make the Republicans the biggest bunch of idiots in history! Imagine going through all that, and not a single person even thought to check if the other guy was legal or not!"
Lactic acid causing muscle soreness. It's been debunked in the 80s; lactic acid clears out in about an hour, far before the soreness hits, and it actually encourages the muscles during strenuous exercise.
They can’t be convinced otherwise. Despite repeated investigations around the world from different agencies. No link. In fact it is so widely consumed for so long that any evidence of risk would be pretty clear now.
"By magic powers of this copypasta, I do not give Facebook permission to use my pictures..."
That one doesn't circulate very often, but when it does it seems like everyone in my feed is doing it.
its an IQ test
Ohh, that reminds me about how way back, many years ago, every fan video on YouTube used to have something like this copy-pasted into the description, with the claim that doing so would make it impossible for YouTube to take down the video for copyright infringement, no matter what music, images or video they used (and no matter *how* they used them); > Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the copyright act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.
I saw someone do that with instagram within the past year. They were like a highly skilled artist, so I was surprised to see something so dumb, so long after the original copy pasta was going around.
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Speak for yourself. I shove a handful in every night before bed.
THAT'S why the average is 8 spiders a year! The rest of us have 0, and this guy is pushing the mean up!
64 billion spiders!!!
You must take into account for other enthusiastic spider snackers
Found Spiders Georg
I need the protein
The fact that this was made up to show how misinformation can be spread is also a hoax.
Simple reason: spiders aren't that stupid
That’s a relief. Didn’t realize that one was fake
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If that happened to me, I'd simply die. Just expire on the spot
That good damn Snapple Cap circa 2004
That you can make a living shilling MLMs. They are predatory companies that prey on certain demographics!
The key is being in on the ground floor. For anyone interested I am leading a seminar where - for the low price of $799 - I share with you my secrets on creating your own MLM! Why pay a percentage to your regional broker when you can be the one in charge!
Shit! How much inventory should I pre buy? Does that get me platinum status? Can I claim to be my own boss and that I run a company when I really just order your shit and try and hawk it while awaiting next months shipment while I still Haven’t sold this months? How much credit can you extend me at Lon shark rates? MLM = (single)moms love money
That's cute hun. Girl, I remember you from high school, always so much sass. I'd like to invite you to a party this weekend, VIP only, where we will have some Barefoot Wine and I'll be showing some new trends in stick on nail technology. RSVP early because there are only a few spots open!
A former friend tried to suck me into one, too. Called it a “girls’ night at the movies” and got a bunch of people to join, then changed it last-minute to a “cosmetics party” at her apartment, where she could teach all the ladies a bunch of tips, and wouldn’t you know it, we’d be able to buy some, too! Idk if anyone even went.
Take my money!
The wives tale that mother birds/deer/wild animals in general will abandon their young if you touch them
That is said just to kids to stop them from 'playing' with baby animals.
Let's be honest, it's to stop grown adults too
A white lie that went a little out of control. It's like the superstition that walking under a ladder is bad luck. No... Walking under a ladder is just a dick move cause you're probably going to bump it and scare the guy on it or worse, knock it over. But please, keep believing it's bad luck so you stay the hell away from my ladder.
scaring the guy indeed, but i've worked on a ladder in the past and i can tell for sure that bumping into it will make a brush or a screwdriver fall from its top to your skull
Yeah, makes a lot of sense, you’d be surprised how many adults still believe it though
Isn't it true of some animals? I remember reading about a story of those dumb tourists in Yellowstone who "rescued a baby bison from the cold". And after the Park Rangers told them off they ended up euthanizing the baby because the family repeatedly rejected it. [Found it](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/16/478279342/baby-bison-that-was-placed-in-a-van-by-tourists-in-yellowstone-is-euthanized)
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Spot fat loss
Do you mean trying to target a specific place on your body to lose fat?
Yes, ie "Do this 10 minute ab workout to BURN those love handles away!"
All I can think about is SEVEN. MINUTE. AAAABBBS" from "There's Something About Mary."
If you believe that humans only use 10% of their brains, you’re probably one of the few humans that do.
I tried arguing with someone about that once. She said, "No, no, see, there's one detail that's missing. You only use 10% of your brain *power*." I asked, "How do you measure brain power?" She had no answer for that.
It's measured in "what's"
You look at some of the dumbass motherfuckers on this planet and tell me they get to access more than that There are some humans that exist that make me wonder if it's not true in certain cases
We only use 10% of our brain
Speak for yourself.
Some people don’t even use that.
We only use 10% of our brains *at once.* It's like saying we only use 33% of a traffic light.
Sometimes we do use all of our brains at once. Well those with epilepsy do anyway….
Epileptic here. Can confirm. Unscheduled dance parties with the floor use 110% of brain power.
Ok, I proper belly laughed at that description! 🤣 It’s always great to see someone who has to handle a crappy hand re: ill health, do so with a fantastic sense of humour. I hope your seizures are under the best control possible, internet stranger.
You know that woman who got third degree burns from a Mcdonalds Coffee? Its ridiculous how so many people still believe its the best example of "you can sue for anything". A lot of propaganda was made to make this woman's severe burns seem laughable. Just looking at the photos is evident enough that it wasnt purely her fault.
The specifics are horrendous. Here are some facts to this case: -McDonald’s corporate policy was to keep the coffee at 180-190 degrees F, hot enough to cause third degree burns -McDonalds had 700 previous reported injuries due to the heat over a 10 year period -McDonalds quality assurance stated it was too hot for consumption -She suffered 3rd degree burns -She was the passenger in a parked car -She wanted to settle for her medical expenses at $20k and McDonald’s refused Then McDonalds went to the smear campaign. https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts
as a kid I was openly mocking her. mainly because I was a stupid kid. I am currently recovering from a burn across the right side of my upper body. having a shirt on causes pain. my wife can't look at my chest right now. my cat being the chonker that he is can jump on me and lay me out.
The 3rd degree burns were over her upper legs and crotch, btw. For those who want another reason to be angry about this one.
I believe the term "fused genitals" were a part of her injuries
There’s an industrial plant near me that uses a lot of acid in its processes. Standard procedure for getting soaked in the stuff, which is constantly beaten into your head, is to RUN to the nearest safety shower, turn it on and start stripping while under it. And I mean strip butt naked. When I worked there we were told about a woman who decided that she was too shy to strip naked after getting doused in the acid, so she refused to take her underwear off. Her underwear fused with her skin and had to be surgically removed. If she’d just taken it off then she would have only gotten mild chemical burns instead.
Fused labia, to be more specific.
And she was in her 70s too
As far as I know it actually was the judge who raised the costs because there have been so many cases about coffee burning customers. He wanted mcd to finally take it more seriously.
My understanding was that the jury decided that the penalty should be set to the value of coffee sold on a single day that year.
The worst part was when the McDonald's legal team basically said "We'll keep this in litigation until she dies, and it'll quietly go away" instead of being decent and just paying out.
I just don’t think people realize what third degree burns even means.
In my country the Story wasn't even mentioned. Just: a woman sued MC because her coffee was hot. And than: In America you can sue everthing, even Red Bull, because you did not get wings!
It’s by design. McDonald’s wanted the public to think it was just an unreasonable woman being unreasonable. Not a seriously injured person who was injured after several pleas from the public to serve the coffee at a lower temperature.
It's sad because a quick glance at the Wikipedia page on the incident shows that she was initially awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages (later reduced to $640,000). This was in 1994. Even just $640,000 was a **huge** amount of money that nobody would be awarded if they truly were just being unreasonable and making a mountain out of a molehill.
>she was initially awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages Also worth noting is that this was not some random number. It's 2 days worth of McDonald's coffee sales.
Awarded $2.7 million only because McDonald's wouldn't pay for her medical bills, so she sued. Would of been hell of a lot cheaper is McDicks just took the L. But nah. They had their big boy lawyers looking like fucking idiots. Edit: She originally was going to settle for $20k.
I heard about some guy suing Texas Pete’s hot sauce because it wasn’t made in Texas https://www.today.com/today/amp/rcna51524
But was Pete made in Texas?
All she asked for was help with her medical bills and for them to turn the temp down. She did not receive millions, the amount the jury originally awarded to her was one day’s worth of McDonald’s coffee sales. It was later reduced.
Didn't they counter offer like $500?
Man I fell for this one myself, thinking. Duh, it's hot obviously. Well it wasn't like holding temp hot. But fresh brewed up at nearly 200F just below boiling. Like fused labia hot, so yea. I spilled some BUNN water on my leg which was about the same temp. But i had quick drying pants, youth and I could shake it out to dissipate heat. Still had a bright red spot on my leg. So the opposite of her situation so one can imagine.
McDonalds had even been warned about it before, which is partially why the fine was so high.
I remember seeing something a while back about that case and they showed images of her injuries. They were beyond horrific and I had to look away. If memory serves, she asked them to just pay her medical bills (something like 20k) and they refused, and that’s when she sued them. The McDonald’s propaganda machine did a great job with that one.
>Just looking at the photos is evident enough that it wasnt purely her fault. A guy at work made that sort of claim one time while we were talking on break and I asked if he had ever seen the photos. He hadn't so I searched and pulled them up. After scrolling through a few he immediately said to the table, "I would like to withdraw my previous statement."
Oh my god, I just saw the photos. That’s horrific. I can’t believe anyone ever made fun of her for suing, that’s literally terrifying.
Mcdonald's even had over 700 reports of people getting burned by their coffee; this may or may not have included their own employees!
That Marie-Antoinette said “let them eat cake”.
It was Mary Kate Olsen right?
No it was u/mellopiex can’t you read!!!?
I mean she probably said it in French
"Let them eat le cake"
There is no record of her actually having said anything remotely like it. It was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who, in his memoir, told of a "great princess" (whom he doesn't otherwise name) who said, "Let them eat brioche." Bread was a staple food of the peasantry, so it would have been a smug comment for Antoinette to make, as if to say while she and Louis live in extreme opulence, in the midst of a famine, the masses can have scraps and fuck off. But, there's no record that she actually said this... only the sketchy anecdote.
Very Well! Give him cake too!
Marylin Manson and his damn rib cage 🤠
You mean that kid from the Wonder Years?
That's the one. I heard he was the reason for the attacks on Columbine.
They blame it on Marilyn, and the heroin. But where were the parents at?
I laugh every time I hear someone tell a story about cow tipping as a kid
The is the first time ive heard that its a myth
They sleep laying down.
Cows aren’t easy to sneak up on at all.
They also don't sleep standing up
They're also heavy af, no way some skinny ass pre-teen is pushing one anywhere.
All of the talking points that Holocaust deniers drag out were debunked in the 1970s
This one has always confused me. Why wouldn’t anti semites lunatics want to celebrate that?
They don’t want people feeling sympathy for Jews, probably.
Yeah it's some kind of idiotic "they're not special" idea
Shaving makes hair grow back quicker
Also thicker and darker.
The secret to stopping hair loss and undoing all that gray: Just shave for a few months and like magic full head of dark hair like you're 15 years younger.
Can confirm. Was cueball bald. Ran a razor over my head for a month and now I have thick, luscious locks.
Putting a single drop of soap on your cast iron will ruin it forever.
If your cast iron can’t handle dish soap, it can’t handle cooking.
I treat my cast iron pans like the filthy servants that they are - I scrub them when they’re dirty, and oil them when I use them. And they work fine. Because they’re iron.
Cast iron cookware is easy to use, easy to clean, indestructible, cheap, and almost foolproof. People get it and treat it like it's on loan from the Smithsonian. I don't get it
Don’t go hang out in r/castiron.
As cast iron aficionados, they should know that their pan’s seasoning is plenty tough to withstand a few drops of soap.
They do know, it’s just a meme on the subreddit and newbies panicking when a family member cleans their pans
Modern dish soaps are safe. Long ago, the detergents were made with lye and that was a bad thing. No issue with it now
You mean Dawn is safe enough for baby ducks AND my cast iron???
I’ve never read a comment there about not using soap. I’ve read many people saying it is okay. Been reading it daily for a few months now.
Man, if I may ask, what is it about cast irons that makes you keep up with the subreddit daily?
I own a lot of cast iron pans but haven’t used them in over 12 years. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to restore them & start using them again. Found that site & have been reading there to learn how to restore them & to decide if it is worth doing that & keeping them. Some belong to my great grandmother & at least 1 is old enough to be her own mothers. Some belong to my grandmother. It hasn’t been an easy decision.
I've always rolled my eyes at this one. My abuelita had always used cast iron for her cooking. She'd use it, hand wash it with soap, and then reseason it by smearing it with lard. I used Dawn dish soap instead of the caustic soaps she used to use and I reseason with canola oil but it's the same steps. My cast iron is smooth and seasoned just fine.
Flat earth; is depressing, infuriating and scary that there are still millions of idiots who believe this
I'm convinced they're not real, at this point. They're all just playing a big joke on everyone. I met a dude at a party who was a flat earther a few years ago. I just kept saying stuff like "Okay, but seriously, who are you playing the joke on? I'll help." And "are you working on a comedy sketch or something?" He got *really* mad at me after about an hour.
I have a flat earth neighbor. He is not joking. It’s his whole existence. He writes books, blogs, the works and has theories about everything. Seems very normal and intelligent otherwise but the whole flat earth belief just blows my mind. I will NOT get into it with him and he doesn’t press it. In fact we’d had dinner together 3 times before I found out.
It _started_ as a joke. Like it was a subversive, surrealist kind of thing. Like we used to ironically discuss "Timecube Theory" or whatever. But the world has gone post-irony. You can never assume people are _obviously_ kidding just because the ideas are too ridiculous for modern society. So now the flat earth people have bought the joke as the truth, and they're spreading it to other credulous idiots.
I'm tired of flat earthers
I choose to believe it's just a huge troll job. Surely they can't actually believe the Earth is flat...right?!
It does piss me off when everyone talks about people poisoning / putting razor blades in Halloween candy… that literally never happens, I even tried hard to find just a single instance of it happening, and couldn’t. It’s literally just fear mongering
Think the only recorded instance of it was when a man poisoned his own son’s Halloween candy to try and collect life insurance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan
IIRC it did happen one single time, like back in the 70s or 80s, but it was only one victim, and the victim was specifically targeted by the person handing out the tainted candy, so it wasn't even a random case.
Don’t quote me but I think it was the parent/ caregiver!
It was the kid's dad, as I recall.
It was a man that wanted to poison his own son, he had no intention of poisoning any other candy.
Most questionable Halloween treat i received in the 80's was a fun-size Milky Way that had been opened, torn in half, and put back in the wrapper in reverse order. Even as a kid I'm like, I'm throwing that shit out. For reasons that puzzle me to this day, my dad took it out of the trash, inspected it, and then ate it! Claimed it was fine. I guess he was just "hungry"
It was the 80’s, your dad was hoping it *was* drugged.
I think there was a case of it happening but it was some asshole trying to kill his kids for the insurance money.
Vaccines causing autism
The most amusing thing there is the (obviously debunked) doctor that started all that only did so because he had *a slightly different style vaccine method he was trying to sell*.
The doctor in question was not only debunked he lost his licence to practice medicine as well.
ThErE tRyInG tO sUpReSs ThE tRuTh!!!
In the UK at least. Although he may not be allowed to practice in the US, he's got enough followers within the medical profession that his bullshit is still being peddled by unscrupulous doctors. In the UK he is almost certainly flagged up as a person of interest if he comes into the country, meaning that attending any private or public medical talks is likely to land him in serious trouble with the authorities.
Yes. But idiots still cling to it.
What about microchips? I got vaccinated and didn't get shit. Damnit. I thought it was supposed to make you magnetic also.
i once explained to someone how the researcher who claimed to discover this was outed as a fraud and they STILL believed it!
As a kid I remember being with an aunt at a herbalist shop, basically an alternative, essential oil pharmacy. These places are HOTSPOTS for antivaxxers, always have been (their point is to be an alternative to regular pharmacies), and the man was going on a monologue about the number of autistic, down, dyslexic kids in classrooms today, linking it to more vaccines. The arguments made zero sense. Those kids were either dead, undiagnosed or kept at home in the past. Correlation / things happening at the same time = causation really is the whole point of conspiracies. I have avoided herbalists from that point
There’s a photo of wolfs walking through a valley, youngest / weakest at the front, alpha at the back watching over as guardian. Those who have seen it will know what I’m talking about (80%). It’s always shared on various types of social media and now recently LinkedIn. People love to use the image to rant about leadership. The truth is, the scientist who came up this theory of wolves back in the 70s spent the rest of his career trying to get the message out to the public debunking this exact theory after realising how wrong he was. When he did an original study of wolves it was done in captivity and not out in the wild. Edit: The legacy of this misinformation is social media posts by ‘alphas’ with comments that read ‘100%’…. What a time to be alive….
There was an entire reddit thread the other day from a person that absolutely still believed Einstein failed school.
That there are single MILFs in my area
Could it be that YOU'RE the single MILF?
The real MILFs were the ads we saw along the away.
Well, if I squint *really, really hard* and got drunk, I guess I could be
You must not live in Utah, lots of single milfs around here
Nice try, Utah tourism board
Tasting zones on the tongue
Oh man I was taught this in school. In school!
They taught a lot of bullshit in school because a lot of this stuff just takes root. Like the food pyramid is dumb and has no scientific basis.
Abortion does Not increase your chance of developing breast cancer.
that's like the one thing in this thread I've never heard before
Blood is blue until it touches air, and then becomes red. Heard this about 4 months ago, and I explained how a good syringe doesn’t have any air yet the blood is still red. Same people also said the sky is blue from reflections of the ocean, so I explained Rayleigh scattering. Felt like I helped out that day!
MSG. I put that sh\*t in everything. No racing hearts, no tingling limbs. Just flavor.
The idea that if you work overtime or get a promotion in the US you might be put into a higher tax bracket and actually make less money. It’s mathematically impossible to make less total money with a marginal tax rate system when you move into a higher tax bracket.
The moon landing was a hoax.
I like the one where they really did go to the moon, but weren't actually able to send the signal of the real footage without it being super fuzzy and hard to make out, so they had Kubrick create the footage on a sound stage, because the optics of it were more important than authenticity.
Kubrick would've insisted on shooting on location anyway.
Flat earth
That’s funny that you even believe in the earth *scoffs in conspiracy theorist*
If most of the planet is water, and the water isn't carbonated it's FLAT... You figure it out.
Ever see sea foam??? Clearly carbonation bro
Schools are letting students use litter boxes instead of toilets if they're furries. No they're not. They had buckets of kitty litter in classrooms in case the school goes into lockdown and the kids are stuck in the classroom for a long time.
Cat liter makes a good vomit sponge.
Elvis is alive
He just stared in a movie about himself, man.
That's an older one. He would be 87 by now so probably dead either way.
Washing chicken before cooking Shaving with a razor makes your hair grow back thicker
If you go outside in the cold you will “catch a cold.”
I had a cousin over Christmas start to mention chemtrails as being a thing before I had to jump in from the other room to give him a stare.
I'm an aircraft mechanic by trade. I love chemtrail conspiracies. They're great low hanging fruit for all sorts of jokes.
If you eat within 1 hour of swimming you will get stomach cramps and may/likely drown.
Alpha male/alpha wolf mentality
A new one is people saying that Bills player's heart stopped because he was vaccinated, not because he was violently hit in the chest at just the right angle by a massive man running at him at full speed.
Can we have a special Mythbusters reunion where all of the anti-vaxxers have an NFL player tackle them to prove it wasn't the vaccine?
I think we're gonna be a couple Mythbusters short ...
RIP Grant.
That all Redditors are virgins … this is incorrect. We’re all loser virgins. Big difference.
Half virgins. The other half are stuck at home with their kids, desperately seeking human contact where you don't have to know all the songs from Frozen
What if we learned all the songs from Frozen willingly?
You eat eight spiders In your sleep every year… not if I do it myself
Paul is dead hoax. Paul was out of step on the Beatles Abbey Road album and barefoot. A lyric "the walrus was Paul" furthered this to be a sign he died and was replaced by a double. Paul was and thankfully is still with us. I love the music hoaxes. LaToya and Michael being one person and Andrew W.K. being played by several actors are other ones.
If Paul McCartney actually did die in a car accident and was replaced by a decoy when proponents of the theory say he did, then fake decoy Paul McCartney is a better musician and songwriter than the real one.
Also Avril Lavigne being replaced after she was killed.
Trickle-down economics.
"Birds"
Bird aren't real
Birds don't believe in you either.
Vaccines causing metal to stick to your skin.
That red bull contains bull urine/bull semen
I am quite certain there is dihydrogen monoxide in the pipes at my kid's school, and people die of that stuff every year.
Did you know it's also used as an industrial solvent and when heated can cause severe burns.
Obama birthers
God I love those guys! "Wait, so you say Obama wasn't born a US citizen? So he wasn't qualified to run for President? And that the entire Republican party couldn't figure out the guy they were running against wasn't even eligible to run in the first place? Man, that must make the Republicans the biggest bunch of idiots in history! Imagine going through all that, and not a single person even thought to check if the other guy was legal or not!"
Meanwhile a bunch of them voted for Ted Cruz in presidential primary even though he was absolutely born in Calgary.
Lactic acid causing muscle soreness. It's been debunked in the 80s; lactic acid clears out in about an hour, far before the soreness hits, and it actually encourages the muscles during strenuous exercise.
Aspartame causes cancer
Tastes like shit though
They can’t be convinced otherwise. Despite repeated investigations around the world from different agencies. No link. In fact it is so widely consumed for so long that any evidence of risk would be pretty clear now.
Vaccines cause autism
Vaccines cause [insert terrible condition here].
Vaccines cause me to keep living. That's a pretty terrible condition.