Foreigners are to blame for everything and kicking them out of your country is key to solving everything.
Anarchy capitalism is the solution to every nations problems.
Nations will have no problems if there are no nations.
My sister (who’s not very bright) told me that different wines don’t really have different flavors but that they all taste the same, and that people who claim otherwise are just snobs trying to sound interesting.
This is the same person who told me that sangría is non alcoholic due to the amount of fruit that’s in it.
She should look into becoming a sommelier, she’s letting all that hidden knowledge go to waste.
A large part of wine tasting is bullshit, but different styles are definitely different.
Agree. I hate Malbec and i can tell the difference between it and say, a Pinot noir (my favorite) or a Zweigelt (my second favorite)
@zachimusprime44@lemmy.world invisible bird people can intervene in your life if you ask to speak to their supervisor
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.
The universe was created and is controlled by a super being and when we die this being allows us to a magical place. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous, but you asked the question.
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.I don’t know about “ever”, but someone recently told me bald eagles are the fastest flyers on Earth; even faster than any military jet.
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were you the one who told them that lol
C++ is the next version of C+
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.
When I was 6 by my older brother “The currents in currant buns are flies”. Didn’t believe him until I took a bite and felt the texture of the currant. Couldn’t eat them again until I was a teenager.
An old professor once taught the class that the prostate was a myth.
He did extensive research but couldn’t find it.
Was it a woman? Maybe it was a joke like how people say the clitoris is a myth.
No it was a guy and it was a genuine believe that you could get in trouble for refuting.
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
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.
My only guess how that’s possible would be to put a frozen cabbage into a very bad blender, overheating its motor.
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.
Boiled in a big pot with potatoes, carrots, and a large slab of corned beef and spices for several hours.
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.
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. :)
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.
My wife has a few of these. Absolutely absurd beliefs that have no leg to stand on
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.
