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.
That there was some guy 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.
You could argue it was an allegory, but then what the fuck would that even be an allegory for. The work of a zoologist?
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 died.
That’s why evangelical Christians love that story.
There’s even a museum dedicated to this, including a “replica” of the boat!
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.
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. :)
Makes me want to ask what other kooky wrongness they hold in their head, either in childrearing beliefs or general day to day knowledge.
Spare the rod spoil the child
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.
OK, sorry, I misread “I couldn’t resist, and they couldn’t watch me all the time” as meaning you were tickling their feet in front of them and they couldn’t bear to watch.
Damn english. Yeah I can see how that was a way to read it. I meant that they stepped out of the room one time, and I tickled the little guys feet. Who wouldn’t want to tickle a baby’s cute little feet. They never saw me, and I never told them I did it. Now if I was an asshole, I would be telling them what I did, now that he is older and doesn’t stutter, trying to use it to prove them wrong. But I would never bring it up, and only brought it up here because I can remain mostly anonymous so they will never find out.
Oh yes, I hear how much respect you have for them in your posts.
The thread is about the most nonsense thing you have ever been told. I am glad you are so aware of the rest of our relationship. They are entitled to make rules for their kids, but doesn’t mean I don’t respect them in other ways, and doesn’t mean I have to think they aren’t nonsense. Anything else you want to enlighten me about mr freud?
I am glad you are so aware of the rest of our relationship
I only know what you’ve told us: You specifically ignored the rules they asked you to follow when watching their children, they don’t let watch their children (these two points might be related), and you claim to be “respectful of their batshit decisions”.
If some randos on the internet can hear your disdain this loudly…
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
“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
All I can think of is the dude inside the oil tanker in water world
What a horrible existence
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.
I’ve heard that too! I also remember cartoons where a character would hit the ground with a pick axe and oil would come gushing out.
‘There Will Be Blood’ depicts those early days quite graphically.
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.
Reminds me of the Even Steven’s Family Vacation movie haha
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.
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
“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”
“People used to live to be 900 years old.”
“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”
The female lions do kind of have a more tiger look. What with no mane.
“People used to live to be 900 years old.”
They also used to be able to fly, according to my dad, who was not happy with me when I laughed it off because I thought he was joking.
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.
“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”
Sorry about that.
The internet didn’t exist yet and I hadn’t seen a tiger in a while.
The “no mane” part started to confuse me as different species.I believed the first one when I was, idk, 6 years old. No idea if I assumed it myself or was told it from someone.
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 mean, the last one is true if you’re coming from the standpoint of the rider.
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.
My cousin told me that wind power turbines are actually amusement park attractions: The blades are hollow inside 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.Later, I calculated that you’d experience 15g at the tip of a typical one.
Sounds like a fun ride to me! /s
“There are more connections in the human brain than there are atoms in the universe”
Far out man
Foreigners are to blame for everything and kicking them out of your country is key to solving everything.
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.
Maybe she lost her taste buds during covid
As the anti vaxxer that she is, it would make perfect sense, actually.
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.
She doesn’t have that.
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
Took me a while to figure out what you were referencing. Time for more coffee before its to late
Anarchy capitalism is the solution to every nations problems.
Nations will have no problems if there are no nations.
If only landlords were required to protect their claims themselves.
