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.
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.
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.
Their baldness makes them extra aerodynamic.
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
An old professor once taught the class that the prostate was a myth.
He did extensive research but couldn't find it.
Lots of autopsies on female cadavers.
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.
Foreigners are to blame for everything and kicking them out of your country is key to solving everything.
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.
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 drowned.
That's why evangelical Christians love that story.
There's even a museum dedicated to this, including a "replica" of the boat!
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.
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.
Later, I calculated that you’d experience 15g at the tip of a typical one.
Sounds like a fun ride to me! /s
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.
"Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls."
"People used to live to be 900 years old."
“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.”
The female lions do kind of have a more tiger look. What with no mane.
“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
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.
“There are more connections in the human brain than there are atoms in the universe”
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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