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- bralynn, on 11/21/2008, -3/+247"Get the paddles, he's having a cancer!"
- Sublex, on 11/21/2008, -45/+248Come on.
Nobody really believes those, right?
(Well, apart from those 9-11 conspiracy nuts--those guys believe in anything) - inactive, on 11/21/2008, -1/+115People are morons when it comes to science. You use some big words, throw in an unsubstantiated anecdotal story or two, and you can get them to believe anything. Throw in something about a conspiracy to explain why they haven't heard about it, and you're gold.
- sexybobo, on 11/21/2008, -3/+108@Notasheeple
Should we ban Dihydrogen monoxide?
Dihydrogen monoxide
* is called "hydroxyl acid", the substance is the major component of acid rain.
* contributes to the "greenhouse effect".
* may cause severe burns.
* contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
* accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
* may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
* has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.
Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
* as an industrial solvent and coolant.
* in nuclear power plants.
* in the production of styrofoam.
* as a fire retardant.
* in many forms of cruel animal research.
* in the distribution of pesticides. After washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
* as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products. - coyote1284, on 11/21/2008, -0/+76Finish the story!
- Domitri, on 11/21/2008, -0/+70After eating some Pop Rocks and soda, my stomach exploded...
but I got better. - Monsemaster, on 11/21/2008, -3/+60Dugg for "they could replace the filling in Ding Dongs with baboon semen"
- slvrbullet87, on 11/21/2008, -1/+53Its not Lupus
- KaiUno, on 11/21/2008, -1/+508. Sperm isn't food!
This author thinks differently: http://www.lulu.com/browse/preview.php?fCID=495621 ... - Harabeck, on 11/21/2008, -0/+45Any slightly acidic substance can eat through a thin sheet of aluminum in 8 years. As said in the article, orange juice is more acidic.
I once had a can of deck sealer get eaten through and leak all over a bunch of stuff in my garage. It reacted weird with plastic on my extension cables making them brittle and shrink so that the cable is now all twisted. - MoralThreat, on 11/21/2008, -1/+45Dugg for rapeseed.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+43Retarted?
- rescu911, on 11/21/2008, -0/+38He can't. At the very exact moment he was writing it, the coke ate through his stomach and he died!
- techobo, on 11/21/2008, -5/+42I once had a can of coke that had the 1992 world series scores and logos on it. I was 11, and it was one of my most prized possessions. I put it on a shelf, and there it sat for about 8 years.
Realizing later that this commemorative can probably wouldn't impress any girls, I decided to replace it with something else, but noticed I couldn't lift it up. It was stuck to the shelf! It took me a while, but was able peel it off.
The coke had somehow eaten through the bottom of the can and leaked syrup onto the shelf, thus gluing it in place. I don't know what really happened, but the last time I checked my stomach - AgentMull, on 11/21/2008, -1/+38Damn rape seeds always getting hopped up on Jager.
- sinisterouge, on 11/21/2008, -0/+34its never lupus
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 11/21/2008, -2/+34He died
- dsmx, on 11/21/2008, -11/+41To be fair to those 9/11 conspiracy nuts there is a lot of info that was covered up and when there's an absence of information people make stuff up to fill in the blanks.
- LeonidasStokely, on 11/21/2008, -1/+318 - Cheetos count as nourishment
- iamdan1, on 11/21/2008, -0/+27Dear god why?????
- Arramol, on 11/21/2008, -5/+31Yes, onin, we must ban H20! Beware of molecules consisting of 20 hydrogen atoms!
Also, just for the record, the dihydrogen monoxide "scare" has been around way longer than Penn & Teller. - WELLDOITLIVE, on 11/21/2008, -1/+27My ding dong's full of baboon semen.
- kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -1/+26Phosphoric acid does affect bone density but not because it's corrosive. They think it's because the phosphoric acid binds to diatary calcium and prevents it from being absorbed. So if you drink any juice or soda that uses phosphoric acid as a "tarting agent" then drink more milk to diminish the effect.
They use phosphoric acid to give a drink some tartness. It's a industrially produced chemical which is cheaper then the alternative tart acids like citric acid. - kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -3/+27cut him some slack, he's "special".
- BruceAnderson, on 11/21/2008, -0/+22This is why collectors open and drain the cans before storing them. Acid is acid. Even a weak solution will have an effect after a long time. Now if you want to see something a bit more fast-acting, try putting a small square of aluminum foil in a bowl of bleach for a week and see what you get.
- ltethe, on 11/21/2008, -0/+21My parents do... I think they believe all of these. I believed them through my entire childhood, then I decided to learn something...
You know how disappointing it is to learn that your parents are dumb as rocks? Or at least hanging on the gullible chain?
:-/ - inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+208. Guinness turns your ***** black............ ohhh wait.........
- Hobbes24, on 11/21/2008, -0/+20HOW IS THIS NOT ON THE FRONT PAGE OF DIGG!?!?!?!?!?
- Halsfield, on 11/21/2008, -5/+25"7 Retarded Food Myths" title fixed.
Some of the "myth" portions of these seemed like they were written by the onion. If people are really believing that someone's wife's arm became rotten from the inside out simply by being touched with canola oil from a knife they are literally retarded, not just a saying used to mean someone is very stupid.
I've heard of a couple of these but some were just impossible to believe the "internet" as a whole has fallen for. - doctechnical, on 11/21/2008, -1/+19My computer is broke! I'm retarting it now!
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 11/21/2008, -0/+18WHEN WHAT?
- Elranzer, on 11/21/2008, -0/+17BURN HER ANYWAY!
- Yondelldude, on 11/21/2008, -0/+17Dihydrogen monoxide killed Jeff Buckley, look it up!
- wompninja, on 11/21/2008, -1/+17I used to work at a vending company in High school. I did an experiment on this very subject. It only takes coke a year past the expiration date to eat through the aluminum, I have seen it happen numerous times. It has to be original coke though nothing else will do it.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -3/+19That reminds me of that time that guy wrote a PhD thesis just using a bunch of intelligent sounding gibberish, and ended up getting a PhD in Physics.
- diskoh, on 11/21/2008, -3/+19I have a 1979 Coke bottle. It's glass though so nothing has happened.
I don't know what that adds to the thread. Write it in your diaries, I guess? - Hockey37, on 11/21/2008, -1/+16If by "myth" you mean "truth", then yes.
- Jareth86, on 11/21/2008, -2/+17FTA: "Margarine is just made from vegetable oil"
Actually, the Margarine one is not that far off. Its made out of HYDROGENATED oil. These oils destroy your body's ability to break down cholesterol. Hydrogenated oil is often blamed for the sudden sharp rise in heart problems in young people. - jitterbits, on 11/21/2008, -0/+14Meet you here in 12 months!
- ChromaVita, on 11/21/2008, -1/+15Oh no! Your memorabilia for that quality movie is ruined!
- kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+14Except I backed it up with dietary studies from academic institutions and I'm not propagating myths but instead relating the factual evidence that phosphoric acid affects bone density. Look up my citations, look over the science and facts in my statement and then come back to make a snarky remark if I'm wrong.
- oninbonin, on 11/21/2008, -7/+21You mean H20? ***** man, BAN THAT *****!
- kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+14citation:
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/84/4/936
http://www.springerlink.com/content/y012d1cx94wal2 ...
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/74/3/343 - uncleosbert, on 11/21/2008, -0/+14no, they're rebutting something specific:
http://foodasmedicine.blogspot.com/2007/02/cold-wa ...
it doesn't say that cold water will cause a heart attack because it affects the temperature of the aorta as it passes, it says the water will congeal the fats you've consumed and those will go to your heart. or something. it's pretty darn vague.
i can't find a single reference to what you're talking about. i can find this article citing some evidence that chilled air in the trachea can cool the blood enough to prolong a vegetative state, but that only seems to apply to people hooked up to respirators.
http://www.lifenews.com/bio1687.html
and i can find that almost any exposure to ice water will usually raise your heart rate ( tachycardia just means "racing heart"). but you don't have to drink it... it has nothing to do with the proximity of the water to the aorta.
http://www.steadyhealth.com/irregular_heart_beats_ ...
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/1193833 ... - inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+14I heard the Twinkie rumor as a kid and I still have the actual Twinkie in the wrapper inside the kitchen drawer of my mom's house. That was back in 1990, so we have one more year left until I publish my findings.
- ExRe, on 11/21/2008, -7/+21I guess it's believable that some are stupid enough to believe that crap.
I mean, there are people who think Africa is a country and you can see Russia from Alaska. - kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+13People don't understand science and don't' have the wherewithal to look stuff up. Remember that video of some guy mixing up a random solutions and then reaching in and pulling marbles out of it. That got how many diggs? Despite every other post in the thread proclaiming it to be a really bad fake.
That video did exactly why MacWeirdo implied, use big words, show a stupid demo, and sucker in dozens into digging it and believing the BS. - Kravin, on 11/21/2008, -0/+13The yellow no. 5 in mountain dew makes your genitals shrink!!!
- Mordisquitos, on 11/21/2008, -0/+13So can dihydrogen monoxide. Fear it.
- Elranzer, on 11/21/2008, -3/+16"Jesus died for your sins, and three days later arose from the dead."
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