Misconceptions

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Misconceptions
Topic Started: Aug 31 2009, 05:45 PM (167 Views)
Loona	Aug 31 2009, 05:45 PM Post #1
Flawgic Loless Posts: 6,833 Group: Members Member #10,821 Joined: January 10, 2004 I'm Browsing With Firefox 3	A few months ago my feet were knocked from underneath me when I realized that the Trillium flower (Ontario's plant) is not illegal to pick (only a rare species is). This went in contrary to what I had believed and had been taught, so up until that moment I had always stayed clear of touching the flower. False beliefs suck. That little story has inspired this game. To play: list a misconception, any misconception. Yup, it's that easy. If you can prove someone else's "misconception" is actually a misconception itself, you win a high five (I'm cheap). Annnnd go: Blood is never blue (some believe that when it loses oxygen it turns blue---and this is why our veins are blue). Blood is either bright red (oxygenated) or dark red (deoxygenated). Our veins only appear blue, there's no blue blood there.



Lindsey	Aug 31 2009, 05:52 PM Post #2
<3 Posts: 2,516 Group: Community Moderator Member #91,611 Joined: January 21, 2006 I'm Browsing With Firefox 3	Contrary to popular belief, Lemmings don't actually commit mass suicide. Instead, when a habitat gets too populated, they try to migrate. However, particularly of the Norway Lemming, they migrate towards cliffs where they are pushed off by the Lemmings behind them.



Nicolas	Aug 31 2009, 07:13 PM Post #3
Awesome - Now coming to you in blue Posts: 2,171 Group: Global Support Team Member #160,321 Joined: September 15, 2007 I'm Browsing With Firefox 3 My Board URL http://hogwartsnewzealand.com/	I'll use Wikipedia to explain mine. Wikipedia Inuits do not have an unusually large number of words for snow. In fact, English has many unrelated root words for snow, such as snow, sleet, powder, flurry, drift, slush, whitewall, avalanche and blizzard. Each Inuit language has a similar number of unrelated root words. Since these languages are polysynthetic, arbitrarily complex thoughts such as "snow with a herring-scale pattern etched into it by rainfall" can be expressed in a single long word each, but this feature of the language is by no means restricted to snow.



Loona	Sep 3 2009, 05:31 PM Post #4
Flawgic Loless Posts: 6,833 Group: Members Member #10,821 Joined: January 10, 2004 I'm Browsing With Firefox 3	Lindsey Aug 31 2009, 05:52 PM Contrary to popular belief, Lemmings don't actually commit mass suicide. Instead, when a habitat gets too populated, they try to migrate. However, particularly of the Norway Lemming, they migrate towards cliffs where they are pushed off by the Lemmings behind them. Oddly, I knew that suicide thing was a myth, but I didn't know exactly what propelled them to die. This one relates to me right now: A few days ago I caught a cold and my mom kept telling me "you were cold" "you should've worn a sweater." Good ol' mom. Coldness isn't the cause of colds. It's not the cold in the winter that directly causes more colds in that season over..say, summer. The common "cold" seems to be improperly named.



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