I don’t see the problem.
I would have thought it’s just a matter of opportunity. More lovers strolling on the beach or in the park or making out at the lookout point, great targets for muggers. And more light for any nefarious activity.
But tidal forces, um, no.
There’s also the little matter of the active ingredient in apple seeds that can destroy cancer cells is cyanide. Cyanide is not good eats.
So it is fair to say that there is an ingredient in apple seeds that can ensure you don’t die from cancer.
Just so you know, I’m not being snarky at all here, I’m genuinely curious.
Did you grow up around animals that were commonly eaten by humans or were you a city kid?
Did your Mom do much home cooking?
Had you seen a raw chicken before the explanation? That was the example I used with my friend. I would have thought the skin and meat being in contact with each other was as good a visual aid as you could get.
I believed this when I was a child. I knew that a baby came from a sperm and an egg, but I wasn’t yet clear on how the sperm got to the egg.
I am not a psychiatrist, nor do I play one on The Internet, but this sounds as if this woman is suffering from erotomania.
And, yes, I am aware that this is a wikipedia article but the description matches your friend’s issue.
No problem.
Extreme city kid. Never been hunting or on a farm at that point or been around animals much (never had a pet), so at the age I learned this (14) I knew very little about either food or animals.
Not really ever, my grandma raised me for my earliest years and she would cook chickens but it’s not like I paid attention.
I think my line of thinking was that muscles were strong and probably too tough to eat, so they were something like the internal organs, that Americans just throw away and all that remains is the “meat” which serves no function other than being delicious?
I can’t really explain why I never knew this until it was explained to me, and I still have a somewhat hard time imagining that meat=muscle, even though I know it’s stupid.
Oh, and I remember being about 12 when I realized that I liked plums even though I had an uncanny revulsion to them. When I thought about it I remembered my babysitter telling me when I was about 4, that if you don’t eat a plum it will grow into a butterfly. Once I realized why, I could eat plums guilt/revulsion free. 
One true weirdness that seems to show up in many of these alternative reality websites is the perverse use of center text alignment. Why do these poor people think that anyone wants to read a block of text that is aligned that way?
Is it because of the lingering effects of TimeCube?
In my father’s case it’s apricot seeds, but yep - cyanide is yet another cure for cancer. And his mystical “other country” belief is - believe it or not - Pakistan, where there is this magical village in the mountains where everyone lives to be 100+ and no-one dies of cancer.
I thought they got it from sugarbeet, but I see to my amazement that while endemic to Europe,they didn’t find out it contained sugar until C16th and didn’t make use of that knowledge until the mid-C18th! Colour me shocked.
Feel free to correct me, but there is NO systemic difference “between the tidal forces at new or full moon and the moon at other phases” - sometimes it may be larger, sometimes smaller, sometimes the same. What minute differences there are in tidal pull are of course due to the varying distance between the earth and the moon, which (as I understand it) are utterly unrelated to the moon’s phase.
When I was pregnant, my MIL didn’t want me to go berry picking, because if I were frightened by a spider, my baby would have a disfiguring birth make. The fact that I’m not afraid of spiders made no difference.
Oh my friend believes KFC doesn’t use real chickens anymore, he thinks the meat is grown in a lab.
And another one thinks vaccines don’t work and viruses don’t exist.
My father worked with someone who believed that babies could absorb vitamin D from diapers that had been hung to dry in the sun.
I once encountered an African-American panhandler who informed me that black people are actually from America, not Africa. Her reasoning? “If we’re from Africa, how come we speak English?”
Someone in my high school once told me that black people were trying to take over the country. I asked him how he figured that, and he said, “Isn’t it obvious?” He was a smart guy in many ways, so it really surprised me to hear such racist drivel come out of his mouth.
I was looking around the internet having heard of a recently released photo from NASA’s Opportunity Rover that I wanted see. In the course of refining my search I came across this page which begins with what appears to be verbatim quotes of various Opportunity-related NASA press releases, then culminates with a final article containing this turd of illogic:
Note: At no time, on the page, do I see any evidence of Viking-spotted foliage. But it’s there. I mean, if you can’t believe random websites on the internets who can you believe?
wow that site is like the bizaro straighdope
You are mistaken. The sun also causes tides, so when the sun and moon are lined up, they reinforce each other, and when they are at right angles, they partially cancel each other.
But given the ubiquity of street lighting, and general lack of awareness of moon phases, I doubt there really are more people out at night when the moon is full than there are when it is at any other phase. I suspect weekend versus non-weekend is a stronger predictor of how many people will be out at night than the phase of the moon is.
This is correct. ISTR that the sun produces tides that are about 1/3 the size of those produced by the moon.
I thought this because of birds&bees video I saw when I was six. They just showed the couple’s midsection, so I naturally assumed that’s where the action was.
Well, that’s arguable. If someone is descended from people who came to the US over 150 years ago, where is that person from? Let’s further suppose that the person in question does not know where their ancestors were before they came to the US. I think it would be quite reasonable for that person to say they’re from the US.
Of course, this doesn’t negate the fact that there are English-speaking people in Africa.
This kind of stuff scares me because it seems like it’s the type of issue that leads to stalking behavior and “astronaut woman in a diaper” scenarios.
My mom has a coworker with an obsession sort of like this except that the object of her affection died in 1972. I’m not sure if that’s more or less creepy. 