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The French just totally surrendered to the Nazis, and handed their entire country over to Germany . . . until they were rescued by the Americans.
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Humans are descended from monkeys. And evolution is no longer happening.
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Every single quality or characteristic of any species exists for some evolutionary “reason.” (How many threads have there been, that start out, “What is the evolutionary advantage of . . . ?”)
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If a particular individual didn’t invent/discover something, someone else would have. (While that’s often the case, it can’t be assumed. And if Beethoven hadn’t composed his Ninth Symphony, it’s fairly certain that nobody else would have either.)
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If you eat too many sweets, you will become diabetic.
You missed the point: The Immaculate Conception refers to Mary being born without Original Sin; it has nothing to do with the conception of Jesus.
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Stuff I hear all the time:
“Heat rises.” This is usually said as if it’s universally true. Fact is, heat only rises in a fluid, and only when the density of the fluid is inversely proportional to temperature.
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Heat doesn’t rise, heated matter may rise, but heat doesn’t.
Huh. I didn’t know that.
It’s three things.
- People tend to say “for all intensive purposes” when it should be “for all intents and purposes,”
- As you mentioned, decimated is used wrong (means to reduce by 1/10.)
- Using “peoples” instead of “people” cause it sounds “cooler” or something.
“If I keep playing the lottery, I’ll win someday.”
Sorry, no.
Well, sure, if you’ve in the habit of ignoring first and second definitionsand jumping to the third. Since when does origin get to determine what a word will mean for the rest of eternity? Move on people.
Your argument has been decimated.
I know the discussion of white phosphorus implied this, but I still wanted to mention it: Your claim is not true; they banned poison gas as a weapon.
Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of Poisonous Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare
That stupid commercial where the woman says that on vehix.com you can “literally” drive the car on the website.
also, you’re too old for that hat, you’re not a freshman in college.
Free Ballard!
The “Guns are banned in the UK and Australia” thing really irritates me. No, no they aren’t. “Requiring a valid firearms licence and secure storage facilities to possess” does not equal “Banned”.
Another one is that “The flush toilet was invented by Sir Thomas Crapper”.
Again, No.
Thomas Crapper was a real-life manufacturer of flush toilets in 19th Century Britain, and he did take out a patent for the ballcock and other flush toilet related things (and had several Royal Warrants, but not a Knighthood), but the flush toilet in the modern sense was arguably invented in Elizabethan England c.1596 by Sir John Harrington, and several other people had produced (and installed) workable designs long before Thomas Crapper got involved.
Also, the sandwich (in the concept of filling twixt two pieces of bread) was not invented by the Earl of Sandwich. Honestly, people, you think it had never, ever occurred to anyone in all of history prior to the 18th century that they could take a piece of bread, put some meat on it, then put another piece of bread on top of it and have a tasty, portable snack? John Montagu (Earl of Sandwich) certainly popularised the idea, but that’s only because a travel-writer made mention of it in a book about London and mentioned Montagu eating sandwiches so as not to interrupt his card games (in a “Those Wacky English!” context). Not the same thing as “inventing” it at all.
No, I wouldn’t. This has been discussed at great length here. The finding being that the term “African-American” has transcended any literal interpretation and does in fact mean “black”.
And this is why I’d be more interested in seeing statistics that reflect life expectancy at age 5 (or higher) rather than life expectancy at birth. But those data are rarely presented when talking about life expectancies, for some reason.
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Well, yea, but that was implied.
Misconceptions about how people reacted to their country being attacked and occupied by the Nazis could fill a book. A big book. Right now, there are some official events scheduled to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Knut Hamsun, unquestionably one of Norway’s greatest authors but also unquestionably a guy whose political leanings were… questionable. The controversy about these events I understand. What bothers me is the way some people react as though every other Norwegian at the time, with only a handful of exceptions, was staunchly anti-Nazi at all times, and did everything they could to resist. Reality, of course, is more complicated.
Completely unrelated factual error that drives me nuts: The World Wide Web is not the same thing as the Internet. True, the Web is now by far the largest source of Internet traffic, the part of the Internet that nearly all users spend most of their time on (with many never leaving it), and so forth. It’s big, it’s highly visible, and it’s very important. But that doesn’t mean the Internet is the Web or vice-versa.
Really, can you point me to the discussion on this?
Do you really want to despair? A representative of the Tuskegee Airmen found it necessary to issue this statement.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.war.world-war-ii/browse_thread/thread/f928ea38c3a70d2a
Btw, from what I read, the men denied treatment were at the stage where the syphillis was no longer transmittable. I don’t know how true that is, though.
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Yeah I admit it, I was being a butthead 
Thats what I was thinking. I’m sure the Maori, Pacific Islanders, the Aborigines, and Native Africans who live in Africa And Not America might have something to say on the subject too…
One time, a question on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” referred to the Gulf of California as a “U.S. body of water.” Check a map, 'tards, it’s shoreline is 100% Mexico. I saw this about a year ago, and for some reason it still drives me crazy that something that stupid made it on air without being caught.
I’ve heard several people insist that Mexico is in South America. “It’s south of America!”. Frankly, I’m tired of people referring to the U.S. as America. America is the entire New World.