# Things That Are Technically True But You Shouldn't Say Out Loud **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839 "2022-03-28T15:28:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/181 "2022-04-09T05:03:41Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > centipedes are creepy as fuck, but they need to be left be, as they dine on things that you do not want as roommates. The only way that would be true is if we were talking about _cannibal_ centipedes, and then it’d only be theoretical. There are very few things I’d less rather have in my house than centipedes, and if they want to be let be, or left alive, they must stay _out of there_. Centipedes are venomous and aggressive, didn’t you know that? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/182 "2022-04-10T13:51:07Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > You’ve never actually seen your face You have never seen the letter “E.” You have only seen graphic representations of it. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/183 "2022-04-10T15:22:07Z")
Hell, my vision is so bad that I can barely see the _chart_ at the eye doctor let alone the “E.” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/184 "2022-04-10T16:17:51Z")
I don’t have the time or energy to ponder the Platonic Ideal of “E”. The graphic representation is more than adequate for my purposes. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/185 "2022-04-10T16:22:59Z")
There is an expression in the UK - “E by gum” I think that says it all. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/186 "2022-04-11T05:31:10Z")
Spit out that gum, young lady! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/187 "2022-04-11T12:53:50Z")
We all tell new parents how cute their newborns are, but the fact is, every newborn baby looks like Winston Churchill. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/188 "2022-04-11T13:14:54Z")
I personally think they all look like Dwight D. Eisenhower. But yeah, that. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/189 "2022-04-11T16:23:38Z")
My wife wouldn’t let me put Churchill’s picture on our baby announcement… “That’s ok, hon, I’ve got Yoda as a backup!” ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/190 "2022-04-11T17:13:49Z")
Hey, today’s your birthday. So how old are you? That’s my contribution to the thread; no need to respond. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/191 "2022-04-11T22:46:11Z")
I’m tree-an-a-haff years old. As old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth. I’m 37, I’m not _old_. What was the question? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/192 "2022-04-13T01:46:55Z")
It’s poor form to determine age by cutting in half and counting rings unless you are a tree; maybe even then. The Olympics and most sports championships are mainly about money and politics and so is much else. The best time to visit most crowded tourist attractions was years in the past. Balthasar Gracian, a very wise man, said the key to popularity was to figure out your country’s “natural defect” and strongly display the opposite qualities. He was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/193 "2022-04-13T10:43:43Z")
“This \<_crowded tourist attraction_\> would be much more popular if it wasn’t so crowded” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/194 "2022-04-13T14:31:07Z")
And the variant Yogi-ism: “Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/195 "2022-04-13T16:13:34Z")
The first time I went to St Martin with my gf I went to breakfast before she was ready, figuring I’d enjoy a bloody and some coffee while waiting for her. The waitress (who we’d met the previous day) came to the table and asked, “will your wife be joining you?” I answered, “I sure hope not, I don’t even think she knows I’m here!” Technically I was correct, as my divorce was pending. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/196 "2022-04-13T21:09:25Z")
Every time I go overseas, I find the experience marred by tourists. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/197 "2022-04-17T14:11:24Z")
This is NOT a pipe. > **[The Treachery of Images](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Treachery of Images (French: La Trahison des Images) is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as This Is Not a Pipe and The Wind and the Song. Magritte painted it when he was 30 years old. It is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. > The painting shows an image of a pipe. Below it, Magritte painted, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe", French for "This is not a pipe". > The famous pipe. How people rep... ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/198 "2022-04-17T14:13:08Z")
That reminds of another Yogi-ism that is technically true: “If you don’t go to THEIR funeral, they won’t come to YOURS.” ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/199 "2022-04-17T14:15:28Z")
Speaking of old quotes you should NOT say out loud… “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/200 "2022-04-20T20:56:39Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > This is NOT a pipe. Many years ago, either Popular Science or Popular Mechanics magazine had a few paragraphs about a new graphics rendering algorithm that promised much better resolution in smaller files. The article was accompanied by a picture of a rose. But the article also stated “This is not a picture from the new algorithm, it was not available in time for publication. So this is a picture of an actual rose.” Any second-year philosophy class should be able to turn that statement into a week’s discussion… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839.md?page=11)