# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/21 "2022-03-28T17:53:05Z")
I think most of these you’d be ok saying out loud. I might not be _capable_ of saying the hippopotamus one out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/22 "2022-03-28T17:54:43Z")
Horse legs below the knee are middle fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/23 "2022-03-28T18:11:27Z")
The universe is 92% hydrogen and 8% helium. When you look around and see anything else, it’s just a rounding error. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/24 "2022-03-28T18:11:41Z")
But don’t take it personally. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/25 "2022-03-28T18:31:57Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character. What about Thanos? Moff Tarkin? ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/26 "2022-03-28T18:33:57Z")
I love your new haircut. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/27 "2022-03-28T18:34:27Z")
I prefer the Folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. I shouldn’t say that, but Anatole France did. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/28 "2022-03-28T18:44:56Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Abe Vigoda was Fish > [@Chefguy](#): > > So was Wanda. I’m Spartafish! And so’s my wife! ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/29 "2022-03-28T19:04:51Z")
Albert Fish was not a fish. Some types of pearlfish prefer to make their home in the anus of a sea cucumber. –[The fish that lives in a sea cucumber anus - Australian Geographic](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2014/08/pearlfish-lives-in-sea-cucumber-anus/) ---
**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:** [March 28, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/30 "2022-03-28T19:19:44Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Abe Vigoda was Fish [Derek Dick still is.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_(singer)) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/31 "2022-03-28T21:45:05Z")
Declaring a baby’s death SIDS when they were co-sleeping with mom and/or dad is usually a kind fiction to avoid saying outright that their parent or poorly chosen bedding suffocated him/her. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/32 "2022-03-28T22:06:16Z")
There are NO white people in the bible. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/33 "2022-03-28T22:32:09Z")
🤔 … Palestinian: “Well, what did the romans gave us?” Besides some white characters? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/34 "2022-03-28T22:54:22Z")
Well, other than albinos there are no white people at all. 😛 Semitic people are Caucasian. Although many of those terms are outdated. “Those pants make your butt look big.” ---
**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:** [March 28, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/35 "2022-03-28T23:27:41Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > “Those pants make your butt look big.” “It ain’t the pants, baby. It ain’t the pants.” ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/36 "2022-03-28T23:44:08Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Trees are made of air. Everything on earth, no matter how hard or how dense, is mostly empty space. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/37 "2022-03-29T00:04:18Z")
Even worse. Men- there is no good answer to the (largely hypothetical) question “Do you think I would have made a good prostitute?” Change the subject, ask her what she thinks, anything. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/38 "2022-03-29T00:09:55Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > “Those pants make your butt look big.” “And your butt isn’t doing those pants any favors either.” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/39 "2022-03-29T00:22:59Z")
You only have about two minutes to live, but every time you take a breath you reset the timer. Your teeth are your only bones that you regularly lick Tonight, somebody is going to go to sleep for the last time The tallest person alive has, at some point, been the same height as every other living person Babysitters are usually teenagers who try to behave like adults so that adults can go out and try to behave like teenagers A morgue worker who dies still has to go to work one last time If everybody blinked at the same time, we’d never know ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/40 "2022-03-29T00:30:58Z")
I often ask, “Who cut your hair?” I guess I sound assy asking it. The Lil’wrekker always tells me, that is rude. I’m not sure why. She’s a Nazi about things people say to each other. And she’s very verbal and rude. I tell her every time she does it. I think me and her are at odds with each other at the moment. I still wuv her, my widdle baby. But she’s been talking since she was 10mos. old. And she often fills in for me when my vocals are rebelling. I think I’m just tired of it all.🤭 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839.md?page=3)