# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/41 "2022-03-29T08:43:30Z")
You have feces inside you. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/42 "2022-03-29T08:50:47Z")
If all the virgins in the world were laid end to end, there wouldn’t be any more. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/43 "2022-03-29T11:02:18Z")
Everything is an illusion. The brain is edging hallucination in order to maintain the illusion. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/44 "2022-03-29T12:59:51Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > You have feces inside you. I saw a stand-up comic a while back who said something like “when you kiss someone, you’re touching them with the top end of a long tube, the bottom five feet of which is filled with shit.” ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/45 "2022-03-29T13:01:11Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Tonight, somebody is going to go to sleep for the last time About 262 somebodies every night, by my count. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/46 "2022-03-29T13:07:25Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > About 262 somebodies every night, by my count. Dang, you must be the most prolific serial killer of all time. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/47 "2022-03-29T13:35:47Z")
Everyone dies from the exact same thing – anoxia. Guaranteed to make you a big hit at parties. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/48 "2022-03-29T14:47:28Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > About 262 somebodies every night, by my count. Forty thousand men and women every day Another forty thousand coming every day Don’t fear the reaper Your number seems a bit low. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/49 "2022-03-29T15:06:26Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Semitic people are Caucasian. Most “Caucasians” are not Caucasian. That includes Semitic people. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/50 "2022-03-29T15:16:40Z")
Actually, we are all black, just some of us are darker than others ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/51 "2022-03-29T15:21:40Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Your number seems a bit low. For fuck’s sake, what is it with me and thousands lately? You’re right, it’s 262,000. 7B people, **[global average life expectancy of 73.2 years](https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/)** (26,736 days). 7B/26,736 = 261,819. Turns out BOC’s number is a bit low. ---
**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, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/52 "2022-03-29T15:36:23Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > 7B people, **[global average life expectancy of 73.2 years](https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/)** (26,736 days). 7B/26,736 = 261,819. Turns out BOC’s number is a bit low. It depends on what the lyrics mean. If you think they mean forty thousand people die every day, then the figure is too low. But if you think they’re saying forty thousand people commit suicide every day (which seems more in context with the song) then the figure is far too high. The actual figure is around two thousand people commit suicide per day. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/53 "2022-03-29T15:43:14Z")
Maybe 40,000 is all the Reaper can personally handle, and he outsources the others? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/54 "2022-03-29T16:13:09Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Turns out BOC’s number is a bit low. Time marches on! 🙂 It was probably closer to the actual number in 1976. But if I sing along, “two hundred sixty thousand every day another couple hundred coming every day” can be made to fit the meter. But I’m an originalist when it come to lyrics. JAQ: Virgil Cane is my name. I am woman, hear me roar! eta: Don’t forget the classic BOC song Me 262,000 ---
**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 29, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/55 "2022-03-29T16:27:06Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > You have feces inside you. > [@Moriarty](#): > > You only have about two minutes to live, but every time you take a breath you reset the timer. I started using a CPAP after a sleep test found that I stopped breathing for up to 130 seconds. That’ll scare all the feces out of you. > [@Senegoid](#): > > If all the virgins in the world were laid end to end, there wouldn’t be any more. I like Dorothy Parker’s original better: > “If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised” ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/56 "2022-03-29T17:11:08Z")
Not sure which definition of _Caucasian_ you’re using the scare quotes for there, but the racial classification explicitly _included_ Semitic as a Caucasoid subtype. ---
**Author:** ![phs3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phs3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phs3)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/57 "2022-03-29T17:25:51Z")
Not only shouldn’t you say this out loud, but I don’t even dare type it: “You should not use the word n\*\*\*\*r.” ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/58 "2022-03-29T17:40:53Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Not sure which definition of _Caucasian_ you’re using the scare quotes for there, but the racial classification explicitly _included_ Semitic as a Caucasoid subtype. I was pointing out the difference between the bogus use of Caucasian to mean “White” and the original meaning of “people from the Caucasus region”. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/59 "2022-03-29T18:41:49Z")
And to go along with that, the ‘knee’ is analogous to our wrist joint. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/60 "2022-03-29T20:32:02Z")
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