# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/161 "2022-04-04T22:02:27Z")
Yes, I wasn’t giving the poster a hard time. But trust me, actors, musicians and entertainers of all sorts get the “Money for nothing” thing all the 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:** [April 4, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/162 "2022-04-04T22:48:32Z")
Musicians die from exposure. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/163 "2022-04-04T22:54:10Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I think the thrust of that statement was not that actors don’t work, but they work by pretending to be someone else. As Hattie McDaniel said regarding the criticism after winning her Oscar, “I’d rather play a maid for $700 a week than be one for $7 a week.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/164 "2022-04-04T23:39:26Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > My mother was the youngest child in a large family, and her mother was 48 when she was born. She was a surprise, I think, there was an 8 year gap between her and her next youngest sibling. > > When I was a child, I thought aunts and uncles were always old people. > > My mom was born in 1928. I’m 54. My father was born in 1927. My grandfather was born in 1882 and I knew him. Now let’s get back to what this thread is about, oral sex. I mean swastikas. Things that are technically true but… United States Army soldiers wore swastikas on their uniforms. It’s true. The shoulder sleeve insignia/unit patch of the 45th Infantry Division was a yellow swastika on a red diamond. This happened in the 1920s. The symbol had nothing to do with Nazis. The unit was part of the Oklahoma National Guard and the symbol came from local native Americans. In the 30s the symbol gained a different meaning and the unit eventually settled on a unit patch with a yellow thunderbird on a red diamond. One of the armories of the New Jersey National Guard has a portion of the building that is quite old. It has beautiful ceramic tile in the hallways. Tons of swastikas along the border of the tiles. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/165 "2022-04-05T00:47:22Z")
Good quote. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/166 "2022-04-05T00:49:02Z")
I have a small table cloth that my grandmother embroidered when she was a girl. It is covered with hundreds of little swastikas. She used it to cover her breakfast table, and I often ate on it when I stayed with her when I was a child. It’s a little odd that she used it, I suppose. But it was a perfectly innocent design when she made it. I have used it once or twice – it’s the right size to cover a bridge table. But it’s just so awkward to explain why I am using a table cloth covered with swastikas. At least I’m a Jew, so probably no one assumes I’m a secret nazi. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/167 "2022-04-05T01:09:23Z")
We have a fondness for Thermopolis, for particular reasons. [Downtown on Broadway](https://goo.gl/maps/iBgVqkNTCNHpWTjS8) there is a really old two-story brick building at the end of the block, a little taller than the buildings next to it, which has alternating swastikas across the upper façade. It looks like it may be from the 19th century. ---
**Author:** ![Ynnad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/168 "2022-04-05T01:16:18Z")
More swastika stuff: > **[St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific Company – Legends of America](https://www.legendsofamerica.com/stlouis-rockymountain-pacific-company/)** > > The St. Louis, Rocky Mountain, & Pacific Company began in New Mexico in 1905. The coal mining company became the largest coal producer in the state. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/169 "2022-04-05T03:06:52Z")
The mosaic tile pool deck (and several common hallways) in my mother’s very old, ornate condo building had all kinds of symbols, including reverse swastikas. We’d always say we were taking the kids down to the Nazi pool for a swim. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/170 "2022-04-05T03:49:16Z")
This thread should be titled “Things that will get me Banned” > [@Moriarty](#): > > Under Nazi rule, Germany launched the first and most broadly reaching anti-smoking campaign of modern times. [spoiler]I guess they weren’t all bad. And going back a bit, How did my mom’s dad get to know my dad’s mom???[/spoiler] See? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/171 "2022-04-05T08:35:57Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Musicians die from exposure.   And what has Ludwig van Beethoven been doing for the last 195 years? Decomposing. ---
**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 5, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/172 "2022-04-05T14:23:44Z")
^ Little known fact: it took Johannes Brahms more than eight years to finish his “Lullaby,” for obvious reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/173 "2022-04-08T15:16:19Z")
The human body is the product of binary fission of individual cellular life forms, where one parent turns into two children. All of your body is brothers and cousins of itself. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/174 "2022-04-08T15:24:08Z")
Likewise, if we define a “child” as some independent life form that was formed from your body then you have millions of children, in the form of T-cells, B-cells, etc. ---
**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 8, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/175 "2022-04-08T15:39:54Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > The human body is the product of binary fission of individual cellular life forms, where one parent turns into two children. > > All of your body is brothers and cousins of itself. > [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Likewise, if we define a “child” as some independent life form that was formed from your body then you have millions of children, in the form of T-cells, B-cells, etc. God, WHERE’S THE BAR? 😆 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/176 "2022-04-08T18:16:27Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > God, WHERE’S THE BAR? 😆 that is what got you into this mess in the first place ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/177 "2022-04-09T03:11:32Z")
I want someone to do an analysis of the portrayal of sex in romance novels. ISTM that romance novels show what women consider normal sexual behavior, whereas porn shows men’s fantasies. IIRC, in the 70s, head was slightly kinky. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/b892Sel9Xhg/maxresdefault.jpg "ZZ TOP - Tube Snake Boogie - 1980 \*re-upload") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b892Sel9Xhg) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/178 "2022-04-09T04:02:58Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > IIRC, in the 70s, head was slightly kinky. I posted upthread that fellatio was mainstreamed by a certain movie that came out in 1972. (starring Linda Lovelace) It took a while for most women to get on board with it, but that eventually happened. The other oral sex, cunnilingus, was mostly mainstreamed by the Playboy advisor column. It also took a while for most men to get on board. As far as the OP: Cecil Adams is actually Ed Zotti. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/179 "2022-04-09T04:21:41Z")
If a cat is staring intently at a wall, there’s probably an insect in the wall it can hear ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839/180 "2022-04-09T04:40:49Z")
I saw a centipede once, on the wall of the apartment. Many homes probably have them. This is not a thing of which to speak, as centipedes are creepy as fuck, but they need to be left be, as they dine on things that you do not want as roommates. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-technically-true-but-you-shouldnt-say-out-loud/961839.md?page=10)