“Hasidic Jews have sex through a sheet with a hole in it.”
Of course you can.
Another school myth is that summer breaks were originally so farmer kids had time to harvest crops.
It doesn’t make any sense. Crops aren’t harvested in the summer.
In reality, summer breaks arose because wealthy students would frequently leave town in the summer (to escape the heat, wealthy people would travel to more hospitable places, like the beach). Schools originally catered to the wealthy, since poorer people didn’t have the luxury of an extended education. So they had to close when their students left town.
Hasidic Jews invented the glory hole??
A.k.a. the hole hakavod 
(AFAIK, the myth originated from the practice of shomer negiyah - avoiding physical contact between unmarried men and women. Somehow, the popular imagination transformed that into “even between spouses,”[1] and then into “even during sex.”)
possibly out of confusion with the ban on spousal contact during menstruation ↩︎
True, but there is still lots of work in the summer. But that wasnt a big reason. In fact in some very rural areas, kids got off in spring and fall (a few weeks) but went to school during the summer.
There’s also an overabundance of males in China among certain age groups. I’ll leave any more discussion about this to people who know more about this than I do.
As for the posts earlier about sugar, food dyes, and hyperactivity, someone on another website said that she decided to reduce her family’s consumption of certain additives, etc. in an effort to help her son’s ADHD. That didn’t really change, but the family honestly was healthier with very little extra effort on the parents’ part, and she said, “Is blue soda pop really good for anybody?”
Carrot TOPS are more natural for rabbits, and that’s what they eat when they get in your garden.
I mean, they probably do dig out the roots, too, if they find them. All herbivores like sugar, when they can get it, and rabbits are diggers.
But they won’t restrict themselves to the carrots, either. They’ll especially eat any leafy vegetables like lettuce or spinach. But pretty much anything in a human-planted garden will be flayrah.
I find this interesting, because my wife, Pepper Mill, swears that menstrual synchronicity is very true, and that she and her friends exhibited it before she took up with me. In fact, because my wife’s cycle was very irregular (she eventually was prescribed birth control pills to regulate her cycle), her friends accused her of throwing the rest of them into parallel irregular cycles. They were happy when she started taking the pills.
If synchronicity is a myth, then that would indicate that they were all bad observers.
Maybe only the kinky ones do.
I can see dead people, but they’re invariably just lying around in boxes, not doing anything.
I’ve known women who have lived in college dorms. I’ve known women who have done time in the joint. I’ve known women who have served on naval vessels. They all swear menstrual synchronicity is true. So it may be a worldwide case of confirmation bias, or there may be some truth to this.
Are there any about blue colored junk food? I remember when I was a kid in the '80s blue colored candy and soda didn’t exist. M&Ms, Sweet Tarts, Skittles, gummy bears, sodas, etc. had purple, green, orange, yellow, pink, red, and brown (ok, not all of those things had all those colors, but that was the palette that junk food worked with back then). There wasn’t any blue until some time in the late 90s or early 00s, I don’t remember exactly when. Surely there has to be an urban myth about that curious fact?
Of course, bad observers are hardly rare, as any scientist well knows.
But on senses, partly it depends on how fine you slice it, and partly it depends on what you count as a sense. “Touch”, for instance, can be divided into separate senses for heat, cold, contact, pressure, and pain (and yes, we do have separate senses for heat and cold, and it really throws a person off if you can manage to stimulate both at once, and likewise if you manage to stimulate pressure without contact). And there are internal senses, like propriception (what position your body parts are in relative to each other) and blood chemistry. And the vestibular sense, detecting your current acceleration (usually, mostly, what direction down is), which is sometimes lumped in with hearing, because it’s mostly done in the ears, even though it has nothing to do with sound.
And I can call spirits from the vasty deep. But they won’t answer when I do call them.
We had a bunch of nerds. They took meticulous measurements (not just casual observations) for a couple years. No synchronicity they could find, but lots of personal anecdotes to the contrary. The error bars they observed for it to be true would have had to be at least +/- 10-12 days, which essentially means covering nearly an entire month. Basically confirmation bias. Man bites dog is much more interesting than the other way around.
M&Ms eventually introduced blue M&Ms, but it was late in the game.
Wax “Nik-L-Nip” “Soda bottles” now come in bluye, and I think they always did
I feel certain other candies came in blue, too.
As any reader of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey knows, the aliens who took Dave Bowman in stocked blue food in the cupboards. Something not in kubrick’s movie.
We used to have a group that met to eat supper together, each member or couple providing it in turn. My turn fell on April Fool’s Day, so I made purple mashed potatoes and blue dinner rolls, both colored with food coloring. Nobody wanted to touch the weirdly-colored food. The dinner rolls looked as if they were made of Play-Doh. All of it tasted perfectly fine, though.
M&M also came in blue for special occasions before that, but it was a lighter blue.
You also sometimes see “blue raspberry” things: I don’t think blue raspberries are actually a thing, but it distinguishes them from cherry and strawberry which are also red. And I once saw an ice cream called “blue moon”, that was flavored. I couldn’t figure out what it was flavored, but it was definitely flavored something, and blue somehow didn’t seem out of place for it.
Two things to say about this:
First, it is much easier to see something that happens than see something that doesn’t happen. I.e. you notice when they happen to sync (and remember it); you don’t notice when it doesn’t happen. Later on, you think back to the one time it sync’d (not the 3 times it didn’t) and go “yup, it sync’d”.
Second,…
It doesn’t have to be ±10 days; ±5 days covers most of the month - the 5 days before yours, yours, the 5 days after, that’s at least 15 days. Throw in the “you don’t notice the lack of sync”, … and it seems to happen a lot more than it doesn’t