things the masses of people seem to believe that aren't true.

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I am not talking about conspiracies here that can't be proven with a bit of digging but more false stuff that seems to stick in the minds of the general population as truths.

1. All/majority of lotto winners go broke after 5 years. I have seen this touted out a lot yet there is no known source of it as no such research exists. There is the handful of bad stories that are circulated but this is only a minority out of 1000s of big winners worldwide. Infact, I recall the tabloids doing a feature with winners to celebrate Camelot's 20th anniversary or so and many winners had said their lives were better.

1. Marriage means all assets are split 50/50. Another huge misconception.

1. Prenups will protect 1 in divorce- again I think 2 and 3 come from people watching tv shows and movies that use this as factual when it's not.

1. Elvis sings 'Lonely this Christmas.'

1. The capital of Brazil is Rio.

@PotatoGoblins

So to clarify for mumsnetters with dead bodies….

Pigs are out
Patios are back in

👍

@SnackSizeRaisin

Not quite. If they float to the surface, they are no longer fresh enough to eat.

Why not? The taste and safety are unaffected. The only thing that is different is the size of the air pocket inside. You don't eat the air pocket anyway.
Are you someone who throws out out of date potatoes?

Don't be so snide.

The quality is absolutely affected, including the taste, and how they'll behave when used in baking eg quality, texture & rise of cakes.

Of course, someone might choose to eat them anyway.

However, they do go off at some point, the increase in air is the start of that process. Obviously.

oh and in addition to this...old people dying of covid were refused intensive care places because they weren't considered as important as young people.

[quote HunterHearstHelmsley]@mistermagpie

That is true. I work part time and have a Monday off, my DH works part time and has a Tuesday off. We work at the same place with the exact same terms and conditions and I get more hours of annual leave than he does. Our 'base rate' of annual leave is the same, but I get a public holiday adjustment on top which is what makes the difference (because most public holidays are on a Monday).

Your workplace has this wrong. Your DH should have more free leave than you as there are more bank holidays on a Monday than Tuesday.

2021 for instance.. Five bank holidays were on Monday, two were Friday and one was Tuesday.

Let's say you have the minimum holiday entitlement (5.6 weeks) and you both work 20 hours a week. You would both be entitled to 112 hours holiday. 35 of your hours would need to be used on bank holidays, only 15 of your OH's would. That would leave you with 77 hours to take as you wish and your OH would have 97.

If everything is entirely equal and you are left with more hours of your choice than your OH then they are doing it wrong.[/quote]
No, they are doing it correctly. As the poster doesn't work Mondays, she doesn't have to use her holiday entitlement for the Monday bank hols as they are a non working day whereas her partner works on Mondays so does have to use his holiday entitlement each time a bank holiday falls on one of his working days - which is a lot of Mondays.

(Great name by the way )

That lottery transactions need to be separate or need to be cash.

I didn't think that many people thought that, just they understand that retailers don't want to lose money selling them

It also saves you from dealing with people that steal cards just so they can buy scratchies below the chip and pin limit

That the country has no money and that planned increases in NI etc. are the only solution www.ft.com/content/dae03346-581b-4edb-838b-21c90bdb0fc3

That an MOT failure automatically voids any time remaining on the current MOT.

That not having an MOT invalidates your car insurance.

[quote HunterHearstHelmsley]@mistermagpie

That is true. I work part time and have a Monday off, my DH works part time and has a Tuesday off. We work at the same place with the exact same terms and conditions and I get more hours of annual leave than he does. Our 'base rate' of annual leave is the same, but I get a public holiday adjustment on top which is what makes the difference (because most public holidays are on a Monday).

Your workplace has this wrong. Your DH should have more free leave than you as there are more bank holidays on a Monday than Tuesday.

2021 for instance.. Five bank holidays were on Monday, two were Friday and one was Tuesday.

Let's say you have the minimum holiday entitlement (5.6 weeks) and you both work 20 hours a week. You would both be entitled to 112 hours holiday. 35 of your hours would need to be used on bank holidays, only 15 of your OH's would. That would leave you with 77 hours to take as you wish and your OH would have 97.

If everything is entirely equal and you are left with more hours of your choice than your OH then they are doing it wrong.[/quote]
That's not how it works at our work, is all I can tell you - I can promise you it's not wrong (massive employer, huge corporate HR departments and all that).

I get back 0.8 FTE of the bank holidays that fall on Mondays (my non working day). He gets back 0.8 FTE of the bank holidays that fall on Tuesdays (his non working day), which is usually none, depending when Christmas falls etc. This all gets added on to the basic rate of annual leave that everyone gets.

Clearly this all depends on the employer but that's what happens where we work. I don't get anything taken off me for bank holidays, I get time added on.

born,bred and educated in England doesn't make you Irish.

Holding an Irish passport, being a dual citizen of Ireland & Britain & residing in Wicklow for a considerable amount of his time (other home in States) goes a long way to it.

Of course he can say he is Irish. 🙄

Human beings are the only species that kill their own kind. This used to be quoted a lot. Less so these days, maybe because Roald Dahl books have dropped in popularity.

It's funny to think how many people read a book about child-snatching giants but took that line 'Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind' as the gospel truth.

@Bellagio40

That Kansas City is in Kansas when it is actually in Missouri

This is another annoying one!

@HunterHearstHelmsley

haha, in fairness I think I read the original post wrong but this post is moving fast and has a bit of a 'double negative' thing going on that has confused me!

*Holding an Irish passport, being a dual citizen of Ireland & Britain & residing in Wicklow for a considerable amount of his time (other home in States) goes a long way to it.

Of course he can say he is Irish. *

then where do you draw the line?

@Claymorekick

I know. That's why I posted just a minute later and stated I misread.

Sledgehammer is mightier than the sword.

That Victorian ladies regularly deformed their bodies/had ribs removed because they wore corsets.

That 'childhood' is a recent invention and children in the past were treated like mini adults.

That medieval people must have been really smelly with bad teeth.

My pet hate is one already mentioned - that there's an age limit below which it's illegal to leave a child alone. My DP's family are absolutely convinced this is true and it drives me nuts.

then where do you draw the line?

Somewhere that doesn't exclude people with the correct paperwork

But lots of people seem to believe that pigs are a great way to dispose of a body.

One of my favourite authors seems to believe that!

That Humphrey Bogart says the line "Play it again Sam" in the film Casablanca.

He doesn't. No one says that line.

@EarringsandLipstick

If calorie controlled diets and exercised actually worked… there would be NO diet industry.

@godmum56

oh and in addition to this...old people dying of covid were refused intensive care places because they weren't considered as important as young people.

Yes - my 87 and 91 year old parents weren't put in ICU - but I was told that was because they wouldn't put them on ventilators because of their age and could give 100% oxygen on the ward. They both died anyway, but I don't think either of them would have wanted to take an ICU place off a young person in any case.

PR relationships. J - Lo and Ben Affleck, all of Tom Cruise's! It's all such BS and people buy in to it.

@HunterHearstHelmsley apologies, I must have been typing when you posted that you realised you got it the wrong way round.

And absolutely not, the sword rules without a doubt

That medieval people must have been really smelly with bad teeth

the bad teeth part was true, tooth decay was even pretty bad worldwide for a good part of the 20th century before fluoride etc was discovered. If you look at actors/actresses on tv in the 70s/80s even many of them had bad teeth. Many people in their 70s and up today have false teeth.

@thebear1

That there is such a thing as common law wife or husband and this gives you rights.

I think that's true in Scotland.

That small anecdotal study on behaviour does not refuse the fact that "refined sugars and carbohydrates enter the bloodstream quickly. Therefore, they cause rapid changes in blood sugar levels. This may make a child become more active." Also, "sugar" colloquially refers to chemical compounds which have been shown to be linked to hyperactivity. ("E-numbers")

You can read about that in this article here.

Also, empirically, I felt change in my own body on consumption of certain sweets and the "sugar" or sugar-like substance within those caused that, time and again.
medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002426.htm#:~:text=Refined%20sugars%20and%20carbohydrates%20enter,between%20artificial%20colorings%20and%20hyperactivity.