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.

[quote Fedupsotired]@HunterHearstHelmsley I can assure you as a teacher this does not work! We don't get an additional day of leave if you don't work on Monday.

One year was fantastic for me, due to where bank holidays Monday fell and I think a royal wedding I had an additional 2 days off and as I only worked on a Monday that became a 5 week holiday 🤣 (it came after the Easter holidays). [/quote]

I think we are all aware that teachers pay and conditions are different from other workers

@RestingStitchFace

Vaccines cause autism A nip of alcohol warms the body up Bulls are provoked by the colour red.

the nip of acohol can help with cold extremities. it dilates blood vessels and therefore can warm up extremities. Not medically recommended though.

@LydiaGwilt

That little girls must have long hair.

and anyone over 50 must not

There’s some nonsense being spouted on this thread, as well, under the guise of correcting ‘misinformation’!

Some of the nonsense about defibrillators is truly shocking (pun intended).

A defibrillator has to detect shockable rhythm to operate.

the nip of acohol can help with cold extremities. it dilates blood vessels and therefore can warm up extremities...

...Thereby increasing heat loss from superficial blood vessels and lowering core temperature. Hence... Not medically recommended though.

Those St Bernards have a lot to answer for.

@tinkywinkyshandbag I have a degree in forensic psychology (studying the “why” and “how” a crime took place), and have now moved onto studying forensic science. Did a lot of research in the last few months about how exactly the human body decomposes in different environments. Not for the weak stomached 🤢 but completely mesmerising at the same time!

@OneTC

While exercise is generally good for you and helps you sleep well and lose weight, I don't think some people realise that if you do too much, particularly if you body is already stressed, it can increase cortisol levels and have the opposite effect, causing insomnia and self-medication with food.

Exercise also makes you more susceptible to illness by lowering your immune response temporarily

Likewise, exercise can temporarily raise your blood sugar levels (although they will probably drop later). Everyone with Type I diabetes knows this.

@ElftonWednesday

This, I lost 5 stone a few years back, I ate bread every day, also ate rice, potatoes, pasta etc all in moderation, without my carbs I probably would have starved to death

It's the highly-processed nature of some carbs which makes you fat. But yes, not all carbs are bad.

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On MN: That if you are seeing a thread run to 22 pages, others will too. In fact the number of pages relates to how many posts you have set per page. The default is something like 25? But you can customise it so you're not clicking through as many pages.

This is also why when you make a link to a page within a thread and the URL ends something like ?pg=13 the link won't work for everyone as some will have it set up to have 10 pages max per thread (1000 posts). So just delete that bit off the end.

Similarly, that you have to ask people to stop tagging you in threads. Just go and turn your email notifications off if you don't want to be alerted when you're tagged.

@KarenTheGammonRemoaner
No such thing as 'child removal orders from social services '

A family court is needed to grant a care order to the local authority (social services )

@inheritancetrack
not sure you understand this thread - people are making statements which other people may think are true, but in actual fact are not true. So the posterwhose statement you have told is 'rubbish' knows this. That is the point she is making!

That 'doing your own research' is better than listening to professionals who have worked in the field for their entire life.

I just don't get it and trotted out like a trump card 'ta da, I'm so clever 'cus' I do my own research'.

@mustlovegin

That there is gluten in rice

They even write 'gluten-free' on the packets to cater to these people

The reason that they specify 'gluten free' on some rice packets is to let coeliacs know that it hasn't been cross-contaminated with gluten during the production process (hence it's safe for them to eat)

It's the same with the fat-free labelling. It's to let the thin people know it hasn't been cross contaminated with fat people food.

That children can be spoiled by giving them to much sympathy when they are upset.

@frankie001

That if you leave your laundry outside at night it will get darked on. Which I guess is technically true, but not a bad thing!

But it will get 'darked on' by the darkness. So technically true

@Jackofallsorts

There is no such thing as "Irish American". Or "French American", Scottish American" or "Japanese American".

Michael Flatley was born and raised in South Chicago and is American.

That he had built a successful career on his talent for Irish dancing and entertainment doesn't alter this.

No. Both his parents were Irish. So he is Irish and American.

@Graphista - yep, exactly the same with OCD! You can have it and it can affect you in different ways and to different degrees but you can’t be ‘a bit’ OCD - people who say that have absolutely no idea the reality of living with OCD do they! Liking your cushions a certain away or being really tidy doesn’t make you a bit OCD!

@SuperSocks - thanks for reading my explanation. I do understand it’s an enormously confusing condition because you can go from people who seem socially acceptable to NT people (largely because they are masking at a great personal cost) or they are people who simply cannot function in everyday society, can’t speak etc. It would be so difficult to look at those two people together and say they have the same condition but there are a set of standard assessment criteria that they have both met. Similarly you can put two people with eczema together, one might be in terrible pain, have to wrap their skin in cream and bandages at night etc, the other just has small patches. They both have eczema. Somehow though a variety of degrees of severity in a neurotypical condition are harder for people to grasp (and I don’t mean you, I mean a large part of the population!). I guess it’s onwards and upwards with education but hopefully the more people understand the less likely they are to keep perpetuating the ‘everyone is on the spectrum’ myth

@Monopolyiscrap

I have a few friends in the public sector who did a lot of wfh before the pandemic. Although there is an office, they have to hot desk and they both say unless you get in very early, it is almost impossible to get a desk.

That was the case in one of my previous jobs. Every time they did an employee survey I asked for a booking system but my boss just said I needed to get in earlier (not possible due to childcare at the time).

@ravenmum

" Als Faustregel gilt: Etwa ein Drittel der Infizierten erkrankt mit den genannten Symptomen, ein Drittel zeigt eine mildere Symptomatik (wie bei Erkältungs­krank­hei­ten) und ein Drittel entwickelt gar keine Symptome." www.rki.de/SharedDocs/FAQ/Influenza/FAQ_Liste.html One third of flu cases have typical flu symptoms, one third milder symptoms similar to that of a cold, and one third none at all. Says the RKI.

The info I was referring to was a press conference they gave just before the (UK) lockdown. It would have been around 20th March 2020. I couldn't tell you if it was recorded or not though, I just listened to it because I saw it come up on Twitter and thought it would be interesting to get a different perspective to the UK one.

And they said flu is serious and therefore people shouldn't dismiss covid as being "just like flu".

@WomanStanleyWoman

There are still telephones, though. Nothing to stop someone having a quick chat!

Except the fact that, unless you’re in a very small/niche industry where everybody knows everybody, you’ll probably have no idea who to contact, or how to contact them if you do. Our reception team doesn’t even put through unsolicited calls.

In some cases you can phone the person who is the referee. You're right it would be more difficult if someone has just put down HR team as referee but often it will be a named person.

And LinkedIn is a great way of circumventing company systems to contact someone (assuming they are on there).

@AlexaShutUp

Personally, I would not want to live in a country which did not distinguish between marriage and living together.

I am the higher earner in my relationship by quite a lot. I chose to marry my DH and accept that we are financially a unit. That was a choice that I willingly made when we decided that we wanted to start a family.

If something happened to DH and I became single again, then I can conceive that there might be a time when I might want to share my life with someone else, but I would not want to become financially enmeshed in the same way. On the contrary, I would want to protect my assets for myself and for my dd.

In a country where common law marriage is a thing, I guess that means that I would be consigned to living on my own forever. I would rather be able to make that choice for myself. Any prospective partner could equally make their own choice about whether they were happy to move in and share lives on an informal basis or whether they would only consider the marriage route.

There are legal options to protect those who want that protection. Why force it on those who don't?

Some countries with cohabitee rights also have different marriage contracts eg you can choose between different marriage regimes assets in common or separate.

They did use to give them wine, sometimes with water on top. Common until the 80s I'd think.
French drink driving laws may be stricter, but when I was in France in the late 90s drink driving was much more socially acceptable than it was here at the same time. More like the UK in the 70s.
@Gwenhwyfar Obviously you can find idiots everywhere. But the other poster is right. I don't agree that it was socially acceptable in the 90s to drink drive. Maybe in the 70s. Were they giving wine with water 40 years ago? Not in my family, that's for sure, I'm sure you can find some who will say the contrary. But we are surely talking about today, not 30 years ago.

That if you stop exercising, any muscle turns to fat. I can’t believe people still glibly say this, like it’s fact!

@Veescience

That the term “blood is thicker than water” relates to family being more important. It refers to blood brothers ie bands of soldiers who pledged themselves and became “blood brothers” hence thicker than the water of the womb ie family

The meaning has changed though.

French women drink in pregnancy. This really annoys me.

Nobody even discusses this in France as an option, it's that out of the question. There's a little pregnant woman with a line through her on most wine bottles. I'm not saying there isn't FAS, but nobody today thinks drinking in pregnancy is ok.

Boris Johnson is wonderful.