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explainlikeimfive/crftc9p | 36oywo | Why's our stomach feel weird when a vehicle we're in drives down a small hill on a road? | Imagine if you were to go skydiving. As you free fall, it feels like there is no gravity. When you accelerate your car down a hill, it isn't quite like free falling, but it will feel like there is less gravity. Your body is used to your stomach having a certain weight, and then all of a sudden when you go down the hill... | 6 |
AskReddit/eq3rvmv | bx6ga6 | What's your favorite game/movie that people laugh at you for playing/watching? | As a grown man with no kids, any time I watch a Disney/Pixar movie I feel like that. I watched The Good Dinosaur on TV (good movie!) and my GF thought I was weird | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cig6wxy | 2907fc | What makes Pepsi Max bad, if it contains no fats, sugars or salts? | Even without sugar, Pepsi Max contains fairly significant amounts of phosphoric acid. While there's far too little of it for it to be actively poisonous, drinking any acidic liquid erodes the teeth over time. In this manner, Pepsi Max is better than normal Pepsi (which combines the acid with sugar, itself bad for denta... | 20 |
AskReddit/es0r29y | c5bbzz | To people who had a childhood pet who passed away early on, what did your parent(s) say to you in an attempt to comfort you? | My parents were always upfront and honest with me about life. They told me my dog was old and that she had passed away. They told me she was in a better place. We went to my grandparents house and he buried her. They told me whenever I wanted to talk to her to see her that we could go to her grave. | 6 |
AskReddit/dfenybv | 61i372 | When did you find out your friends weren't really your friends? | All these people agglomerating around me when I'd have mental breakdown in high schools were the first ones to run away when I actually wanted help. I don't think many of us have real friends because of that. It's human nature I get it, but when you go through bad depressive/suicidal periods, that's when you know for s... | 2 |
AskReddit/cw4w7hy | 3pbh2f | What is your greatest natural skill? | I write well when I want and the situation calls for it. My history degree was good for something, dammit! If you want more strictly natural than taught, I'm a good drummer, but I'm not really using that skill for anything much. | 2 |
AskReddit/ews5gb6 | cpx3en | What's the most disastrous wedding you've ever attended? | My friend called off his wedding the night before but most people didn't get the memo. A bunch of people showed up and her mom was at the entrance to the parking lot sending everyone home. | 2 |
AskReddit/d15fhan | 4b0z4q | What is your go-to show or movie on Netflix? | Not a movie or show, but a comedy special. Bo Burnham's "what" I have an unhealthy relationship with the live video performance. Not so much the Live Audio recording. (Recorded at separate venues some time apart) | 5 |
AskReddit/dozzzle | 796zog | How was your first date with your current SO? | I had a romantic date planned out. I was dressed up, washed (well. hosed off) my classic car, and had movie tickets and a dinner planned. After a 40 minute drive to get to the theatre where we were to start our adventures, she failed to show up and wouldn't respond to my calls. I hung my head and went back home. Now th... | 3 |
askscience/ehr5gw2 | ax3785 | How is heat death of the universe possible if energy cannot be destroyed? | It's the same reason why Engines can't have a 100% efficiency. While energy is conserved, it's converted into a form where it can't be used. Before that, lets talk about the heat death. It’s one of the theories on how the universe will end: the ‘Heat Death’ – also known as the ‘Big Freeze’ or the ‘Big Chill’ – has been... | 6 |
AskReddit/cih29gg | 293hzt | Do I leave my family and Gf to move closer to my kids or do I suffer each year waiting until my summer visit? | Kids are permanent, gf is not. This decision will effect the rest of your life/your children's lives. The question you need to ask yourself is; do you want to be a large part of your kids lives, or a small part? | 4 |
AskReddit/c88k2pb | 17suxd | Why do some people have the inclination to lie in a situation when the true answer has no negative effect on the situation? | For me, it is learned guilt. I was raised in a home where speaking up or standing up for yourself was punished. I learned early on to lie, to always deny any self interest, to always present the reply that would induce the least amount of rage, to supplicate constantly. So it became habit. I thought it was normal for p... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d1exfms | 4c4bb1 | What was the East India Company and why was it so huge? | The British East India Trading Company (there were other ones, but the British one was both the largest and most important one) was in theory simply a British government backed ship trading company. In practice, it was essentially a nation with a board of directors. They had a British government backed monopoly for Bri... | 11 |
explainlikeimfive/dfbqwak | 6150fm | Why are polygraph tests carried out by police if it's not sufficient evidence in the court and are often inaccurate? | Mostly it's to elicit a real confession. It's not totally common knowledge that polygraphs are bupkis, so some people think they work. So if you've got a suspect sweating in interrogation, you offer them a lie detector test, saying if they really are innocent the machine will say so. Then when the machine says they're ... | 33 |
AskReddit/curbopu | 3jptq0 | What's the hardest video game you've ever played? | Super ghouls and ghosts. You play the whole game which is unbelievably stupid hard. 2 hits, you're dead, no saves, no checkpoints. When you finish the "last" level you find out, to beat the game, you have to beat it AGAIN. I once made it halfway through the 2nd time around and died. Never played again. | 4 |
AskReddit/edkc467 | adv7ic | What game should have today's graphics? | I think that many old fantasy games like Morrowind would have some of the most breathtaking views in art as a whole if they were remastered with modern graphics. Art design not limited by reality can become a feverish dreamscape even with tech that dated. | 3 |
AskReddit/c4o9jt0 | to1pt | What is the best way to cash out loose change? | If you have a bank account, get a bunch of coin rolls from them, roll up the coinage, write your account number on each roll, and they will take it then. Loose change in large quantities at random banks, not so much. | 2 |
AskReddit/cfz6wzk | 202kna | What's your favorite scar on your own body? | I have a pretty big scar on my leg from climbing over a chain-link fence to go swimming at a pool that had a locked gate. This was very late at night and me and my friends were a bit drunk. It's my favorite because it reminds me of really good times with friends that I don't see anymore. | 2 |
AskReddit/cgq0px3 | 22st7t | What are some embarrassing moments you have experienced while visiting a Doctor for the first time? | The only embarrassing visit I've ever had was for my physical exam prior to college. They do a hernia check as part of the physical, which, as you all know is the turn the head and cough bit. The physicians assistant that did my exam was the most absurdly sexy 30 or so year old blonde I had ever seen. She was flirty to... | 3 |
AskReddit/dc3zstc | 5miuz4 | What's YOUR advice to a young police officer focused on repairing the relationship between the community and the police? | Be friendly and approachable. Try to get law enforcement personnel into community events (cook-outs, make sure they have representation at any festivals/community events, not just as eyes waiting for something to go wrong). See about having people join as school resource officers, make sure that their inclusion isn't j... | 2 |
AskReddit/d4bqg7u | 4oe2g2 | Do you ever feel bad when someone gets shy or insecure around you? | Not any more the last time someone did that when they were hired to work for me, I feel sorry for this idiot and helped him, it almost cost me my job. Some people act like that on purpose Will NEVER AGAIN feel any sympathy for someone that acts or looks shy/insecure. | 2 |
AskReddit/cfzgpnz | 203hka | When you were in school, did any of your fellow classmates die? | Yes. My best friend from Kindergarten to sixth grade died in 9th grade. When we were young I always knew there was something wrong with him, but I didn't really care. Found out around 4th grade that he had a heart condition and had been operated on various times throughout his life. When we started middle school he mov... | 8 |
AskReddit/c1111va | dl7ae | Is marriage as bad as married couples make it seem with their "HA HA only serious" jokes about it? | Marriage for me was the happiest period of my life and I will always cerish those memories. My husband was the most wonderful man I've ever met but sometimes he still make me crazy. I know that my sister and I shared some "only serious" jokes sometimes. Yet we would talk about it later and laugh aobut it and make up an... | 7 |
AskReddit/dw36wsm | 868n6m | Do you think global warming exist and Why? | Bad question. The earth warming is a fact, not a belief. The question is whether it's caused by man or not. Not to mention calling it global warming isn't really accurate. climate change is a much better term. | 4 |
AskReddit/c1elbny | fayrd | What mispronunciations make your blood boil? | More of a word choice than a mispronunciation, but anytime someone says "an historic" with a hard h, I mentally flay the skin from their bones. I usually make fun of grammar nazis, but that is a crime beyond reprieve. | 2 |
askscience/cpn5t0n | 2zwcdy | Is it actually impossible to cool matter down to 0 K? | The temperature of intergalactic space is not absolute zero, but rather ~2.7 K, so your object would eventually cool to that temperature, not 0 K. And no, the limit on reaching 0 K is not just due to the Earth, it's a universal thing. The third law of thermodynamics states (in one form) that no process, no matter how i... | 3 |
AskReddit/cdgbq3x | 1qthoz | What is something that isn't taught in schools that you feel should be? | Financial Planning and Responsibility! how loans work (especially student loans) how credit cards work how to do your month end finances how to do a personal budget forecast how to start investing how to save for retirement how stuff in the news effects my financial future I learned all this stuff much later when I met... | 60 |
explainlikeimfive/cdsc235 | 1ryrvl | If Bitcoins are just computer generated, why hasn't some one found a way to just make them without mining? | Bitcoins aren't generated, they already exist. They are the answers to a set number of very hard and tedious math problems. You don't create new bitcoins. You get access to a bitcoin that already exists when you find the answer to the problem it is hidden behind. That is if no one else got there first and logged it int... | 2 |
AskReddit/ewyj7j8 | cqqtv3 | How would YOU save the world? | I dont know if earth can be saved in its current condition, however, the humanity can be saved by traveling to another habitable planets, the thing is that not everyone in our world could make it into the space, we would need to select some people and let them be the ones who survive and prosper in new lands, and the o... | 2 |
AskReddit/e0jlaog | 8qje0s | What’s something overpriced at the place you work at? | Everything. I work at the Home Depot, I just bought a grill, that was on clearance, for $199, it’s normally $499.00! Most items you see on shelves cost the store about a third of the sticker price. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dqnryap | 7h36a6 | How exactly do our eyes get "bad"? | Your eye is a biological camera. A camera has 3 main components. There are the lenses that focus light, the light sensor that collects light, and the circuits/software to turn the collected light into the image we see. As people get older, the lenses part is generally what goes bad first. Our auto-focus ability slowly ... | 2 |
AskReddit/eamhn2g | a13hm9 | What do you regret doing in college that if you could go back and erase from time what was it? | I’m still in college, but I regret not really getting to know the career planning services offered through the Learning Center until this year. I’m in the process of applying to grad school, and compared to undergraduate applications, it’s 10x less centralized with 1/10th of the guidance. There is a whole department on... | 5 |
AskReddit/c26gnts | itaqd | Can a company force you to use your PTO instead of unemployment insurance? | I believe the way it works is, your PTO is to be paid at time you end employment. Many firms get around this by simply not allowing them to be "fired" until the PTO has been used, thus not allowing them to get unemployment until that is used up. you should call a lawyer and ask them. | 2 |
AskReddit/de13tj8 | 5vd7j6 | What are your thoughts on being forced to say The Pledge of Allegiance in schools? | Being non-american and not participating in this, as an outsider I see it as a very strange phenomenon. You stand and pledge allegiance to the flag and to your country right? It seems a bit nationalistic to me, almost to a brainwashing level. If you don't conform then you will be punished. It sounds like something out ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dg3lnzk | 64nn7c | What's the weirdest teacher you remember back in school, and what did they do? | Science teacher. Taped a student to the door. Also gave out extra credit for eating a small dose of citric acid. I earned points that day. This was a rural school in the nineties. | 5 |
AskReddit/dx4t0ic | 8b8unb | What are some good affordable meals to cook at home for one person? | Buy some chicken and rice in bulk. Get yourself some different seasonings (Italian, paprika, chili powder, garlic just to name a few basics I always have) and various vegetables. You can make chicken taste like something different every day, and the rice and different veggies help add to the theme. When I was broke and... | 4 |
AskReddit/c1htqn9 | fq9tm | How Crazy is it to Marry someone for Health Insurance? | Have you ever looked up how much health insurance purchased by her (without an employer) would cost? If you're young and healthy, it's usually not as much as you may think for a reasonable policy with a higher deductible. If she's making more, the can probably just BUY insurance without taking the drastic step of getti... | 3 |
AskReddit/cnsqwvq | 2stpj2 | What do you do when you can't fall asleep? | Are you wanting to sleep but can't? If you can't fall asleep follow simple sleep hygiene rules and repeat till you fall asleep. You could also do something productive like organize something because that will bore you like no other and then hopefully you are now able to sleep. Or take drugs. | 2 |
AskReddit/d5gguh9 | 4tdgu2 | If you can't fall asleep, what helps you? | I start a dream in my head and see if I can finish it when I go to sleep ( I cannot, but it still helps). I also listen to a podcast that is kind of like listening to my friends talk, very familiar since I have listen to it for so long. I listen to an episode I have heard before and usually pass out pretty quick. | 8 |
AskReddit/c8gc4xb | 18nj2s | Have you ever played a prank on someone, and afterwards felt you had gone too far? | G'pa and I have an ongoing prank war. I once rigged the inside of his patio door with Pullpops/duct tape.Hilarity ensued and then he began feeling light headed, with some chest pain. I called 911. The paramedics arrived, checked his vitals, and informed us that it was gas that had been duisturbed by Pa's excitement. Sh... | 2 |
AskReddit/df6idvx | 60hur6 | Why don't people care about depressed people? | Depression is seen as self inflicted. "Sure what would you have to be depressed about?" is my favourite saying. Some people genuinely believe that people can and should "snap out of it". If you have cancer - it is visible - people can see you're ill. It is more private with depression. I remember once sitting in a bath... | 2 |
AskHistorians/co9540i | 2ujolq | Can someone explain the relationship between the Shah of Iran, Ayatolla Khomeini, and Ahmadinejad? | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi became the Shah of Iran in 1941 when the British after an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced the abdication of his father Reza Shah. The Pahlavi dynasty was the ruling house of Iran from 1925 until 1979. During this time Iran begun a massive modernization process and huge improvements were done in ... | 3 |
AskReddit/c3yyfir | qni6r | What's the best service you've ever received? | There's a McDonald's that hits their target time every time. Hand out the window to take my money. Pull to next window. Bag out the window. I've never before experienced such an efficient drive-thru. They're even taking two orders simultaneously and still moving that line quickly. All this without compromising the qual... | 2 |
AskReddit/dld1lxw | 6sibbv | What is a sure way to find out if a homeless person is actually a fraud? | Most fake homeless persons, when you knock on their rind sharply with a firm knuckle, produce a flat sound with very little reverberation. When you rap on one and hear a hollow, ringing tone, you've found a homeless person you can trust! | 11 |
AskReddit/dzcqqr9 | 8l4e8z | What do you think some common misconceptions of "creative" people are? | That they don't work on what they do. Really talented creative people tend to also be very driven and put lots of time into their activities. It takes years of training and/or practise just to get to an "ok" level in a lot of creative fields. | 2 |
AskReddit/dzag2jz | 8ktunv | If you won the lottery, what are some positive things for other people that you would do with the money? | Of course it depends on how much money I would win, but I would donate some of the winnings to different kind of research projects that I find important. Mostly medical research for a cure on a disease that doesn't have a cure yet and maybe some nature conservation so we can protect the environment for future generatio... | 3 |
AskReddit/d6padlc | 4yojml | Does not wanting to date a certain race make you racist? | A lot of people are saying that if it's just attraction and cosmetic differences, and not preconceived notions about the actions if that person or group of people then you're good. I think that's fair. I will also say that it's better if it's not a hard and fast rule. I'm married now but I have thought about this. I am... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/csa6mwt | 3a88k2 | Why are speakers built with the ability to ruin themselves (blown speakers)? | Speakers are just like any other electrical system in that if you push too much power through them bad stuff happens. If you overload a light bulb, stereo, or tv they break too. If you have 65w speakers but pump 80w through them they won't last long. The main reason speakers blow out is that people crank them up and ma... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/c6vw15p | 12kq4g | Why do cars have max speeds of 100mph+ when in a lot of countries you can only legally do roughly two thirds of that speed on certain roads? | Hopefully someone can verify this, but my interpretation is that there needs to be headroom in the cars capabilities so it isn't working too hard all the time. It would be rough if the car was working as hard as it possibly could doing 70 down the freeway, because that would wear out parts much faster than necessary. T... | 36 |
AskReddit/cbrp5j4 | 1kqx7t | Why is Hitler seen as more villainous than Stalin when Stalin killed an estimated 3 to 10 times as many people? | It is because history is written by the victor. If Germany had won, the allies would be the villains through and through no matter how many more people Hitler had killed. The allies probably killed a lot of non-soldiers too, but that isn't written all over history. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/ei4ikiy | az0izr | How come when one really needs to go pee, they're completely okay when in any other room, but as soon as they reach the bathroom to relieve themselves, they almost pee their pants? | Classical Conditioning. If you ring a bell and then give a dog treat, and continously repeat this process until its engrained in the dog’s brain, then the next time you ring the bell, the dog will automatically salivate. Same with us and bathrooms. We see a bathroom, and then our brains automatically prepare for us to ... | 17 |
explainlikeimfive/ci1faxk | 27jkuk | If I had my eyelids removed, would I be able to fall asleep again? | Apart from you're inability to spread tears over your eyes, and thus stopping oxygenation of the eyes, they would likely die before you had the chance to fall asleep. With that in mind, let's say you could keep them wet, then yes. You would get so overwhelmingly tired you would fall asleep, your brain can filter stuff ... | 5 |
AskReddit/diczuzy | 6eu286 | What is the stupidest thing you have heard a driver say after an accident that was obviously their fault? | I was at a stoplight on the way to the airport in the D.C. area, got bumped by a limo that pulled up behind me. My windows were down and I could clearly hear my plastic bumper cover crack. I rolled my eyes and got out, knowing that I had to deal with this in about 10 minutes or I was at risk of missing my flight. The d... | 4 |
AskReddit/cvkf2ng | 3n3fmr | When learning new talents and skills, are you a jack-of-all-trades, or have you discovered the one thing you are truly good at? | I'm very much like you as I also consider myself a jack-of-all-trades kind of guy. I am very much a fan of the DIY lifestyle and community. I think this may be due to me being a very independent person because I'd rather put in the time and effort to get a job accomplished myself rather than paying some person or compa... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c2pj65d | l3snd | How is medical marijuana legally distributed? | Marijuana is prohibited under federal law, but state law is an entirely different matter. If a state allows the prescribed use and regulated sale of marijuana, then it is not a crime in the eyes of any state official. Federal law enforcement agencies, however, are able to enforce federal anti-drug laws, but they mostly... | 5 |
AskReddit/c0wx331 | d1s7m | Why are all my close friends the older sibling ? | It is not always the case, but older siblings tend to have the same characteristics. Same with middle/younger/only children. People tend to have friends that are like themselves. I myself am a younger sibling, and the majority of my friends are the youngest. I have a few older and only friends. On the contrary, the gir... | 3 |
AskReddit/cekhhrt | 1upkn0 | What's the most motivating thing someone has said to you? | When dealing with others, treat them and their situation like a basket. NEVER take from that basket. If they ask how you are doing (and, for instance, having a crappy day), be positive and give to their basket. Always say hi to people you know (it might mean something to them outside of your comprehension), and go out ... | 88 |
AskReddit/cgxokc5 | 23joyj | What is something that just baffles you? | The idea of eternity in terms of both astrological religious times. For space to always be and for a God to always be and will be. If the Christian ideas are right, we are all going to live an eternity someway, and that just freaks me out and baffles me. | 11 |
AskReddit/cqvbvat | 34jspt | How do you deal with stress? | Bang your head against the wall multiple times. 35% of the time it allows you to deal with stress. 65% of the time you forget about, due to head trauma. | 10 |
AskReddit/cdc9pc7 | 1qf8ec | What are some of the best "rule of thumb" you know? | this is literally a rule of thumb: if you see a mushroom cloud from an atomic explosion you should put your arm straight in front of you and raise your thumb, if the mushroom cloud is bigger than your thumb you are in the radiation zone and you should evacuate immediately farther from the explosion | 79 |
AskReddit/edqy6rq | aenrmr | What is your “this house is definitely haunted” story? | The house we lived in when I was a child was definitely haunted. As a kid I never liked to believe in scary stuff, but my mom always insisted our house was haunted. She would claim to see apparitions at night when she would get up for water or use the toilet, we would always hear strange noises and my dog at the time w... | 2 |
AskReddit/cj6q0kt | 2bmaab | How do you deal with the death of a patient? | Just because a patient dies does not mean you made a mistake. We will all die one day. That is a simple fact. It's also the reason to live each day like it was your last, because it just might be. Having said that, it does get easier over time. I think we learn to live with the loss. Some patients touch us in a special... | 2 |
AskReddit/cjuhjii | 2dywgo | What kind of job do you work at and why did you choose your career? | I work in a NOC where I configure / manage firewalls, switches and servers. I'm not much into the day to day break / fix aspects of the job, but I enjoy the experience I get working with all kinds of different hardware and software. I'd like to eventually become a full fledged penetration tester and the job I work in n... | 2 |
AskReddit/cxdyfkv | 3ucznw | What songs are you ashamed to say you didn't realize were covers for a long time? | Me And Bobby McGee not written by Janis Joplin, but instead by Kris Kristofferson (guy who played Whistler in blade for all you youngns) On the same note, it's incredible how many sappy love songs Willie Nelson wrote given his image. | 50 |
AskReddit/c17z1dw | egko8 | How is it Cheney is not even charged for leaking the identify of a CIA agent, yet documents that embarrass the government lead to outrage and calls for the assassination of Julian Assange? | On the off chance that you're not just looking for some circle-jerk ideological reinforcement, I'd point out the obvious. The act of the first couldn't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the act of the other is patently obvious. Both damage the security of the American people, and both should be treated accordingly. ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c1ef77u | fa4oy | How is it junkies/alcoholics always seem to have girlfriends? | I am a former drug abuser. I always had girlfriends during that time. For the past 10 years I’ve been away from drugs and my time in relationships has been patchy. Being a drug addict is a very sociable pursuit, you meet lots of people and get to spend long lengths of time with them engaged in a common interest. It’s n... | 12 |
AskReddit/clv28o2 | 2lifr5 | Why do many men respond so negatively when women express disliking catcalling? | Completely depends on how it's being said. If someone says "I don't appreciate the way I was being catcalled this morning", no problem. If they then extend that to "We need to teach men not to do that." THEN they're going to get an argument. Don't lump us all into the actions of a few dickheads just because we also hap... | 6 |
AskReddit/cxxxsk1 | 3wmpyw | What was the worst experience of your school life? | I have Apsergers' and am incredibly sensitive to loud noises and crowded rooms. They forced me in Elementary to attend these loud and cramped morning meetings with EVERY kid in the school in one room, all shouting at the top of their lungs. Also, they forced me to say the Pledge or I would go straight to the office. Oh... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cfyacwu | 1zz56m | Do other languages have a "gay accent"? | This isn't really an ELI5 question. This sub is for simple explanations of complex topics- you're really just looking for a yes or no answer. The answer is yes. I studied Japanese for about eight years, and yes, there are at least two different "gay accents". I'm told that Tagalog (the language of the Philippines) also... | 6 |
AskReddit/dixavyh | 6hcjnc | Why isn't cricket played in the USA? | Why isn't baseball played in the UK? Why is soccer called futbol in every other country but the US? But the US calls a completely different sport football. Because that's the norm. I'm sure a few people have played cricket in the US/baseball in the UK but it's not popular to do so. | 4 |
AskReddit/ecmc1zl | a9tjq9 | What interesting part of your life could become a movie we haven't seen yet? | It'd be a bit different cause me and my sister aren't identical but it could be an interesting film for nature/nurture debates to watch identical twins raised exactly the same slowly growing apart and how one deals with autism and the other sort of ignores it. You could do fun things with perspective changes I think. G... | 2 |
AskReddit/cn1sdcz | 2pzxyu | What is your biggest hope for 2015? | I hope my relationship with this girl I met on Tinder goes well. It's been a terrible year for me, but a couple weeks ago I made a tinder account and found her. Been talking ever sincen and we seem to be pretty much perfect for each other. I don't believe in a higher power, but I feel like maybe all the suffering I've ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/djwmkmp | 6lugb2 | Why does a metal splinter hurt more than a wood splinter? | Because metal is harder than wood. Wood flexes slightly, and cannot have such sharp points as metal. Metal splinters tend to be much sharper, don't flex, and often end up embedding themselves in your flesh a lot deeper than wood ones. | 7 |
AskHistorians/ccyos4c | 1p4ikb | What is the correct name for the Native American people? | The preferred name, almost universally, is our proper tribal name rather than a blanket term. For example, I am Ojibwe, and I prefer to be called Ojibwe or Anishinaabe. Lakota, Cree, Navajo, Zuni, Cherokee, are just some of what you should use. For the times that you need a blanket term, Indigenous peoples, American In... | 23 |
AskReddit/dc19ypa | 5m74q6 | What is the cause of the recent fascination with Bob Ross style art? | It's a pleasant distraction from the hatred, bitterness, fear and anger around us. Turn on the news, then turn on Bob Ross. Which would you prefer to watch? I'll take the happy little trees. | 2 |
AskReddit/d5xeada | 4vd38v | What would you do if a common friend disrespect your significant other? | Depends on the context. Among many of my friends, insults are an ongoing sport. So if one of them disrespected my SO to my face, then I'd likely continue the banter and one-upsmanship. If one of them disrespected her directly or indirectly when I wasn't around, then we'd have to have some more serious words. | 2 |
AskReddit/c1l7c48 | g5xie | What seemingly insignificant or random moment ended up changing your life in a big way? | A couple of years ago I was in a car with my friend and his girlfriend. I was sitting behind the driver's seat every time we went from one place to another. As we were planning to call it a night, I got in the car on the back passenger side. I actually spent a good minute pondering before I buckled in whether or not I ... | 2 |
AskReddit/crqq38l | 37y05n | What is a movie, book, video game, or any other piece of entertainment that you think is overrated? | Mockingjay the book. This post contains spoilers for the movies, so don't read this if you don't want to know what happens in Mockingjay Part 2. I really liked The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, but Mockingjay was just like "Katniss does something/Katniss is getting hurt/Katniss wakes up in the hospital/Someone gives ... | 11 |
AskHistorians/cck0kvp | 1nm2bz | What happened to the medals thrown onto the Capitol Building Steps by Vietnam Veterans? | Here's a video I found of the event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIi4cVOrgyg You can see that they weren't exactly placing the medals on the steps in a neat pile: they were just chucking them at the building. I don't have any source for this or anything, but I seriously doubt they were formally collected afterwards. Some m... | 43 |
AskReddit/c78spaw | 140lev | What is the most productive thing you've done whilst drunk? | cleaning the house/apartment. I didn't realize how easy it is to do stuff that requires minimal thinking whilst drunk. Time flies, so mine as well do all your choirs drunk, right? | 2 |
AskReddit/df0sjmx | 5zshv3 | What's the best thing you can make in a crock pot? | Marbleized tea eggs. Hard boil eggs (as rare as you can make a hard-boiled egg), then crack the shells all over with the back of a spoon. Put them in the crock pot (don't do more than one layer of eggs, they should have some wiggle room) and add soy sauce, tea, star anise, orange peel and cinnamon. Cook them on low for... | 2 |
AskReddit/dqoono0 | 7h6jmk | What is the worst way someone you personally knew died? | A very close friend of mine died of ALS. Showed up at my house using a cane because his ankle wasn't feeling right and 6 months later died from ALS. Horrible way to go. | 2 |
AskReddit/e0al2rh | 8peg9v | What are the best parts of your childhood that today's kids will never know? | None of us had cell phones. The kids in the neighborhood and I would occupy ourselves by playing hide and seek, jumping on trampolines, playing basketball, riding our bikes, and playing N64 or PlayStation. The way I knew to come home was when my mom would whistle down the street. Our parents knew about kidnappings and ... | 36 |
AskReddit/cyfzdo6 | 3yq55i | What is the worst weather you have ever personally witnessed? | I was too young to see it but my family witnessed a tornado in 2004 driving through Pennsylvania. Another time, at school, there was a tornado warning and I remember all of us in our second grade class huddled down in the hallway as the afternoon sky appeared to turn a terrifying black. I remember being on my apartment... | 2 |
AskReddit/cbr22bd | 1konnk | Did you ever break someone's heart? | I was going to university and she was two years younger than I was. It was a summer thing, and it was going really well. We didn't talk about me leaving at all. The week finally came when I would be leaving. I went to her house and we took a walk. I broke things off, which to her would have been out of the blue. She tr... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c58x9zb | vze89 | Why is Nickelback so hated? | People originally disliked Nickelback because it was mainstream, highly accessible, not-so-original music. Kind of the King of Queens of music. Now people hate Nickelback because it's cool to do so. | 12 |
AskReddit/d7sz8ry | 53gzgf | Why are foods in restaurants so much overpriced? | There are a few things which you need to factor in into the calculation. The owner of the restaurant has at least these costs: Pay for staff (At least himself, 1 server, 1 cook) Pay for the venue Pay for the ingredients of the meal To accomodate all these costs, one usually says that about 30% of the meal are the costs... | 4 |
AskReddit/e2gte6u | 8z86ap | What’s something society frowns upon/looks at weirdly that you wish was accepted? | Mental illness and disorders, mainly autism, Down’s Syndrome, depression, anxiety, etc. Everyone deserves respect, no matter what they’re going through, and it annoys me when people nowadays say they’re so accepting but then they frown upon those kinds of things. | 56 |
explainlikeimfive/e2r1kzi | 90k8tr | Why is there seemingly no research being done on purely recreational drugs? | The cost of creating an FDA approved drug is in the 100 million dollar range and those doing the initial research are typically PHDs. So drafting a proposal for funding on a drug that's only purpose is fun would be unlikely and not even cross the minds of everyone involved. imagine inventing a drug like ecstasy and the... | 108 |
explainlikeimfive/c5u63w6 | ybx3g | Why was the telephone company a monopoly that had to be broken up into smaller companies, but Ticketmaster isn't? | It is, and should be. But selling concert tickets isn't as important a function in the national economy as the entire telecommunications infrastructure was. Breaking up Ma Bell had a bunch of very good effects in spawning new businesses and more rapid deployment of new technologies, and some of those were somewhat pred... | 2 |
AskReddit/daezrr5 | 5eta3p | What non-scary movie did you find terrifying as a kid? | The Fox And The Hound. The whole hunting scene at the end terrified me. To make it worse, we were there to watch two movies and this was the first. Between this and the next one my Mum left me there and popped out to get snacks. I saw everyone else leaving and didn't get it, I thought Mum had left me so when she came b... | 27 |
explainlikeimfive/daw25it | 5gym3u | Why is censoring someone's eyes (considered) an effective way to mask someone's identity? | its not just the eyes its the whole area around them usually including part of the brow and nose ridge. it works by preventing you from being able to see any of the common land marks you tend to use to identify a face. when most people look at a face they tend to scan areas around the eyes first. | 4 |
AskReddit/cp28sqc | 2xpo5n | What is something that you assume/stereotype about a neighbouring city/country? | American here. I always assume someone will ask me about specific stereotypes about Americans and then become shocked or incredulous when I tell them they're wrong. "But my friend from school knew an American and she said they're all fat and have guns and hate socialized medicine!" | 2 |
AskReddit/dn3qwm3 | 70k6wn | What was your most recent nightmare about? | My nightmares don’t scare me but if a normal person had mine they would be. My most recent was I was taken from my family to be apart of a scientific experiment that unleashed a horde of demonic creatures (what makes it scary was the gore) Sounds a lot like doom now I write it down | 2 |
askscience/dwgzfki | 87zp23 | How does something as temporary as a human footprint get preserved for more than 10,000 years? | First you must consider, what is a Footprint? It is an indentation/deformation of some form of matter, let's call it clay. That clay will retain the deformation indefinitely unless it is once again deformed. In the case of the preserved footprint you reference the clay was undisturbed by mud that filled in the indentat... | 155 |
AskReddit/dt879om | 7sxj3l | Which airport has the best food? | Every time I have a long layover I look up an airport's yelp ratings. I have found good food in Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Philly, and San Fran. Decent food can make travel much less stressful | 2 |
AskReddit/dhewrrz | 6aj0ap | Why are most of the designs at fashion shows impractical or unfashionable? | A lot of fashions in fashion shows are great but the ones you're thinking of that have all the bizarre impractical designs are showcasing the world's leading designers. Those designers aren't designing clothes are meant to be worn by average people on a regular basis. They're designing clothes meant to be worn by the v... | 3 |
AskHistorians/ccxa2gz | 1ozigt | If I went back to Medieval England, would I be able to effectively communicate with people with modern English? | As others have said, it would depend on when exactly you mean. To give a practical example, if you look at Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, both in the original, you can read Chaucer well enough. A few words are difficult and generally you want to read out loud since some words aren't spelled like their modern equival... | 35 |
AskReddit/dzdnpsi | 8l8qmd | What dish would you make at home but not buy in a restaurant? | Pasta. Most restaurants use dried or frozen noodles exactly like you get at the store, and then they mark it way up. Pasta dishes are the easiest thing in the world to make at home and are way cheaper. Unless the pasta is fresh made in-house, I skip it. | 22 |
AskReddit/e7wtxv4 | 9otxzg | What embarrassing moment still haunts you to this day? | All throughout sixth grade I thought it’d be cute if I talked in a really high voice and acted unintelligent. Kinda like the “dumb blonde” vibe. For some reason I thought it would make me cooler or something I remember one moment when one of my teachers was giving an important lecture on something and he noticed that I... | 5 |
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