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explainlikeimfive/cg9pk17 | 214yip | What exactly happens in your body when you drink water? | Your body balances the water in the blood, the cells, and the spaces in between. A small amount stays in the intestines to help digestion while most is absorbed into the body across tiny pores. When the water crosses the pores it also helps transport vital electrolytes into your body. Then the water enters the blood st... | 100 |
AskReddit/ca9obdq | 1ff5l1 | If you had to watch one TV show for the rest of your life, what would it be? | Case Closed. They made over 300 episodes by now. It's a cartoon mystery show, like CSI. I really wish I could buy all of the seasons english-dubbed and just watch them until the end of time. | 2 |
AskReddit/dhviby7 | 6cl7x0 | What's the strangest thing you've thought/done while overtired? | When I was driving home from work today and saw some geese on the side of the road. I thought to myself 'I wonder if geese can tell if they're related' and then pictured myself pulling over and asking the geese if they were cousins. Once I was home I immediately slept for two hours. | 2 |
AskReddit/e0m8xl5 | 8qv3ka | How long do you think you would last in a zombie apocalypse? | Pretty long. I own multiple firearms with thousands of rounds and have a reloading press to be able to make more ammo. Have a special forces medical handbook, a survival guide with color pics of safely edible plants as well as diagrams on making various types of traps and live near a lake well stocked with fish, ducks ... | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/crjgz7g | 372oas | Why do people's face on this picture look weird when seen in your peripheral vision? | It has nothing to do with peripheral vision. You can cover one of the images up and look directly at the other and it'll still happen. In fact, if you download that image, keep one face up for a bit and then flip to the next, it'll still look weird for a bit, until your brain adjusts. Your brain "holds on" to facial fe... | 4 |
AskReddit/c2h1dg7 | k2ma4 | Why do people think modern life is pointless? | There was a time when people didn't know much about the world, so they believed in gods and such. They also weren't jaded by hollywood media and tv, the average person was more able to enjoy their life. This is reflected in the literature of centuries and millenia ago. Another factor may be how easy life is for most of... | 2 |
Ask_Politics/cjgair4 | 2cjbgn | How much do we reliably know about North Korea under Kim Jong Un? | Apparently little. Most of our knowledge of him comes from Keiji Fujiwara, the Kim family's former chef, and Dennis Rodman. Fujiwara was completely correct when he said that Un was going to succeed Kim Jong Il, and most intelligence agencies dismissed that idea. | 6 |
AskReddit/cj11zo1 | 2b25di | What is the best way to stay up all night? | I work in a 12 hour shift as a security guard. My shift starts at 18:00 and goes until 06:00 in the morning. Before the shift starts I usually sleep 2 hours to keep my mind set and don't go in with eyes nearly closed. Coffee is a way to go but I prefer some Energy & Work I have to do. Spending my time on reddit or do s... | 2 |
AskReddit/dyi1ems | 8h93x8 | Who would win in a fight between Sonic the Hedgehog and Crash Bandicoot? | I'm going to got with Sonic based on speed. Although (assuming we can only use feats from games) he is much slower than he's made out to be. I think he's still too fast for crash to stand a chance. Sure some of crash's attacks could still hit him, but crash' s reflexes aren't fast enough for him to react to sonic's mov... | 2 |
AskReddit/dh0nvmq | 68r2wq | What makes you feel like you are still a child? | For some reason rain or snow just gives me this giddiness, I have no idea why, but it makes me feel like I'm 4 and don't have a care in the world. Hanging out with my little cousins and watching cartoons with them is also really fun. | 8 |
AskReddit/eqxeavz | bzvk9g | Can you figure out who hacked your social media accounts when you have their IP address? | Depends if you have their actual ip address, or a VPN address, dynamic address that's changed or just a fake bread trail. Also depends if you have the ability to connect that ip with either a physical location, organisation or other such thing. So yes, but in asking the question, probably no. | 2 |
AskReddit/cnwy6hu | 2t6zw7 | What's your favorite way to annoy your significant other? | The favorite ways my significant other annoys me: He face-slashes me with his beard stubble, he leans all of his weight on me when hugging, he twerks me anytime we are rear-to-rear, and sometime I wake up and his eyeball is all I can see, big and blinking and in my face. I love him so much! | 4 |
AskReddit/c52j2u1 | v9mze | What weird/disturbing thoughts have popped into your head when you were just about to fall asleep? | I have the opposite problem, waking up I'll think the stupidest things, i call it morning brain. My favorite one was a compounded act of stupidity, I for some reason, completely randomly had the thought "Friends are like tests, its okay to bomb them, but its better if you study and get to know their material." a few sl... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0ji4vj | autrx | What would happen if we found gold on the moon? | We would probably end up first sending up a special algae which would oxygenate the moons atmosphere and send crews up there to harvest the gold and ship it back to Earth. One day however, we would lose contact with the gold diggers and send up a special force team to investigate. It turns out that there are man eating... | 14 |
AskReddit/egn7wcc | arg2ku | What is something you find disturbing that seems to be accepted as normal by most of society? | Believing most criminals and generally ghastly people deserve 'proper' justice rather than purely prison. Stuff like 'dropping the soap' is a joke, but personally the thought of wishing or joking about sexual assault is disturbing. Similarly when someone like a murderer or child predictor is caught and the general publ... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/ciq5zm3 | 2a00dz | Why can you sometimes still feel the surge of the tides when you close your eyes after a day of swimming at the beach? | During the day as you were swimming, your brain was slowly learning to acclimate itself to the swells and began to anticipate the repetitive forces. So your brain starts to make pre-adjustments for those expected forces, with regard to your balance, muscles, etc. Once you get out of the water for the day, you are no lo... | 9 |
AskHistorians/cndf5u4 | 2r7u7c | What led the -Stan countries to declare independence from the USSR? | First I would like to point out that being part of the USSR is not the same as being a part of Russia. Russia itself was a part of the USSR. Is your question specifically about the events leading to their independence from the USSR? Or is it about the "stans" national history and identity and the historical differences... | 21 |
explainlikeimfive/cgshpfo | 231kqh | Why does asparagus make your urine smell? | Asparagus contains asparagusic acid which, when broken down by our digestive system, creates a volatile smell. Aparagusic acid is also responsible for the smell of rotting eggs. And plus pee doesn't smell too great in the first place. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e14xc1y | 8t5mka | Why is pink considered a "girl color"? | It actually used to be a boy's color (as it was seen to be a version of the masculine red) and blue was a girl's color as it was supposedly the color of the Virgin Mary's dress (at least as painted by classical artists who of course had no idea). But in the 1950s several ad agencies pushed pink as a girl's color accord... | 5 |
Ask_Politics/cjv4oqw | 2e1e4t | What if instead of or along side the EU there was a NAU, which included all EU members aswell as the United States and Canada? | I don't think it would change the geopolitical/geostrategic situation much. The U.S. is the most important ally of nearly every country in Europe as is. Joining the EU wouldn't change the alliance system. I'd wager that such a system would see the United States act more as a Britain-level member, meaning that we'd keep... | 6 |
AskReddit/d5gda4s | 4tcpgk | What's that album you should listen at least once before you die? | American Idiot by Green Day. Listen to it it while reading the Lyrics Booklet that comes with the album if possible. If you follow the lyrics and look at the drawings in the booklet, the album has an incredible story | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/du5p23i | 7x5rut | What in the constitution allows State to override Federal policies? | The 10th Amendment goes as follows: >The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. This of course tries to guarantee rights for the states. That said, its "opposite" is found in Article II Section 8 Claus... | 4 |
AskReddit/cf0jm8i | 1wbyub | Why don't toilets have macerators? | Things would get stuck on it and it'd be gross. Plus, it's just one more part that can break and you'd have to pay to fix. Specifically, some toilets do have macerators. They are usually toilets made for below grade installation so that the pump can then easily pump everything up against gravity into the sewer line. | 2 |
AskReddit/da5m4o7 | 5dmd7u | What are some social stigmas that have changed in the past 10 years? | My favorite is homosexual freedom has improved quite a bit. I teach senior citizen exercise classes. This one newly retired lady quickly became our favorite because of her fun personality. She often talked about her "best friend" who was going to retire soon as well. Everyone encouraged her to bring her friend to class... | 3 |
AskReddit/ec1c906 | a79wg4 | What do you think about people who still buy CD's? | When purchasing music, I only buy CD’s - It’s a physical copy of the music that can’t be taken away by a provider, or lost if I lose all the data on my device. Definitely paranoid of me | 18 |
AskReddit/d91m7or | 58mpuk | What is the weirdest food combination you've ever seen a person eating ? | Taco meat, mozzarella cheese, jalapeño juice (like out of a jar) sour cream, and hot mustard (like in Chinese food) in a shell. I ate it, and i was really high. It could've been so wrong, but it tasted so right. | 2 |
AskReddit/euf6ds8 | cg7nq0 | How could us eradicate all those pesky bloodsucking mosquitoes if we tried our best? | Without concern for other species including humans? Bring back DDT. A more humane approach might be the method their trying now of releasing mosquitoes that are genetically engineered to be sterile and make other mosquitoes or their offspring sterile. Can’t remember exactly how that works. | 3 |
AskReddit/cp48vmg | 2xx8l9 | What are some examples of outdated social norms that we blindly follow? | Suits. Women's 'formal' wear can basically consist of anything thats clean neat and tidy and its considered acceptable - but if your a man, you have this outdated and restrictive uniform. | 130 |
AskReddit/cbt8lsv | 1kw9sl | What's one thing all women wish men did more often? | You're assuming that one woman knows what all other women in the whole entire world want from men! I can't answer for everyone else, I can only answer based on my own experiences. A much better question would be: If there was one thing you could get the man in your life to do more often, what would it be? | 4 |
AskHistorians/ekisq55 | bbb36d | How did Genghis Khan's general Subutai coordinate armies? | There were three components to their coordination: Intelligence. Scouts and/or spies provided information about the region. This included details of routes, including expected speeds of advance along those routes and availability of grazing and supplies, and details of defences, such as the presence of fortifications a... | 9 |
AskReddit/eq5g0k7 | bxctit | What’s your biggest pet peeve? | I'm a waitress and my biggest pet peeve is when someone scoops ice with the glass cup rather than using the scoop. It's not sanitary and if the glass breaks you gotta burn all the ice. | 2 |
askscience/c2byrdv | jgsce | Can mathematics theoretically be used to describe any system in nature? | I am not a mathematician, but AFAIK mathematics can be used to describe any system that can be quantified. A lot of the progress of science consists of doing just this. For example, we couldn't currently make a good mathematical model of "happiness", because we can't quantify it. | 4 |
AskReddit/edyzdme | afj3mt | What has been your worst job experience? | Working for a call center in a law firm. It was the worst 2 months of my life. This was 2 years ago and i still think about it daily. That’s how terrible it was. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c2zjd5q | maylr | Can someone please explain what the significance of prime numbers is? | My personal reason for loving prime numbers goes like this: Imagine you can count up to 9. that's 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. You have no conception of the numbers beyond 9, it makes no sense to you. What if you actually needed the number 10? Well, you could easily factor it and use 2 x 5 (2 times 5), so no big d... | 9 |
AskReddit/evtqfby | cl92cp | What is something that your friends/family don't know about you that would change their view of you if they did? | I used to have an "affair" with one of my best friends dad when I was a teenager (still underage). Wasn't really intense but definitely had some bdsm elements to it. I went to a Christian school for girls so when I was around that age everyone expected me to be that innocent little angel. | 2 |
AskReddit/cq2u8lq | 31m81m | Why is "gay" an insult? | It's an insult designed to target someone's masculinity, a way of suggesting that they in some way less of a man. It is, of course, representative of a very outdated view of gender and sexuality. It implies that masculinity and heterosexuality go hand-in-hand, and are innately positive characteristics, whilst being gay... | 7 |
AskReddit/ef2e0rc | ak802g | What's the best advice you could give to a beginning artist? | Practice constantly. Draw every day, even if its just a doodle. Trace. Tracing is a great exercise. Take classes and read books. There's a great book with some really valuable exercises in it called "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Becoming a good artist is not an easy thing and takes a massive amount of dedic... | 2 |
AskHistorians/etkg6va | cbpu3q | How do historians approach topics where the information will always be lost/classified? | I do a great deal of research in African American history. There is a vast amount of lost information relating to some of this history, particularly primary sources. In some cases, the “information” simply never existed beyond an oral tradition, or a stray mention in a public document or newspaper. What I try to do fir... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/ch9b6uf | 24p6e3 | Why can my movie editor play the film in the editor for me in real time but takes hours to export? | Because exporting it means converting it into a different format, rather than just playing it back in its current state. In ELI5 terms: it takes longer to translate a book than it does to read the book. | 13 |
askscience/ck0pn4e | 2elels | What exactly would happen to earth if our moon was disrupted in any way? | Most likely a few big pieces (at least 10 km diameter) would be projected towards earth, enter the atmosphere and the impact would kill all life on earth. If that doesn't happen (unlikely) a large moon dust cloud would form around earth, block the sunlight for thousands/millions of years and therefore also destroy all ... | 5 |
AskReddit/dy1e7z5 | 8f835n | If you're one of those people who save every insect/spider in the house and don't kill anything, what do you do if you have roaches? | I take things like moths, most spiders, ladybugs, and so on outside because they're not doing anything to hurt or even inconvenience me, and killing them gains me nothing. Mosquitoes, fleas, cockroaches, or anything else that might do me harm, whether directly or by spreading illness, and can't be reliably trapped gets... | 2 |
AskReddit/csvdvqc | 3cgu0r | What stereotypes of your 'people' do you shamelessly perpetuate? | I fit quite a few stereotypes. I'm a Texan gun owner. I'm a white guy who cannot jump very high, nor am I good at dancing. I'm a redditor who enjoys mountain dew and Doritos. I'm a programmer who sucks at social stuff. | 2 |
AskHistorians/d8w1q8h | 57xygj | What did the Nazis use hair for in the upholstery industry? | It would have been used as a filling for upholstery, yes. While there are textiles that are woven with hair, they utilize horse or goat because of it's heavy weight and resistance to bending. Those fabrics are used in upholstery as well as things like tailoring, but human hair would not have the same needed qualities. ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cccyyu6 | 1mvg5s | If you think of humans as animals, what are our most obvious courtship displays? | The way we walk. Guys puffing their chests or girls walking with an exaggerated hip sway. The tone of our voice changes also. Guys tends to speak in a lower tone and girls use a softer voice and speak slower. Also, but we do that less consciously (but they are displays), blushing smiling staring touching . | 2 |
AskReddit/eapb56n | a1f8i7 | What was your worst first day at a new job? | My second job was working at Goodwill. On my first day the manager made me reorganize all of the clothing racks while they sat in the back and relaxed. I tried to get the other person working the cash register to help me since they weren't doing anything, but they just bought a soda or something and sat in the back wit... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ddzytbl | 5v7x2b | Why does the Earth spin? | They've all spun since they were formed. In space, there is nearly no resistance to the spinning motion, and massive planets have massive amounts of angular momentum. The initial spin is simply due to how the matter came together when the planet was forming in the first place. The spin does slow down over long, long am... | 2 |
AskReddit/c59ntfv | w2gt2 | How can I get my older dog to calm down? | Try to take some time off work and spend some serious time with the dog. It sounds like it has separation anxiety. Is the dog better when you are with it? If so, try gently getting the dog to become accustomed to being alone. Lock him in the kitchen for a few minutes, then come back in, and keep doing this until he is ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cbfx2cp | 1jlq1f | What uncommon advice do you have for us new college freshman? | I write this in every college advice thread. Buy a door stop. Use it to prop your door open on move in day/the first few weeks of school. I met my two best friends (and bridesmaids in my wedding) when they popped in my open door to introduce themselves! | 11 |
AskReddit/cjzppz1 | 2ei2uf | What would heaven be like for you? | I'd be with my wife (currently a widower) and my dog. We'd be hiking through the most gorgeous mountain trails where past every bend we'd find something beautiful and new just waiting to be explored. There would be meandering creeks every half-mile filled with crystal clear water that's safe for all three of us to enjo... | 2 |
AskReddit/etix0wm | cbxhnb | What's your favorite song of all time and why? | Time of the Season by The Zombies because it takes me back to my childhood when my Mom was alive. I've carried her memory with me since I was 12, this song just brings the good memories flooding back. | 12 |
askscience/e7hjuly | 9mthcl | Can we split a proton to create energy the same way we split a nucleus for energy? | Complicated answer already provided. Simpler to understand answer: We haven't identified any combination of particles that form a proton when combined, and have a lower total rest mass than a proton when separate. So we have no reason to believe you can get energy from splitting a proton. For splitting particles and nu... | 609 |
AskReddit/ebi27pl | a4wtay | Why should the age of responsibility be 21 instead of 18? | Age to buy alcohol is 21. Age to buy firearms is 21 in many cases. Its nonsense that we can take an 18 year old, give him a gun and deploy him to the middle east and trust him to make life or death decisions, then he comes back and society still won't trust him to buy a beer or his own firearm. If you can't be trusted ... | 7 |
AskReddit/emi90re | bkogbk | What kind of Pokemon would you find in your city or town? | Probably just your run of the mill starting route Pokemon ig. Some low lvl bird and mammal Pokemon. Maybe some ghost types since this town is fairly old too | 2 |
AskReddit/c0x9am3 | d3cm8 | What are some absolutely ridiculous topics that you and your friends have discussed while drunk? | I went to a friend's party a few years ago and saw a girl there who I'd never met before but we were both drunk and had a lengthy conversation about how we'd buy a mansion together and have 70 cats each and they'd all be called Angus. | 2 |
AskReddit/cijnj6n | 29ctte | Would you live in a world without music to be with the person you love/desire most? | I'm going to go with no because I feel like the world would be so very dull without music. It's hard to even imagine a world like that. Yes, my SO keeps me happy, but what if it's not always like that? I love her to bits and pieces but what if she doesn't make me happy later on in life? Music taste can change because m... | 2 |
AskReddit/erbxxgd | c1asfm | What's your views on vegans? | To me it’s impressive that some people can be so disciplined. I think a lot about food and what I eat and want to cut down on a lot of things I consume for environmental reasons. There are just some things (meat products, dairy products, etc.) which I love which are hard for me to stop eating, but I am trying to cut do... | 2 |
AskReddit/dc9eo83 | 5n86aq | If you had to suggest someone a book to make them fall in love with reading books, which one will it be? | Harry Potter Series: When I was in 3rd grade, I decided to start reading them. Would read them for 4 hours straight in my room no stopping. I'm now currently hooked on r/nosleep 6 years later. | 2 |
AskReddit/es4d3h6 | c5uqep | What flavor cake would you like? | Birthday cake has its’ own flavor. Vanilla is good. Caramel is delicious. And ice cream cake with blue and white icing. I took this post as you wanting recommendations, so. lol. | 2 |
AskReddit/cpdfeco | 2yvruq | What stupid things do you remember happening in high school? | I went to a science and technology high school. A kid in my year installed a keylogger on a teacher's computer, broke into it to change his grade, got caught, got expelled. Fine. Except it turned out he had changed his grade from a 94 to a 99. From an A to a higher A. Was it worth it? | 10 |
AskReddit/dxq4mxf | 8duoei | What amazes you about the human body? | The brain. It consist of more than only some physical cells like a liver or muscle. It creates a whole personality and can remember things. Absolutely incredible and a really complex part of a human body. | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/cmjrjxr | 2o501m | How is black light made/emitted? | Black light usually refers to Ultra violet light. Screens don't emit them, on phones or TVs. If you are referring to back light in LCD screens, it is the light leaking from the light source. LCDs are illuminated by a strip of LED lights. This passes through the crystals in each pixel and comes out colored. When the scr... | 3 |
AskReddit/dwjssve | 88dnel | For those of you who use 1-ply toilet paper, who hurt you? | The military is hurting its people. They should really just order better TP. I always just end up using way more because i wanna be safe and it’s like 1/8th ply. I’m almost certain if you were to use a normal amount, it would just dissolve on contact and you’d be wiping with your hand. But I know there’s the asshats th... | 2 |
AskReddit/djap0ly | 6izv8z | What never works exactly as it's supposed to? | Anytime my husband says, "It only needs a little work," while referencing a vehicle. Just a head gasket. Nope, fix the head gasket ($9) and discover you need new piston rings, it isn't holding oil pressure, might need a new wiring harness, oh, and the gas gauge doesn't work unless you hit it a few times. So now, this "... | 3 |
AskReddit/eozqiyr | btm2ov | Why are humans the apex predator in the world, when there are other animals who are easily physically superior to us? | Probably because we as a species have a greater intelligence than others. We developed ranged weapons and that gives us a gigantic advantage to pretty much every animal. Also (most) humans have a superior survival instinct compared to other species. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cf8i17k | 1x6fj1 | How does birth control pills work? | There are different type of oral contraceptive, but in general they are composed of hormones that inhibit ovulation and fertilization. The simplest possible view is: they tell your body to not produce an egg when it normally would. Without an egg, there is nothing for sperm to fertilize, hence no pregnancy. But if you ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cbm5igh | 1k7ken | Why does it seem like sinkholes are increasing in frequency? | It's probably a combination of two things. First, when a news story gets a lot of attention, another smaller story that is similar in nature gets a lot of attention as well. So there might not be more sinkholes, just more media attention around the subject. Second, let's assume there are, in fact, more sinkholes now. S... | 3 |
AskReddit/d2xeab1 | 4ief0t | What's the best "long con" you ever pulled? | Not my con, but another redditor's grandma's: One day years ago she was out and about in town and noticed her brother's car parked nearby. They were very close. He was nowhere to be found, so she left him a little note, something to the effect of "hey, saw your car, sorry I missed you" and signed it "The Green Phantom"... | 880 |
askscience/c9b5b62 | 1bxmw1 | How do compilers work? | Yes a compiler is just another computer program and it is written in some computer language, possibly the same language it is able to compile. Of course there had to be a first compiler at some, and then there couldn't have been any other compilers to compile it. So that must have been written in machine code directly.... | 2 |
AskReddit/c6xnqul | 12s561 | If your future self came back from the future and slapped you in the face with no explanation, what would you assume it was for? | If I did something bad with my life and my future self came back to slap me for it, wouldn't it make more sense to slap me either right before it happened (possibly to delay me from even being able to do it) or right after so I'd know what it was for? And really, it'd probably make the most sense to slap myself in the ... | 2 |
AskReddit/d14poub | 4az7qs | What product/service will humans ALWAYS be able to provide to other humans better than AI can? | Any mental health professional can't be replaced by AI. We are born craving human interaction and compassion, we need to hear someone else say we're going to be okay and that we are loved. AI will always be disingenuous, no matter how intelligent they are. | 3 |
askscience/db7go3a | 5idhly | How do quantum effects apply to the singularity of a black hole? | These are quantum gravity effects and so depend on your choice of theory of quantum gravity. One example of such a theory is string theory. There black holes are actually p-branes. When you near the singularity, you're actually getting close to the brane. The brane can host open strings whose endpoints lie on the brane... | 6 |
AskReddit/c7rn6o7 | 160x6f | For those of you that switched schools as a kid, how did the social transition go and do you think it screwed you up at all? | I think going to a new school in 3rd grade screwed me up a bit, it was harder to make friends. The worst was completely changing districts inbtween Jr. High and High School. I knew all the students and teachers in my old district, knew what sort of program I wanted to enter, and everything. When I went to the new high ... | 4 |
AskReddit/d5e6u97 | 4t2sru | What is the toughest death to watch in any TV show or movie? | The death of Littlefoot's mother in the Land Before Time. I've read online some people claiming it's as worse as Mufasa's. On top of that she sacrificed herself for her son and for Cera (even though the species "keep to their own kind") and during the movie Cera never really acknowledges this. | 1,157 |
explainlikeimfive/eblanri | a58y8k | Why do human eyes get bloodshot after losing sleep? | Your eyes are lubricated as you sleep. If you aren't getting enough sleep (or your eyes don't close properly even though you sleep enough), you are missing out on lubrication and your eyes become dry and angry. The tiny blood vessels in your eyes dilate and that makes your eyes look red. Red, irritated eyes can also be... | 13 |
AskReddit/czzvu7f | 45slyw | What single thing makes someone instantly undateable to you? | There are generic things that are obvious that everyone already listed. For me, if someone isn't kind towards other people, I'm instantly done with her. They don't have to be Mother Teresa but they have to show general respect towards others. Becoming angry at waiters, customer service and hired help for insignificant ... | 28 |
AskReddit/erozmyl | c36g1m | What’s that weird quirk in your SO that you absolutely love? | She still gets excited about weird things like hearing an old song or a new pair of shoes. It’s really cute hearing here get all excited about stuff I kinda shrug off, make me glad she can still be a light in my life as she’s always been | 2 |
AskReddit/dfkcjae | 627kpj | What's your favorite quote from movies you've seen? | "We have guns." V: "No, what you haveare bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer be standing, because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded." | 3 |
AskReddit/d5e56e2 | 4t2pey | Who's had the biggest impact on your life in the shortest amount of time? | When I was a sophomore in high school I sat next to a senior in my design in art class. She was super religious and fit and write cute clothes and was awesome. We really hit it off in class and hung out (did actually cool things) a few times. We were only friends for a short while but she'd come to the store I worked a... | 3 |
AskReddit/eor158x | bsvxwb | What was the most mind blowing thing you remember learning as a child? | When I was five I had no idea an adult could run. I don't remember watching any action films or otherwise that would show me the obvious answer. It blew my mind to see my father running toward his car. Adults can run everyone. | 5 |
askscience/eh7z2rw | aug6bg | Is electrical current affected by gravity? | Electrons are in theory affected by gravity but the effect would be so small I don't believe it has ever been observed. Even if electrons are somehow massively affected by gravity it would't affect wiring because AC power isn't a flow of electrons. | 18 |
AskReddit/cqqz484 | 342zeh | What is the scariest dream you have had and did it seem real ? | It's been a while and i don't really remember it all too well now, but I'd like to think it was a lucid dream. I was dreaming that I was walking down a path into a town and a gun fight broke out. I was shooting people in the town with a rifle that were shooting at me. The next thing I knew something was grabbing me by ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c39ness | njgk6 | Has the most computer-savvy generation already passed? | Maybe its the arrogance of age, but what you're saying seems to make a lot of sense. My teen/tween nephews and nieces use computers constantly as does their entire peer group. But they use them for things like online gaming, social networking, youtube etc. When I talk to them they have no idea of how a computer works, ... | 5 |
AskReddit/c21abjp | i6g8n | What is the name of the mental illness that the Cocoa Puffs bird suffers from? | From watching some commercials it seems that the bird just has an addiction to the cocoa puffs. Cocoa puffs appear to be a highly addictive stimulant which causes hallucinations. A strange thing about cocoa puffs is that the drug makes you want to share it with others. | 2 |
AskReddit/dbqh00x | 5ktdrs | What is your walk of shame story? | Used to walk of shame to a Early morning class in last nights stuff with the professor was also my coach I worked with the night before. Knew every time. Was dating someone on the team too. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cfsea0z | 1zcbgx | How can ants and cockroaches eat food that we dropped or is "dirty/rotten" and not get sick? | Fungi are designed to be able to gain nutrients from our "waste." It's the same thing with ants and cockroaches. In order to fill their particular niche, they have evolved to be able to eat foods that for civilized humans are considered dirty or rotten. | 3 |
AskReddit/c17t3hw | eg01i | When applying online to chains like McDonald's, Subway, Toys R Us, etc., should you answer honestly on the surveys or answer the way the ideal employee would? | At the end of most of these surveys you're given a score: red, yellow, green. At the store where I work: green means you're employable; red means they won't hire you even if you reapply for at least a year; and yellow means you can potentially be hired if you reapply and score "green" or someone there can vouch for you... | 13 |
AskReddit/clqcarm | 2l0of6 | What do you have little to no sympathy towards? | People that die scaling Mt. Everest, or tightrope walking across the Grand Canyon, and other senseless deaths. They put their loved ones through grief because of their selfish stupidity, and I have no sympathy for them. | 7 |
AskReddit/d4h4124 | 4p0tpg | Why dont people question the origin of the bible more often? | What do you mean? I think the origins of the bible are pretty much figured out. It isn't a cosmic space book. It is assembled by several different authors and those authors are known and understood at this point. As far as the truthfulness, that is another issue.but Most of the bible origins have been well established ... | 10 |
explainlikeimfive/e9r5gnx | 9xcfh9 | Why does it seem like more people get colds/flu during the colder months of the year than warmer months of the year? | It doesn't just seem that way, they do. This is for a few reasons: Dry/warm air in heated buildings dries out nasal passages, allowing easier access to the body for pathogens. People spending more time indoors closer together creates an environment where disease spreads more easily, especially diseases with which caugh... | 12 |
AskReddit/ckeheq7 | 2g0fu1 | If you were the Leader of your country, what is the first change you make? | 4 day work week, and increasing all salaries of degree related jobs by $12,000 yearly and increasing minimum wage in expensive areas to 10.50 and everywhere else atleast 9.00 an hour, and also I would reduce the cost of every university by half of their yearly cost, and decrease student loans interest rates or abolish ... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/d3r7rc8 | 4lyvsd | How is gallium made if it is not naturally found on earth? | Gallium is naturally found on earth. It just isn't found in a purely elemental form, but instead only in compounds. Imagine if chlorine was never found as chlorine alone, but only as salt (sodium chloride). You could then make chlorine by extracting it from salt but it wouldn't occur in nature in its elemental form. | 22 |
AskReddit/e9jgnpx | 9wbg3f | What do you dislike/hate in your current car? | 83 Datsun 280zx. I don’t hate anything about her but her engine seized up and I’m in the process of rebuilding a new engine for her. I more hate that I managed to let the engine run without any oil and I didn’t even know. No leaks on the block and no smoke out the exhaust, the engine was dried up not even one month aft... | 2 |
AskReddit/ecr51o6 | aadsg6 | What is the proper order of washing your Body/Face/Hair in the shower? | Shampoo and conditioner are supposed to be left on longer than a few seconds, so shampoo on, bodywash on, shampoo off, conditioner on, bodywash off, conditioner off, wash face (last because it can burn if it gets in your eyes and you wanna dry off fast) | 2 |
AskReddit/cs16jnd | 3987qd | What is your worst "meet the parents" experience? | An ex's parents came home from a NYE party early, after a group of us had already gotten pretty plastered. I think my first interaction with his mom involved her holding my hair while I puked on her lawn. | 2 |
AskReddit/evsft3y | cl2iiw | Why do logic and reason fail to explain that which is true? | We don't use logic to prove something but rather to draw a conclusion from an argument For convenience i will use the old fall back example If All men are mortal And I am a man Then i am mortal The supposition is valid and so is the premise so the logical conclusion is i am mortal this is true. How ever If men are immo... | 5 |
AskReddit/cowgoor | 2x33lw | What's a good cologne? | Diesel - 'Only the brave' tends to work for me. To be honest I personally don't like it but I always get compliments when I wear it (which is why I wear cologne in the first place). I hear it's more of a younger man's cologne though, not really aimed at people 30+. Armani Code smells pretty good too. I like it and so d... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0f4tvp | 9ze53 | Does it matter if I do well in college or not? | Honestly, it usually doesn't matter how well you do in college. Sure, you might be able to brag about being on the dean's list or whatever, but generally few people look at your grades in my experience. They only look for that piece of paper. Especially if you already have some experience in whatever field you are appl... | 2 |
AskReddit/dg5kvrm | 64wdmb | What is the worst experience you've had with someone else's bad kids? | Worked at Hallmark during high school. Had a dad come in and let this little boy run around screaming. There are only two employees on a Sunday, we're both on the register. Weird noises start emanating from the side wall (blocked by the cards). Other employee goes to check. The dad is standing there reading cards, whil... | 5 |
AskReddit/czaxoni | 42jq1m | What is one of the hardest emotional events you've had to live through? | My younger brother passed away in 2004 at age 17 from trying methodone. He got some pills from a friend and stupidly wanted to try them. He had never done more than smoke weed. We still don't know why he decided to try it. He lived with my mother and they were in the process of moving to a new house. She was having a w... | 3 |
AskReddit/c0p2bh7 | bxj0j | Should high schools test athletes for steroids? | As someone who competed in Computer Application academic contests and placed first in the state three years in a row and received NO SCHOLARSHIPS from it: I do not think it is fair that a high school athlete can take steroids, do better in a sport, and receive a scholarship to play for a university. Also, in the subjec... | 2 |
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