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AskReddit/cj86q1f | 2brglr | What does it say about the music business and modern culture that Weird Al is topping the charts? | First of all, let me make it clear that I enjoy Weird Al's music. I haven't listened to his most recent stuff, but I'm pretty familiar with his older music. So I'm speaking as a "fan" here when I give my response. There are certainly a lot of factors that go into making his music as popular as it is. But I think the mo... | 3 |
AskReddit/dnxc8ub | 74cj8l | Where do you see yourself in 5 years? | Have a stable job, financially independent, two properly working legs, thinner and fit, hopefully produced or in the process of producing some of my music, all in all a look towards the future with more of a spark of excitement, confidence, and hope. I want to make 2017 a game changer and I hope five years from now I c... | 2 |
AskHistorians/ewj62gw | cogzlx | How was Garibaldi able to overthrow the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies with only 1000 men? | Garibaldi may have started his expedition with only 1,089 men, but his final numbers would exceed 30,000 by the final stages of his campaign against the Two Sicilies. The reason for such a small force at the start requires a little background, where the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont was eager to unify Italy but lacked a... | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/cxylocf | 3ws1ll | How can I turn off 10 alarms in five minute intervals and fall back asleep without even being able to remember this happening? | Same - I'm a nightmare to wake up of a morning. I can function like I'm awake but actually be asleep! I managed to find a brilliant alarm though. It makes you do maths (of varying levels of difficulty) before it'll switch off. Your brain has got to click into gear instead of autopilot and you do wake up! Edit: It's cal... | 8 |
AskReddit/cwecrdb | 3qe1vw | What are your vending machine horror stories? | I worked in a computer lab during college and there were snack + soda vending machines right outside. One night there was a loud yell, and I ran outside to find a drunk girl, an unconscious man, a cinder block, and cracked vending machine window. The genius had thrown the cinder block at the machine window at short ran... | 2 |
AskReddit/eccxuw4 | a8qxod | Why do we sometimes panic when we smoke weed, and how can we prevent it? | It's a drug man. Anything that alters your mind can cause panic. If it's more often than not that your going panic mode. Weed might not be for you, or you just gotta smoke less. THC can activate latent schizophrenic genes, just like sugar can activate genes for adult onset diabetes. | 3 |
AskReddit/d56bsar | 4s3wjp | When have you seen someone with a lot of potential fail to succeed because they weren't willing to take a risk or make sacrifices? | I see more people fail because they are not disciplined to do what is necessary. When you do not have anything what are you risking? When I take a chance on me I do not feel like it's a risk. I bet on me every time. People can doubt you but so what. I believe in me. When you want something learn all you can- work harde... | 2 |
AskReddit/cb2wlki | 1ibo9i | Why not character re-roll? | I think you're depressed, man. I can go on and on about how you're looking at life from the wrong perspective, how it takes merely a change of goals to begin pursuing happiness, and how you truly do have it in you to become the kind of person you would like to be. The people you admire are really no better than you -- ... | 2 |
AskReddit/d31tq04 | 4iwo7s | What movie had the worst acting in it? | Pretty much every hindi movie made in the last few years. Bollywood production quality is worse than some of the worst American TV I've seen. No depth, not that great of a plot, and certainly terrible acting. Source: have watched many dozen Indian movies | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/duznaj4 | 810xdi | Why do auto-flush toilets flush 4 times while I’m peeing? | They detect your presence using some sort of sensor, probably a reflective infrared sensor. When it detects that you’re no longer present it assumes you stood up and it triggers the flush. If the toilet flushes while you’re still sitting there it’s because the sensor isn’t “seeing” you anymore. It could be that the fab... | 4 |
AskReddit/exijzqd | ct4oua | What song still hits you in the feels because it was in "that scene" in a movie or show? | Shadow on the Sun by Audioslave, from that scene in Collateral. I don't even know what I feel when I hear that song. I don't know why it made it such a good scene. The scene in the film doesn't even really mean anything. Yet it makes me feel something. Yet I have absolutely no idea what it is I'm feeling. The whole sce... | 2 |
AskReddit/c12y5pe | du7re | Where were you in your life at the age of 23-25? | I'm 23, second year of med school. 5ish more years left, so I'll start making money around 28, finally. I'll have about $300k in debt. Everyone's path is different and you can't compare them to your own, because you wouldn't be happy with their life, probably. You gotta go for what you want, so the first step is decidi... | 9 |
AskReddit/e9xecho | 9y1rtc | What food that you hate makes people think you’re insane when you say you hate it? | Not me, but I have a friend who hates pizza. What kind of pizza you ask? Every kind. I get the urge to punch him in the face every time I see him and a pizza in the same room. I'm not completely innocent though, I hate most kinds of cake, and watermelon. | 3 |
AskReddit/eei0c2o | ahtrwj | What is the dumbest thing you have done while starting at a new job? | I started a new job back in November and I’m still putting the the right names to faces. I thought my GM was Lindsey and called her that so many times and learned her name is Allison. She never corrected me. Also who I thought was Allison is actually Victoria, she never corrected me either. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c7kr25f | 15arqd | Why doesn't the US update their paper money to a more secure format? | >Since the superdollars were first detected about a decade ago, the regime has been pocketing an estimated $15 million to $25 million a year from them. (Other estimates are much higher — up to several hundred million dollars’ worth.) That sounds like a lot of money, but compared to the $1 trillion in cash circulating i... | 3 |
AskReddit/em291gy | bim2w6 | What's the weirdest thing you do while being home alone? | I make bread, it's pretty much impossible when the kids are around because they want to distract me, and if the wife is home she usually needs the counter space for various things. so if I get an hour to myself I work on my sweetbread recipe. | 5 |
AskReddit/e8m8r7s | 9s5l7o | If you’re invited/expected to be at an adult friends place shortly, is it rude to enter without knocking when the door is unlocked? | It really depends on the depth of friendship. I have friends that we are so close we are like siblings and are raising our kids to be cousins. When expected, we don't knock or anything, and even if the door was locked, they have a key. Anyone else (even my actual siblings) I would expect to knock unless explicitly told... | 2 |
AskHistorians/d6eajtf | 4xbx4u | What was the Midwest like before farming? | As a follow up question if that's allowed, do we know of any previously-farmed areas in the midwest/great plains that was abandoned and went back to its 'natural' state? I'm putting natural in quotes because I've heard the landscape was deeply changed by the Native Americans/First Nations even before the Europeans star... | 3 |
AskReddit/cf5pmpp | 1wtzwe | When are you the loneliest ? | Now that my ex recently left me i feel i'm loneliest all the time. Even though it was a long distance relationship i didn't feel lonely but now that she broke it off and wants to be friends i feel generally lonely. She doesnt want to be friends anymore either | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/df7zxdd | 60ob7x | Why is Internet Explorer so hated? | To add to the comments here, Microsoft has had a history of doing things their own way. For instance, the people who make all of the popular web browsers have agreed to standards to facilitate a more consistent user experience. Microsoft, on the other hand, has always been of the mindset that "this is how we want thing... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0yil4k | d9eqk | What are your biggest turn-offs in a girl? | Callow and histrionic women are the worst in my book. Self identity and wit are the biggest turn-ons for me. I don't want a pet, I want someone who can look at me eye-to-eye; stand up for what she believes in; call me out on my bullshit; and have intelligent discussion; if you're into feet and a little ropeplay all the... | 49 |
AskReddit/c0es7k6 | 9wl2e | Could I get away with completely bullshitting on my resume? | You probably could. A guy at my college just tried to bullshit his way into a few jobs. It started small, with lies peppered on his resume. "5k marathon", "XYZ award", etc. Then he faked an offer letter from a well-known firm. Now he's going to get kicked out of the University, never going to get hired by a big firm (h... | 2 |
AskReddit/d6icv7o | 4xsg0z | What is a stereotype about your culture that you just cannot stand? | Scot here - I absolutely cannot stand the stereotype that we're tight with money, because it's not at all true. Statistically we're far more generous than the rest of the UK, in that we give more to charity. With every single fellow Scot I've had a night out with, it's been a point of personal pride to stand your round... | 10 |
explainlikeimfive/cxfm8be | 3ukdsy | Why are mail order brides not considered human trafficking? | You're not literally ordering a human being, you're paying a lot of money to be introduced to women. Many companies offer guided tours overseas when you finally find somebody you'd like to meet. These women, coming from poor countries, are willing to marry rich foreigners to give themselves (and their eventual children... | 2 |
AskReddit/cc6r1we | 1m8fnb | Have you ever had someone insult your favorite hobby? | One of my favorite hobby is doing research and studying a person. I dig through their trash and I follow them everywhere. I watch them from afar, usually with binoculars behind a bush. I have all my research material hung on my wall with candles to illuminate it. I often call their phone and just breathe as they say he... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d2u7q3a | 4i161c | Why do all TV channels have the same commercial breaks? | TV is not actually completely about the shows. TV shows cost broadcasters money. Commercials make broadcasters money. So broadcasters care more, in the long run, about you watching the commercials than the actual shows. Knowing, of course, that the shows have to be good enough to make you watch so the sponsors will buy... | 6 |
AskReddit/c1dx2ro | f7qam | Is there much difference between i3, i5 and i7 processors? | i3 i guess would be like the celeron low cost chips (low memory on chip) i5 mid range, low end gaming, good business machine (more memory on chip) i7 high end machine gaming, processor intensive applications. (lots of memory on chip) there are also other differences between the chips like number of cores, bus speed, an... | 3 |
AskReddit/cd4n1c6 | 1ppe4b | What trait that one of your parents has/had are you glad you didn't inherit? | I'm so happy I didn't inherit my parents' financial habits. They're wonderful, kind people, but don't save very well and don't have enough money when unexpected expenses arise. | 61 |
AskReddit/coxjdx8 | 2x78ov | What actually takes a large amount of effort, but anyone can do and will improve your life? | Stop drinking alcohol. Easier said than done for most. Definitely improved my life when I did the work and stopped (it was a problem). A nice side effect of cutting alcohol/sugar intake is that it's a lot easier to get in shape. Along with restful sleep, and no hangovers followed by days of procrastination.looking back... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cexjkiu | 1w0iry | What is the value of stocks in companies that are too big to be bought? | Often, if you own a large chunk of stock, you're allowed to vote on the direction of the company and select the board of directors for it. Even if you don't own enough to get a significant vote, part of the value is in the ability to sell to somebody that does want to buy voting shares. .and nobody's too big to be boug... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/caebc0v | 1fvw40 | Why are school buses out and about at the most random times of the day? | Not every school bus is owned by a school corporation. There are companies that lease out buses to schools, just like a lunch program. So they can be going to other places that hire them, like a church group. Also, some buses are owner-operator situations, like semis. It's not common, but it is still practiced. I don't... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/dmam0k6 | 6wtf89 | How can we understand a concept in our head but not know how to put it into words? | Language means abstraction. So you know your concept, but your language doesn't give you the right word you're searching for, since it is an abstraction of the way humans think. Which on the other hand means that by speaking multiple languages, these give you more options to express your thoughts. And by having a word ... | 3 |
AskReddit/chcsfjz | 251sqm | What is the most important thing you have left behind on a trip? | Going home from Disney world and running late to the airport, I left my bag with my car keys at the hotel. Found out when I got to the airport. My flight left in an hour. I was screwed. When I landed in Chicago I wouldn't be able to drive home because my car keys would be stuck in florida. I called the hotel, they arra... | 10 |
explainlikeimfive/cu7drxy | 3hek2h | Why was the more powerful Facebook search engine removed? | I remember vaguely at the time one political journalist or blogger demonstrating how it could be used by anyone to compromise privacy and map people according to interest and political affiliation in ways security agencies could only dream of ~20 years ago. Search phrases like "people in 'my town' who likes Islam" or "... | 2 |
AskReddit/ew4bdcj | cms99k | How do you get over a one-sided affection for a close friend? | I suggest taking some time away from that friend. And letting someone close to you know so you can rant to someone privy to both of your details to make it easier. And like another person said, try meeting new people. Whether that be a friend or a possible new romantic interest. As someone who's been on both sides, it'... | 2 |
AskReddit/evcd0we | cjcbgo | For those who have remained friends with your ex, how do you deal with jealousy? | If there's still jealousy in the middle I think it's for the best to not being friends anymore. Very deep down you still have the hope that you will get back together but assuming from your question, that person already moved on. Keep your spirits up, deal with your situation with dignity and self love, and life will t... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/erhyxye | c26kjn | Why does bone-in meat take significantly more time to cook than deboned meat, although they are roughly the same size? | The bone doesn't heat as fast as the meat. If you cooked a turkey stuffed with ice cubes, you need to wait for the ice cubes to melt before the inside of the turkey world start to cook. | 9 |
AskReddit/ce061o1 | 1spzgz | What celebrities have you met that turned out to be dicks and what's the story? | I met MC Hammer at a football game once. I must have been about 10 years old. He was with his entourage and just circling the stadium waiting for people to stop him, people either didn't recognize him or didn't care. I stopped him and asked him if he would sign something for me, the only thing I had on me was a 1 dolla... | 2 |
AskReddit/coyl5vk | 2xbbgo | What would be your weapon of choice in a zombie apocalypse? | My brain. I am weak with weapons (though I'm working on it) so outsmarting the zombies is my best defense. Or out running them - I can do that if they're the slow zombies. Fast zombies might be a problem. | 2 |
AskReddit/d0ixe66 | 48e5j3 | What lie were you told as a child, only to grow up and learn it was complete bullshit? | That dogs only like what I like. I was about 5 and was trying to fill the dogs' water bowl with hot water for some stupid little kid reason. My dad told me not to, and when asked why dogs didn't like hot water, said it was because I also didn't like hot water. So I went like, WAY too many years tasting different things... | 5 |
AskReddit/cbvwdip | 1l5bex | What's one thing you're really good at, but hate doing? | At work, it was being the reliable one. I was always asked to work late, or if I could cover someone's shift and I always said yes. I was always able to get my work done and help others, I trained new employees and got more and more responsibility the longer I was there, but I received no pay increase. I was paid the s... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0eht6y | 9uhvq | Have any sci-fi/time travel writers ever accounted for the movement of objects in space? | I would think that if you can figure out the physics involved in time stream distortion, a simple equation to account for the astrophysics in the sun's wobble and velocity plus the earth's rotation and general placement at any given moment in time would be a walk in the park. | 2 |
AskReddit/cjuv1u0 | 2e0gsa | How has dramatic weight loss affected your life? | I wouldn't call my loss "dramatic," but I dropped 30 pounds to go from 228 to 198 a little while ago. Took about 3 months to do. I can say that there were definitely some improvements to my looks. Went down a couple pants sizes, and I can fit an adult medium rather well now. Plus it actually looks like I have a chin no... | 3 |
AskReddit/cg0rps1 | 208ins | What's a story about something that has happened to you that you've never had the opportunity to tell? | I was in Switzerland, in the alps. It was red hot summer. Me, my brother, my cousin, his best friend, my parents and aunt all went to hike along the mountain. Trying to reach the highest point without heavy climbing. We're not that professional. When we've reached a certain emptiness there was still alot to go. My cous... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cd0v881 | 1pc2mh | Why do computers "freeze up"? | A computer program consists of instructions for the computer to follow, much like a cook follows instructions to bake a cake. There are many chefs inside your computer, trying to get their work done. One chef runs your printer, another your internet browser, and another the game you are playing. The instructions that e... | 16 |
Ask_Politics/df4tgyq | 608rxu | Are there any large ubiquitous nationwide industries that operate in the free market completely equitably and fairly? | >For example, telecommunications companies. Could you imagine if Verizon and friends were in the healthcare business instead? By no means is this industry anywhere close to what would be considered a free market. People could argue whether it has achieved regulatory capture and operates as an oligopoly (usually due to ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dw8c9on | 86wi9l | What is the most stupid thing you have done to impress someone? | I hate hot things, and last night, I ate several hot peppers to impress her. I hoped that I could handle it, but have been vomiting with diarrhea all day. Side note to my hatred of hot things, I can't handle mild salsa. | 3 |
AskReddit/eu3utij | cen6e0 | What’s the most amount of money you found on the ground and what did you do with it? | I almost found a $20. Friends and I were walking home from a park. I had a trash bag with me and was picking up litter on the way. I saw the money on the ground ahead of me, and decided to pick up the trash along the way and grab the money when I passed. A friend spotted it, ran for it, scooped it up, and then gloated ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cf6p46i | 1wz58g | Why hasn't Israel gotten into any trouble for their treatment of the Palestinians? | There are three ways in which Israel could "get into trouble" The first way is through the UN, but this cant happen as the US can and will veto any punative measure against Israel. The second way is for it's neighbours to attack it, which they have done several times - and every time Israel has either outright won or "... | 20 |
explainlikeimfive/djycz7a | 6m1cv2 | Why is it so hard for someone to change a belief even when there is irrefutable proof against it? | > Are some people's brains just structured to be more stubborn? Well.yes. How old are you? You'll likely run into something like this someday, where changing your belief means potentially re-evaluating everything in your life. I could give examples of things you'd probably get cognitively dissonant about, but everyone ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cb41ehq | 1ifdkf | What do blind people do for fun? | I pretty much do what everybody else does; or, at least I try. I'm not totally blind but I am legally. I have 20/800 vision in one eye and 20/600 in the other. So as you can imagine, it's tough sometimes. The weirdest thing I've ever seen a blind person do for fun was play super nintendo. I'm talking about a completely... | 205 |
AskReddit/cwj0hap | 3qwuqi | What is the argument for the value of a liberal arts degree? | The goal of a liberal arts degree is to create well rounded people who are able to learn for themselves. If the only goal of university is to teach someone a skill set, that can be done easier with trade schools and apprentices. | 3 |
AskReddit/d2pmpxb | 4herrf | What are you getting your mother for Mother's day? | Well last year, my mother's computer was dying. She doesn't use it for much besides word processing, but she studied art when she was younger so I got her a Surface Pro 1 for the stylus. She's technology averse, so I figured she could try it out and if it was good, we might switch over to 2 or 3 depending. Well she lov... | 2 |
AskReddit/enugn6m | bpkzyd | What is your go to joke? | You always hear the joke about guys with big feet being big down there and guys with big trucks compensating. Well, clowns must be the most well-endowed, because they have the biggest shoes and the smallest cars. | 2 |
AskReddit/dm3y7ef | 6vypfx | What is something your parents did that worked? | When we were old enough, my parents opened savings account for both me and my brother with the promise that however much we put it they would match. We started putting our money to savings almost exclusively since it would be more later. My brother and I to this day still have extremely responsible spending habits. | 4 |
AskReddit/ccah4yl | 1mm043 | What social norm do you hate? | How do you call that social norm of "It's ok to be rude or threaten someone as long as you say it with education"? I think it's diplomacy but I'm not sure. But as far as I'm concerned, if you hate my guts and I hate yours, ¿Why should we act respectful to each other if we are really just insulting each other with polit... | 2 |
AskReddit/eu0mtja | ce8oky | What is a good weakness to mention on a job interview? | I read a good piece of advice about this tricky question, typically phrased like, "What would you say is your greatest weakness?" An old "trick" was to frame something seen as a positive as your "weakness": "I'm too committed to my work," "I can get too passionate about what I'm doing," etc. The job counselor I read po... | 840 |
AskReddit/e8a7czs | 9qm31f | What would happen if every super power agreed to spend their entire military budget on medical research for a single year? | So all the members of the military, contractors that support the military (including the janitors, cooks, PX clerks, as well as the manufacturers of military supplies), all those in the private sector that provide transportation services to the military, and many others, won’t get paid for a year? Sounds like a persona... | 2 |
AskReddit/cejiagz | 1um0im | How fast is warp speed? | Warp speed is any speed faster than the speed of light. In Star Trek,the slowest warp speed is always defined as the speed of light. No matter what series or film you watch, Warp factor 1/Warp 1 will be the speed of light. The problem with Star Trek is, speeds faster than Warp 1 have not been properly defined. If you d... | 3 |
AskReddit/c2wih14 | ly2us | Why does Reddit hate Christianity but not Islam or Judaism? | Reddit is a website with a primarily US-based user demographic. This means that christianity is the primary religion that is encountered by Redditors. Amongst these Redditors primarily familiar with Christianity, there are atheists, who don't believe in a god. If the god they are most familiar with is the Christian God... | 11 |
AskReddit/ch76j2k | 24hjyl | What is the best instant non-drug pain reliever? | Well depends on the pain, I mean everything you take to relieve pain is actually a drug herb or manufactured -- but besides that point for my back pain I use Tiger Balm - It relieves all of my aches and pains in my shoulders - just have your SO or someone you can have rub your back to get the blood flowing then rub the... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ccotzg5 | 1o51p0 | Why does the US give so much in foreign aid but so little to failing US towns and cities? | The US federal government disperses FAR more money to states/towns/cities than to other countries. They only give about $50 billion in foreign aid total in a year. In comparison that's about how much was spent on missouri,about 15 states received more or much more than that. | 38 |
AskReddit/d8ezg8l | 55zi5r | How do you greet somebody if you can't remember if you've met them or not? | General small talk. I especially do this with unfamiliar numbers right after I've gotten a new phone and haven't transferred my contacts yet. Eventually, somebody always says something that triggers my memory and then I'll update their contact information or if it's face-to-face, I'll use their name and watch them ligh... | 2 |
AskReddit/ci8g4ox | 288ihj | What's the most boring comment you can make? | I am writing something. Yes, I plan to make it the most boring thing ever written. I go to the store. A car is parked. Many cars are parked or moving. Some are blue. Some are tan. They have windows. In the store, there are items for sale. These include such things as soap, detergent, magazines, and lettuce. You can enh... | 3 |
AskReddit/ckwtnd7 | 2hx7sq | What military tactics would you employ to lay siege to and eventually capture Cinderella Castle? | Are we talking about an actual medieval-style castle that just happens to have Cinderella in it, or the one in Orlando? In the first situation, just encircle them and wait for their food supply to run out, since there isn't room in the building portrayed in the Disney movie to have much put away. In the second case, ju... | 3 |
askscience/c3n33v4 | p7bk9 | How bad is it to stand in front of the microwave whilst you're food is cooking? | Not bad at all if your microwave has a grating over the transparent front panel (which it should). The wavelength of microwaves is on the order of a centimetre and the grating is made such that most of the waves get absorbed by it before they can leave the chamber. Even if the waves left the chamber, they would only he... | 2 |
AskReddit/dtphfsr | 7v4p1j | What do you think most people experience but will not admit? | Questions about their sexuality. Some people think that if you have thoughts or questions about your sexuality, this means you are gay. In reality, Having thoughts and questions about sexuality, is a NORMAL experience for EVERYONE (gay or straight)! | 3 |
AskReddit/dyjyoez | 8hic0x | What are your thoughts on tattoos needing a meaning? | I don't have an opinion about other people's tattoos. In fact, 'I don't need to have an opinion about other people's choices unless they directly affect me' is a great way to add joy and remove anxiety from our lives. | 4 |
AskReddit/e3op7id | 94yd71 | What's the biggest secret you've been told? | Entirely too many to count. I've forgotten so many but one that sticks out was from a coworker about 55 or so. He was drunk in my car at a drive-in, as our talks often start. He admitted he was once part of the Ku Klux Klan and said through tears that he'd curb stomped someone before. You could feel the regret in every... | 2 |
AskReddit/ckvkxnn | 2hrnjt | What is a social norm today that bothers you way more than it should? | The need to say something when someone sneezes. I just find it weird to comment on the bodily functions of other people. But what really bothers me is that when someone comments when I sneeze, I'm then expected to thank them for their concern. It's just stupid. | 6 |
AskReddit/ciudpp6 | 2aez3y | What is the best twenty-five (25) word or less comment you can come up with to describe your views on religion/spirituality/life? | Treat everyone with respect, irregardless of religion or other beliefs, you have no idea what kind of wars (emotionally/ financially/ or other ) the person you are talking to is dealing with daily. A kind word or smile costs you nothing. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/eds2ucj | aes5rd | Why do you feel cold when you have a high fever? | For the same reason you feel colder when you step out of a nice hot shower. Your internal body temperature is higher, therefore the air around you feels colder than normal. | 5 |
AskReddit/c3s6lif | ptuz9 | What are some totally irrational thoughts you find popping up in your head from time to time? | i was walking home the other day and suddenly i thought "why can't I see outside of the range of my eyesockets?" Anyone who wears glasses knows what it's like to look outside the frame, to the un-focused world, and for a moment I tried to do that with my contacts in. anybody passing me at that moment would have seen me... | 2 |
AskReddit/el3zaab | be7kf3 | What is your favorite/funniest D&D character and why? | Favorite: my very first character, a paladin named Lyreonus Invalion. He's the only character I never rolled poorly on because we only played two sessions of that campaign. He had mediocre stats, but the way the first session was going I don't think that would have been much of a problem had we continued. I got super i... | 4 |
AskReddit/d8m5zgs | 56tel6 | What's something you do that you thought was normal until someone told you otherwise? | I thought it was normal to call my grandmother "mom" because I was raised by my grandparents and that's what you call the female figure in your household. In 1st grade, a girl said "Why do you even call her mom? You don't have a mom." | 13 |
explainlikeimfive/dq500xk | 7ehqvm | How can a person be in "critical but stable condition"? | "Stable" just means "Not getting worse" If you're in a coma because you stuck your head in front of a moving bus you're in critical condition, but not currently dying and therefor stable. | 30 |
AskReddit/drlizju | 7ldpbu | What is the "Yeti" or "Loch Ness" equivalent in your country? | The Loch Ness Monster. More locally, there's The Beast Of Bolam. It's supposedly a Yeti-type thing, around 8 foot tall, covered in fur and has glowing green eyes. | 2 |
AskReddit/cc2r98a | 1ltrao | What was the episode that got you to STOP watching a television show? | I probably should have stopped watching Dexter 3 seasons ago. But I just had to keep on trekking. This (final) season I made it 5 episodes in and just couldn't do it anymore. It's a parody of itself. | 2 |
AskReddit/c11dul9 | dmv6a | Can I care about animals and still eat them? | My husband and I both care dearly about animals. I am a vegetarian, for lots of reasons, and he is a conscientious omnivore who eats local, free range, sustainable meat whenever possible. | 8 |
AskHistorians/cp75tti | 2y7qcf | What are the differences between a Cataphract and a European Knight? | Disclaimer - I'm no scholar, but I think I can answer your question in a simple manner (and would love to be corrected by some real historians). The shor answer is - one is an unit, the other is a socio-political entity, that happens to be a heavy cavalrymen (and if I recall correctly - a heavy footman) in war times. A... | 12 |
askscience/c29j58g | j6e2e | Is the net amount of energy of the universe zero? | If 1) You calculate the Newtonian energy and 2) If the universe is exactly flat, then yes. However, condition 1 isn't really sensical because we should use general relativity to calculate the energy of the universe - but because the metric of spacetime isn't time translation invariant, you can't construct a globally co... | 17 |
AskReddit/e01geqi | 8o7lls | Who is your crush and why? | Two crushes, gym crush looks like Daniel Craig and Lara Croft's (not Jolie's) love child. She's swole and has a focus on the gym that's intense. Second is on a competitive female wrestling team (Olympic level) she has cauliflower ear and for all I know could actually be carved from marble. | 4 |
AskReddit/ey1kmmw | cv37hj | What was the weirdest place where you found something that you had lost? | when i was in preschool i had a cat webkinz toy. i loved it (as all little kids my age did theirs) and soon it went missing somehow without me noticing for a few years. when i was moving away a few years later i was walking around my lawn when i saw a glimpse of yellow in a pine tree in the woods next to my house. i ho... | 2 |
AskReddit/eryumix | c4x111 | What is the most important lesson a man should learn? | Based on the men I've dated / lived with, learning to express emotions is a big one. A lot of dudes try to be all macho and keep things inside, but that hurts you and will be a really big issue in any future relationships. | 2 |
askscience/d1upl7j | 4duvr2 | Do animals get pleasure out of mating and reproducing like humans do? | The only scientific (i.e. rigorously-defined models involving testable hypotheses) approach to such a question is behaviorism: non-human animals seem to frequently engage in sexual behavior in preference to other activities, given suitable opportunities, and if they give birth, engage in parenting behaviors (though whi... | 45 |
AskReddit/c48eebx | rsz09 | What's the least competent thing a manager has emailed to you? | My manager doesn't really check his work email that much.and showed me that the work computers can access reddit.so not really sure about the competence thing, but he's a pretty decent guy. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/czumnpy | 4524jk | What properties does the perfect paper plane need? | There are all sorts of guides for making paper airplanes online if you search for them. They even sell awesome plane-a-day calendars if you can find one of those somewhere. Good paper airplane construction needs diagrams more than word descriptions, honestly. With the exception of the one nugget that I can pass along t... | 2 |
AskReddit/cf9rjxt | 1xb13m | What are you theories concerning extraterrestrial life? | I think alien life would be so foreign, it would be difficult to define it in our own terms and still consider them intelligent. Almost all sci fi (with a few exceptions) have this assumption aliens are like us with their own agendas roughly similar to ours. And given how small a window our evolution has been from semi... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/clibcj6 | 2k6aei | Why do we measure in "half-life"? | It's because it decays exponentially. The amount of radiation might not be zero for a very, very long time. Suppose the half-life is one year. That means that after one year it will be half as radioactive as it is now. After two years it will be 1/4 as radioactive as it is now. After three years it will be 1/8 as radio... | 17 |
AskReddit/clb31x1 | 2jf46s | When buying a car, what is your "must have" feature? | Ive been looking a lot recently for a new car and my only criteria is something from the VW/Audi group (VAG). Specifically a saloon, mechanically sound with some retro, or timeless classic styling to it. Everything else beyond a sound system and the usual features doesn't bother me. | 2 |
AskReddit/c08cobw | 8632f | How do you get a girl out of your head after a break up? | After Zeus broke up with Metis, he suffered from pounding headaches. Eventually they got so bad he summoned Hephaestus, who split his head open with a hammer. From the crack in his skull sprung Athena, fully armed. That's how you get a girl out of your head. tl;dr : with a hammer | 20 |
AskReddit/c81kjoc | 17278x | What is the worst (SFW) thing a teacher has done to you? | My 2nd grade teacher didn't believe kids could have allergies. I was allergic to milk and eggs. She decided to test thing by giving me peanut butter cookies. I told her that I couldn't have them, but she told me they just had peanut butter in them (which I wasn't allergic to). I was out for a week after that. | 42 |
AskReddit/c1vn3hj | hige1 | What is your happiest memory? | Every time I meet a cute girl, I make a happy memory. Every time I meet a smart girl, I make a happy memory. Every time I meet a nice girl, I make a happy memory. Every other time I meet a girl, I forget her name. | 5 |
AskReddit/c0ks79m | b3nlx | What are your favorite past time Reddit? | Favorite hobbies/interests: running, reading, video games, watching movies Hobbies/interests I actually have time for regularly: . | 2 |
AskHistorians/eoi8po4 | brzdnm | What influence did the existence of the electoral college system have on the rise of partisanship in early U.S. presidential races? | This may be a valid area of study. The founders certainly envisaged the electoral college as a place where each individual member would come to his own conclusion about who was the best candidate, and the specific provisions surrounding electors was to make them "free from any sinister bias." (Hamilton, Fed. 68) By 181... | 3 |
AskReddit/cd7ty8s | 1q076q | How and why did 19th century social Darwinists and eugenicists want to improve on the human race? | Well Darwinists and eugenicists are trying to look at the big picture. If you can eliminate undesirables then the race will become stronger and better overall. You could look at the black plague for example. It killed so many people, but some would argue that it left the people with stronger immune systems and thus pas... | 2 |
AskReddit/eeprx3r | aiqr3o | What happened to you that you can’t explain to anyone, with out sounding crazy? | In the fifth grade our whole class spent a week at a camp. On the last night there was a bonfire. It was slightly cloudy, enough to not see the stars. In the middle of singing whatever campfire songs, I looked up and saw 5 large lights in a triangle in the sky. They looked like the couldn't have been more than 500 ft. ... | 7 |
AskReddit/c3zsre1 | qr02l | What's that one story that is totally true, but is so crazy/awesome/ridiculous that your friends just won't believe it? | When one of my friends was around five or six he got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. They had just moved the day before and in his old house he went a few steps out his bedroom door and turned right to go into the bathroom. In his new house this led the top of the stairs instead. So he went out, st... | 2 |
AskReddit/cwr62kt | 3rtfl6 | What is a universally good gift for $50-$100? | Make it something funny (gag gift, but not naughty) $50-$100 opens up a lot of possibilities. Look on ebay or craigslist for something out of your (collective) pasts. For instance, a Members Only jacket might be a hit with persons who grew up in the '80s. (not saying get this, but trying to convey an idea) It really de... | 2 |
AskReddit/cuxo0yg | 3kidjp | What is the worst/most expensive mistake you have ever made? | Bought an expensive suit for a friends wedding. Around $500. In my head it made sense because I didn't own anything like that and my roommate wanted to go all out too. They got divorced a month later and I never wore it again. | 2 |
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