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AskReddit/d8ou6tk | 574hej | Why are hippies generally disliked? | Most of the "hippies" that I've met and disliked have a sort of pretentiousness to them. They always seem to be judging people for living a different way than they are. Also, many of them stink. I don't know where the idea of not using deodorant came from, but I think it's an objectively dumb one. Seriously, can you no... | 11 |
explainlikeimfive/cv1z7kt | 3kzylb | Why do fans make cooler air? | Fans don't make the air cooler. You're right, they make the air hotter. But the reason a fan cools you is for the same reason that blowing on hot soup or hot coffee makes it cooler: evaporation. Your body heats up the air right next to you, but now that that air is hot it doesn't take heat away from your body as easily... | 2 |
AskReddit/cakczyf | 1ghvvw | Which Music Genre do you Absolutely Despise and Why? | Modern country. It's just like my relationship with modern cars. I absolutely love old cars and old country music, but I viscerally hate the new stuff. To the point where I have a hard time buying pants or boots at western stores because I don't want to hear the bullshit music they play. | 7 |
AskReddit/ert6m5s | c3tk8i | Which villain made more sense than their hero? | Bowser. I mean yeah he didn’t make that much sense but he definitely made more sense than an Italian plumber going around hopping on things heads in attempt to save a princess. Like what shouldn’t he be fixing a sink. (I’m a mega Mario fan don’t get me wrong) | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cfm3a0n | 1yn0c8 | Why do many cultures see/teach sexuality as being immoral? | It's more basic than 'religion'. It's a control issue, really. The more controlled sexuality is, the easier it is to know what child belongs to whom, so that men in particular don't end up having to care for a child that isn't actually their own offspring. When sexuality is immoral except within very narrow boundaries,... | 17 |
AskReddit/cmozp3r | 2oo9sc | What can you never access again because you forgot a password, or lost a key? | My original Steam account from 2004. I've tried every possible angle to recover it, tracked down webmasters from defunct email providers to get old addresses recreated, spoken to Steam help on a number of occasions, bashed my face against the keyboard until I bled tears and screamed Gabe Newell's name in anguish. It's ... | 76 |
explainlikeimfive/d2d74pn | 4fvudr | Why do people feel more comfortable using inverted controls for jets but normal controls when controlling a first-person shooter character in games? | It's just how we learn it. For planes it makes sense and in first person, it also makes sense if you think about moving the neck. This then continues onto 3rd person. However, most players who use invert in non-flying games probably played Goldeneye, started on flight sim or started with a controller that was set to in... | 2 |
AskReddit/e9hfhbs | 9w4c4r | What is the creepiest unexplained experience you ever had, up until it was explained, and what was the explanation? | After I broke up with my most recent ex (of seven years) one of her friends and I, who had gotten to be really good friends during the relationship. I'll call the friend Susan. Susan had just lost a long-time boyfriend to a car accident. So we commiserated and it developed into a kind of budding romance. We spent aroun... | 4 |
AskReddit/dj0o512 | 6hrwe0 | Why is sleeping beneficial for the sick? | I have a very particular set of skills that I have acquired over a very long career of building health. Most healing takes place during sleep. Consciousness is a great burden on the body. Everyone benefits, even healthy sharks and human beings. More so if you are actually sick. | 2 |
AskReddit/cby1vzd | 1ld7vb | What are your local areas Myths/Legends ? | The Bubblehead Family of North County On a windswept October evening, Carrico Road seems like the sort of place plucked right out of a Grimms' fairy tale. The winding stretch of asphalt disappears from one bend to the next. Fallen leaves swirl across the pavement, and at least eight signs along the shoulder of the road... | 2 |
AskReddit/djcc0cm | 6j7rnr | What's a mistake you made a few years ago that you're still paying for ? | Quitting gymnastics at six years old due to a 'back injury' I'm pretty sure I made up. It was getting to be very physically demanding and I dedicated several hours to it after school everyday. I can't really remember the exact reason why I quit, but I told my somewhat overprotective mom after practice one day that my b... | 4 |
AskReddit/e9pb6f7 | 9x3rmi | What's the best advice you have for people leaving toxic families or relationships, especially around this time of year? | Move in another city. Don't tell them where, that implies not giving your adress. Be careful with the people you keep around you. Sometimes we with toxic/abusive families have issues in dealing with our emotions. Don't go repeating the same scenario, it is painful to live it on replay. | 2 |
AskReddit/ed1w54y | abolcz | What was the most epic quitting of a job you’ve ever experienced, yourself or another? | I was a dishwasher, middle of the summer on a busy midweek night. The appetizer cook had said something to the chef about one of the stoves they used to make flatbreads staying by him for the night. The chef snapped, and started yelling at him about how it was his stove and he’s taking it, cook looks at him and is like... | 4 |
AskReddit/e8fqg14 | 9rc627 | What's the best thing to do to kill time for 30 mins or less? | Clean! Usually in 30 minutes I can get at least on section of my room (dresser, bed+bedside table, desk, etc) spotless. Keep up that habit a couple times a week and your space will never get out of hand. | 2 |
AskReddit/dsshgoo | 7qwt9k | What is the most offensive question you've been asked by someone who didn't realize they were being offensive? | I've been asked for my green card at the DMV when I got my license, and then 2 years later my cousin was asked for his green card. We're both from Puerto Rico. I speak English well with no accent. My occasion happened first and even though Puerto Rican birth certificates at the time were both in Enlgish and Spanish the... | 5 |
AskReddit/e3zu2d0 | 96ebd5 | What is funny and unfunny at the same time? | The fact that we live in a world where a con-man, reality TV star can get elected to the highest office in the West. It's funny because it sounds ridiculous, unfunny because it actually happened. | 2 |
AskReddit/ecsunev | aakfem | What’s your biggest childhood scar? | I’ve got a three inch scar that runs along my hairline on my temple. It’s from surgery I had at age 11 to remove a mole the size of a quarter. The doc was concerned it might be cancerous. Luckily it wasn’t, but it was a scary few weeks! | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d5gvnbw | 4tffc0 | What is a server crash? | A server is nothing that a computer that provides a service to users. Just like your home computer can crash (operating system, hardware malfunction, etc) so can a server. It is the essentially the same. Additionally, just like an application can crash on your computer so can an application crash on a server. Generally... | 4 |
AskReddit/cwxryt6 | 3sjirt | What's a good hobby for a bored retired 60 year old? | I started brewing beer at home when I was about thirty five or so. Fifteen years later, it's turned into a new career for me. Great hobby. Plenty of excuses to buy new equipment, fiddle and perfect. Plus you get to drink the results of our experiments. There are also plenty of fellow cranky bastards in the hobby to mee... | 725 |
AskReddit/cfb6s32 | 1xgq4c | What is the worst movie you have ever seen? | Rubber. Its about a telekinetic tire that rolls around killing people. It's the kind of movie that is open about how ridiculous and awful it is, and tries to capitalize on it. It didn't. At all. Worst Movie ever made. I felt like gouging my own eyeballs out. Or strapping myself into a large tire and rolling off a cliff... | 2 |
AskReddit/etmdjys | ccewzt | Which a remake of a movie/TV series/song that you think is better than the original? | As far as music goes, Cash's cover of "Hurt" trumps the original all day. I'm also a big fan of William Shatner's cover of "Common People" The remake of the TV show "Battlestar Galactica" is better than the original. And the American version of "The Office" turned into something so much more profound than the original ... | 3 |
AskReddit/c0eesfr | 9tt7h | What is something that turns you on that you would never tell a significant other? | Blood. This is a recent fantasy for me, but I can't get it out of my head. Blood really turns me on. Not pain or death or gore, just blood. Someone could bring along some red corn syrup and that'd be good enough for me as long I didn't accidentally taste it. | 3 |
AskReddit/c2a8i4b | j9g6t | What's your favorite Calvin & Hobbes comic ever written? | I cannot find it online, but it's the one where Calvin is rolling a huge ball of snow then Hobbes comes up and asks him what he's doing. He says that he's making the biggest snowball ever and that he can't wait to plaster Susie in the face with it. Hobbes then asks how Calvin's going to be able to pick it up. Calvin lo... | 9 |
AskHistorians/dj1ga43 | 6htc49 | Did the Mongols have spies in England? | I can't answer this claim directly, but it is fairly certain that the Mongols sent scouts to check the defenses of at least the Holy Roman Empire and Italy just after the Mongol invasions of Hungary and Poland in 1241-42, to plan for the next planned invasion that never occured. This wasn't under Ghengis Khan though, b... | 22 |
AskReddit/c1y6qws | htavj | Where does Ryan Stiles get such amazing shoes? | "and tendency to wear exotic, flamboyant shoes, which were designed by George Esquivel." "One of Stiles's notable trademarks on the US series were his dress shoes, many of which were an unusual color, most notably his blue shoes, or had a flashy pattern of several colors. This was because he often had to get shoes cust... | 2 |
AskReddit/elky017 | bgh90n | What is the stupidest thing that someone has been fired for in your workplace? | I had to fire a guy from my gas station about 5 years ago. He worked the night shift and was great for over a year. He was 35ish recovering alcoholic. One day he started playing some game on his phone and it quickly became a problem. He wouldn't do anything else, not even look at the customers he was ringing up. I told... | 1,520 |
explainlikeimfive/cf6lv3e | 1wyslw | If I delete some files on flash storage (e.g a pen drive), how is the data still (partly) recoverable? | Most OS's don't really delete files when you "delete" them. They merely mark the space as usable again if some other data needs to get written. Until the data is overwritten, there may be enough of it around to figure out what was deleted if someone can get a low enough level look at it. | 4 |
AskReddit/emxoouc | bmm8q5 | What is something you never noticed about yourself until someone pointed it out to you? | They pointed out that I am immensely afraid of being vulnerable, and I don’t let people “in” I keep people at a distance. I never noticed that, until they drilled into my head that.I’m afraid of being hurt and looking weak. | 2 |
AskReddit/dp8yjnw | 7aaru9 | What it’s like to be the black sheep of your family? | My fiance and I both consider ourselves to be the black sheep of our families. We both like to drink, he dips snuff, I smoke cigs, we like hunting and fishing together.we're absolute rednecks! The rest of our families aren't like us. We like being who we are even if we ARE considered the black sheep! | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ciprayo | 29y2gx | What is that optical illusion that you get when you look out an airplane window? | Kinda like the reverse of the Star Wars hyperspace effect? I get that all the time but it's not just on planes. I wonder if it has something to do with the contrast between the light level in the pressurized cabin and the relatively blinding light from the airplane window. I've always found window gazing from in-flight... | 2 |
AskReddit/d3id0st | 4kwn51 | What's the creepiest/weirdest video you've ever watched online? | I've watched way too many that I found in other AskReddit threads recently, but the one that's jumping out most is the video of the guy getting lost in the Paris catacombs, before he drops the camera and runs off. I'm on mobile at the minute but I'll find a link when I get home. | 2 |
AskReddit/cxj20bz | 3uzodl | If you had an unlimited budget to build a house, what ridiculous rooms/features would you include? | A big, badass control room. CCTV feeds from all over the house, controls and overrides for everything in the house that has a wall switch, and a high-backed leather chair to sit in and watch my fortress. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/c90inj9 | 1at3tx | Why are download speeds always so much faster than upload speeds? | One reason for this is to prevent residential Internet connections from being used for business purposes. The idea is that most consumers download more than they upload, and the reverse is true for businesses with servers. This is starting to not be the case, however, as more people use services such as voip (Internet ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cytlt60 | 40ec9g | Why are there so many anti-depressants on the market that aren't superior to placebos and why do doctors prescribe them? | It would be wrong to answer a medical question, but this isn't a medical question--it's a statistical question. "Proven ineffective" is a very difficult standard, which hasn't been met here. The key concept is "statistical power," which is basically the ability of a study to find a difference if it exists. This is cruc... | 3 |
AskReddit/c2xrn5t | m3g49 | Why does the legal system give prisoners more than one life sentence? | Well in the UK a life sentence isnt life its a minimum of 15 years, so 3 life sentences means a minimum of 45 years behind bars. | 2 |
AskReddit/dhcy4ry | 6aa78c | What's your most memorable moment of watching a sport you don't typically watch, or enjoy? | I'm from Boston and my family was big red Sox fan. Watching them win that first recent championship was a huge occasion in my household. Plus watching Pedro Martinez throw that old man was pretty memorable. | 3 |
askscience/ckzb57u | 2i6bi6 | How are we affected by the speed of our travel through the universe? | >speed of light is constant and therefore what we perceive to be the speed of light might be faster or slower depending on our velocity through space Nope. The speed of light is constant in all inertial frames. (Inertial means no rotation or acceleration) It is what is known as a Lorentz-invariant quantity. Two observe... | 26 |
explainlikeimfive/dhhwp0p | 6aw4sd | Why does charging a device take hours instead of the battery being restored instantly after being plugged in? | Batteries don't operate by storing electrons. They operate by having chemicals in them that can undergo a reversible chemical reaction. A voltage is produced as the reaction proceeds, and applying an external voltage can reverse the reaction so that it can happen again. But that reaction takes time, and produces heat. ... | 23 |
AskReddit/cdivw4t | 1r1yyj | What is something you will never understand? | How so many people can just be terrible. I completely understand that people are different and all that, but many people are just downright bad people. Not just have a few bad qualities, but outright make the world a worse place. And it's not just millions of people who are like this, but literally at least a billion. ... | 5 |
AskReddit/cycrnol | 3yekxv | What is the best life advice you've been given? | May not be the best life advice but it was good advice. Asked my grandfather about gambling and he said "you shouldn't mess with anything that puts it back to the wall and challenges the world, most likely you'll lose" dunno why but that always stuck with me | 2 |
AskReddit/cdrav8e | 1rvfdz | What's The Meaning Of Life? | I have good news for you. Life is essentially random. It doesn't have any inherent meaning. You, the individual human being, are now free to give your life any meaning you choose. You can choose more than one meaning. You can change them as often as you need to. Now, go and enjoy creating the meaning of your life. | 3 |
AskReddit/egsimqw | as8o42 | How did cats get a taste for fish if they're afraid of the water? | I'm going to guess it had something to do with how markets are infested with rats that hitched rides on boats and historically cats were used to kill off rats. So they were exposed over thousands of years to fish we had caught and placed in baskets for sale at least for domestic cats. I believe jaguars can and do swim ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cxg7c1m | 3un3p0 | What was the strangest thing about the place where you grew up? | I grew up in the Castro district of San Francisco. I saw many dozens of adult male penises in public before I was in middle school. One time I saw a photograph of a fully frontal nude 20-something in a Santa hat in a window of a shop on Market st. while walking with my grandmother. I pointed at it and said, "Grandma lo... | 14 |
explainlikeimfive/ci82qsk | 2878nf | Why do female dogs hump things when they're in heat, even though that's not really how. it works? | My girlfriend humps my leg when Adam Levine is on TV, even though that's not how it works. But seriously, she gets the urge to hump because the physiological response to sexual desire is the same in most mammals, regardless of gender. And without the presence of a male to complete the activity, she will use any means t... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dmhkhzl | 6xpldx | In an area of gas for $2.09+, why doesn't/can't one gas station just destroy the competition by selling gas for $1.99 and advertising it heavily? | Many gas stations sell gasoline at a tiny profit margin already. I've spoken to a gas station owner who makes more money on a single cup of coffee than 8 gallons of gas. This is also why they are allowed to charge different prices for credit card purchases versus cash. The small fees that credit card processor charges ... | 35 |
explainlikeimfive/ekv1mvg | bd18m6 | How do 3D printers work? | There are two different main kinds. The first works by building layers of resin set by a UV light source, from a screen that can be blacked out to create the shape of the layer. So you have a screen submerged inside a bath of liquid resin plastic, and the image you are creating is formed on a stage that is dropped into... | 3 |
AskHistorians/ctztljz | 3glbow | How did ancient civilizations, such as Rome or Greece, declare war? | Livy, in The War with Hannibal, relates that a Roman embassy was sent to Carthage to demand the withdrawal of Carthaginian troops from disputed parts of Spain. The Roman ambassador held the folds of his toga in both hands and claimed that in one hand he held war and in the other, peace. Upon the Carthaginian reply that... | 10 |
AskReddit/cwc35eo | 3q50ws | Do you (or anyone you know) can sleep 20 or more hours consecutively? | Yep it's possible. Depends on the factors that were involved prior to the 18+ hour sleep. In my case I had gone hiking for the full day and I had come back pretty late, exhausted and dehydrated. I slept for 18 hours after that getting my energy back. I woke up to eat something and promptly went back to sleep. So yeah t... | 2 |
AskReddit/cfm4xml | 1ynn48 | What TV show should be more popular than it is? | At least in the states, The Inbetweeners. Haven't ever met a single other person who has ever watched that show, but it might be the funniest TV show I've ever seen. And as an added bonus, Misfits as well. I think the UK undoubtedly has better TV aimed towards the teen-twenties demographic than we do in the US. | 3 |
AskReddit/d6604en | 4wd10d | When is it appropriate to smile but not to laugh? | my step mom's step mom years ago told me that her daughter, who was only a yaer or two older than me, was having a hard time going through a break up. she pretty much told me her daughter was kind of a whack job. told me that this guy left her and even after a year of him breaking up with her, she would always call him... | 4 |
AskReddit/d8nwh4l | 570gj0 | What's the spookiest thing you've found in an attic when moving into a new house? | I didn't find anything in the attic until years later, but I found a chest full of children's casts in the basement of my new house in 2006. I moved out in 2007. The house was very haunted. Friend of friends kept subleasing the house on to one another for years. I stopped by on 2013 and the current tenets had built out... | 2 |
AskReddit/ek5u45q | b9ny6w | What was the weirdest "wrong number" phone call you have ever gotten? | Long before caller id or even *69, I got a call from a women asking "is this a sexy man" in a artificially sexy voice. I thought it was one of my classmates playing a praticial joke on me.so I said "sure". After that she laughed and asked me how I was.I said, "good? Btw who is this?" At which point she asked very alarm... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/da5gb7u | 5dlfae | How does tilt-shifting a photograph trick the brain into thinking it's looking at a small scale model? | It is only because we are used to looking at highly magnified photos of small things, and recognise what these photos look like. The appearance of a photo of something small is all about the size of the lens, compared to the size of the thing being photographed. When photographing a tiny insect, the camera lens can be ... | 3 |
AskReddit/ced5coi | 1tzvrh | What qualities in humans do we despise that we find completely adorable in animals? | For me it would have to be when dogs kill small animals. When a human brutally murders an animal it's pretty creepy, but when your dog does it you're all like "yeah, my dog is awesome!" | 3 |
askscience/c40u94x | qvobx | How exactly does gravitational time dilation work? | You have two theories of relativity. The special and the general. But let's consider an experiment first: Let's say you walk inside a train in the same direction the train is going. Your speed relative to the train is 5mph. The train's speed relative to the ground is 100mph. What is your speed relative to the ground? Y... | 4 |
AskReddit/c0d0v8q | 9jfr2 | Is it legal for a company to deny you employment for being a smoker? | Yes. Ohio is a "work at will state." That means that they can fire you for any reason aside from gender, age, race & religion. No. A company does not have a right to tell you can not smoke while off company property. But they are still free to fire you for it anyway. That is their right in Ohio. Yes. I view this as dis... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dfi1hx7 | 61xa7a | Why do people answer questions better if they look at a different direction rather than maintaining eye contact with the person? | Because eye contact is emotionally draining. We use up a lot of mental processing power looking at another person - discerning their expression, hypothesizing their intention, their thoughts, their motivations. If we are trying to do something else - like find the solution to an abstract problem - it is much easier to ... | 5 |
AskReddit/e5o9n6k | 9ecxm8 | How do you tell a friend you have a crush on them without making it awkward? | Have a trusted friend work as an intermediary to gauge their interest. My friend had a massive crush on another guy in our social circle, but was too shy to approach him. I (very subtlety) tipped him off about her, and he ended up going for it. They’ve been married for six years and have two kids. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dn6wex1 | 70ywri | What makes a covalent bond between two elements polar or non polar? | Basically, each element has a certain electronegativity - this is a property of how many protons and electrons it has. This basically informs you about how much they want to pull away electrons. Therefore, when any two atoms bond, you can look at their electronegativities and see "Oh, well this atom has a higher electr... | 5 |
AskReddit/ccftx6d | 1n6mvh | What is your worst roommate story? | I've mentioned this before but a friend of my ex fiancee moved in after she got kicked out if her parent's house. Against my better judgement I let her move in. She slept with my fiancee every day for the three and a half months she lived there. Between her and my ex's best friend who didn't really live there but is th... | 2 |
AskReddit/ctoyqlg | 3fiqan | What is the first news event you remember hearing about from your childhood? | I remember playing with my skip it during presidential debates and thinking the one guy was really cute. First big news story = The cute guy won. Bill Clinton. | 2 |
AskReddit/dh5q934 | 69dgs9 | What's your funniest accident that happened to you at work? | I worked at a movie theater that had these long neon light strands all over the upper portion of the lobby. I was helping put up Christmas decorations and when I was standing on the ladder I bumped into one and shattered a section of it but it took out a huge section of the neon lights. Apparently it costs the theater ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dqsfpa3 | 7hns3o | If you could play any video game with a character from any other game, what would you choose? | I like playing Pikachu in Smash Bros and would love a dedicated side-scrolling game to that. The quick-attack is one of my favorite things to do in a game and I'd love to see that expanded upon too. | 2 |
AskReddit/eq8iw5l | bxnqek | What do you wish your parents had been more strict about growing up? | Study habits. My parents were both independently successful despite having trouble in school (my dad was extremely bright but his parents died when he was a teen and he dropped out of school and moved out on his own). I was, well, gifted, so I didn't need to try and still got great grades. No one seemed to know what to... | 2 |
AskReddit/d90ot70 | 58i71i | What is something that your doctor missed that nearly cost you your life? | When I was around 18 I started having severe headaches. Not the 'oh my head kind of hurts'.the kind where it feels like your being stabbed in the skull by an ice pick. I went to the Dr. about once a month complaining about the pain. I was basically told there was nothing they could do and I would just have to deal with... | 2 |
AskReddit/c13eoxx | dwao6 | Do you think it is possible for mankind to extinguish all traces of life on Earth? | There are living cells deep in the ground, kilometers down in seemingly solid rock. There are living organisms adjacent to volcanic vents in the ocean floor, more kilometers down. So no -- we cannot wipe out all life on Earth. | 2 |
AskReddit/doa6p2u | 75zb9b | What term/label has become so overused and widely applied that it has lost all meaning to you? | Triggered. Once a term to described stimuli that caused someone who suffered from trauma or a mental illness to have a negative emotional/mental reactions. Now a term loosely and flippantly used to write off someone's outrage/protest/frustration as them spazzing out or loosing it, or overused in an inappropriate way by... | 25 |
AskReddit/e5n032r | 9e8t3c | Why are humans comfortable calling their cats in a high sing song voice “here kitty kitty kitty kitty”, yet we never think to call our dogs the same way? | Cats respond better to the high pitched "ee" sound, like at the end of "kitty." That's why it's good to give your cat a name that ends in that sound, like Lucky or Daisy. | 6 |
askscience/d47qqpj | 4nx5e9 | Why do cancer cells consume so much sugar? | Cancer by definition is unrestricted cell growth and replication. This activity requires high metabolic activity and therefore consumes higher than normal amounts of glucose. In a PET scan (positron emission tomography) we use this fact to find areas that are highly metabolically active, such as tumors or more specific... | 29 |
AskReddit/eqpaygb | bz2nxl | Who are some musical artists you wish more people knew about? | Honestly? I'm super selfish in this way; I like smaller artists better because the live concerts are often better/more intimate and it makes me feel unique. I don't like sharing musical artists. Oops. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/czs6ui9 | 44r0jp | If something were to break the sound barrier in space, how would it differ from here on earth? | There is no sound barrier in space - because it means the speed of sound in air and there's no air for there to be a speed of sound in. That said, the vacuum of space isn't a vacuum, there are still atoms of (mostly) hydrogen floating about, but because they're so far apart they don't really behave like a gas in the or... | 5 |
AskReddit/e6ehyic | 9hu1gt | What’s something you just can’t do without crying? | Remeber that movie “Jack Frost” starring Michael Keaton? Well anyway, I couldn’t have someone dear to my heart die without shedding a few tears. The movie has nothing to do with it, I was just sayin’. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dbnrapm | 5kgh4z | Why do a lot of shows/movies that focus on a group only have 1 female member? | Yep. Most of the shows you mentioned are marketed primarily to young men, and are expected to sell lots of action figures and other merch to young boys. The people who make these things know that the "Girl" character is likely to be less popular, so they add fewer females and make less merch with that character. The bo... | 5 |
AskReddit/dbrlqh4 | 5kynnq | What's something small you can do every single day of the year that will end up making a big difference to yourself or others after long enough? | At least 10 minutes of exercise makes more difference than you'd think. Cook. Home cook meals, learn how to season and how flavors work and how ingredients work together. You'll save money, and come holidays you'll be able to make a real contribution to the dinner table. Read for like half an hour. Any old thing will d... | 4 |
AskReddit/ev3v106 | cid8or | What was the stupidest thoughts you had when you were a kid? | One time I hid under a sheet at the top of the stairs and thought my dad couldn't see me. He could. I was really surprised when he asked what I was doing. When my SO was a kid, he decided to mix milk and Tang. He said it tasted like an orange julius for the few seconds before the milk curdled. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/comauaj | 2vzq7k | What effects has the unnatural breeding due to the slave trade had on descendants of slaves? | You raise some interesting possibilities, the answer to most of which are. probably not. Here's why I say that: Yes, the slave trade was a form of extreme selective pressure, which no doubt resulted in the killing of many weak, sickly, or "too smart for their own good" Africans. And given time that could alter their fe... | 2 |
AskReddit/ca7i30h | 1f7dx9 | What was the most dangerous toy of your childhood? | The woods. I grew up in Montana, and we lived way up in the woods. We had bears, mountain lions, bob cats, all running around our yard. We even had bears break into our garage. So, I'd say that playing in the woods as a kid was my most dangerous "toy." | 2 |
askscience/crpn375 | 37qgcj | Has human society and culture fundamentally altered our own biological evolution? | Lactase persistence. Lactose intolerance is, aside from humans, completely universal in all mammals. After a brief period in early youth where young are nursed by mothers, intestinal production of an enzyme called lactase which metabolizes the lactose in milk ceases to be produced. In human cultures with a history of r... | 19 |
AskReddit/d8tvgd9 | 57pj2k | How to get a friend to stop using his/her phone when hanging out? | Be direct, and tell them that it makes you feel bad, and you don't appreciate it. Sounds like it might cause issues, but I've told friends this, so now they always put their phone away when talking to me. If they're good friends who understand, they'll do it. If not, find better friends | 2 |
AskReddit/cxmo3sv | 3vduhp | Why do dogs seem to be warmer when they are sleeping? | Interesting. Human body temperature usually decreases during sleep. Although, I just read that during REM our body stops regulating temp. I wonder if something similar happens to a dog. Maybe you feel they are warmer because they are curled up without panting without regulating body temp during REM | 2 |
askscience/c6mjw1x | 11hlo6 | Is there even a small chance that a cat would be able to survive this? | There's actually a good chance it would - a cat has a large surface area relative to its mass, so it reaches terminal velocity quite quickly. In terms of the 'hit' at the bottom, cats reach and survive falls at terminal velocity from high buildings all the time - so yes, there's a good chance the cat would survive it. | 3 |
AskReddit/ds2nbbp | 7nlbwc | What's a story you like to tell? | I like to tell the short story of it - Lebron James once asked me if I pooped my pants. I don't mind elaborating, but I like telling it that way, and in fact I'm off to bed right now so I can update tomorrow for those anyone who remembers to check it out lol | 9 |
AskReddit/c4bpipd | s7ifc | What's Reddit's sport? | Reddit is not really fond of sports but I'm gonna venture a guess and say Hockey will rank #1 because it's the least popular among the most popular sports in America. My personal favorite is baseball (to watch) and soccer (to play). | 3 |
AskHistorians/e3ymnaz | 968jh5 | Who was the last monarch of England/United Kingdom to actually rule the country and have power? | I'd say it was William IV, the king before Victoria took over, although it was more of a gradual thing. This William was the last monarch to appoint a prime minister contrary to the one chosen by parliament, which was a huge surprise as parliament hadn't expected him, or any king for that matter, to invoke that right. ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d2de8h3 | 4fzrlb | Why does it often take several weeks for autopsy results to be produced ? | Couple things: 1) Some tests they run, such as bacterial culture, can take a long time to produce results even if done immediately 2) Most labs that perform autopsies have quite a backlog. As well, some tests have to be sent off to other labs, which also have a backlog of work, so there can be significant delays. 3) Af... | 2 |
AskHistorians/c77dx2d | 13u0co | What was hygiene really like back in medieval times? | In medieval Iceland, you find a whole lot of grave goods related to hygiene - specifically combs, ear-spoons (to clean out wax), nail cutting scissors/blades, etc. Bathing was a regular occurrence, with Saturday (or Laugardagr - literally washing day) being the preferred day. Órri Vesteinsson has written a lot about se... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/coip3dr | 2vlf8d | How do animal conservationists prevent inbreeding when there are only like 500 of a species left? | They can't the best way to mitigate inbreeding is to try to avoid multiple generations of inbreeding. And to selectively breed for good genes. It's not a death sentence to inbreeding it just increases the potential for bad traits to permeate a population. | 2 |
AskReddit/dlpxdxq | 6u4sto | What is your favorite board game? | Betrayal At House On The Hill. The first half of the game you spend exploring the board, basically "revealing" rooms in a haunted house as you move around and gather items/trigger events. Then at a certain point, one of the players is revealed to be a traitor and all the other players work against them and the win cond... | 18 |
AskReddit/cg8s0mr | 211p08 | Which is better - A real frown or a fake smile? | Fake smile. A lot of the people I know who constantly speak their mind are exhausting to be around. Being honest in your unhappiness also makes other people unhappy, and talking about what upsets me with most people usually actually makes me feel worse. That being said, it's important to have that ONE person to vent to... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cmtycgy | 2p6flt | If USA and Russa had an all-out nuclear war during the Cold War, would there really be a nuclear apocalypse like we see in movies? | Since nobody truly know what would have happened, then all we have to do is guess, based on the available information. My guess is that if we and Russia have an all-out nuclear warfare, then it would have been a lot more worse. Using the nuclear weapons from the Cold War (instead of the 1945 bombings), it would destroy... | 2 |
AskReddit/dvc9edo | 82rmhq | How have you learned to keep calm, not get emotionally involved, and stay focused under extreme stress (eg, rude remarks, false accusations, nerve wracking events, life or death situations, etc)? | It all depends if there is a benefit with getting angry or not. If getting angry won’t do any good there’s no reason for it. I learned that from analyzing my own behavior and improving on things I’ve done wrong, such as getting angry and raising my voice when I’ve received false accusations. | 2 |
AskReddit/evpl6ui | ckq864 | What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever seen someone do? | During a game of truth or dare, one of my friends got a dare to do a kickflip on a skateboard. The guy knew how to skate, but didn't know how to do a kickflip. So, guy gets on the skate, Speeds up and then, he dosn't do a kickflip, he litellary does a backflip on the skate. he became the coolest guy in the entire schoo... | 2 |
AskReddit/e8bfuwp | 9qsdy8 | What was the most expensive thing you destroyed? | When I was a young kid, I drew a window view for my dad's basement office that had no windows. Years later, one of my brother's friends made fun of it/me for making it, so I got self conscious about it and crumpled it up. My dad found it and was really devastated that I did that. He really cherished that gift from me. ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cgkasc3 | 2282tc | What can one who didn't have any friends in highschool do in college to change this and become more social? | As a college freshman finishing up my first semester, my best advice would be: Leave your door open every day for the first few weeks of school. Don't hide yourself away because you're nervous to talk to people; you will meet the most people in the first 2 weeks of living in your dorm, so don't shut out potential frien... | 5 |
AskReddit/culero0 | 3j0z3o | Is the hype about In-N-Out Burger true? | They just recently made it to Texas, and it's good, but not as good as the hype led me to believe. Definitely the best fast food burger I've had, but there are a lot of better alternatives if you have time/money to spend at a local burger joint. | 2 |
AskReddit/eu0i9ky | ce9e15 | What's the best foreshadowing you have seen in a movie/TV show/book? | One of the subtlest bits of foreshadowing I've ever seen was at the beginning of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye, where the neo-noir detective spends ten minutes trying to fool his cat into thinking he's bought it the right kind of cat food, only to have the cat take one sniff of it, know that it's a con, and split th... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cg4n4fi | 20ma9i | How does a doctor or paramedic treat a cut throat or jugular wound? | You follow your usual ABCs - airway, breathing, circulation. If the actual windpipe is compromised, you can apply pressure to maintain a seal or do an emergency tracheotomy to insert a breathing tube. If a major vessel is damaged, you apply pressure to minimize blood loss, apply necessary medication to maintain blood p... | 3 |
AskReddit/c2zynjp | md23o | Could aliens be intentionally avoiding us? | My personal theory is that Earth got blacklisted on the Galactic registry as "too dangerous for exploration" after aliens landed during the reign of the dinosaurs. Can you imagine landing on a planet full of gigantic, killer bird-reptiles? Screw that. | 94 |
askscience/dt3rxsh | 7sbnyp | Why is Vitamin D considered a "vitamin," when it's a hormone synthesized by the body? | Your definition is incomplete- a vitamin is an organic compound which is not synthesised by the body in sufficient quantities. In less sunny places like northern Europe most people are vitamin D deficient to some extent, so you could certainly call it a vitamin in that context. Being a hormone has nothing to do with it... | 2 |
AskReddit/d0ovq2d | 492rwe | What's your worst Nice Guy™ story? | There was this guy in first year. I was pretty lonely and desperate for friends so we hung out all the time even though he was kind of odd. He started off being really kind to me, bringing me food and hanging out with me when I was super depressed. But it kind of escalated, he'd be at my apartment all the time uninvite... | 2,208 |
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