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AskReddit/cjxenln | 2e9uog | How often do you say 'I Love You'? | I'd have to take a tally, but I probably say "I love you" at least a half dozen times a day, all to my boyfriend. We usually say it to each other when we wake up, when we part ways in the morning, a couple of times in the evening and then when we go to bed. Throw in the occasional family member and best friend and I fe... | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/cdb717r | 1qbn5l | Why do months have different amount of days? | The earth takes 365.25 days to orbit the sun (360 degrees). When the Gregorian calender was established, there were ten months in one year, all of them longer than 31 days. When Julius Caesar and Augustus developed large egos, they etched their names into the calendar, making the year 12 months long (and to add to thei... | 6 |
AskReddit/dawnj4k | 5h0za7 | What does a $250,000.00 home look like in your city? | I'm in Orange County, California. $250k would be a decent down-payment on a single-family home, and that's about it. I live in a ghetto-ish neighborhood, and my house is worth well over $500k. A "decent" neighborhood is probably going to run you closer $750k, and a truly nice neighborhood is going to be over a million,... | 288 |
AskReddit/duccpuq | 7xysj5 | If you had to permanently move to another country, where would you move, and why? | If I had to, I would move to the US. It has better weather than any other country I'd consider and that's a big deal to me as a Canadian. I've always wanted to be able to enjoy the outdoors in the winter because I'm very sensitive to the cold and I don't spend any more time than necessary outside from late September to... | 4 |
AskReddit/c579hgz | vsnvs | Do I really need a degree? | in a fortune 500 company a degree will open doors to more promotions, advancement, raises, etc. If you want to start your own consulting form as a sales force developer for hire -- probably not.but some companies will look for it unless you are extremely skilled as salesforce. | 5 |
AskReddit/c3b9zuo | nr0sa | What is one thing you despise about something/someone you are otherwise completely in love with? | Wow there are some really great posts in here, mine feels insignificant, but Ill throw it out there. Girl I casually dated for a bit, had amazing potential. She smoked. I cant commit to someone who smokes. I dont care if friends do, I just prefer not to be too close when they do. I cant seriously date someone who does.... | 9 |
AskReddit/en26xdc | bn4h0f | What was something that your parents thought was a secret and tried to hide it from you, but little did they know that you knew all along? | My father was basically a serial cheater. I found out when I was 5-6 years old, but didn't know what I could/should do about it. When they told us they're getting divorced when I was a teenager I shrugged and made it clear I'm staying with my mother, they were shocked to find out I knew all along. My mother only stayed... | 2 |
AskReddit/c09po8e | 8m0qa | Has anyone taken a job selling kitchen knives or vacuums or whatever in people's homes? | I work at a university, but my position doesn't exist during the summer. I found a job on Craigslist today and had an interview. I was hired, but I'm not sure if it's worth it. The pay is $16 per appointment plus some convoluted incentive program that basically is if you sell more than whatever in a week your get x% ad... | 2 |
AskReddit/clkdmfx | 2kdvq9 | Why do some people receive open praise and compliments almost all the time, while others go through life with little or no appreciation? | The answer to that lies in another question and that's this: Why are some people in the world unable to receive food, water, shelter and education while others have virtually limitless access to all of those things? | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d0a9bjg | 4751ii | Why can Animals eat Raw Meat, but Humans Can't? | fresh meat vs not fresh meat. if it's fresh meat, humans can eat it just fine. but most meat humans buy in the market are not fresh and have been processed by many people/machines and/or stored for a long time since the animal was killed. but fresh meat like sushi and beef are commonly eaten by humans. | 5 |
AskReddit/eemrnyy | aicqge | What is the most absurd thing you've ever heard a parent tell their child? | I was on a beach in a resort town and a young family was strolling along the beach at sunset, lovely scene. One of the children excitedly ran to the mom to show her something really neat he’d found (baby horseshoe crab) and she held her arms outstretched not to accept him but to keep him away while screeching for him t... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/c3jq9os | osped | Why do dogs and cats with socks on walk so stupidly? | They are used to walk bare paws, and they can feel the ground that way. When they have socks or shoes on, they are feeling that instead of the ground. And unlike with the ground, the feeling doesn't stop when they lift their paws. So they keep lifting, in an attempt to get away from the thing that they can feel. This i... | 34 |
AskReddit/c9z92za | 1edt37 | What's the most childish thing you still do? | Considering the fact that I do lots of childish things all the time, it's hard to pick a "most". Coloring with crayons? Eating too much candy for dinner? Jumping up and down and squealing when I get excited? Playing shark attack in the bathtub? Singing silly, made up songs all the time? | 13 |
AskReddit/ehgo388 | avoscy | What is the dumbest thing someone has ever said to you? | I work at a roller coaster with two loops on it. Some of the dumbest questions and comments I've received: "Can I take my newborn baby if she rides on my lap?" "Why can't I smoke a blunt on this ride?" "I dropped my hat in a restricted area! Can I jump the fence and get it right now?" "Will I get wet on this ride?" "I ... | 2 |
AskReddit/efejy4a | aljai6 | If you had to live on one food and one drink for the next month, what would you choose? | Water is essential. It’s not my favorite drink. it’s not even top 10, but it would be stupid not to pick it As for food. pasta every day! Don’t even care about the carbs. If I had to be specific, maybe a bolognese. | 12 |
AskReddit/dqh9mmt | 7g8fby | What are some positive things happening in the world today? | Technology continues to advance rapidly, many diseases that were once fatal are now easily treatable, the world is becoming more tolerant, crime is down, literacy is up. Most things in the world are going very very well. If we compare 2017 to 1917, I’d say that everything is better. | 75 |
AskReddit/dx2hq8o | 8aws5n | What is the most interesting documentary you've ever seen? | "Being Elmo" Very interesting to learn about the entire world of puppetry and the culture behind it all the while learning about the man behind the puppet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: Very interesting in terms of going into detail about how some parts of the world are more established than others. Basically why the world i... | 10 |
AskReddit/c7une0w | 16bt0r | What is an experience you wish you could have, but never will? | Actually experience myself from someone elses view, putting up with me at work, seeing what I look like without needing mirror, hearing what I sound like over the phone. The list could go on, I dont necessarily need to know what others think of me but I'd like to see what I was really like, would I be friends with myse... | 855 |
askscience/cuqqha9 | 3jk4uj | How can a car go from 0 to 60mph in 2.2 seconds? | maximum acceleration is mug, Doing some googling, it looks like mu for high performance tires can exceed 1.0. Let's just say mug = 10 for simplicity. 10 m/s^2. That means after 3 seconds we're going 30 m/s. That's 67 mph. i'm not sure where the problem is. | 3 |
AskReddit/cg6ghv0 | 20swyx | What is something you find stupid that you used to be scared/shocked about? | I used to be scared to death to talk to random people/people I don't know. I worked my way up to restaurant manager from a cook, and had sort of a "trial by fire" so to speak. Now I am pro at talking to people, and can basically carry on a conversation with anyone. | 23 |
AskReddit/dorhji0 | 786qrw | What is the worst experience you've had from a teacher? | Freshman bio teacher was the absolute worst in the school. She would talk about Bigfoot the entire hour. Sometimes, she would assign a test before she taught the material and wouldn't redo it because our grades were an "accurate representation of our understanding"? What kind of teacher wants students to get bad grades... | 2 |
AskReddit/cdqijz6 | 1rs4nk | What are some pranks that don't hurt anyone? | Once someone took all the Christmas decorations from my parents' front lawn & swapped them with the decorations of the people across the street. My mom was all outraged & I was like "um guys? It's harmless & kind of hilarious." It was actually nice too because the people across the street eventually came over to coordi... | 16 |
AskReddit/csgyf4r | 3axwfk | What is your happy story? | Today, I told the child I look after that if she walked backwards up hills, she would grow calf muscles on her shins. She believed me. I've probably caused a lasting confusion. I don't know if thats a particularly happy story, but I found it hilarious for a good 20minutes. Its very hard to tell fibs to children without... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e78dz0i | 9lpab9 | Why do computers slow down and take longer to perform even basic functions as they age? | Your computer isn't a single tasker. It's multitasking. Every program you have running is available to be wanting to do something. So while you may have chrome in foreground, MacOS updater, Adobe Acrobat updater, time machine backup, etcetc are all running in the background. In addition, your cpu is auto controlled to ... | 5 |
AskReddit/c95uw3n | 1bdbju | What's the the best investment you've made under $10? | $2 pot scrapper. I've owned it for five years now and I figure it's never going to break. It's helped me scrape out so many pots and pans and has saved me a ton of time! | 2 |
AskReddit/c0i4qk9 | akzzv | To those that have seen both "Avatar" and "Sherlock Holmes", which did you like better of the two? | Avatar. While Sherlock Holmes was without a doubt a great movie, it isn't a movie I would pay to watch again, whereas I have seen Avatar 3 times so far. I just kind of get lost and caught up in Pandora. | 6 |
AskReddit/csyql4z | 3ctc68 | What is the most embarrassing thing you have ever done on a family vacation? | This is likely my most embarrassing moment ever, actually. On vacation with my mom, dad, and aunt on the Big Red Boat. I'm only like 12, so when they go out for an evening of drinks and such, I'm staying in the cabin, told to read my book and behave. This is the first time I've been alone for any length of time since w... | 4 |
AskReddit/e5obdmy | 9eebmq | What is something people should know before dating someone significantly older than them? | That they are probably dating you because you are younger and likely more naive, not because you are mature or exceptional. I hate saying it but every friend I have had who has gone through this is pretty smart and wants to feel like their intellect is respected but it is usually never the case and it rarely ends well.... | 5 |
AskReddit/ea2ot7g | 9yndf3 | What's the longest Youtube video you've watched in one sitting, start to finish? | We were playing video games and turned on the Heman hey hey video that was 24 hours long. We ended up lasting 8 hours. | 5 |
AskReddit/cqvkx1o | 34kf14 | What smell and/or taste makes you sick to your stomach? | Soggy cereal. I have endured every bodily fluid imaginable and smelled a lot of different types of dead animals in my day, but even just the thought of eating soggy cereal makes me violently gag. Ugh | 2 |
AskReddit/emje8fh | bkqcvf | What song evokes an actual emotional response from you? | Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody. It evokes this sense of nostalgia that I don't get from other songs. It's a beautiful song and I just feel a sense of attachment to it. I grew up on every Queen song on the planet, but this is the one that gets me. | 12 |
AskReddit/devu174 | 5z7c7z | Why does warm or hot water clean plates way better than cold water? | Makes oil much easier to come off. Cold water leaves oil and fats as solids so even using soap will just spread it about the first time. Hot water is like when you put a used butter knife under hot water. It just turns the fat into a liquid form and then it goes with the water. | 2 |
AskReddit/c0prcs0 | c2ep1 | What are some great recent(withing the last decade) tv series you think people should be watching? | adventure time with finn and jake. it is a show that is in its first season currently running on cartoon network and is one of the funniest and most creative new shows ive seen in years. i cant stop telling people i know to watch it. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cmbq1ku | 2na2zk | Does Google make less money, because Android is Open Source? | Android is open source, however Google collects a licensing fee for using Google apps and services (Play store, gmail, maps, etc) You could make an Android phone that does not have these services and apps and not pay Google anything (but of course, you won't have maps or other Google services. You'll have to either mak... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/c5rftpo | y0ygd | Why do dogs lick us when they're happy? | This would be easier to explain if you've ever been in love. But since you're only 5, I'm going to take a lot of grown up feelings for granted in the following explanation. Have you ever been so happy with a significant other that you've wanted to pounce them and give them a big wet sloppy kiss? It's not quite intimate... | 191 |
AskReddit/ex8u758 | crrfgo | Who would be the worst actor to play Adolph Hitler? | Hugh Laurie. I think, with the House MD persona and practice for that role, + his natural charisma, he would make an excellent parody Dolfy. Also, the "twist" in the Clooney produced Catch-22 series involving him and the Nazis. He's The One. Edit: saw "worst" now. Long day. Nevertheless, my answer stands for best actor... | 7 |
AskReddit/c83eovu | 179edj | What common phrases did you have wrong your entire life, only to have your mind blown when someone else said it differently? | I'm 29 years old, and until last year, I always thought the term "jury rigged" was actually "jerry rigged". I just always assumed it was one of those phrases that made no sense but had a backstory somewhere along the line in history. | 2 |
AskReddit/ci7k8jv | 285bcy | If you had a time machine and could prevent either the Holocaust OR the black plague, which would you choose and why? | If there was a disregard for how it effected the present. Then I'd stop the Holocaust. I just feel the black plague was due to nature and not one psychotic egomentalists view on certain races. | 6 |
AskReddit/dnkkb12 | 72qllw | What is 'music to your ears'? | I started baking bread last year and got really into it this summer, making two loaves per week. Each loaf bakes for 60 minutes, making for a very dark, dense, delicious crust. Once pulled from the oven and placed on the cooling rack, as they begin to cool, they let out a long, slow, snap-crackling song. It's absolutel... | 3 |
AskReddit/dbd4moj | 5j3oxm | What items should you bring or leave when going to a university? | Bring: shower shoes, a good set of headphones, and lots of quarters for laundry. Leave: please for the love of everything good and holy do NOT be that guy that wears your high school letter jacket around campus | 3 |
AskReddit/edpzo7s | aejb1m | Why did you join Reddit? | A guy at work kept sending funny programmer memes from Reddit to our work channels so I had to join in the fun. Only thing I hate is the time limit on comments.I'm waiting 4 minutes to send this one now. | 4 |
AskReddit/du0kd4z | 7wi8sk | What are some things people likely overlook or forget to consider when preparing for an apocalyptic scenario? | Many people think that they will just be able to hole themselves in a bunker and shoot their way out. In a real apocalyptic scenario coordinated groups would see you as a gun/ammo cache and you’d be wiped out almost immediately. In a real scenario you would need a very tight-knit group of people with a wide array of sk... | 5 |
AskReddit/dj3uz36 | 6i6n85 | Who is a celebrity you admire that you would NOT want to meet? | I don't want to meet any celebrity I admire, because I don't admire them, I admire the public persona they put on when they're in front of the camera and trying to be likeable. Maybe Nathan Fillion and Ryan Reynolds are really as awesome off-camera and outside of interviews and twitter as they are when they're trying t... | 3 |
AskReddit/evdskv6 | cjjvzw | What is a food you hate that you wish that you could magically start liking, and why? | I don't know if this counts as food but BBQ sauce or anything used with it. It's because to me it has a strong smell and I hate being around it and all my friends like BBQ sauce so sometimes I'd be sitting there hatting the smell coming from their plate. | 2 |
AskReddit/c4epm63 | skdia | What are your "strange coworker" experiences? | Oh, I have plenty of those. When I was in high school I worked at Taco Bell, and one of the cashiers would talk to herself constantly. Not conversations, but just repeating the same thing over and over, with various inflections and tones. She was obsessed with a former coworker and would always talk about him, often se... | 2 |
AskReddit/dlggp7f | 6sy78z | What do country people not understand about city life? | Depends on how "country" you are talking. My parents live on a farm and probably will until they die. I grew up on the farm and hated it. They don't understand why I like so much going on around me or how the hustle and bustle doesn't make me anxious. They see crimes on the news every day and get insanely worried about... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c7hw21c | 14zb4d | Why do we itch when something isn't irritating our skin? | Both Jordanmaes and wiljones have valid points. Sometimes you have irritants that you don't recognize, such as extra skin, allergies, clothing and new detergent. Othertimes, however, itching can be caused by anxiety. There have been many cases of severe itching caused by stress. This I'm less sure of, but I read once t... | 4 |
AskReddit/ccyx30b | 1p5731 | Why did you stop being someones friend? | I had a friend who kept doing drugs after I stopped and ended up in jail more than once. Each time he got out he would try to reconnect but after the second time I just had to ignore him. I probably could have talked to him and explained things but he'd been locked up for 2 years before this so he wasn't really in my l... | 2 |
AskReddit/cunemrf | 3j9jmf | What unrelated movies can be seen one after another and look like one story? | Van Helsing and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are both actionized adaptations using Victorian literary characters that are both considered to be very very bad movies (and bad in similar ways). The character overlap is small enough that it's easy to imagine that both exist in the same world. Also they were both ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c721qyj | 139ro7 | What's your worst/best childhood memory? | I remember going fishing for the first time with my father in Mobile, AL when I was about 4. He passed away 4 years ago today at 80 years old. As far as worst, it would be 7/3/79 when my mother left us (5 kids and husband)for another man. Felt like I lost all my friends as well as family. | 2 |
AskReddit/d16qda5 | 4b7jwh | What brand has changed that isn't as good as the original? | Maybe it's just cuz I'm (sorta) grown up now, but I swear to God Totino's Pizza Rolls have changed drastically. They are so bad now, it's really disappointing. There's just something bout the "bread" they use that tasted terrible | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ceko6qc | 1upyau | What are the main differences and advantages/disadvantages between ac and dc power? | So, think of the energy on the wire like ball bearings that have no weight. DC pushes the ball bearings in a loop, from positive to negative. AC vibrated the ball bearings. This is like dc having a positive and a negative, pushing the electricity, and AC switching from positive to negative sixty times a second(in the U... | 7 |
askscience/cp2y6u1 | 2xpep8 | What does the pilot hear during supersonic flight? | After reaching supersonic speeds if the aircraft does not accelerate, and the velocity remains constant the pilot will be able to hear all the sounds created by the engine and rest of the aircraft just as he would before going supersonic as he, the air inside the craft and the craft itself are in the same frame of refe... | 3 |
askscience/c6nvxmc | 11n31h | Why are the eyes of burn victims often left intact? | Eyes are covered and filled with fluid which is mostly water. Water has to absorb a lot of heat to increase in temperature as compared to most other materials. Because water can carry a large amount of heat, we use it in heating system and cooling system (like radiators). Skin, muscles, and connective tissue have much ... | 11 |
AskReddit/c4i7k2k | sz85z | Have you ever legitimately questioned your sanity? | Multiple times. On a bad acid trip, I questioned my sanity close to 100 times that night. I was worried that I would never be able to think like a regular human being again, and that I was going to be put in a mental hospital for the rest of my life. I don't know if this counts or not but when I was 11 I first question... | 186 |
AskReddit/ev9vk1e | ciwygu | What are the best jokes or puns? | > Attention! [Serious] Tag Notice • Jokes, puns, and off-topic comments are not permitted in any comment, parent or child. • Parent comments that aren't from the target group will be removed, along with their child replies. • Report comments that violate these rules. Posts that have few relevant answers within the f... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/do7ob4q | 75o828 | What keeps attorneys protected from being an accomplice when they're defending someone who committed a crime and found guilty? | First I can only speak to American law as I'm an American lawyer (and criminal law isn't my area, but it's a pretty basic answer). First, the exact definition of accomplice varies from state to state (because of the way common law works), but effectively an accomplice is a person who assisted in the actual commission o... | 33 |
AskReddit/d5hk4hq | 4ti10r | What ridiculous lies have you heard from a pathological liar / sociopath with whom you are/were friends? | Guy started dating a family member. I was warned of his insane lies. I met him and he tells me he was Special Forces. I go along: oh yea? Me too (I was not). I start making things up and he's just going along with it, like "Oh yea, I remember doing that. Crazy, right?" I let someone else tell him I had made it all up a... | 2 |
AskReddit/c2but59 | jfntx | What is the most spiteful thing an ex has done to you? | Long long store from me, but the most spiteful thing I have done to my ex is just walk away from her. it is a long story of lies and deceit on her part, but in the end I decided that running around will not get me anywhere, so I just walked. We had one meeting after that where I explained what hurt/got me, and just sai... | 2 |
AskReddit/eq6apcr | bxgap8 | What is the scariest experience you have had with a sleep paralysis? | I once had both lucid dream and sleep paralysis at the same time. I decided to stick around to see what happens. I figured out I would not get scared since I was aware it was a dream. I’ve heard the terror that one experiences from being unable to move causes the horrible apparations, so I tried to be as chill as possi... | 5 |
AskReddit/cx9zk7u | 3tx8c6 | What do people like about you? | My humour. My sense of humour is very broad, I soon gauge the style of humour that people appreciate and tailor my own to suit it. I enjoy making people laugh (despite the otherwise miserable git I am) and it's a great way of getting along with people, whether it be witty puns, one-liners or complex jokes (or even fart... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cy8e9jr | 3xuacb | Why are gay people more prone to getting HIV than straight people? | I asked this very same question when I started donating blood. I was told that it was because gay men are far more likely to have the disease, and because gay men have more sexual partners than straight men. | 2 |
AskReddit/cgzwxoe | 23rprm | What can you not believe you got away with at school? | Currently in my final year of high school. Every year they tell us "This year you will not be able to just coast through without study due to your own intelligence." I've never studied, I only do my homework if I'll definitely get in trouble for not doing so, I spend a huge amount of time on Reddit, and I do my assignm... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/citu5lk | 2ad46q | When I push my uncooked spaghetti deeper into the boiling water, why does the water start boiling harder? | When water boils, it's much more efficient to heterogeneously nucleate gas bubbles on rough surfaces. Pushing your pasta under creates a larger surface area for the bubbles to nucleate on, causing it to boil harder. EDIT: added type of nucleation | 3 |
AskReddit/dczh7r4 | 5qie7p | What is something you've gotten rid of and regretted ever since? | My GBA SP, it was a light blue one, traded it for a GBA and Pokemon FireRed. Along with the SP, I traded away Pokemon Emerald. Essentially I downgraded and got rid of the superior combination, simply because I couldn't say "no." Absence makes the heart grow fonder and I realized how much I missed Emerald, though FireRe... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ectrey2 | aank4q | Does the process of imagining music or images involve your eyes and ears in any way, or is it all mental? | It doesn’t not involve your ears or eyes. To be clear the images you see and sounds you hear are not made in the eyes and ears, but in the brain. There are specific receptor cells for the senses that turns whatever signal it is, waves or particles in a language the brain can understand, electrical signals. When the ele... | 3 |
AskHistorians/cg0nyxa | 206uiq | What impact did the FLQ attacks and the October Crisis have on the Parti Quebecois' support? | The short answer is not really. Rene Levesque feared that separatism would become linked to terrorism and doom the future of the Parti Quebecois but this did not come to pass. In the election of 1970 (held in April) the PQ received 23% of the vote. Polls prior to to the 1973 election showed similar levels of support. I... | 3 |
AskReddit/emktry2 | bl1h5v | What would you do if you had unlimited amount of money? | Buy all pharmaceutical companies/patents and give all the medicine away. Buy all social media and news companies so I can shut them all down. Spend money on renewable energy and invest into saving the environment. Buy huge amounts of lands for public co-op organic farms to provide free food to the masses. Build free ho... | 3 |
AskHistorians/di3wgdb | 6dk4te | Why did Mao fear a Soviet nuclear attack? | It wasn't unjustified at all. Chinese Soviet relations really degraded badly over the course of the Sino-Soviet split, and relations at some points reached such a nadir that conflict became likely, even culminating in several "minor border skirmishes" over key disagreements in various parts of the border line. The main... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/dfiym4a | 621h2y | Why do our feelings work against us? | Feelings work against us in every area of our life. Motivation, discipline & logic lead you towards your goals. Emotion leads you to stray from them. Emotions are not logical & can often encourage weakness. But it's hard to override emotions especially when it comes to relationships. | 2 |
AskReddit/dp6z3m7 | 7a4c7w | How old were you when you fall in first love? | I was 12 or 13, I think. It was really confusing because I fell in love with my best friend (we're both female). I had no real idea of what was happening at the time. I had somehow missed all the signs that I was queer and I had been a lonely kid. Awkward and fat. Didn't have a whole lot of platonic friendships growing... | 2 |
AskReddit/c67itiu | zt1x0 | If you could cross any two animals to create a new species, what two would you cross? | I would isolate the genetic coding making an animal "pigmy" or "teacup" and make tiny elephants. I would also cross breed a sloth with a panda so it would let me take a nap on it. | 2 |
AskReddit/e3574f6 | 92ep2y | Which year was the best year of your life and what year was the worst year of your life? | 2016-2017 was the worst. It was my junior year of high school and I was incredibly angsty and rebellious so I pushed my mom away and caused all this trouble and had low morals. I just made a lot of poor choices that I have to deal with. 2017-2018 was the best, my senior year of high school. I realized what the choices ... | 2 |
AskReddit/e87jbcg | 9q8r31 | What is the weirdest encounter you have had at a gas station? | I needed propane asap for my heater. There two two gas stations right next to each other and both sold propane. I went to the first one and the guy said the pump was broken and he would have it fixed in two hours. He was begging me to wait for it to be fixed. So i was like nah i need it rn so i went to the next one and... | 5 |
AskReddit/dg7h3vl | 6554qr | What's the nicest thing someone has done for you? | Once at lunch in high school, the cafeteria line was closed and I couldn't buy food. I was also starving, for I didn't even eat food before I went to school. Somebody at my table noticed that I didn't even have food, so he gave me a sandwich. Someone else at the table saw me receive the sandwich, and then passed my som... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d0oeaqq | 491w5d | How come rubbing your eyes makes them itchier? | Your hands are always dirty, it's just a matter of degree. There's oils on your skin, there's dead skin cells, there's good old fashion dirt. All of that could get in your eyes when rub them. As for allergies, there's a layer of tissue in your eyes called the conjunctiva. They are there to defend your eyes from microsc... | 3 |
AskReddit/c5v5mnk | yfsel | What does Reddit think about Taiwan independence? | If Taiwan can maintain its independence until China collapses in on itself (which might happen tomorrow, or 25 years from now), true independence will be unstoppable. But for now, there's tremendous and maybe ever building pressures on Taiwan from much of the developed world to maintain some accommodation with China, f... | 2 |
AskReddit/cwxzl01 | 3skeox | What got you interested in whatever you're interested in? | I am interested in singing, my dad had me start playing music at 10 and I liked it. I started on violin and then moved to trombone, I continued trombone until I graduated highschool. Never once in my music career did I think that I wanted to be a singer, even though I had always sang along to every song I knew. It wasn... | 2 |
AskReddit/emqx9um | blq655 | What is the most “chaotic neutral” thing you ever saw/experience? | I know what I did was chaotic, but I can't tell if it was evil or neutral. So, I had checked out a book from the library last summer and they told me that it was due by a certain date. I went to return it the day before that date and they claimed it was overdue and tried to charge me. I didn't pay because I lied that I... | 3 |
AskReddit/emt5eof | bm1d39 | If you could make any meal magically appear in front of you once a day, what would it be? | a huge pot of made-from-scratch chili It can go with a lot of things like rice, chips, hot dogs, or just by itself warmed up on a cold day is good too. Easy to share as well. | 2 |
askscience/c6n9oi9 | 11kiif | Have the absolute minimum and maximum wavelengths of light that humans can perceive ever been determined? | It actually varies a bit from person to person, so no. I remember reading about one woman who could see significantly into the UV spectrum. Enough so that scientists believed there was an entire color range she could perceive that the average person cannot. Edit: Yeah, so I didn't read your body of text. There's not go... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cgvkqa3 | 23c8o7 | Why can a song that you never paid attention to get stuck in your head, but you forget important things? | Music today is designed to be trapped in your head. The music industry purposefully produces very repetitive rhythms which have been tested to stick in the minds of people. This helps to drive sales up a lot. If you listen to most music today it can easily get stuck in your mind. This music has also been designed to no... | 5 |
AskReddit/c3ahxda | nnm7t | What's your best story? | I don't know if it is a great story or my best, but it is one of my favourite memories. When I was 16 (21 now), someone randomly found my email from my profile on a forum and added me to MSN messenger. I had only been on very small forums up to that point, so I had not known much of spam, and accepted. Turns out she wa... | 2 |
AskReddit/coe58zi | 2v3mwp | When invited to an event, is it rude to respond with a "Maybe"? | As I've gotten older I find that saying "maybe" to an invitation does come off a tad rude. I personally don't think it should be but I find some people think it shows a complete lack of interest in the event. Instead of saying maybe I would respond with something that shows interest without committing on the spot. You ... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cetihyd | 1vlrfh | How does money go from my pocket, through the stock market, and to support the business I've bought stock from? | It doesn't - unless the company was the one actually selling the stock. In most cases, the stock that you are buying is owned by someone/something other than the company. If they sell their shares of stock, then the money is going in to their pocket. Notable exceptions - if a company is making shares available to the p... | 2 |
AskHistorians/c7xppp1 | 16nw2f | What was the relationship between the civil service and the nobility in the Chinese empire? | Oh dear god, that's a biggie. I guess the best short answer is: it depends. For example, in the Yuan dynasty (also known as the Great Khanate, since it was a Mongol dynasty), connections, networks, and race were paramount. They actually didn't even have the civil service exams until roughly 1315 - almost one hundred ye... | 3 |
AskReddit/c1gwtw7 | flvim | Why don't progressive billionaires (ie Gates, Buffet) help shape the political landscape in America like Koch and Murdoch do? | Gates and Soros have tried and failed. MSNBC was supposed to be Fox News. Slate was a shot at it. Soros backed Air America and countless other media attempts. The truth is there is stronger base of people with disposable income consuming conservative media than their are consuming liberal media. | 9 |
AskReddit/dwlnr5q | 88mfsa | What is one of the strangest "de ja vu" moments you've had? | Not mine but a friend of mine once had the strongest feeling of de ja vu at home and according to him he looked at his mom and said “The phone is about to ring.” And the house phone went off right after. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dy4pcbs | 8fmh9b | Why do Muslims take issue with depictions of Prophet Muhammad, but seem okay with movies such as the Passion of the Christ which depict other major prophets of Islam? | Pictures of Mohammad have caused serious public outcry, but I didn't even know that pictures of any prophets are offensive to Muslims. Maybe the original question should be "Why has displaying pictures of Mohammad caused riots in America, when pictures of Jesus have not?" | 2 |
AskReddit/c0zy0ht | dg1tf | What browser do you use and why? | Opera. I've been using it since version 7, as back in that day, it was the quickest browser especially on a dial-up connection. I've fallen in love with its features too much to be able to start using another browser for any extended period of time. Only now do browsers have some of the features that i've been using in... | 10 |
AskReddit/d7kur93 | 52jymt | What is a English word that in your country means something completely different in another (include meanings)? | Robot in most English-speaking countries means a mechanical worker, and implies a human-shaped one that performs a variety of tasks. Robot in South Africa means a traffic signal. | 2 |
AskReddit/c1s9l9c | h3ea2 | What do you do when you feel you have no one to talk to? | I used to just bottle it up and try and ignore the problem. If I felt lonely I'd read a book to try and get away from reality a while. When I was struggling with issues of sexuality I'd try not to think of it and if I did I would do the mental version of la la la not listening. These days I feel a lot better, I have ma... | 2 |
AskReddit/c5567i0 | vk0v1 | When you get into a car accident your insurance rates go up, isn't that the equivalent of a loan for the dollar amount of the incident? | I used to work in Insurance. Basically it all comes done to statistics. Companies don't really care about what has happened, they care about what may happen. One at-fault accident usually isn't too bad. 2 within 5 years looks terrible. It's when that second at-fault accident occurs that you'll see a big change. As to h... | 2 |
AskReddit/cgsvqqi | 232x3t | What is the biggest lie your parents/teachers have ever told you? | My mom was a religious nut when I was little, so much so I couldn't play Zelda or watch Pokemon and had to ask before watching certain cartoons, like per episode. When I was really little she told me that God will eventually bring back every thing that dies. I asked her after watching a baby cheetah get trampled by a h... | 3 |
AskReddit/cfdgdsz | 1xpmao | What's the best and worst thing about the Reddit community? | I think the best thing is the thoughtfulness. I have seen a ton of nice things happen on reddit, e.g., donations to charities, random acts of pizza, giving away plane tickets, etc. The worst thing is I have been here 7 years and still can't figure out how to get the sweet sweet karma. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d7h5yi7 | 52410l | How did the economic crisis start in Venezuela? | There are two factors at work. Firstly, Venezuela is a hard-core socialist-populist system, which means the state controls the entirety of the economy, including all the prices, and throws around massive social benefits and subsidies to keep the plebs happy. However, many socialist states lag behind in economic develop... | 5 |
AskReddit/ejq8x7g | b7aokn | What single incident changed the course of your life? | Coming out to my parents as Trans. I thought it would go a lot better than expected; instead, I was kicked out of my house and stayed at my grandparents house until a week later, when the whole thing was done. My dad gave me an ultimatum; give up the delusion and come home, or just basically get sent to a military acad... | 3 |
AskReddit/dsyqfxq | 7rpu7n | What genre of music did you grow up with and do you still enjoy it? | I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s hearing my entire family and most of the kids I went to school with listening to rap and R&B. I still listen to it, but most of what I listen to is old school or underground. I don't care much for most of the new mainstream songs, which is part of the reason why I expanded my tastes... | 2 |
AskReddit/c2vdiz3 | lt2cz | What would happen if a surgeon sneezed during surgery? | It would go through the surgical mask that they wear, invading the patients body and creating a sequel to Contagion. Pray before you go under the knife, not for the surgery to go well, but to avoid that sneeze that could ruin the world. | 3 |
AskReddit/dur1sog | 7zrvhi | What's your best excuse for being late? | A lot of the excuses in this thread don't really work because they just show poor time management. I've never been anywhere that traffic, car accidents, snow, etc was an acceptable excuse. Doctors appointment running late is the best one if you actually have a doctor's note. | 2 |
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