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AskReddit/daokai9 | 5g0tx6 | If you could automatically legalize/ban three things, what would they be? | Legalize international concealed carry, medical marijuana, drinking for soldiers under 21 ban clickbait, attacks on net neutrality, and misleading news stories | 2 |
AskReddit/c6ewhkr | 10n0zx | What completely out of the blue thought has kept you wondering hours later? | One night, lying in bed, no computer or phone, just alone with my thoughts, I recalled somewhere that the galaxy is expanding at about 10 Km Per Year [May or not be true]. So that made me think, at the end of the galaxy, what is there? I suppose the answer would be "nothing" but.What does the nothing look like? At firs... | 3 |
AskReddit/ca03xs3 | 1egnxp | If I fell into a coma in 1999 and woke up today, what is the shortest description of what's happened in the last 13 years you can give me? | You should watch The Last Train. It's about a train full of people who get cryogenically frozen in 1999, and wake up in 2013. Then world ended though so it would not help you in any way whatsoever. | 442 |
AskHistorians/cvmtwrg | 3na0fm | What caused Irish nationalism to take a distinctly left-wing position? | This is a very recent development. The republicanism of the 1790s was egalitarian but nineteenth and twentieth century Irish nationalism were coalitions of interests. While there have been leftist movements such as Michael Davitt's land reform campaign in the 1870s or Connolly's socialist republicans in 1916, the domin... | 3 |
AskReddit/d225fub | 4ep2lw | What baby names make you cringe? | It's not so much the name itself, it's when people choose to misspell names to make them "unique". I've seen Jesyka, Raychael, Kaelah, Jakxon etc. And in Australia it seems to be popular among bogans (white trash) to name babies "Taylor", but to spell it "Taylah" - which is how it's pronounced with an Australian accent... | 227 |
explainlikeimfive/eq5nkm6 | bxdy2j | How and when do I use a semicolon? | A semicolon can combine sentences the way you'd use ",and" to join them. ​ I love monkeys, and I enjoy going to the zoo. I love monkeys; I enjoy going to the zoo. A comma by itself can not combine two complete sentences. You can't go "I love the store, it has many things to buy." Instead you should write "I love... | 2 |
AskHistorians/cpwx2xc | 30ya5p | Could destruction of the first Death Star have been an inside job? | I think your facts are very misleading. >How could a single photon bomb penetrate hull plating made from Quadanium steel The Rebel starfighters were equipped with proton torpedoes, not photon bombs. This is important, because unlike photon bombs, proton torpedoes could be equipped with sophisticated guidance software. ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c28rzjp | j3b98 | Why does a person die after being strangled, but only pass out from holding their breath? | Strangling someone would involve choking them until they die (so for a minute or two after they pass out). Or like you said, a crushed trachea. When you hold your breath and pass out, you resume breathing as soon as you lose consciousness, as breathing is a passive action when you're not awake. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cyc5efx | 3ybp28 | How come cameras are not allowed in the Supreme Court? | Cameras are actually often not allowed in courts. That's why you'll often see drawings of a trial on the news instead of photography. For example, cameras aren't permitted under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which apply to federal criminal courts and are used as guidelines by many state courts. There's a lot... | 4 |
AskReddit/ch5sh01 | 24ck7a | What are some things people do that they don't realize they're doing, but really bother you? | When you're walking down a street, or in a mall, and people walk out of shops really slowly and just stop and look dazed and stand in your way. Also, any body who leaves their mouth open while doing anything. Walking, after saying something, eating. | 2 |
AskReddit/c9a7kdf | 1bundz | Is it sexist/legal to advertise a position for a waitress and not a waiter? | If the place advertises itself as having just waitresses and that's integral to their business model. yes (see: Hooter's). You can descriminate if you have a bona fide business reason for doing so. a less controversial example is if you were hiring models for a men's clothing website shoot, it wouldn't be discriminator... | 7 |
AskReddit/eryn3vt | c4vaoy | What is a good fist ANIME to start with? | I wouldn't start with a series, personally, and a lot of the series people are suggesting are a bit cheesy and cringey for anyone who isn't initiated into anime. I'd start with a few movies - like Ghibli movies, which are pretty universally beloved! Or A Silent Voice by Kyoto Animation is good too, because it doesn't p... | 2 |
askscience/ckleymp | 2gotle | What is the difference between gasoline and diesel? | Gasoline is a fraction of the petroleum distillation that is much lighter molecular weight and lower boiling point than diesel. It also has a lower flashpoint and combusts much easier. Because it combusts easier, compression ratios are designed to be lower. Combustion is faster and rpms can be higher. Diesel does not m... | 5 |
askscience/cqp4mfx | 33w4m3 | When I look at a word, why do I automatically read it? | Going a step further, I occasionally read words without knowing where they are. It happens most often when walking down a grocery store aisle, surrounded by words and packaging in my periphery. A word will pop in my head that I know I've "read" but it takes a couple of minutes of looking to actually find the word. Feel... | 82 |
explainlikeimfive/cw7eknp | 3plvye | Why is the Metric system so perfect in regards to water mass versus weight? | It's originally designed this way. Units in the SI system are all defined by certain basic quantities, like a liter of water or one Kelvin, or one meter and so on. ex: a kilocalorie (a calorie to all dieters) is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one liter of water by one kelvin. So it's right th... | 6 |
AskReddit/chmb3z0 | 25zvdf | When have you ever been in excruciating physical pain and had to pretend nothing was wrong for the sake of the situation? | Broke my right wrist in the 4th grade at recess. Went back in and was in excruciating pain. Teacher wouldn't let me do anything about it because she was being observed by the principal and didn't want any of her students to be out of the classroom. | 2 |
AskReddit/efonz8e | amueio | What is your best unusual but effective study tip that helped you ace your test? | I would take a whole lot of notes during classes (whilst paying attention and actually understanding wtf was going on) and add my own side notes so that I’d forever understand. Then the day or the day before the test I’d speedrun through (this is me studying) the subject of the test. It’s commonly known to not do this ... | 3 |
AskReddit/cgan5ny | 218myk | How would you explain some of the appliances, vehicles, and electronics to people 100 years in the past? | One hundred years in the past they had cars, airplanes, chemical weapons, motion pictures, phonographs, telephones, faxing, telegraphs, and were closing in on liquid fueled rockets. This shouldn't be too hard. | 2 |
AskReddit/cej7lni | 1ul98h | What scene in a movie makes you cry uncontrollably? | I cried at that, too! I'll never forget, though, the end of Toy Story 3. Everyone will know what I'm talking about. I have never cried so hard at a movie in my entire life. I saw that in theaters with my father and I STILL haven't seen it again. Plus, since then, my father has passed, so I have no idea how much sobbing... | 2 |
AskReddit/c651f62 | zj3in | Why is it that my pizza, which consists of bread, sauce, and cheese is considered unhealthy, but when Subway gives me a whole loaf of bread, cheese, and sauce it is considered healthy? | You were too generous with your description of subway. They give you a loaf of bread with a salad on it, with a dashing of cheese that doesn't cover the sandwich and heaven forbid any actual amount of meat. Yes, those are the unhealthy ingredients (besides the mayo and sauces), but they are also the most expensive. Tha... | 3 |
AskReddit/dqhd4ea | 7g8nq0 | What did you have to correct your teacher on? | When I was student teaching, I did a unit on the circulatory system. I mentioned that the human body has about 4-5 liters of blood. My master teacher tried correcting me in front of the class, saying "No, that's wrong." I tried just saying "No actually it's correct!" and she said ". You're probably thinking of how the ... | 3 |
AskReddit/chlt0nb | 25y351 | How's your day going? | Going great. Getting some housework and organization done. Trying to get the house in tip-top shape since my husband is going away for a few days this week and I like my relaxy-time to be spent not cleaning. | 2 |
AskReddit/elw8oiz | bhvmvs | How do you know when you're in love? | When you can't bear the thought of not telling them. Every moment until you've made it known to them is utter agony. You're not focused on admiring their looks, intelligence, humor, kindness, or anything else - you simply love them for who they are, faults and all. | 2 |
AskReddit/ex5b7b0 | crhk15 | What weird thing do you do when you’re drunk? | I like to sit on the toilet and do mental math. Multiplication, algebra, calculus, anything really. I don’t like math that much when I’m sober but drunk me loves a good equation. | 3 |
AskReddit/c6do9j4 | 10i6pz | What is your opinion on minimum wage? | It's nowhere near a living wage, in some places it's probably half of what the living wage is. But if we upped it to the cost of a living wage it would create a chain of inflation that would only serve to increase cost so as to defeat the purpose. That said it does create a wage floor; if an entry level job pays x, the... | 2 |
AskReddit/ey4a89i | cvhwdm | What aged like a fine wine? | Jerry Garcia's songs written in the 90's, to me all of the Grateful Dead music is timeless (Dead & Co are still saling out stadiums) but what were news songs at the time, really aged well over 25 years later. | 3 |
AskReddit/dg4if48 | 64qtrr | What are some unfortunate realities that a young person alive today will have to face in their lifetime? | The world is becoming more divided and more passionate in that division. Historically this would indicate trouble on the horizon. While the world was delighted at the hope of the internet connecting people like never before, we didn't see that it could be used just as easily to divide people. And because it isn't face ... | 175 |
AskReddit/c0i912c | aluoy | Has anyone ever taken a sick day when not actually sick? | I'd have to say 90% of my sick days are just ninja'ed vacation days. I once however worked for a company(AEGON USA) who's HR policy was for every 2 days of unused sick leave left over this year(you got 10 sick days) rolls over to 1 extra legit vacation day next year. It was amazing how such a small incentive slashed em... | 3 |
AskReddit/c4m9wry | tfy3u | What makes you happy? | Having something to look forward to, and for the most part that's travelling. I love researching and planning my holiday's. Just booked tickets to Malaysia and Egypt. Also, hitting the open road on my motorbike makes me happy. Life is good. | 2 |
AskReddit/ed2tl1q | abtkdk | What interesting/weird/unusual/funny turns of phrase were used by your parents/grandparents that you've not heard from elsewhere? | My grandparents used to say that a person had "Teeth like the Co-Op hoss" or "A smile like a bag of chips" to describe the dentally-unfortunate. ​ A friend knew someone who used to say that a person had "A face like a robber's dog", which is possibly the most beautiful sentence I've ever heard. | 2 |
AskReddit/ebqfl58 | a5z9mw | When did you realize ‘This kid is way smarter than me’ ? | I think I'm too stupid to actually come to that realization, if I'm being honest. I seriously doubt that I'm smarter than most of my friends, family, etc. but very rarely have I ever noticed that they were smarter than me. And considering that I have nearly straight F's in school, I think the fact that I haven't ever r... | 5 |
AskReddit/es88e0k | c6ebwx | What are some really crazy fan theories for otherwise mundane sit-coms and TV shows? | The show friends the characters are normal except for phoebe the theory is that phoebe is still homeless and a little crazy. She lives outside the coffee shop and she watches the rest of the friends so she imagines that she is apart of it and that’s the show and at the end of the series the friends leave the coffee sho... | 2 |
AskReddit/ef4l2il | akgdei | What are some problems in your community that still haven’t been fixed? | I live in a very small village. The problems are the school, and the street lights. The school barely watches the kid, and has resulted in a few injuries. (A girl I know got hit with a frying pan. She was fine, luckily.) The street lights disrupt the local wildlife, (birds), despite my area being "protected" by the RSP... | 3 |
AskReddit/cb09m6k | 1i2avi | How do I make tuna from scratch? | Wait. you know that tuna is a fish, right? You're basically asking how to create a live animal from scratch. I'm upvoting this because if this isn't a joke, more people need to see this! | 3 |
AskReddit/cf8w4ku | 1x7wsc | If you never had to worry about honey, how would you spend your time? | I dunno. Spend a little more time kickin' it with my pal Christopher Robin. EDIT: My first taste of gold! From the bottom of Pooh's fat little tummy, I thank you! | 3,843 |
AskReddit/csi997i | 3b2s70 | Why after a high profile criminal gets sentenced to death do they have to sometimes wait months or years to be executed? | because the death penalty automaticly triggers a full run of appeals should the person choose to pursue them. That was the only way to pass the death penalty, to avoid killing an innocent person. Obviously, sometimes. guilt is overwhelming. and yet, unless the defendant waives his rights, he can still wind through the ... | 2 |
AskHistorians/cha432o | 24q3ln | Did past (before 1800s) heads of state visit other nations, for whatever reason, like heads of state do today? | Other than as part of a military expedition of conquest it was uncommon, but not unheard of. The example red-team gives below of a crusader king is a good one. The difficulty of travel and the instability of a monarch's grasp on power would have been major deterrents to leaving the home territory prior to the nation-st... | 3 |
AskReddit/dcz6hxp | 5qh70d | What are things that annoy you in movies? | Shaky camera work. Makes me feel like throwing up. Steadicam was invented a long time ago. Quit trying to be "edgy" and use it. Also, how horror movies now have to establish early on that there is no cellphone or no cellphone service. Otherwise Michael Myers would be live broadcast on Facebook and arrested within minut... | 5 |
AskReddit/eo5kgvr | bqleft | What are some things women do that men don’t realise? | Legitimately suffer from periods. they can genuinely cause a woman unbearable physical pain and emotional/mental problems. A lot of men, from my experience, are clueless over such a thing | 3 |
AskReddit/c4mcvt8 | tgb3f | How did people wake up in the mornings on time before the advent of alarm clocks? | There was almost never a reason to wake up at a specific time before the advent of clocks (alarm clocks and clocks were invented simultaneously, probably by a monastery who had a system to make noise for prayers every 12 hours) waking up with the sun or 'eventually' in any given day was fine for almost all purposes. | 6 |
AskReddit/epp7ghi | bvhi28 | Which person in your life's public persona is the most different to their private persona? | In private, I don’t care about who dies. Death is a part of life and there’s no point being sad. In public, I have to give people my condolences when they lose family members or pets. | 2 |
AskHistorians/ccucj02 | 1optua | Why are famous works of art stolen when they can never be sold or displayed? | Not a historian, but you can sell and display stolen work, just not legally. There is a massive black marketing for prized artwork that private collectors will buy. If it's a private collection, like in a private residence, then they can display it. | 8 |
AskReddit/ca0gqno | 1ei5hz | How long do you think the human race will survive and what will be its ultimate demise? | If we can tough it out through the next century, I think we'll do just fine. We'll live in millions of giant space stations the size of small planets and be nearly perfect at converting solar energy into everything we need. Eventually, we'll be so different it would be inaccurate to refer to us as humans, so the human ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cspmqb0 | 3bui69 | What is your "happy" place? | My happy place is my bedroom, as boring as that sounds. I sleep all day and wake up at like 8pm, and there's just something about being awake alone for that long that I love. Like, could sit at my desk and stare at my wall for 9 hours, and there would be no consequences. I love having nothing to do and nowhere to be. | 5 |
AskReddit/d6tefd1 | 4z7aly | What's the best way to quit my job this Friday? | I'm quitting this Friday and need ideas on how to leave the criminal I work for. Hit me. Edit: I can not prove that he is a criminal, it's a theory however it wouldn't be a stretch. He's more of an imbecile and a mongrol who does shady things. | 2 |
AskReddit/d2cnr1j | 4fwszp | Is the term 'reverse racism' and the notation it does not exist used to equivocate? | I think reverse racism is bullshit. It's just racism. I'm Hispanic and if I were to constantly call white people honkies and crackers, I'm just being plain racist, not reverse racist. Everyone can be racist, not just white people. | 11 |
AskReddit/dhbl5ej | 6a460a | What are some cool things to write on bathroom stall walls? | At work-"60000 in student loans, 4 years of education, 10 years experience and I'm spending my time writing this in a dirty bathroom" | 6 |
AskReddit/efz0x88 | ao8mkl | What's the most extensive fantasy world, including films, books, etc? | In terms of in-world scope, I'd have to say Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, which is the setting of Mistborn, Warbreaker, Elantris, and several others. It's a fantasy setting involving numerous distinct magical systems, cultures, and stories with subtle connections between them. In terms of sheer media presence, I'd say p... | 17 |
askscience/cb2docu | 1i976o | Is there a state where water is neither a solid nor a liquid, but something in between? | It is possible to prepare amorphous water. It's quite unstable under laboratory conditions and hard to work with, but it's hypothesized that most of the water in the universe might be in that state. Amorphous materials have no regular crystal structure (so they are not conventional crystalline solids) but they share ma... | 7 |
askscience/c7eyhrk | 14od21 | Would it be possible one day to reach 100% renewable energy? | Reliable, large scale electrical storage. The main problem with renewable energy resources is that, unlike traditional fossil fuels, we can't control them to match energy demand. At the current time, expected power surges to the grid can be controlled through increasing our levels of electricity production. With renewa... | 18 |
explainlikeimfive/cc6xn1f | 1m920r | Why are electronics so cheap? | I'd bet that price is probably subsidized somewhere along the line, probably by the mobile phone carrier. They are willing to have you pay less for the phone so that you will pay them something every month for the service. 15 EU is cheap even for a simple phone, unless it is a used phone. In that case, the price was su... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ev7p2c2 | cin3qn | Why do some floors or steps get eroded by our feet, when roads don't visibly get eroded by tires? | Roads do get eroded by tires eventually (especially if used frequently or by heavy vehicles), you just don't notice it as much since you are traveling over them at high speeds. Roads are repaved due to erosion pretty frequently in some places. Also, your tires erode quicker than the driving surface (I assume because th... | 5 |
AskHistorians/e74hslo | 9l607w | What impact did the Scientific Revolution have on the Enlightenment? | Enlightenment philosophers and figures explicitly based a lot of their worldview around the imagined worldview of the Scientific Revolution — skepticism, transparency, pursuit of objectivity, freedom of communication, rationality, and so on. That these values may have had little to do in practice with their scientific ... | 3 |
AskReddit/cry56w6 | 38v3jd | What is your favorite piece of Video Game Music? | Can't believe no one has mentioned the work of Darren Korb (Bastion, Transistor). His music creates the perfect atmosphere for both games, while being incredibly catchy and enjoyable on its own. | 459 |
AskReddit/ev1g5h3 | ci3qgn | If game developers covered games the way musicians cover songs, which covered video game would you want to play? | Pokemon done by Rockstar games. Imagine a Pokemon game built like GTA V or Red Dead 2. I'd lose my sight from playing that game too much. | 5 |
AskReddit/cm2mn9d | 2mbbjs | What show has the best re-watch value? | South Park for me because I started watching when I was kid and didn't understand how intelligent some of the story lines where and how much the show made fun of whatever people where making a big deal out of at the time. Now that im into it again, I am so much more into it then I was when a kid. | 2 |
AskReddit/erwv1zh | c4iw4b | What religion did you grow up with and how has it changed you? | Both of my parents are Athiests so I had zero religion growing up. I was shamed for not going to church when I was a kid and it made me hate church. I also live in Tennessee, where you were mentally ill if you didn’t believe in god. I got lucky with how my parents viewed religion. | 2 |
AskReddit/cl1tx4d | 2ifsrs | Which actors name immediately puts you off a movie? | Bill Murray. I know Reddit loves him, but I experience his acting as tiring and quite dull. Every roll it seems he puts up the same act as in Ghostbusters. At some point it stopped being funny. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ccmh7q9 | 1nvln1 | How do those batteries tell you how much is left in them when you push the sides with your fingers? | When you push the two places they connect to the + and - of the battery and form a circuit through a resistor. The resistor heats up a different amount depending on how charged the battery is. The display you see is thermochromatic - that is it is driven by the temperature. The more charge in the battery the more heat ... | 5 |
AskReddit/c138or4 | dvjv9 | What do you want on your tombstone? | I told my wife that i would like everyone should have a pizza party and each tell at least one joke, even if it is just a knock-knock joke or a chicken crossing-the-road joke. We had a wake for my Grandmother years ago and by the end of the night we were all taking turns either telling funny stories about her or tellin... | 2 |
AskReddit/e4zt4p9 | 9b1x87 | What job did you do after college/highschool, and what job would you recommend to a college graduate? | BS in Electrical Engineering. Went to work for a power company while I was still in school. It was like a paid internship. I shadowed the engineers and got to see what they did every day. They hired me as a junior engineer right after I graduated. I worked there 10 years. I would recommend the same for any engineer. | 2 |
AskReddit/es4t1co | c5y30d | How easy is it for an idealistic political movement to turn into a dictatorship? | I don't think idealism really has that much to do with it. I believe that it is merely a population's susceptibility to the most basic, standard propaganda. Sure, the Soviets filled the Gulag with kids that stole food because they were hungry on the claim that they were stealing from the state. But right now we have th... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/du6b49h | 7x8o2t | Why do games on the phone limit the number of times you can play in a day? | Those sorts of "games" are built on a pay-to-win system. They limit your amount of playtime, but then offer a "pay to keep playing" system. Take for example the My Little Pony mobile game. My niece absolutely loves it, and I spent some time on my mom's iPad helping her play. To earn the more desirable pony characters o... | 12 |
AskReddit/dl2p6qj | 6r6fcd | What's the trashiest city in your country? | I have seen a lot of trashy cities in the US, but nothing I have seen beats Daytona Beach. Not even the 6 am Hooker cat fights I saw in Reno compare to the whiffs of sleaze that come off Daytona Beach. | 5 |
AskReddit/c2cyj28 | jkviw | What are good specs for a laptop around 600 dollars? | You're going to be better off building a desktop. With only $600 you're basically asking for the holy grail. Only because gaming requires tech that's difficult to cram into a laptop space. Compressing tech is more expensive. But you may want to take a look at the Alienware M11x, but even it starts at $749 on their webs... | 2 |
AskReddit/cjbpl32 | 2c3fq7 | What have you done to rid yourself of unwanted memories? | It would depend on what type of memories and what severity of impact they are having on your life. Barring anything very traumatic that would require the help of a licensed councilor and possibly antidepressant/anti-anxiety medication, I find that prayer is immensely helpful. I don't know if you are religious but I fin... | 2 |
AskReddit/cjnnj90 | 2dag9y | Why do people hate the Toyota Prius? | Back when the Prius first came into existence, it was a solution looking for a problem. Gas prices were fairly low, so the only people who bought it were the forward-looking, and the environmentalists, people who were looking to make a statement. Unfortunately, that manner of statement-making was perceived by the gener... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/e38e4mz | 92u3ue | When USSR disbanded, why didn't countries from which it had taken land take it back? | How would they do that? Those part was considered a part of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that become Russia today. Bassarabia/Moldova was Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. The split of USSR resulted in that the 15 Soviet Socialist Republic that was in a way considered independent left the union and b... | 6 |
AskReddit/eif7n8g | b0ktvz | What are some things you do to help you fall asleep when you can't sleep? | I have a nsfw method and a sfw method. ​ Fapping is obviously the nsfw method but also the last resort. If I had a choice I would try to think about the day or past events which have irked me while trying to sleep instead. Contrary to popular belief, its easier to fall asleep while thinking about something inste... | 3 |
askscience/cog5qay | 2vb71x | Why do they stop space launch countdowns? | Everything must go as close to perfect as it can. There is a T clock - T for test, where everything is checked against a list and the T clock has built in holds for double checks, confirmations and go/no-go decisions. The L clock - L for launch, is the time remaining before the scheduled launch. Because of orbital mech... | 64 |
explainlikeimfive/cni1h7n | 2rpgb9 | How does whisky heal a mouth ulcer? | A mouth ulcer is just a small cut or abrasian. It has trouble healing because saliva dissolves away blood before it can scab over and your mouth is absolutely filthy. The alcohol in whiskey kills the bacteria and disinfects the wound. Pro tip-if you have one of these put a small amount of hydrogen peroxide on a q-tip a... | 2 |
AskReddit/d9uwx22 | 5cadph | What is the disadvantage of social media ? | Everything can spread like wildfire. Be it a good thing or a bad thing. It can make a person famous or ruin someone's life forever. Ken Bone is a good example. He rose to fame due to social media and then after his reddit ama some of his comments misinterpreted and then those spread all over the Internet. | 2 |
AskReddit/c30i3dt | mfldd | Are USA high schools like they are in media? | Not quite. There is a bit of "groups" such as jocks and nerds, but it's not as. cult like and exclusive. And also, high schools here are much more crowded than in the movies with the exceptions of private schools and small towns. | 6 |
AskReddit/c061gp6 | 79isk | Can you, Reddit, identify a book for me? | if we're asking for people to identify books i got one. it's about 20 years or so old I'd guess and and i read it maybe 10 years ago. It's a sf story about a guy from human non-earth government who comes to earth to overthrow the government. it's not action story, more of an. "economic thriller" as it were. He hooks up... | 7 |
AskReddit/ee6mcu2 | agj70i | To those who had lost a great friendship, what happened? | My friend was my neighbor growing up. we were always super close. High school we got into different groups of friends; she started using drugs and getting involved in things I wanted nothing to do with. Our first year of college we spent a lot of time together but she didn’t take her school work as seriously, lost her ... | 2 |
AskReddit/et6d7od | ca5ywl | What documentary is so scary or surreal that it made you think 'this CAN NOT be real' ? | "Mommy Dead and Dearest" the true tale of a saintly mother Dee Dee who took care of her ailing daughter Gypsy's every need until Dee Dee turned up stabbed to death and people found out she had made up daughter Gypsy's numerous illnesses, including epilepsy, paralysis, and leukemia. It was Gypsy who planned the murder | 88 |
AskReddit/dci1sme | 5obnpp | What's the best purchase you've made that you had to dip into your savings for? | "best" is hugely subjective. "Best" as in "best return on the money"? "Best" as in "wisest"? Or "best" as in "No regrets, this is awesome!" My "no regrets" best is my Guzzi. "Wisest" would probably be my automobile. I got it for half market value, and it's the best vehicle I've ever owned. | 2 |
AskReddit/e11m6yl | 8sr88l | What screams "I'm terrible with money"? | Filling your giant swimming pool up then being unable to pay the water bill, resulting in your water being shut off for months, forcing you to use the pool water for your water needs. As in flushing the toilet, cooking, drinking etc. Until the health dept catches wind of it and has your kids taken. Then you go around t... | 24,043 |
AskHistorians/cpipynm | 2zge8n | Where dies the "Captain goes down with the ship" thing come from? | This answer will violate subs rules, but my response is based on years of studying naval tactics, battles, etc. A ship captain was in total command of his ship, he was responsible for literally everything, the crew, the ship, the provisions, the training, the sailing, the navigation. Everything. So, if something went w... | 8 |
AskHistorians/c7ppmtc | 15t2up | When did my level of knowledge become common? | Your level is what anyone who graduated from a a public school system should have. For America public schools started in the 19th and grew to encompass universal education for all children. Before that it was who could afford the education, either with teachers, tutors, self educated or smaller community based public e... | 7 |
AskReddit/dlzuhkz | 6vfid9 | What's your worst experience with a smelly person? | 45 min shuttle ride, sat behind a guy that had the worst and strangest BO. This was the morning shuttle into work too, not the afternoon post work shuttle. It was a combination of old man moth smell, sweaty BO, and something else all mixed into one smell. I had to breathe into my sweatshirt sleeve to survive. | 2 |
askscience/c4nilbc | tl0uk | How do lightning decide what the quickest way to the ground is? | The strike actually travels UP from the ground to the cloud - the electron flow goes as high as it can, as easily as it can (ie path of least resistance = up that pole) before jumping the air gap and producing a visible strike. We just think it goes from top to bottom because the sky is where the thunder cloud is. Situ... | 8 |
AskReddit/d2scxqb | 4hubab | What is the strangest role you've had in your dreams? | While I was in highschool I had a dream in which I wanted to join a gang. The gang I wanted to join had an agreement with their rival gang that when both had a candidate to join they would meet on a field. Each candidate would be left on the field with a gun and a car to hide behind. Whichever candidate was left alive ... | 2 |
AskReddit/e936imr | 9ucdgj | What are some of the biggest mistakes people can make in their 20s? | Going to college and not taking your grades and GPA seriously. Can absolutely ruin your future and ability to earn well and it can leave you in a ton of debt. I want to say getting married.but it's so subjective. I have seen people get married in early or mid 20s and they're still great. I have also seen them fail. It ... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cz4o88l | 41rxy8 | When working in a loud environment, am I getting "used" to the loud noises around me or is it my hearing deteriorating? | A bit of both. The primary effect you'll observe is getting used to the noise--you tune it out. But routine and long-term exposure to a loud environment can cause hearing damage, even when short exposure to the same volume would not. | 2 |
AskReddit/d13xgqw | 4avrls | What is something that looks disgusting but tastes amazing? | There's an Indian stew I can't for the life of me remember the name of. It might even be a curry. It has beef or chicken in, I prefer it with beef. It looks like a monkey has been sick everywhere, garnished with little leaves on top. Looks putrid, smells completely divine and tastes even better. | 3 |
AskReddit/d6ykofs | 4zt5mb | What do you wish for when you see a shooting star or blow out the candles? | If it's a shooting star, I don't make any wishes. I just feel a little bit warm, knowing that even though it's a cold and dark and quiet night, there's probably someone else that saw that very same shooting star and for that briefest of moments we had a connection. If I'm blowing out candles though, I'm just hoping at ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cpyt3a7 | 316ofx | Why do advertisers & marketing people believe it's a good strategy to make ads that are deliberately annoying, and to run them several times in a row during a commercial break? | We are all familiar with those ads on television that just scream at us to switch them off. They are just so excruciating that you can’t bear to watch them. Afterwards you ask, why did a company make such a downright irritating ad? What possible benefit can accrue to them from actively irritating their potential custom... | 23 |
AskReddit/dkxwj4b | 6qk21o | What's the thing that makes you smile during the hard days? | Hearing my boyfriends son (4yo) calling 'Hey Dad!' whenever he wants to show him something. We've been through a lot to establish contact between those two so seeing them having a chance at a normal, healthy relationship puts a smile on my face every day! | 2 |
AskReddit/co70ln9 | 2ublmv | What should parents never ever tell their children? | My parents are divorced, and the one always used to tell us about the other one's mistakes and faults from way back - and exaggerated/twisted them. We were little and it was to get us on "their side". In the end, it did the opposite and I've gotten closer with the other parent because they explained everything and were... | 7 |
AskReddit/e5bv7ll | 9cnctt | Who is your favorite Stephen King character and why? | Annie Wilkes. She is a complex and interesting character. She is a psycho, and is like a child stuck in an adult's body. The phrases she uses are very child-like. There is also a good amount of info on her background which you sometimes don't get with King's characters. | 2 |
AskReddit/dkqi8um | 6pmk5v | What is that one piece of advice you would have for someone struggling to find a job? | Make finding and applying your job. Until somebody starts paying you, you are employing yourself. CV revisions, typing out applications, thinking outside the box when it comes to job searching. Even working on your budget and meal planning to keep within your means can lead to great things down the line. | 2 |
AskReddit/cc9vxjp | 1mjlpk | What is something most people consider scams but are actually legitimate? | Life insurance. I sell it. Unfortunately there were products in the past that hurt the reputation. Usually it's the older people that remember the 80's universal life products that hold the disdain for life insurance. But, when life insurance is used properly. Well. Handing a cheque to a widow for 500,000 to pay off th... | 4 |
AskReddit/ckezn44 | 2g2ezx | What job have you worked where you basically get paid to do nothing? | Not an office job per se, but my current job (from where I am posting this), is in a chemistry lab for a cosmetics and personal care company. The company has refined the production processes to the point where it is very rare that anything is made out of specification. My job is to make sure things are good before we s... | 2 |
AskReddit/esg7pkm | c7m8fg | What are some books couples can enjoy reading together? | Honestly, my husband and I read a children's book to our son together every night. Half of the time our son falls asleep by the first page but we keep reading the book to each other even if he's asleep. Hilarity often ensues because we are grown adults making silly voices for characters in a silly children's story. If ... | 2 |
AskReddit/ejh2wgq | b5zusa | Which of your posts are you most proud of? | I was pretty proud of this comment on an ask reddit where someone asked about what subtle thing about a woman is really attractive. I said "their ankles, this post was brought to you by Syria Gang." I got a lot of upvotes, but it was so stupid and I loved it. | 2 |
AskReddit/ct6uqym | 3dnhby | Is there any way to stop binge eating ? | Instead of eating less each day, spread your food out throughout the day. Make sure you eat breakfast! And after that eat 4 or 5 smaller meals throughout the day. Make sure each of your meals and snacks have protein, natural fat (like whats in peanuts or almonds) and carbs. This gives your body some immediate energy as... | 2 |
AskReddit/emc6e0s | bjxg6d | What movie shouldn't be a movie? | Not hating on the movies at all (I love them), but I would have loved to see all Avengers movies played out into a 5 season long series where you see everything happen in a sequential order. Think GOT but Avengers style. | 3 |
askscience/c4a28gn | s0a1b | How far ahead in the future can we (accurately) predict the weather? | Weather systems tend to be chaotic (Complexity Theory). This means that there may be sensitive dependence on initial conditions. At other times it means the system will behave in a predictable fashion for a period of time and even fairly hefty nudges won't make much difference. When modelling weather one approach is to... | 10 |
explainlikeimfive/cm4mwq2 | 2mis6f | What happens if the earth stopped spinning? | Everything would immediately be thrown that way at around 1,500 miles per hour. This includes people, cars, a shitload of rocks, and maybe even some buildings. I'd say skyscrapers will probably fall. A day would be the same length as a year. As the Earth is no longer spinning, the only way the Sun repositions itself in... | 2 |
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