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explainlikeimfive/cn0i72a | 2pv6hz | Why do humans "get songs stuck in our heads"? | Everyone has levels of OCD. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is just how they classify higher or debilitating levels of obsessive behavior. When songs get stuck in our heads it could be subconscious or conscious and it's either because the pattern is pleasant or unusual. People are remarkable with patterns, it's one of ou... | 2 |
AskReddit/cg8s1i1 | 211gxd | How have you made a rude person's day worse? | Well, by making them seem like a rude person. Under the right circumstances, if you're able to maintain politeness throughout their rants towards you, others will see their value as abysmal. If the situation calls for it, retort with a witty remark or do whatever helps you. | 3 |
AskReddit/eydizof | cwpam2 | What’s the best way you’ve been asked out on a date or that best way you’ve asked someone else on a date? | Well no one really asked the other out, just watching Transformers 1 with the rest of our friends at a friend's house. while having a giant sleepover and then the rest of went to bed while me and my ex stayed up and watched Transformers 2 and then we started dating afterwards. | 2 |
AskReddit/e76re8h | 9lhly8 | What was the funniest thing that happened while you were taking a standardized test? | Took the SAT in a room of two hundred people. The first article was about the science of yawning and actually had the audacity to inform us testers that "sometimes even reading the word yawn can trigger one". It all happened so fast. One person yawned and it caused a domino effect. We must have collectively spent 15 mi... | 3 |
AskReddit/e4h7lqt | 98lbww | Why are textbooks so costly in the United States? | Textbook costs are included in ones loans. One is naturally going to use their loans to cover them, because that's kind of the point of them. That means that a lot of money is available among consumers of a quite high demand product (I mean, it's often a compulsory one). The consumer has to pay eventually, but it initi... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/c9s5nr6 | 1dnuzl | Why does a reboot make my computer so much better? | It's like mowing your lawn. Your ground (operating system) has grass (programs) on it and that's called a lawn. As you leave your lawn uncut (leave your computer running), the grass grows(programs take up more space). Other grass is blocked from growing because your lawn is running out of space. So when you reboot (mow... | 3 |
AskReddit/e2myzno | 900jll | What's the most frustrating argument you've ever gotten into? | To quote my comment on another post of less than an hour ago (with some additions): "We had a test for English (I'm Dutch) in high school. There was this article about some trucker that looked at his phone and consequently rammed a car, killing a girl. The question asked was: "what is the sequence of actions that lead ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cdlcfb8 | 1ray7h | What is the difference between delusions and hallucinations? | A hallucination is a sensory thing. You can see, hear, feel or I suppose taste something that's not actually there or the direct result of a stimulus on a sense organ like the eyes, ears, etc. A delusion is a belief that clearly disconnects with reality. If I think that the KGB has tapped my phone because I see people ... | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/ceg7adj | 1uaut0 | Why are we told to remain calm in life threatening situations when evolution and our bodies have developed a fight or flight response? | Because in fight or flight you make very quick rash decisions and it can cause problems. And when you get a group of people all panicking at the same time making bad decisions to only help themselves it becomes chaos quickly and anyone trying to give orders has a really hard job. It is much more effective and efficient... | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/cmusn7l | 2pa5e1 | How do cemeteries make money once they've sold off all their plots? | Cemeteries are very inexpensive to run, but have a high up front cost to purchasers. I bet most cemeteries run off of the interest earned of the sale of burial plots so they can run indefinitely. | 14 |
AskReddit/c0l52iq | b633k | Is going back to school worth it? | Going back to school is indeed worth it. It shows you finish what you have started. In fact dropping out of college is worse than if you had never enrolled. An education is something no one can take away from you so go for it. Turn this "job" into a career once you have your degree. | 2 |
AskReddit/dgsk03r | 67r39a | What's something you witnessed or experienced when you were young that your parents don't believe? | The shadow man. It was this figure that would show up as a shadow on the wall, about the size of a regular adult. I saw and my siblings did but never my parents. It was insane because we all saw the exact same silhouette. Described it identically. | 2 |
AskReddit/docuozt | 76c9v7 | What is the most profound line in a song that you've heard? | Not sure if it's the most profound, but I've always loved the line in the Pearl Jam Song 'Push Me/Pull Me', that goes "I'm like an opening band for the sun". It holds a lot of meaning, even though it's quite a simple image. | 2 |
AskReddit/cgb02c4 | 219wk8 | Have you lied to get a job? | LOL Everyone lies to get a job. You have to lie on some questions. For instance: "What do you like most about working with customers?" "Oh, I love giving them a positive experience and building a trusting relationship with them. They know that they can trust me to do my best to do right by them." I hate working with th... | 3 |
AskReddit/cbz6g0q | 1lh68c | How is one way you saved a life? | I was sitting at home one night watching tv when I heard this soft squealing noise outside. I didn't think much of it because we do get a lot of animals near our house, but after a few hours, the squealing didn't stop so I went out to investigate. Turns out it was an abandoned baby squirrel lying out in the open grass.... | 2 |
AskReddit/d8uyebe | 57u660 | What is the process like to move across the country to a state you've never lived in before? | I think it goes. Move. Accumulate proof of residence through bills and such. Then take those to the DMV and get a new driver license / state ID. Then make sure to change all of your accounts and such. Done? | 10 |
AskReddit/ebla4ez | a5bf37 | How does the Samsung Health app measure your heart rate with the flash? | It uses an LED to emit light on your finger and a sensor that can measure the amount of light being reflected back to it. Every time your heart beats, it slightly changes the way the light is reflected from your finger. | 2 |
AskReddit/ec6kl90 | a7yead | What is the worst country you have visited and why? | Jamaica. The entire country is one big drug dealer in the worst kinds of ways. If you visit ANY area where tourists might be, you will be constantly accosted by drug dealers trying to pull you literally into the alley with 5-6 of their friends. Lots of strangers will try to steal your things if you leave them unattende... | 5 |
askscience/coymj7g | 2xbbi3 | How come some celestial bodies, such as Ceres or our own moon, are covered in very large craters from impacts, but the earth seemingly isn't? | Erosion and tectonics - weather wears down the edges of craters, fills them in; the plates of crust move about, collide, slide under and over one another, thus hiding the older evidence of impacts which must have occurred. | 8 |
AskReddit/dpaux1h | 7al6jv | In your lifetime, What piece of technology blew your mind the most? | I remember the first home video cameras. Being able to film yourselves then moments later seeing yourself on your own television screen. We had seen Super 8 movies around, but that required an expensive camera with film that needed to be developed and needed to have special equipment to display. It's hard to convey how... | 2 |
AskReddit/ej96uym | b4tr02 | What movie do today’s teens need to watch that came out before their time? | The Princess Bride. The ultimate romance, comedy, action, adventure movie. My dad wanted me to watch it so badly for so long, but I thought it would be lame because it was “old”. It’s just proof that some comedy is absolutely timeless. | 1,836 |
explainlikeimfive/ckaoiw5 | 2fml42 | When it comes to spy-world - counterintelligence vs intelligence? | Well, spying/intelligence is basically the act of getting information, typically by a covert ops unit acting on behalf of a nation-state, in order to provide some competitive advantage. This can also happen between large corporations (see: corporate espionage) Counter-intelligence is the term for a set of tactics to re... | 2 |
AskReddit/cw2ok1a | 3p2un4 | What are the best songs for a college party? | Spotify is your friend here! It has a bunch of playlists and things for all sorts of different moods and they're all cross genre for the most part. There's one that's literally "Back2College" and while it doesn't have 150 songs its got plenty and has a particularly good mix of modern stuff with some throwbacks as well.... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ebpqf1j | a5w57y | What does "Stream" mean in Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)? | In 'internet-terms' stream generally refers to a real-time data transfer, typically of video and/or audio content. The big difference between stream content and other content is that since stream content is generally intended to be watched in real-time, it's more important that the data packets arrive in order, and if ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cfauehu | 1xfdnd | What two things surprisingly cost the same? | I don't read newspapers, but I find it amazing how they cost the same amount as a can of coke. The amount of work that goes into one versus the other is amazing. EDIT: I understand the prices are warranted, otherwise they wouldn't be the prices they are. I'm just saying that on the face of things, one seems like a tin ... | 1,196 |
AskReddit/eqvmmxk | bzradq | What is something you see other people doing with ease that you just have not got the hang of yet? | Operating their body like a proper human. I don’t even understand what I’m doing wrong but it feels like every single physical move I make is awkward. I’m clumsy, I drop things often and running into doorframes happens more than I’d like to admit. I work at a clothing store and when people check out I have to remove ha... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0fhu5g | a24cf | How much total disk space do you have in your computer? | Two 500gb internal SATA drives. Two 1tb SATA drives external via USB docks. Three external 500gb drives via USB. One 80gb SATA drive via USB dock. Handful of 120, 200, and 300gb PATA drives.let's say 750gb total, rounded number. Total Storage: roughly 5.4tb Plus 80+500+500gb in my home server, 1.08tb total there. Most ... | 2 |
askscience/elke4tu | bg44zf | If someone with a highly infectious disease (like Measles) walks into a doctor's office, what does the office have to do to keep others safe? | If measles is suspected, the patient would be isolated and tested. They would probably have to be moved to a hospital. Airborne precautions are required for measles so the patient would wear a mask when not in isolation and would be kept in a negative-pressure room, healthcare workers would wear a respirator while in t... | 5 |
AskHistorians/c4ihctx | t07im | Is there any evidence for ancient civilisations having huge mechanical contraptions and puzzles in tombs and crypts etc., as seen in games like Uncharted or Tombraider? | The Egyptians had decoy tombs and dead end corridors, that, combined with the fact that stone and caves are prime real estate for snakes, scorpions, and spiders probably gave rise to the advent of Indiana Jones-esque "Pits of snakes" booby tracks. | 14 |
AskReddit/d92skws | 58rvgk | What's the stupidest thing you've ever bought? | I bought a Bug-A-Salt gun for like $45 to kill flys. It looks like a big Nerf gun and shoots a pinch of table salt out like a shotgun blast that kills flys from about 3 feet away. I bought it just because I thought it would be fun to play around with. Flash forward a few years and I'd never want to not own one. My kids... | 3 |
AskReddit/ca6z5v5 | 1f5edd | What's the stupidest thing you said when drunk? | Friend and I were so drunk that we rolled a joint, neglecting to clean out the seeds & stems. Needless to say our joint was in need of help so as drunk teenagers we walked into the Center for Joint Diseases and asked them to help us by laying our sad joint on the desk and saying, "Please, help us ma'am our joint is dis... | 7 |
AskReddit/d2amnwg | 4foo5j | Which is an interesting civilization from history and why? | Each civilization is interesting in its own right (and ours is arguably the most interesting) but I am personally fascinated by pre-columbian American civilization. I recently finished reading 1491 by Charles C. Mann in which he discusses and questions the narrative of Native American history. There is much we don't kn... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c64th1j | zhg12 | Why does Mac use cmd for ctrl, and opt for alt? | Arguably, the question should be asked in reverse: The Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V/etc shortcuts originated in the Xerox PARC prototypes for graphical user interfaces, which Apple adopted at the time they made the original Mac OS. Now, I don't know whether Apple was actually thinking this when they changed it to Cmd-<something> inst... | 3 |
AskReddit/cuwepbe | 3kcg0l | Why do people commit suicide? | Well, there are a lot of reasons. Its a hard question to answer, as well. . You can't get many opinions from those who were successful. That being said, many people struggle with depression and suicidal tendencies. One largely looked at statistic is why do intellectual people tend to commit suicide more often?. This is... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dd13ous | 5qoba0 | Is the sound we hear when we speak how we actually sound? | Your voice as you hear it when you speak is heavily affected by internal sound waves traveling through your flesh and bones directly to your ears, mixed together with the sound of your voice that travels from your mouth to your ears through the air around you. Because of this, it sounds like your voice is deeper than i... | 5 |
AskReddit/ce1u964 | 1sw859 | What is that "ticklish" feeling in my legs when i COMPLETELY relax my muscles? | I have no idea, but I want to know as well. I remember discovering that when I was a little kid, and was trying to concentrate really, really hard to see if I had super mind powers and could teleport like in some kid's show I'd seen on Nickelodeon. I mean, I didn't really believe stuff like that, but in the interest of... | 3 |
AskReddit/e5z6jt5 | 9ftzhy | Did we ever find out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie-Roll pop? | One. You just spin the pop against your tongue creating an infinite lick. I did this when I was like 10 and thought I was clever as heck; now that I'm an adult I realize that answer probably wasn't in the spirit of the question. | 12 |
AskReddit/ee8qjrw | agsl6q | What is your deep, dark family secret? | This is a new dark family secret. Through a DNA kit we recently found out that my great-grandfather, the father of my maternal grandmother, was never actually her father. Her true father, and my biological relative, was a different man that lived in her neighborhood. He would have just been a 19-year-old young man when... | 4 |
AskReddit/cwp770p | 3rlr68 | What's the worst lie you've told a child? | I used to volunteer for a science outreach group and I was in charge of the liquid nitrogen station, which kids flocked to on the regular. One kid particularly irked me a lot that night, so when he asked me what would happen if he stuck his entire hand in the liquid nitrogen, I told him it would freeze, fall off and th... | 3 |
AskReddit/e2qdi7w | 90h3h2 | What was a song you heard that you first thought meant something completely different than what it actually means? | That Smell by Lynyrd Skynyrd. The young innocent me thought this was a hilarious song about farts. The only part of the song I understood was, "ooooh that smell, can't you smell that smell?" So maybe you can see how a child could think it was farts and not realize it is actually about drug and alcohol abuse and the sme... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cpytuuu | 316slb | What language are the cops speaking in The Bridge to each other, and does it change? | In The Bridge the police investigators are from Copenhagen and Malmö, and since these two regions are so close to each other, the people there tend to have an even better understanding of both languages.Swedish and Danish (and Norwegian) are all quite similar languages, and as long as they are spoken slowly and clearly... | 5 |
askscience/coj970l | 2vl9c6 | Does copper provide health benefits when worn as those commercials lead people to believe? | To the best of my knowledge, there is no evidence whatsoever of any of these effects. The element is a required micronutrient, and copper deficiency is a known problem (in both genetically linked and nongenetic forms), but the people selling you bracelets and copper-infused shirts are not adding it to your diet. They'r... | 6 |
AskReddit/e4ln1fx | 995b6v | What word looks wrong when spelled correctly? | Weird. I saw my five-year-old son had written this word (correctly) in his school book and the teacher had crossed it out and corrected it to 'wierd'. I told him he was right and the teacher was wrong, hopefully instilling in him a healthy mistrust for know-it-all authority figures. like me. oh. | 138 |
AskReddit/ddv2dit | 5umawj | Do you think there should be an Askredditpolitics, so this sub isn't constantly bombarded with political questions? | Personally, No. There's not tons of AskReddit posts solely about politics/political opinions, and I feel like an AskRedditPolitics would just become a polluted are full of super polarized people responding to super polarized questions. | 12 |
AskReddit/dcefzd9 | 5nt321 | What's a prediction you would make about Trump? | I think he's actually going to find that he hates being president. Not nearly as much fun as he imagined it to be. I do not think he's going to bring jobs back to coal country. I do not think he's going to force Apple to make iPhones in the US. And I do not think there's going to be a "big, beautiful wall", either. He'... | 2 |
AskReddit/c1aedfc | erpsf | Is it cheating to listen to a book on tape and then say that you've read it? | I listen to as many books as I read. After 50+ years I don't think there is any difference. Some people are more visual than others as well as being tactilely focused. To them the experience of holding text before their eyes increases the impact. Others have a keen sense of hearing and enjoy the nuance of a narrator. T... | 2 |
AskReddit/ciwkf7w | 2am9wd | What's the worst thing that has happened in the outside world while you were in a movie theater? | I watched two movies in a row (it was a sort-of reunion thing with some high school friends) and only after getting out of the second movie did we find out the Boston Marathon bombing had happened about 3 hours earlier. | 2 |
AskReddit/d7jzezf | 52g5sz | What movie scene is so satisfying that you just have to watch it over and over again? | Theoden's speech to the Rohirrim as they prepare to charge into a horde of orcs currently assaulting Minas Tirith. I can listen to his speech and watch the charge scene a million times and never get tired of it. | 2 |
askscience/c3gn27z | oeqcq | Is there a proven way to prevent chapped lips? | Well it depends on why they are becoming chapped. For example if you are going to become dehydrated/malnourished you should drink some water/eat something before becoming so and if you are planning on sailing accross the carribean in a raft sunscreen would be a good idea (yes on your lips). As for the most common cause... | 3 |
AskReddit/e67jc5n | 9gxigs | What's the worst movie you'd watch a 24-hour marathon of for $1 million? | Nothing is the worst when you have a chance at winning a million. I will literally sit in a dark room with someone saying the word moist over and over again with sound effects of someone smacking there lips with saliva. | 4 |
AskReddit/em1p5it | binfd4 | What is your funniest drunk story? | My friend and I found a tire while walking home drunk once. At first we slung it over our shoulders and then we decided to roll it and walk it like a dog. Eventually we were giggling laughing having such a good time slapping this tire to get it to roll that we ended up sprinting alongside it until we couldn’t keep up …... | 2 |
AskReddit/cac8mwr | 1fofi1 | What is something you did as a kid that could have killed you, but you were too young to realize? | Not killed but severly hurt: When I was 5 my mom read an animal encyclopedia to me and an entire page was dedicated to a caterpillar so I remembered the way it looked very well. Skip to a few weeks later and we are at a restaurant and I run off because I was bored. After running through some trees or whatever I find th... | 156 |
AskReddit/c82mtpv | 176flk | What makes bacon and eggs breakfast food? | Historic breakfast foods were designed to power half or more of the working day, especially on a farm. Eggs are an easily renewable resource on a farm and pigs are less valuable than the other animals and nearly solely used for meat no matter what. You'll need a lot of protein and energy (either bacon fat or maybe a hu... | 11 |
AskHistorians/ciaop4a | 28gbg9 | Why didn't Sri Lanka become part of India? | Sri Lanka was a separate crown colony from the British Raj since the end of the 18th century. Sri Lanka and Burma became seperately independent from India because they had become separate colonies. | 59 |
AskReddit/dj436qd | 6i7new | What embarrassing event do you replay in your brain while you lay in bed, and get embarrassed all over again just from the thought? | I wanted to get out of my shell in high school, so I joined a drama production. I was too shy to be on stage, so the wonderful drama teacher (Mr. Reid, I'll always remember you and your drunken awesomeness) put me in the tech booth instead. So here was a totally socially inept 15 year old girl thrown in a small room wi... | 2 |
AskReddit/eon2w5f | bsgjfn | What was the worst senior prank your high school pulled? | There was supposed to be a classwide prank meant for all the seniors to have silly string and let loose around the school immedietly after the bell for 4th period rang. About 5 people followed through, and they were all suspended. I'm not sure whether or not they walked at graduation. EDIT: Grammar | 3 |
AskReddit/cp1clak | 2xma94 | What two songs are complete opposites of each other? | The more interesting question is what two good songs are the complete opposites of each other. I'll give a more general (albeit very dated) answer: I think Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails are inverses of each other. | 3 |
AskReddit/edkr8eg | adwshq | What would be the side effects to changing the week to 5 days in length? | Moses B. Cotsworth worked the books for the British railway, and the wonky, weirdly divided Gregorian calendar was making his job difficult. In 1902, Cotsworth presented a design for a calendar of 13 months where every month was exactly 28 days. No more, no less. Four perfect weeks. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e80bmdi | 9pawjd | Why is it bad to use flash photography around art / artifacts? | I would imagine it’s the same reason why cellphones cause airplanes to crash and gas tanks to blow up. They don’t. They just want people to pay attention to what they are doing instead of taking photos. Also flashes are super annoying. Could you imagine trying to enjoy a painting in a dimly lit room and suddenly 30 bri... | 43 |
AskReddit/ed6uh09 | accco7 | What song resonates with you most at your current age? | I was just thinking there aren’t very many positive songs about being in your late 20s. Like 23 you have What’s My Age Again and the ilk, plenty teens, etc. So any that reference your current age and how it resonates, or just songs that you really like right now. | 2 |
AskReddit/dzq95t1 | 8msdq0 | What are common signs that you’re in a rough neighbourhood? | This isn’t common but I’m telling you anyway. Lol. Was in a rough area of Geelong (Victoria, Australia) last December. Someone had badly spray painted (in black) eerie warped Christmas images/decorations across the front of their crackhouse. It looked like someone had done it mid psychotic break. First time in my life ... | 2 |
askscience/c8df761 | 188cf8 | Why does our taste of food change as we grow older? | Tasting ability declines with age due to the thinning of the mucous membranes and a reduction in the number and sensitivity of taste buds. We begin life with more than 10,000 taste buds, but that number begins declining dramatically by age 50. Additionally, the number of olfactory receptor cells declines with age and t... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ce1m9p3 | 1sv4gb | How do people add colour so accurately to black and white photos? | Most black and white photography is somewhat gray scaled. With enough experience, once can predict the colors based on the pattern and gray scale, relative to its surroundings and application of every day life. You know certain flowers bloom a certain color,so that could be a starting point. And there are a few differe... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d7j5252 | 52a1yj | When would a doctor use stitches, and when would he use staples? | Not a doctor but I've had both because of a dangerous hobby (RC helicopters) Staples tend to be weaker and more temporary than stitches. I keep a surgical staple gun in my kit when I fly so if I had to I could patch myself up enough to make it to a hospital. The staples can and do pop off because they only pinch themse... | 3 |
AskReddit/djjez2t | 6k56n3 | What's at the center of the universe? | There is no center to the Universe. Basically, according to today's views of cosmology, the Universe is continuously expanding due to the event of, or what is theorized as, the "Big Bang Theory". Since everything in the Universe was created by this event and it is constantly changing shape and getting larger, we can as... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ex2g30q | cr7jx6 | How are mobile devices powerful enough to send data? | First, the cell towers have a pretty big receiving antenna themselves. Even if your cell phone sends out a relatively weak signal, the cell tower can collect a lot of that signal. Second, your cell phone sends that information on a very narrow frequency band. Cell towers have electronic devices called filters that take... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/ctrhd5p | 3fsao2 | How would an increase in the federal minimum wage affect the economy? | An increase in the minimum wage stimulates spending for that part of the economy most affected by low wage earners. Landlords, grocery stores, gas stations, and the like would see a boost in their cash flow. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cfk6egq | 1yg1hw | Why is it "bad" to have milk or dairy products when you are sick? | tl;dr: This is just a myth. Have some milk. Here is an explanation by an expert: Robert H. Shmerling, M.D. is associate physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He has been a practicing rheumatologist for over 20 years at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. ... | 7 |
AskReddit/djrom8t | 6l7ohy | In honor of July 4th, what is your favorite thing about the USA? | I love that each State is so unique and has something special for people to see and experience. On the east coast, you can visit the beaches and see the Atlantic Ocean On the west coast, you can visit the beaches and see the Pacific Ocean. If beaches are not your thing, we have several beautiful mountain ranges scatter... | 2 |
AskReddit/e6hs4og | 9i98jr | What item have you bought that you think you were ripped off the most? | Went to the movies the other night and bought three adult tickets. The price was $26, but my wife insisted we get a medium popcorn, two medium Cokes, and one order of nachos for our daughter. I didn't want to do this, but the movie was a peace offering for a previous argument, so I agreed. Bam! $39. | 2 |
askscience/ckmnona | 2gudor | Does the Quantum Uncertainty Principle and the CPT symmetry mean that the past is also uncertain? | CPT symmetry says that the laws of physics are almost symmetric in time. For everyday events you might as well call it symmetric. Our direction of time is given by the fact that the past had very low entropy. Some interpretations of quantum mechanics give an additional direction of time by the measurement postulate (li... | 9 |
AskReddit/dhi2mx9 | 6awzlm | Have you ever been mistaken for a celebrity, if so what did you do? | I was mistaken as an writer once. One day I was at a bank and people were approaching me for selfie. I was very nervous because I knew that I was mistaken for the writer. I let them take selfie. I went home and searched for the tagged pictures of the writer in Instagram and saw myself in around 5-6 photos. "Felt like a... | 2 |
AskReddit/cvk7s0o | 3n1yeh | What is the greatest lie? | What is the greatest lie every created? What is the most vicious obscenity ever perpetrated on mankind? Slavery? The Holocaust? Dictatorship? No. It's the tool with which all that wickedness is built: altruism. Whenever anyone wants others to do their work, they call upon their altruism. "Never mind your own needs", th... | 2 |
AskReddit/cth6glx | 3epm8u | What are some great conservative documentaries? | Ken Burn's documentary on the Civil War certainly doesn't tout the myth of the Lost Cause, but several of the commentators mention key aspects of it and go unchallenged. The Lost Cause is a favorite among many conservatives. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dsimlz1 | 7pny3o | How can law enforcement know that a specific gun has been used in a crime? | If you're talking about the specific evidence used to tie a crime to an individual firearm, that's a matter of forensic evidence like the marks left on the projectile by the lands/grooves in the barrel, or the firing pin indent on the primer in the casing. Many police departments will maintain databases of such informa... | 5 |
AskReddit/d1ypbqp | 4ebphp | What show had you hooked right off the pilot episode? | In The Flesh. I'm not a big zombie person, but the whole premise of the rising and partial dead syndrome had me hooked. It wasn't TWD type of show where they simply portrayed the zombies as enemies, while some people did in fact treat them as enemies you also had the government giving them medication to function as a a... | 6 |
AskReddit/dm4w20e | 6w2pdr | What's the funniest/craziest thing you've ever seen in Walmart? | Since I live in Florida I've seen many weird things. People using their speakers to blast Lil Pump while shouting, "THAT HEADASS JIT GOT HEAD JIT!" meaning, "my stupid friend has received head before me." In a public parking lot. An example of the weird in this state. I was waiting outside the theater for the Emoji Mov... | 4 |
AskReddit/dtgnap5 | 7tyjp4 | What would be some "Ask Reddit" questions from the year 1985? | Americans of Reddit, how high up on the Soviet's list of cities to nuke is yours? So here's the thing. In the 80's, when I was in sixth grade, I heard on the playground from other kids that we were #16 on the list of targets when the Soviet Union launched their nukes. Sixteen. That number stuck with me because it wasn'... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ctpji57 | 3fkqm1 | How do humans actually learn to talk? | Hi, I'm a linguist. This is the million-dollar question. The best we've got so far is this: language is natural to human beings. Every human being has a capacity for language. There are particular places in our brain dedicated to it, and every human culture has it. You do not learn language like you learn to read or le... | 7 |
AskReddit/c8lpjhl | 197z6a | What is something you hate that people do, but are guilty of doing it yourself? | Not text back. Sometimes I dont see the message until later when a response would just be a waste of time and money for both parties so I just dont text back but I hate when people dont text me back when I do text. I like calling a lot better it gets right to the point. | 30 |
AskReddit/cfr9q3h | 1z7qwa | How did your surprise party go wrong? | My aunty planned a surprise party for my grandma about 20 years ago. My gran hates being the centre of attention and hates massive crowds. She found out what my aunty had planned and her and my grandad spent the day 40 miles away on a beach somewhere. | 3 |
AskReddit/dagjgs1 | 5f0hvx | Why has our culture turned against tobacco but not against alcohol? | 1) A person that smokes harms the people next to him. 2) Alcohol gets people laid. Tobacco doesn't. 3) Alcohol has been around wayyyyyyy longer than tobacco. | 14 |
AskReddit/db5tme3 | 5i67au | What are the pros and cons of using banks vs. credit unions and vice versa? | Simply put: banks exist to make profit. That profit earns their investors money and pays a great deal of money to their high-ranking employees. They make that profit by getting as much money from you as is legally (or sometimes illegally!) possible via high fees and anti-customer policies. Credit unions are not-for-pro... | 2 |
AskReddit/cjogklq | 2ddfol | What's best way to save money while travelling? | Cooking, drinking water from a canteen as long as the water is clean where you can refill it, don't buy souvenirs, tent camping is dirt cheap if you're up for it. Depends on the kind of travelling you're doing. | 3 |
AskReddit/dppkbd6 | 7cg1os | What is the best way to make money with less than 50$? | Buy $50 of marijuana which is roughly 3.5g where I live, and then sell each gram for $20 to buyers, which will net you $15 in return. Then with your $65 you can buy more and do the same. This is how many people I know started off their adolescent lives. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cdm96s0 | 1rduw2 | How do gas giants form and how do they maintain a spherical shape? | It doesnt matter whether its gas, rock, or whatever, it still has a gravitational effect. If the gas is sitting around in space, a little bit will collect into a larger piece and have a bigger gravitational effect, which attracts more, bigger effect again, and on and on. Eventually the gas is under a big enough amount ... | 3 |
AskReddit/c2gcqkg | jzff9 | What's something your significant other or parents put in the fridge/freezer that have no business being there? | When my family's first cat died, my dad put her corpse in our basement freezer, intending to have her stuffed/preserved. She was down there for years before we gave her a proper burial. | 2 |
AskReddit/cl59pv6 | 2itazx | Why do men's jeans sizes show the actual measurement while woman's sizes start at 0? | I'm really starting to doubt men's clothing actually shows the real size anyways but I'm too lazy to get out measuring tape. all I know is these two different pairs of 32 jeans don't fit the same. | 2 |
AskReddit/cek61x8 | 1uomgg | What and where is the absolute cheapest housing that you know of? | I work on Tall Ships, and they generally just let you stay aboard. So I haven't paid for housing in over 4 years. If you're in the States, that will probably only help you if you are in the LA area or Florida. | 2 |
AskReddit/cf34u81 | 1wlgs6 | What's an activity you were forced into as a child that you absolutely dreaded? | This is one of those questions where I actually start to think back, and realize my parents gave me an amazing childhood. Honestly, I don't recall being forced into anything, I was just offered options. Shout-out to mom and dad - you're much appreciated! | 5 |
AskReddit/cxtaj55 | 3w4hzo | What CAN'T your SO ever find out about? | Right now, the "panic" part of my brain is screaming that he CAN'T find out about how I don't really love him anymore. It would hurt him so badly, and I'm so afraid of that. Sometimes, I'm not sure if I ever did love him like he thinks I do. I mean, I love him, meaning he's one of my best friends and I care so deeply a... | 2 |
AskReddit/evs4zfd | cl0q0o | Why women care about breast size so much ? | For the same reason they care about the shape of their legs, about their weight, and about looking like a model in general: girls get a lot of pressure about their looks and often get insecure because of that. I remember I once gained a lot of weight and honestly didn't care AT ALL until people around me started to bot... | 2 |
AskReddit/c8raqu2 | 19u30b | What's the worst or most awkward sexual encounter you've ever had? | When I was trying to come to terms with being gay, I attempted to hook up with this nice older guy that I had met. He was handsome, wealthy, had a great house, etc. We started to fool around, but stopped when I started to cry in shame. We ended up talking for hours and he was really encouraging and supportive. It helpe... | 5 |
AskReddit/eby462w | a6ulhr | What are your unfiltered opinions on mental illness? | It makes me angry that mental illness has become a fad. People self diagnose when they have no real issues at all. It detracts from people who actually do have mental illnesses and makes it harder for them to get help. I'm also angry that people think you can get over a mental illness, such as depression, by just going... | 195 |
AskReddit/e7fmcfx | 9mlvmn | What are some ridiculous expectations society has for it's people? | I find it ridiculous that you spend the first 20-30 years of your life, which is about a quarter of the average human lifespan from what I know, sitting in a classroom just listening to random people blather on about topics that most of which you’ll likely never actually need to remember once you’re done with school. | 2 |
Ask_Politics/eikhrh0 | b16gwi | Why is Norway still doing well following the drop of petroleum prices while Venezuela has ended up in extreme poverty? | Norway doesn't use any of the proceeds from oil. It is all funnelled abroad into a Sovereign Wealth Fund. From the fund (max) 3% annually is then sent back to spend on the government budgets. When oil prices go up, spending stay 3%. (Max). If prices go down, it's still 3%. | 6 |
AskReddit/c1535w2 | e3w3f | What movie did a teacher show you in class that completely blew your mind in some way? | It wasn't the whole movie because we didnt have a month to dedicate to it but the scene in Schindler's List where they cleanse the ghettos and the little girl in the red jacket is walking around blew my mind. I never had such a graphic visualization of the event similar to that before seeing this clip. This was 9th gra... | 2 |
AskReddit/c4b5wv1 | s554b | How do you take notes in a business meeting? | Write down single sentence for key items that I need to remember. At the left of each item that requires I take action soon I place an asterisk. Two asterisks means get it done as soon as meeting is over. Will have arrow at left of items that I just need to do a week or so later. At the end of the week I go through my ... | 2 |
AskReddit/d1znlqi | 4eejrx | What have you noticed stupid people tend to do? | Nothing. There's a million shades of stupid. Academically smart people can be really dumb in conversation, have bad taste, make dumb decisions -- and the exact opposite can happen. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dizi3pd | 6hmn9v | Why it's so common for autistic people to hit their heads with their hands or against a wall? | It's a different self-harm than you find in non-autism Hitting head (stimming) is due to sensory overload. People without autism also sometimes experience it: if you stub your toe you will rub it for example (feeling of pain gets reduced because its covered by other sensation in same area). Or if you eat really hot foo... | 241 |
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