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AskReddit/ci8fu7l | 288hu9 | How to make platonic male friends as a girl? | Unless you're horrible looking, you have to accept that there will always be at least some sexual attraction towards you by your male friend. That's just how we work. This doesn't mean that you can't be friend with a male, it simply means that if he would love to bang you, he will always love to bang you no matter how ... | 13 |
AskReddit/d5d1fla | 4sxw1y | Have you ever recovered a repressed memory? | I'm not sure I would use 'repressed' per se, but when I was 25 or so I remembered some 'doctor' play that occurred when I was around 8 with the neighborhood kids. Nothing too major, some looking and touching and which I'm aware many kids experience at some stage when they get curious. It was interesting that it had tot... | 2 |
AskReddit/ehq6az4 | awza3t | What advice would you give to a lonely person? | If the lonely person is interested in meeting people, I’d recommend going on meetup.com, finding a group they’d be interested in joining and going to the next meeting. At least you’d be surrounded by people who like the same stuff you like and you’d have stuff in common. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cx5euk7 | 3te5xo | Why do humans respond faster to auditory stimuli than to do to visual stimuli? | Research is still a bit fuzzy, but the hypothesis involves 2 parts. A. your ears utilize reflexes, which are faster than responses (responses involve additional levels of processing in the brain). Essentially, there is less processing that is needed for an auditory stimulus than a visual stimulus. B. The nerve that tra... | 3 |
AskReddit/d0swtsq | 49m25o | What was the weirdest thing a kid ever did at your school? | I'm a sophomore in high school and I had a kid last week record himself sitting on a balloon. He kept bouncing on the balloon until it finally popped and screamed WILSON! Right in the middle of class. After all of this, he watched the recording of himself several times and had uncontrollable laughter. | 3 |
AskReddit/cfztu3u | 20501c | What was the most powerful and compelling scene in TV history? | Wow, you guys are making me feel old. I would probably say the scene in Roots, where they force Kunta Kinte to adopt his slave name, "Toby". It was revolutionary for TV of the day, and quite well done. | 260 |
AskReddit/dp9mwgc | 7afz9r | What's your favorite soda/pop? | Cherry Cola. Especially when they make it with fountain soda and grenadine. There will never be anything better to me. Shirley temples are a close second. But seriously, don't drink soda/pop, it's terrible for you to drink daily. Like shorten your life terrible. | 3 |
AskHistorians/cmtxwil | 2p6n4s | How do historians explain the fact that an ancient Roman statue was discovered in Mexico? | I have been deleting a number of posts from flaired and unflaired users alike that do not answer the critical question: what is the thing in the picture, and what does it mean for Mesoamerican archaeology? For this you need to first establish if the artefact truly is a Roman artefact, then when it most likely ended up ... | 81 |
AskHistorians/cfnm4aw | 1yt1of | Do we know about the Achaemenid Empire's other conflicts outside of Greece? | This is a difficult to determine because most of our Achaemenid Persia information and references come from Greek sources but it was clear that the Persian Kings starting at Cyrus had difficulty fighting the Massagetae, a nomadic tribe north of the Persian province of Bactria. This was actually where the first Persian ... | 2 |
AskReddit/de0q037 | 5vbhq6 | What is the dumbest question you were ever asked in an interview? | I was applying for a job in high school as an organist when I was 16. The pastor asked me if my father approved of my playing the organ at such a young age when I should be out with other boys "doing things boys do." | 3 |
AskReddit/d6u3xg8 | 4z9u6w | What makes you feel powerful? | The click of my heels on a tile floor. Sounds cliche, but something about that sound makes me feel like I could bring the world to its knees. In a stylish yet affordable manner. | 12 |
explainlikeimfive/cbcxie4 | 1jb141 | Why does velocity and gravity affect time? | Just to add in relation to gravity. Massive objects cause space to curve. The sun curves space close to it. So does the Earth but not as much. If space gets curved this has the effect of slowing time down. Near a black hole space is curved so much that when light gets near it it can't escape because it needs a speed gr... | 3 |
AskReddit/ehkjkdo | aw7iml | To the non-smokers of Reddit, what do you do to relieve stress after a long and frustrating day? | I can't remember when I last had a long and frustrating day. I smoked not to relieve stress, but because I was addicted. I quit smoking five years ago. Now I just go home and relax. | 2 |
AskReddit/e7p83mt | 9nva79 | If the US government gave away land and a home for free but told you that you had to live wherever you choose for the rest of your life, what state would you choose and why? | If I get to choose where in the state I live I’d say Colorado or Texas, If I don’t get to choose where in the state I’d pick a safe choice like New York or still probably Colorado | 2 |
AskReddit/e7xb7d8 | 9owtp7 | Who was the weird kid in your school? | This girl named Janie who told my friend that vampires lived in her yard. She would also do the Naruto run across the field. There was also this other kid Brendan who would bounce in his seat and start moaning. He would also lift up my desk and thrust at me while throwing his head back and moaning really loud. Middle s... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/c2v62fw | ls78f | Why does my old rotary phone work when the power is out, but my battery wall phone not work? | Basically the phone line carries a small amount of electricity to your phone, in addition to carrying the telephone signal. Older phones (both rotary and tone dial) were designed to work purely on that small amount of electricity, whereas battery phones are designed to work off the mains. The mains is on a completely s... | 12 |
AskReddit/dy3tx52 | 8fiht0 | What does DC Comics have to do to make a great movie? | Don’t rush to the big collaboration movies. Take time and focus on individual character movies/back stories. This would give greater depth to the whole DC universe. | 5 |
AskReddit/emkiy76 | bkzur9 | What are some of your most interesting/funniest stories from school/work? | I've got two. They might not be funny to others but to me it is. First one is when we did a lesson on gallium in chemistry The lesson went fine, nothing bad happened. He gets out some gallium which he had, starts bringing it round so everyone could see. Pretty cool. He gets to the back row where me and two friends are ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dhwcv55 | 6cpewd | What's the best nickname someone has given you? | "Tigger", the character from Winnie the Pooh. Apparently it's because I have a kind and energetic attitude, my friends say they enjoy involving me in activities and alike. I like the nickname, it's kinda cute. | 2 |
AskReddit/ed7pswd | acgck7 | What is the weirdest thing you have seen a guy do to not appear to be gay? | I was out shopping with some friends a while back and was waiting outside a store with one friend and he was holding a plastic bag but halfway down the bag not by the handles. I asked him why he was holding it like that and he said it was so it didn't look gay. Seemed really weird, I asked why but he just said it looke... | 2 |
AskReddit/eclndb5 | a9qaeq | If you could master any instrument apart from the piano or guitar, what would it be and why? | Sax. If you hand me pretty much anything with strings, I can play it just fine. Plus drums, some piano, vocals, harmonica, and probably a few i'm forgetting, but I cannot grasp how brass instruments work. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/csh7fg5 | 3aytb1 | In the USA, why does the FCC allow all of a female breast to be shown on public TV, except for the areola and nipple? | Probably just because its the easiest to define and not for any reason of heres whats offensive and heres what isn't. You cant really say things like 60% of the breast can't be shown. Thatd be too hard to figure out. You cant say you can show zero breast either seing as just about every shirt and dress out there shows ... | 5 |
AskReddit/ej5cssk | b49hy7 | How would you feel if you were invited to a wedding where they asked "please, no gifts except for money"? | My wife and I had a small wedding. We had a family friend who had a membership to a really nice venue. But we kept it very simple. Invited about 40 people, no DJ, and no wedding planner. We did however have an open-bar and the food was excellent. We didn't feel right asking people for gifts because it was small and we ... | 49 |
askscience/cet6qpb | 1vk9c1 | Why does the natural logarithm appear so much in the world? | when you solve many differential equation, the natural logarithm comes up oh too often. A huge number of equations in a variety of fields conform to this form: dx/dt = k*x this basically means that the rate of change of x depends on the quantity of x. This makes sense -- if we say x represents temperature, it really do... | 2 |
AskReddit/cc5h349 | 1m3nru | What is your first memory? | Am I the only one who can't answer this question? My early memories are like multiple bobbing apples floating in a misty sea. I can't possibly separate any one and single that out as my "first". All I remember are collective moments from the life that was "my childhood". | 1,641 |
AskHistorians/ca4ei5r | 1ew8p9 | Has there ever been an event similar to the Arab spring? | The term 'Arab Spring' in itself is a call back to the 1848 Springtime of Nations, when a wave of revolutions beginning in France spread across all of Europe. Unfortunately I can't give you any information beyond that and so this is quite a poor answer, but if you're interested you should look into 1848. | 6 |
AskReddit/c0wqq00 | d10vd | Can you help me GAIN weight? | I had the same issue for a long long time. Protein shakes didn't work for me, nor did creatine. My body simply wasn't hungry after I downed them, so I ate less and the gains were minimal. No matter what I tried I couldn't get my body out of my natural 140-150lb range. Then I discovered weed. Smoke up after a workout an... | 2 |
AskReddit/c28i9fx | j251p | Why is it that getting braces is deemed socially acceptable while getting plastic surgery is frowned upon? | I think you're underestimating how many non-cosmetic reasons there are to get braces. I got mine partially to correct a speech impediment. Crooked teeth also increase cavities, gum disease, and even jaw problems. In cases of over, under, and crossbite problems chewing is impaired. Dentists generally agree the best time... | 3 |
AskReddit/dhwhz63 | 6cq0zx | What are some things people do which makes you instantly judge them? | Having a lack of empathy or not trying to understand other people or asserting themselves in situations that do not affect them. My girlfriends grandmother is the nicest person I've ever met, but is extremely against gay marriage. I mentioned my professor being married to a woman and she went on a tangent saying how mu... | 24 |
AskReddit/c1q4x7o | gta5s | How did you decide your college major? | When I finished high school, I couldn't decide what I wanted to do with myself. So I didn't do anything. I got a job, moved out of a home into a house with a couple of friends where we lived an utterly debaucherous for years, got a girlfriend, decided I wanted to be a journalist after 3-4 years, then took steps to beco... | 3 |
AskReddit/cvb7o8a | 3m1rz8 | What are some things you do to calm your nerve's before public speaking? | Know your topic and practise everything that you have to say and some imaginary Q&A things. Practice till you have the self-confidence that you are the most educated person on the subject and until all the monologue is second nature to you. Go in the room confident. These people came there to hear what you have to say,... | 2 |
AskReddit/cfp65uf | 1yznrj | What is the most memorable dream or nightmare you've ever had? | This happened when I was in high school. First off, I was in a completely white space. Think hyperbolic time chamber in DBZ. Nerdy but easiest way to describe it. Completely white space with no features or land marks. I have an army behind me. I have no idea what they look like or anything, I just know they're there. T... | 3 |
askscience/ck71e0y | 2f8fw3 | What a GPU overheats, why does it cause artifacts to occur? | One of the main reason why modern GPUs are so affordable is because these Gigabytes of screaming fast RAM have no error correction on them. Look at NVidia's Tesla line (which is just a regular GPU with error correction on the RAM) to see how big of a price difference that makes. What this means is that if a bit is acci... | 4 |
AskReddit/dhtjxp7 | 6ccdps | Can you still be successful in life with a felony record why or why not? | I have a burglary of habitation (Felony) my first offense. Finally finished after Probation 10yrs on and off due to getting first dwi while on probation. Ended up going to prison for a few months and I can't find anything but restaurants. I'm in the same boat. Wondering if I can still succeed in life. | 3 |
AskReddit/ejutpjz | b7xjsz | What's a company you think won't be here in 20 to 30 years even though it's super popular right now? | I use Snapchat all the time, but I can't help but feel that Snap won't last all that long. The other big media giants have been slowly nipping at most of its core features, and the company doesn't seem to stand on super firm ground. I have a hunch it'll either die on its own or be bought out. | 3 |
askscience/ccp0xep | 1o5jxl | Why are electrons not crashing into the nucleus of an atom? | Well, this is due to some interesting quantum mechanics, and in some cases, the probability of the electron being in the nucleus is in fact non-zero. In Bohr's picture of the atom, electrons were confined to discrete, finite,energy levels proportional to 1/nsuper^2. This leads to the nice little picture we have all see... | 3 |
askscience/c24b9rr | ijmmf | Why is isopropyl alcohol sold in a 91% solution? | As far as disinfection goes, 100% alcohol evaporates too quickly to penetrate the bacterial cells. Adding water allows the solution to remain on whatever surface you are disinfecting a little longer than if it were pure alcohol. | 3 |
AskReddit/dl3pgnw | 6razqo | Who is your favourite person in your life? | My best friend. I probably sound like the lovestruck fool that I am for her, but to me she's about as close as a person can get to perfection. She's the most genuinely goodhearted, compassionate, and understanding person I've ever met, and combines that with charisma and a sometimes sassy sometimes innocently silly sen... | 2 |
AskReddit/ei22jfc | ayniex | What's the most interesting interaction you've had with someone who didn't speak your language? | Ok, story takes place in the UK. Years ago whilst driving. I had just exited a motorway and was stuck in a long line of traffic at a junction. All of a sudden, there was a tap on my window. Turns out it was from the driver behind me. I opened the window and the guy said 'I am from Germany. I am lost'. This was pretty m... | 2 |
AskReddit/c7d9rkz | 14i4ow | How can I boost my confidence significantly? | There are many ways to gain self confidence. Do you like yourself?(I mean do you take care of yourself, hygiene, take care of appearance with regular exercise, enjoy your hobbies, etc.) Liking yourself can cause boost self esteem. Do you have any hobbies? Hobbies can help confidence greatly, whether its building, writi... | 2 |
AskReddit/d7q6h43 | 535oom | In case of a apocalypse, which is better to depend on, an electric or gas powered vehicle and why? | Get a bicycle. Or a horse. In case of apocalypse, gas is only good for so long. And that's if you can find it. I expect gas stations and then cars are going to be scavenged in no time. Most forms of electricity are going to be out. Better to go old school. Good bicycle, reliable, off road/mountain bike wheels. | 2 |
AskReddit/etu1qvs | cdiaao | Why are iPhones often considered "rich people phones" when they're just about the same price as other nice phones (androids, pixels, etc)? | 1)I don't remember seeing a 1500 dollar android 2) samsung/ OnePlus offer literally the same features ( sometimes better) for a relatively cheaper price. 3) this is more of a personal opinion but im not a fan of the design 4) they release the same phone every year with a slightly better processor, almost no design chan... | 8 |
AskReddit/d02bie7 | 464840 | What is the most stupid question someone has asked you? | Me (after taking a patient's temperature): "97.7" Patient: "Is that good?" This person was about 50 atnd had children. How do you exist that long without knowing the normal range of a human's body temperature? Edit: I can never format properly on mobile. Edit 2: To everyone saying "but what about Celsius?" Had the pati... | 9 |
AskReddit/ckndnv2 | 2gx6pe | What's the weirdest thing you've done in your sleep? | I've got a friend that took a few ambien and decided to work on his car while they kicked in. He said his tools started talking to him, fighting over which would do the best job. They found him still asleep under his car 24 hours later. | 5 |
AskReddit/ct93wzs | 3dvmnv | If you could go back in time and change one decision you made in your life, what would it be? | breaking up with my ex because it felt "right at the time", it was a spur of the moment thing i did because i was bed-ridden for 10 days with an illness and i took it out on her. we got back together not long after but that moment practically killed it dead. That was 5 years a go and i still have her personal tumblr as... | 4 |
AskReddit/eq3elnu | bx4yks | Which religion has the most interesting creation story? | I can't remember the name but basically the idea was that we willed ourselves into existence I think it's called deism. It's interesting because it's almost entirely in agreement with science on all fronts but claims that consciousness initiated the Big Bang for no other reason than it just wanted to. | 2 |
askscience/c6i8pbe | 110ez9 | What is the difference between sugar and sugar alcohol? | Sugar alcohols are simply sugars that have had their ketone/aldehyde group reduced to an alcohol. They're often used as artificial sweeteners, especially in gum. Normally, the bacteria in mouth use sugar for metabolism, producing acidic byproducts that cause tooth decay. However, the bacteria aren't able to utilize sug... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cz026qa | 416o8y | Why do gas pumps display the value of the previous delivery? | Some people track their gas purchases, and the printers aren't 100% guaranteed to work. So instead of clearing when the pump is hung up, they leave the number in case the customer wants to write it down (Or have the attendant write one out). Usually this is done for business purposes. Now then, why don't they clear aft... | 9 |
AskReddit/dmerhzy | 6xbug2 | When was the toughest time of your life and how did you deal with it ? | Age 18-22 Found out I had a degenerative corneal disease (Keratoconus). it changed my life. I basically had to wear ONLY hard contacts, no soft lenses, no glasses. I could only wear them for 8 hours a day, so I'd go to class and come home, go to work, come home. I couldn't drive at night and was basically a shut in. My... | 3 |
AskReddit/cjm9xpv | 2d5jdc | What is one fancy and one simple dish from your country that you think the world should know? | Egypt (or basically any arab country): Simple Dish: Koshary This dish made with pasta, chick peas, fried onions, lentils with salsa is the easiest to make and tastes awesome. Fancy Dish: Probably Kebab and Kofta | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dlsx5ru | 6uiic2 | Why are the confederate monuments a problem now and not while Obama was in office? | It never was a Federal issue. This is a local issue and it would be a message for the Federal government to step in no matter who was president. The calls against these statues have always been local (or at least started out locally until news coverage reaches the national level). And this isn't new. New Orleans voted ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dszl59f | 7rtvpd | What is the best prank call you've done or heard of? | I don;t know about best I have ever heard, but one that sticks in my memory was the Colonel Nathan R Jessup (Jack Nicholson's character from A Few Good Men) sound board call to some poor woman, but I only stumbled across a far weaker example with terrible sound quality in my short search. | 2 |
AskReddit/cj46qjc | 2bdaov | What is your hometown's most embarrassing local TV commercial? | This is a radio commercial but I'm sure you'll agree it applies: Bayird car lot. Every single day on two of our local stations, their obnoxious commercials play 6 to 8 times an hour. It goes something like this: "If I could get you a lower interest rate, would you buy a new car? If I could give you top dollar for your ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dg08hn7 | 648nws | What type of drunk are you? | As a doctor, I’m a very medical drunk. If I’ve had too many, I usually go around checking people’s heart rates and making sure everyone’s okay haha! I just can’t switch off sometimes. | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/caflkt1 | 1fz3er | Does Fractional Reserve banking cause all money to be created in the form of debt? | Fractional Reserve banking is not started from scratch in any of the economies. They simply plug it in to the system. So there is some extent of money already present in the system for the Fractional reserve banking to work. > where is the money used to pay interest over and above the principal coming from? The system ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cbqkqp1 | 1kmzuk | What was your high school experience really like? | Mine was, like most people's, a mix of good and bad. I was introverted, shy, and didn't have many friends for the first few years of high school. But I played sports and invested myself a lot in the soccer team. I was really smart, and passed more AP tests than anyone else in the history of my school. And my senior yea... | 2 |
askscience/deekxp7 | 5wzkgg | Could you electrically charge mercury and place it in a insulated water gun then shoot someone and electrocute them? | Well, there wouldn't be a constant flow of electricity going through the person, so if you were hoping for some kind of liquid taser, I'm sorry to disappoint you. It would probably give off a bit of a static shock though. Not much for the amount of effort you'd have to put into acquiring an insulated water gun and elec... | 7 |
AskReddit/cdltwa7 | 1rciib | What's smallest claim to fame you have? | When I was 8, I found a a bunch of arrowheads and old native American tools. I donated them to the local museum and they had a little plaque that said "Donated by Suttoni" never been more proud of myself. Edit: It's my cakeday apparently Edit 2: Now my smallest claim to fame is getting my first gold! Thanks stranger! | 1,475 |
AskReddit/ch6oxgn | 24fqb9 | What is the worst decision you've ever made? | Picking the University that I did. When I was a senior in high school, I thought the prestige of the university was the only thing that mattered, so I simply accepted the university with the highest ranking. I put no thought into the kind of program I wanted, the class sizes, the size of the school--and all of it is mi... | 2 |
AskReddit/cwcadpj | 3q5vxf | How was your prom? | I wasn't able to attend, but from what I heard it was alright. It had a nice mixture of drama and general excitement, with one girl getting into a rather loud shouting match with her ex, and everyone else just enjoying the event (the shouting match and prom both). Personally, I was with a squad of 10 in another country... | 2 |
AskReddit/emui4xd | bm6c1k | What movie that you watched had a plot and/or events that you absolutely did not expect? | About Time I expected a funny British movie about a kid using time travel to get a girlfriend and see him screw it up multiple times. What I got was a mildly funny video essay on the human condition. Too many feels | 3 |
AskReddit/dndnauu | 71upx0 | What is the smartest comeback you or someone you have seen come up with? | Back in like 4th Grade, we had to take some kind of standardized test (this was the 80s before standardized tests were a huge thing) Anyway, there was a kid who was regarded as the smartest kid in the grade, and he only got one question wrong. And they announced afterward what question it was; it was a question I had g... | 2 |
AskReddit/dt5l5th | 7sl2d0 | What is the worst nightmare you've ever had and how long did it take you to shake the feeling off? | I had a nightmare a few weeks ago where my parents and brother died. There was a lot more to it, but that's all I remember. I was freaked out for a few hours after, to the point where I felt like I had taken a bit of a hallucinogen. I think about it sometimes, terrified with the thought that there's a good chance it wi... | 2 |
AskReddit/cg0avnm | 206rmc | When did you realize the relationship you were in just wasn't worth continuing anymore? | As terrible as this sounds. as soon as I held my newborn baby girl and this tidal flood of emotion made me feel like I was going to explode and implode at the same time. That was the moment I realized just how empty my relationship was with her mother. Everything just seemed to decay after that. | 2 |
Ask_Politics/cohvc08 | 2vi7ia | Why are the Nigerian Armed Forces so ineffectual against Boku Haram? | Counterinsurgencies can be rather difficult. Look at how much the United States has struggled against insurgent groups in Iraq & Afghanistan. The Nigerian military is highly corrupt and has major human rights issues. Fighting insurgents is a lot more difficult when you have zero trust among the local populace. See what... | 16 |
AskReddit/cq4l7go | 31sn1i | What has lost its charm as you got older? | "Vacation" cities. Places with lots of silly tourist attractions. Now that I'm older, I find that I'd rather spend my vacations out in the woods or mountains, or on a small quiet beach. As a kid, I always loved the excitement of tourist traps - now I hate them and just want somewhere I can actually relax. | 5 |
AskReddit/cehlcbm | 1ufe16 | What is the most realistic situation that could possibly start World War 3? | Some nation (most likely Iran) nukes Israel. The US and sidekicks go to war on Iran. The entire Middle East retaliates. Russia and China jump in somewhere, on someone's side, and the world as we know it ends. | 3 |
AskReddit/c2zwpa9 | mcvf7 | What's the one show you wish wasn't canceled so early or would just comeback and more episodes? | For shows that should have been canceled sooner there are FAR too many to list, but the one that sticks out the most was That 70's Show. That new guy was horrible and so unfunny. It reminded me of when they tried to add a new character to Itchy and Scratchy, Poochie just ruined that show | 2 |
AskReddit/dfauxya | 610ytq | What is the greatest story ever told? | In terms of historical impact over the centuries, the story of Jesus Christ continues to leave its mark worldwide. Now in my opinion, the greatest story ever told is all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down. | 13 |
AskReddit/e4402ju | 96xzm4 | What short lived TV show (besides Firefly) do you wish lasted longer? | Pushing daisies was a great show that ended too soon. I also wish Heroes lasted more than 1 season Edit: I am aware of heroes having additional seasons, but the same way I don't acknowledge dexter had more than 4 seasons I don't believe the real spirit of heroes made it past season 1. | 2,456 |
AskReddit/drujjht | 7mjt99 | What is the most interesting thing that happened at your high school? | The room I tutored in senior year was the old ROTC room from waaaaay back in the day when they had actual guns and ammunition. Needless to say it had all bulletproof structures. One day a kid brought a BB gun to school, which lockdown had everyone believing it was a high powered rifle, and went down the hallway. This w... | 2 |
askscience/d5wafil | 4v6glf | Why doesn't Oxygen react with the Iron in stainless steel? | Bear in mind the term stainless steal is a bit of a catch all referring to many different metals. The short answer is that it does interact but at a very slow rate. When treating stainless steal you create a very stable oxide layer that keeps oxygen corrosion rates to bare minimum. However under certain conditions stai... | 3 |
AskReddit/c49xgwk | rz9t0 | What is the biggest fictitious story you have been told? | I've told a great fictitious story to a good friend of mine. This friend isn't exactly the most intelligent man on Earth. I convinced him one day that Indiana Jones was in fact a real person. I concocted a decent yarn of how George Lucas and Steven Spielberg came upon the story of Indiana Jones. George Lucas' father wa... | 3 |
AskReddit/c7qpr9k | 15xig3 | What shouldn't exist? | In all reality, I'm surprised the Internet exists. On a daily basis, millions of people use the Internet to engage in illegal activities. The fact that "Internet" wasn't shut down in the 90's is both awesome, and astounding. | 2 |
AskReddit/cs1czcx | 398vd1 | What is something that you became addicted or obsessed with and it took over your life for a while? | Bionicle. I became so obsessed with it that I joined a project called Bionicle: Next Generation that was making 3D movies from some of the stories and I actually learned animation just to be a part of it. Now I'm doing animation. Would've never thought that I'd find my career through that. | 2 |
AskReddit/eenu0l5 | aigdm5 | What’s a really useful cleaning tip that many people don’t seem to know? | Baking soda and vinegar to clean your oven, that way you don’t have to leave for a while when it’s on auto clean or those chemicals. Then since I never use both racks I put foil on the bottom rack to catch anything that falls when cooking. | 2 |
AskReddit/ee6d8be | aghv5t | What is your favorite arcade game? | Metal Slug 3. Back in the day at the place I used to go to play it, one time someone left the arcade cabinet open so I set the dipswitches for 10 lives with a single coin but with the difficulty at maximum. After that it was the most played game in the whole arcade. | 2 |
Ask_Politics/cnojflt | 2sdt9j | What can Obama do to secure the interest of the FCC when his term is over? | The President doesn't have any real authority over the FCC. It's an independent agency. There are five commissioners, each serving a staggered 5 year term. No more than three commissioners can be from the same political party. The President nominates a replacement when a commissioner's term is up, and the Senate confir... | 3 |
AskReddit/ckgy3nf | 2g9kl2 | Has anyone bought a used car from a rental car company ? | I work for a rental company, oil is changed every 3 thousand in our cars and any mechanical issues are fixed at the dealerships. So they are well maintained. Plus I had a girlfriend that bought one from a Hertz dealership 8 years ago and the car ran strong and worked well . | 2 |
AskHistorians/dyfkuik | 8gsfzm | Why did the Ottoman Empire not establish colonies in the New World? | Because essentially there's no reason for them to do so. Columbus himself set sail for the west not to discover a new continent (whose very existence he repeatedly tried to disprove) but in search of an alternate route to the Indies. In much the same way, the Portuguese explorers who discovered Brazil did so accidental... | 33 |
AskHistorians/cc4dnfe | 1lzki4 | Are there any historical figures who people refused to say the name of? | Not exactly a historical figure per se, but in Judaism it is generally avoided to say the name of god, Jahve. Even when the name is written in texts, it is substituted with "Elohim" when reading aloud. In Christian translations of the Hebrew bible, the tradition is generally to translate Jahve into "The Lord" or someth... | 3 |
askscience/dwz7zf1 | 8ahvdp | Is it possible to just "mix" liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen without any H2O forming? | Sure. As long as you don't provide enough heat to get over the activation energy of the H2 + 1/2O2 -> H2O reaction then you won't form water. I don't have a reliable number on this but a couple non-academic sources online state that room temperature should be cool enough, which means liquid helium and oxygen certainly ... | 11 |
AskReddit/evtdpga | cl69re | What would people take more seriously if it had a different name? | Marijuana strains, especially concerning medicine. People would take a name like Cannoxapram much more seriously than “OG unicorn blood Kush” Edit: for those asking, sorry but not a real strain, thought it would be a good name for a strand while watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone | 16,341 |
AskReddit/ce66bo9 | 1tb33n | How soon will there be another minority president and/or vice president? | Obama's approval ratings have nosedived, so I think there is going to be a swing back toward traditional, older, white males. I'm not saying they should. I just think the US is going to collectively go "Well we tried something new and got screwed over. Let's go back to the way things were." That is one of the unfortuna... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0nyutp | bprpq | Have you ever loved someone you were incompatible with? | I dated a guy at the end of college who I was genuinely in love with. It was my first time loving a guy. We were so completely incompatible that I'm amazed it lasted the 6 months that it did. I'm highly motivated and like to spend my time reading and studying languages. He graduated three years ago, still has no job, l... | 3 |
askscience/cfu69qn | 1zi77v | What makes people talented at things? | Talent is subjective. For a 3 year old, drawing a picture of a house may be talent. For a professional architect, drawing the entire landscape of a city might be talent. That being said, time is correlated to talent. The more time you spend at something, the more proficient you'll become. Practice makes perfect as they... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cyjlteg | 3z6k0z | Why are there no "Good" diseases? | Well there are tons of bacteria inside you that are helping you staying alive, we just don't consider those to be diseases. Diseases is when something bad happens. If get some beneficial microorganisms inside us, it is not a brief period of being 'negatively-ill' before our immune system fights it of, rather evolution ... | 7 |
AskReddit/cgrpehq | 22yrtu | What would it take to convince you to kill a person? | 3 spheres for a person: social, physical, psychical. Everyone will answer the "What would it take" with a variation that would please one if not all of those 3 spheres. Example: I would kill a person if: no jail time is ensured, I won't die, the method is of my choosing and the target has to be within limits of my pers... | 2 |
AskReddit/c9sxfnj | 1dqeq7 | What is the worst noise you have ever heard? | I was sitting outside, with a friend, drinking a coke when we heard a noise that was later explained as a car crash that caused a pile up that resulted in a cargo of 10ft diameter concrete pipes snapping loose and crushing a horse trailer that contained 2 horses. A close second was the roar of the Hippo as it ate my cl... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ciw53ih | 2akt1z | Why Linux is supposedly so much more secure than Windows, even though it is open source and does not have a multi million corporation behind it? | It's secure because it is open source - anyone can look at the code in order to find security issues. Also, there are literally dozens of companies which contribute to the Linux project, such as Canonical (developers of Ubuntu) and Red Hat. | 1,433 |
AskReddit/dy5vghk | 8frk5q | What class did you fail miserably? | Chemistry. Good Lord, I have never failed something so bad. I was sick, so I missed a lot of classes and I never ended up getting caught up on things. Jeez, every day I came to class was something different. Asked for help a few times, but I never got the hang of it and completely bombed the class. | 4 |
AskReddit/cp1w12q | 2xobbg | What are your best and worst co-worker stories? | My then arch-nemesis (we became very close friends later) would always pull these incredibly annoying, albeit clever, pranks on me. He'd put my tools in jello, impersonate me, and change the weight in my phone. Those were probably my worst experiences with a co-worker. The best times were probably the day-to-day intera... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e4m7g68 | 99akfp | What would life really look like if ALL single-use plastics were banned? | You know back in the day, probably pre-WW2 or earlier, Americans barely used single use plastics. Paper bags were used for groceries and boxes for any packaging. As far as trash bags, I think they just dump trash straight in those typical metal cans. Package stuffing like styrofoam popcorn or air bags were just all cru... | 10 |
AskReddit/c5d1h38 | wg79u | What's the most baffling mispronunciation you've heard/said? | When I was in Barcelona, I was on a bus tour and the guide was from Spain, but spoke with a PERFECT American accent. I would swear he was a native speaker from the USA. Except every once and awhile, still with the perfect accent, a word would just be wrong. My favorite was "lights".he pronounced it lig-its.saying every... | 3 |
AskReddit/dtiol52 | 7u9nkb | Who is THAT person at your work and what do they do? | This girl at work is super slow. Not a bad person. But very slow and awkward. She has no sense of boundaries or personal space, and constantly follows my co workers and I around the store, standing within inches of us. When someone reminds her about personal space, she foregts almost instantly. She stares at everyone, ... | 64 |
AskReddit/cvdoka9 | 3mbwnu | What's the most unhealthy thing that you have ever eaten? | One time, I went through the Wendy's Drive Thru and I ordered a classic triple. When I got home and opened my food, instead of 3 patties and 3 slices of cheese, there were 4 patties and 5 slices of cheese on the burger. That is a solid pound of ground beef (or .45 kilograms for all you metric speakers). I could have ju... | 2 |
AskReddit/dkt6pn9 | 6pyhqs | What is the first major news story you remember as a kid? | The first one I remember is 9/11. I was in 2nd grade and I had just got home from school when my mom turns on the TV. I remember seeing the second plane hit the tower, my kid brain thinking it was awesome and saying "WOW let's see that again!" I didn't really grasp the situation until it was explained to me. | 2 |
AskReddit/c1nhp5o | gh5bh | How do countries handle final disposal of nuclear waste? | The world's nuclear industry produces about 10,000 cubic meters of high-level waste per year. In comparison a single 1000MW Coal plant produces around 300,000 tons of coal ash (which is also radioactive) per year. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ecwx8q4 | ab28ce | What does it mean when it says music is "Remastered"? | Mastering in music is where the different elements of the mix are brought together and balanced. Remastered means that they have redone this process. Usually it's with older analog (tape) recordings and they have taken out the hissing and popping that is sometimes present. | 43 |
AskReddit/d1hkc9x | 4cf54v | What do you think is men's role in gender equality? | You mean the inequality of men compared to women? I'll tell you what our roles are: More men are homeless than women Men are more likely to drop out of school early Men are longer in prison for the same crime Men have to work longer Men die at work way more often and are more willing to take high risk jobs Men are way ... | 4 |
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