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AskReddit/ct6fc4k | 3dlnp9 | What's an opinion you don't understand? | Anti-vaccination. Seriously, why? Extreme belief of Religion. I accept religion, but why must it dictate your life, my life and everybody else's? Keep your religion as your own, I don't want it affecting my life nor do I think it should affect your families lives unless they choose to share your belief. Internet femini... | 2 |
AskReddit/e605d1i | 9fyf85 | What’s the laziest you’ve ever been? | Since everyone loves this one: > I was once on a US military ship, having breakfast in the wardroom (officers lounge) when the Operations Officer (OPS) walks in. This guy was the definition of NOT a morning person; he’s still half asleep, bleary eyed… basically a zombie with a bagel. He sits down across from me to eat ... | 14 |
askscience/dddifpq | 5s8uaz | How do stars generate elements "heavier" than lead? | The simple explanation is this: Fusion is a process that, when fusing very light elements into heavier ones, releases energy. This energy pushes outward on the mass of a star, causing it to shine and release other radiation. The sheer weight of the star presses inward, causing the fusion, and the two balance out. In th... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/dijrc76 | 6foj37 | Why does buying cars involve so much negotiating and not just set prices? | Sellers can make the most money if they charge everyone a different price, but that's hard to do. From an economics perspective, if you're dying of thirst, maybe you'd be willing to pay $100 for a bottle of water, but if they charge everyone only $1, from a seller's perspective, they're losing $99 they could have earne... | 26 |
AskHistorians/c59y6x8 | w38d9 | What was the literacy-rate in Ming China? | The problem you run into when considering Chinese literacy is that the complexity of the written language makes it difficult for even the people who know enough characters to read to be able to write. 1500 (or even 2000) characters and you can slog your way through a newspaper and do reasonably well buying and selling,... | 4 |
askscience/ebsd0le | a5tgyr | Is the James Webb telescope the first in-space telescope to use reflective optics? | Essentially *all* research telescopes built in the last 100 years are reflecting telescopes. There are some old refractors that are used for very specific research, but by and large reflectors make up 100% of astronomical research. What JWST will be the first space telescope to do is employ hexagonal mirror segments in... | 11 |
AskReddit/cvb9wke | 3m263d | What are small things that can be added/installed in an apartment that would positively make a huge difference? | If you have roommates you get along with fairly well, get a small dry erase board and stick it on your fridge, or somewhere in the common area. It can be practical - my roommates and I split bills, so we write down who owes what and when it's due. Keeps things simple. Also, we get drunk and leave stupid little notes an... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dbhoqfg | 5jo3ye | Why do different email clients interpret HTML differently? | Because the HTML standard is hard to follow and really complicated. That's why the rendering engine in every major browser dates back at least 20 years^[1] - it's just too hard to make a new one, so everyone keeps re-using the old ones. And it took until around 2008 for browsers to be reasonably consistent in how they ... | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/dn3ntak | 70jrw3 | How do they build buildings to be perfectly straight? | To be totally fair most buildings aren't perfectly straight. They're straight enough to stand, and that's the critical part. As others have mentioned, a plumb line or level is the classical way, today it's done with lasers and other technology to eliminate human and material error. But oddly, most really tall buildings... | 6 |
AskReddit/c1h553q | fn34r | Can anyone recommend a BASIC tutorial video on learning the basics of Windows 7 for my 60 year old mom? | I need to find something like this as well, I am in a similar situation. My Mom currently has a Windows 7 machine. But I am also wondering if I should just get my Mom a Mac and have her go to the Mac store? Anyone have experience with going to Mac route and having them go to a Mac store for introduction / training? Wha... | 2 |
AskReddit/c4o76a8 | tnchf | What childhood movie still makes you cry? | Not exactly a childish movie, but it made me cry when I normally don't. Sisterhood of the traveling pants, anyone? My friends were all into the book so I watched it with them. I ended up being the only one crying when Carmen throws the brick at the window of the house where her father is calmly eating dinner with his n... | 2 |
AskReddit/d11q2bq | 4ampzb | Is fat acceptance accepting resignation that you're not going to be in optimal health or convincing yourself that there is nothing wrong with being fat? | As a fat person, I hate fat acceptance. It's stupid to glorify something that's so unhealthy. I think all this fat acceptance is to make people feel better about themselves. This is what happens to society when every kid on the team gets a trophy. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e7uinb9 | 9ojdu3 | How is something simply 'deleted' when using something like a camera or phone? | You mean what happens to a video or photo when you hit delete? Your device simply changes the first letter of the file's name to a special character. That makes the file not only disappears from the list, but also tell your camera or phone that it can write over the space currently occupied by that file. That means tha... | 3 |
AskReddit/evz2ho3 | clyva7 | When anime characters are watching a TV show or a movie, are they watching anime or live action? | It's like the walking dead. There is no fiction on Zombies. Zombies are not a concept in that universe, because they live in the zombie universe. So it's like Anime doesnt exsist in Anime. (At least sometimes) That is their reality, so those things on the tv that look like anime as well, may as well be live action? | 6 |
AskReddit/cpat441 | 2ym3i7 | Are there any foods that wouldn't go well with either chocolate or cheese? | Most Asian foods. Only Europeans developed lactose tolerance and started putting cheese & chocolate on everything. You won't find much of either in a Chinese or Japanese restaurant. | 2 |
AskReddit/c33dm08 | ms0dv | Would it be a good or bad idea to mention that I have Generalised Social Anxiety in a job interview? | The thing is, if you say this in an interview and you don't get hired. They aren't going to say its because of the social anxiety thing. Cause its admitting discrimination. I'm a Manager at my job and hire people. Thing with me though, I like to help people. So if someone told me that and were a fit, I would hire them ... | 3 |
AskReddit/cu8fbwo | 3hlnyu | What are some ways that men are objectified by women, and media in general? | Height. I feel awful hearing women say they only want a man who is 6 feet tall and above. It's just plain wrong. As a woman, I have never found the height of a man to be an issue. I once dated a guy who was 5'8. Just one inch taller than me. Ladies stop. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dh26h3p | 68xphk | Why is there so much opposition to universal healthcare in the US from even people of modest income who would benefit substantially from such a policy? | Philosophy of individual liberty vs collectivism, in which here we prefer the first. The thought goes like this: I choose which health care plan is best for me. I decide what benefits I need and how much I'm willing to pay, etc. I've earned my paycheck so how I spend my money on my own healthcare should be decided by m... | 20 |
explainlikeimfive/cbrdun5 | 1kpsnq | Why don't airlines board the LAST row of seats FIRST and continue this trend from back to front? | The boarding procedure can depend on the airline, but most airlines generally follow an order similar to: Passengers with special requirements (e.g. due to disability) and parents travelling with young children Top elite passengers, First class passengers, Business class passengers Frequent Flyers or other elite / priv... | 2 |
Ask_Politics/ckh1jio | 2g824s | When a nation first becomes independent, how does immigration work? | It depends on the country. Independent countries get to set their own immigration policies. I believe Scotland plans to relax immigration requirements from what they were pre-independence, but there's nothing concrete at this stage. | 2 |
AskReddit/c0g4i7y | a6vzt | What do you give in Strip Clubs in Canada? | At strip clubs in Windsor and Niagara Falls, I've seen people give American singles, but I imagine that would only work at these kinds of border towns. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/djzm8p6 | 6m8703 | In the recent Nuclear Weapons Treaty, why did the Netherlands vote in opposition? | There are American nuclear weapons stored on a Dutch air base. It was public secret for a very long time, though it was confirmed in more recent years. That sort of thing would be against the treaty. Currently, the government is not taking steps towards removing these weapons / ending this cooperation with the States, ... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/d79t65k | 516p10 | How can a bullet go straight through a window without completely shattering it? | Because of the speed the bullet has, there's not enough time for the bullet to displace enough energy to shatter the glass. I don't think there will ever be a perfectly clean hole, there will be cracks around the impact area, but not enough force is dispersed to shatter it. Another point is the size of the object. Comp... | 5 |
AskReddit/eut9pu5 | chhr2i | Who was that "spoiled" friend in your childhood? | My best friend. Brand new Jeep Wrangler for her 16th birthday, parents paid for her to go to private college, and she always got what she asked for, no questions asked. I love her to death and always will, but her parents treating her like that definitely did not set her up for success. She’s fine now, but definitely f... | 2 |
AskReddit/ehxdlzs | ay0r5n | What's the riskiest joke you've told and it did/didn't work? | I worked for a bed bound person who was missing a leg and told them that joke: "what do you call a one legged woman? Eileen. And where does she work? IHOP" it worked and he thought it was great. | 2 |
AskReddit/eflmryw | amfx2x | When do you think it is time to see a doctor for mental health issues ? | Depends on the severity of your mental health. I would recommend making an appointment with a professional counselor to see if they can help. They can also help advise you to see a medical doctor for medications for different mental health disorders. However, if you're asking I believe you should seek help when you can... | 3 |
AskReddit/cfcf5t9 | 1xlibr | What is your school known for? | Wikipedia labeled my high school as being the major market for Dubra, this rancid $11/handle vodka, for about two years on both the page for the school and the page for the vodka. | 2 |
AskReddit/cf9931j | 1x989i | Is graduating with high school honors as impacting as people make it seem? | I graduated my high school with an Advanced with Honors Diploma, and although I will say that GPA isn't really that much important after you've been accepted to a university, and also given that you can probably achieve a better GPA without Advanced Placement, I would still recommend doing it because I feel like I was ... | 3 |
AskReddit/eck756t | a9kjtu | As an adult, what have you gotten excited like a kid on Christmas Eve for? | I thought of this while watching A Christmas Story last night and remembering the sheer excitement of Christmas Eve and the joy of Christmas morning. Not being able to sleep, thinking about the next day. As an adult, I’ve felt this way about: My wedding, my honeymoon, and moving abroad for a year. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d7jb2tf | 52d56f | Why can't our eyes see all 12 dots on this picture at one time? | The eye can only focus sharply on a very small region. Outside that small region, your vision is really quite blurry, but your brain fills in the details based on what it expects. Presumably the dots are far enough apart that you can't see more than one or two in sharp focus at the same time. Thus, when your brain fill... | 6 |
AskReddit/dqqh4y9 | 7hekv7 | What thing/opinion do you strongly disagree upon with your best friend/SO? | My boyfriend and I disagree with the education system here in the states. My parents were both teachers so I learned early on the challenges and struggles for kids (and teachers too honestly) in today's school system. He was a white kid in a mostly black school system. I think that black kids have a harder time getting... | 2 |
AskReddit/cvwbed7 | 3odlp3 | If you could choose how you die, how would you go out? | I would choose to die so full of life, so utterly happy and content, that I would would erupt from the earth like a wayward rocket, exploding in joy, and sear a smile on the face of the sky. | 2 |
AskReddit/eyh4gi5 | cx01l9 | What is the worst case of roughhousing turning into disaster that you have seen? | Wasn't the worst to happen, but happened 2 days ago. Two friends of mine were rough housing at school and ran into a wall. However, this wall had two rusty nails sticking out of it. It was bad. | 2 |
AskReddit/cj88lrb | 2brp1r | How would you rate your four years in high school? | I honestly thought high school was pretty sweet. I began to find who I really was in high school. Although not all my teachers loved me, the ones that did made up for it. I have made some of my best friends in high school and I can look back as it being a great time in my life. | 2 |
AskReddit/cln0ly3 | 2knm3g | What did you get for your last birthday? | Monday was my birthday. I got an itchy wool GI drab green army blanket from Mom, chocolate chip cookies from Grandma and $1100 from my Aunt. | 2 |
AskReddit/eew3js5 | ajjnfa | What was memorable about your favorite teacher? | One of my favorite teachers would always show up twice a year in the uniform of an American Civil War soldier, one day in the wool blues and another in the grays. As we went up in grades he would give more and more detailed info, especially about some of the medical and technological advancements in those times due to ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c5nyzm8 | xnpqx | Who is an actor you hate because of a character they played? | Jude Law because of his role in Closer. I hated the way he looked and the way his character acted, and it basically ruined him for me. I know it's illogical but I can't help it. | 2 |
AskReddit/cy9sidd | 3y1squ | What did you dream of last night? | I obviously knew subconsciously that I had forgotten to set my alarm for work, because all night I dreamt about forgetting to set my alarm and being late for work, I ended up waking up at 0511, 1 minute after I would have set my alarm. God bless you body clock! | 3 |
AskReddit/ecmcrjw | a9toi6 | What’s your story about when you could’ve died if you were in a certain time/place? | I could've died at age 5 if our apartment door was open, which it would've been hadn't I entered through the backdoor, because this huge wardrobe was falling and would've crushed me for sure if it didn't have the door catching it just shy of my ribcage. | 2 |
AskReddit/cdj3t9x | 1r36zl | What was the stupidest thing you got in trouble for at school? | My brother is diabetic and has an insulin pump. This means he has a tube from the pump (in his pocket) to his stomach that carries his insulin. When he was in high school, ipods weren't allowed in the halls or anywhere. A teacher saw the tube running from his pocket into his shirt and assumed he had headphones in. Yank... | 72 |
AskHistorians/c72tman | 13crem | How did the British state come to control the regions of India that had been taken by the East India Company? | After the Indian Rebellion in 1857 (also known as the Sepoy Rebellion), the British state took control of the EIC. The Sepoy Rebellion was sparked because of the weapons the EIC provided for their army of Hindus and Muslims. The weapon, a new Enfield rifle, was to be greased with what was thought to be both pig or cow ... | 3 |
AskReddit/dd3f643 | 5r04qb | How did you end up working the job that you do now? | Moved to a rural area with low employment. Everyone kept telling me to check out the fish farm. 6 years later and I am the assistant manager, a commercial diver and a D licensed driver. I lived in the city most of my life working in the food service industry; never had any of these skills to begin with. | 3 |
AskReddit/ew3ho97 | cmnm29 | What advice would you give someone who is feeling down ? | I've dealt with depression a lot in my life. If "feeling down" is recurring to you, then it might be a similar experience. The best thing that I've picked up on is that you're sometimes at the mercy of your own emotions, and you're not always gonna be in control. Don't get too hung up on it. Instead, try to recall prev... | 4 |
AskReddit/eflip6n | amfc2x | What was your most terrifying sleep paralysis experience? | Not mine but my brothers- We had just completed the ghost tour in Savannah, GA. They told us all about the hags, how polluted the city is with spirits, and even mentioned sleep paralysis. He was getting tired after, as we had been traveling the last few days, so he went back to the hotel room alone while everyone else ... | 3 |
AskReddit/cfd8ezh | 1xodhq | What is the most underrated movie that you are simply in love with? | Galaxy Quest. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Too few people are familiar with it. Honorable Mentions: Cat Ballou (A slightly cheesy western comedy, but very quotable and a classic in my family). Silk Stockings (A wonderful musical from the ultimate era of musicals. Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire, and a wonderfu... | 41 |
AskReddit/dv6w06s | 8226e8 | What things are worth spending extra money on? | Sheets. Try a higher thread count, 600 does the trick. Quit sleeping on. 12. That’s hay. It’s one third of your life, spend the money. | 4 |
AskReddit/cce5nbb | 1mzuy4 | What do you think are some of the best but also the worst inventions mankind has made? | Nuclear weaponry is the best and the worst thing we've ever created. It's good that we have the ability to cause mass destruction if our country ever needed it to defend ourselves. It's bad that unfortunately, everyone else has a few nukes that are sitting around waiting to be used; whether we trust them or not. Also, ... | 4 |
AskReddit/c8a65ud | 17zana | What happy things can you get/do with under $10? | Shopping spree at the 99 cent store! I picked up a 2-pack of 2-prong-to-3-prong converters, a 3 liter bottle of generic Cherry soda, a DVD of 10 Classic Felix the Cat cartoons, and a magnetic Backgammon game that actually says "Chess Set" on the package. And I still have $6 left over! | 2 |
askscience/cqbrown | 32h7xt | Can metal ever be transparent? | In a metal the most outter electrons are considered to be more or less free. They are described by a free electron gas. A free electron can absorb photons of any wavelength. This makes metals intransparent. In insulators like glass the electrons are hold in certain states. In those states they can only absorb certain p... | 4 |
askscience/c7acdfx | 146orf | Is the moon essential to any life on earth? | The moon stabilizes Earth's orbit. Without the moon, Earth's axial tilt would change over time, with major effects on the climate. Life could still exist, but it would have to keep evolving to keep up with this climate change. Also, intertidal marine ecosystems are adapted to tides. These communities would be quite dif... | 48 |
AskReddit/eu1737a | cebdoq | What do you think your pet is trying to tell you? | My cat is rubbing her face on my hand and arm while she’s got her front paws around it to keep me from typing well. She’s trying to tell me she’s neglected (she’s not) and she never gets pets or attention (gets them all the time). | 3 |
askscience/c6ll0bx | 11dogo | Does wind affect a plane equally, with regard to headwind or tailwind? | Every plane flies along in a given parcel of air. The speed and direction of that parcel of air relative to the ground is completely independent of the airplane's indicated airspeed and heading. So if you fly a trip with a 50 knot tailwind, you will get to your destination as if you were flying 50 knots faster than you... | 6 |
AskReddit/codi0pr | 2v0y1a | What's the laziest thing you've ever seen someone do? | When I was younger, me and my mother played Facebook games together. (I was 13-14) Specifically, we played Dragons of Atlantis. In that game, you have alliances with alliance chat. One day, we were both playing and building our little kingdoms, and suddenly my mother writes something in alliance chat where our 50+ memb... | 3 |
AskReddit/d73d2s5 | 50edyq | If you were to be cremated, where would you want your ashes scattered? | We have my moms ashes in a container that we buried next to my dads ashes. Before I buried her with my dad, she was sitting in the closet of my brother who was suppose to make arrangements. He left her there for three years. I don't really care where they end up. My husband would likely offer to let our daughters decid... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cky7s31 | 2i2hrh | How can a politician change party / cross the floor? | It's possible because parties aren't elected, individuals are. Most MPs will vote in the same way as their own party, but nothing in the rules of parliament says they have to. A member of the leading party is always able to vote in line with the opposition, which may be more in line with their actual election platform ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/chvpuo9 | 26ycsl | Why are stories about individual rape cases in India top stories in United States news media? | Misogyny is a massive problem in India. So thats why its important. But if you're wondering why they use individual rape cases instead of talking about the big overarching issue, its because news will always get more attention when its about individuals. People are far more likely to tune into a story a specific person... | 25 |
explainlikeimfive/d2nwhz3 | 4h6psd | In music, what is the difference between vibrato, trills, and shakes? | Vibrato: Quickly oscillate the around a specific pitch smoothly. You want to enounce a specific tone, but you add vibrato to make that tone sound better (more natural). Trill: Quickly alternate between two notes. Both tones are equally important, and the change isn't gradual, but direct. I'm not sure what "shake" is re... | 3 |
AskReddit/ex5h520 | crikw8 | Do you think it's weird if a customer/guest asks to sit and chat with you on your lunch break, why or why not? | No. It shoudn't be weird. People here in my country do it all the time. ​ This one time, I went to my local pub after a very very very bad day. The place was busy, the owner is almost a friend now. He saw me entering the place and asked how I was doing. I simply contracted my face muscles, to let him know that I... | 5 |
AskReddit/e7m7xn8 | 9nexuo | What do you do when you hate the job you went to school for and have years of experience doing? | I have an old friend who went to college for four years getting a BA in geology. He now works selling his art. I've got a friend who I went to film school with. He works as a manager in a Target. Another film school friend of mine works at Disney. If you realize you hate what you're doing, change it. It's not always th... | 2 |
AskReddit/ea1p936 | 9yj5sq | How do movie producers get multiple 50 year old pristine looking cars for shooting a movie? | There are companies that specialise in providing cars to film productions, and they keep a selection of cars from all kinds of time periods available. If you just need a static prop, it's not that difficult to build a mockup. And if you really can't source the vehicle you want, CGI is always an option. Nearly all car a... | 4 |
AskReddit/c0jb0xu | atgm4 | Who wishes that there were Reddit alien stickers in the store? | I emailed Reddit a while ago asking where I could buy one, then I got a reply asking for my address, and the next thing I know 3 Reddit alien stickers and some Reddit postcards showed up in my mailbox! Now two of the Reddit alien stickers are on my laptop! | 4 |
AskReddit/ecmjrwa | a9sa4n | What should every 18-year-old know? | I say this as an RA responsible for twenty-two 18-year-olds: Germs exist. During the first week of classes (I had been there for three weeks at this point, the residents for two weeks), one saw me washing my water bottle. Her: "I thought you only drink water?" Me: ".I do." Her: "Then why are you washing your water bott... | 11 |
explainlikeimfive/ceg8us1 | 1uaxz2 | How close are we to curing cancer as a fundamental illness? | You can read "The emperor of all maladies" to get an idea about the development in medical science re cancer. Out of 1000's of different types of cancer, we can fully cure 2-3 types; however, we are able to lengthen the life of pretty much any and every patient with cancer, so there is some progress. Out understanding ... | 17 |
explainlikeimfive/cw5u8xx | 3pfg0o | Why are there so many weird/oddly specific old laws in the US? | To combat the weird, odd cases that occurred. Let's say some state has a "don't spin pigs on their backs in traffic in the rain on sundays" law. That's probably because someone was doing that, and the person said, "I can spin a pig on its back in the rain on Sundays if I want because there is no law against it". So the... | 12 |
AskReddit/c6fj1o5 | 10pkrr | What is the stupidest thing you did as a kid to try and look cooler? | In 3rd grade, I was envious of my friend who had glasses. I thought he was cool, so I thought having glasses would make me cool. later that day, I convinced my mom I couldn't see the blackboard at school. She took me to the eye doctor, whom I also convinced I had a hard time seeing (it was surprisingly easy back then).... | 1,827 |
explainlikeimfive/cg8iowo | 210sa0 | If the Big Bang expanded the universe in a fraction of a second, doesn't that mean it traveled considerably faster than the speed of light? | We think that the universe expanded very, very fast just after the big bang began (called inflation). In fact, it expanded many times faster than the speed of light. Most people know that nothing can go faster than light. This isn't entirely correct - what it really means is that you can't accelerate matter to the spee... | 10 |
askscience/c47m0zd | rpiul | What happens to the human body when a person comes in contact with nuclear materials/extreme radiation? | There are a variety of radiation sources, and each acts differently. Gamma radiation and Beta Radiation act similarly to light: They can be fairly easily blocked (Gamma by several feet of concrete, beta by clothing or a thin wall). Both can cause immediate burns as well as cancers by damaging DNA. Alpha radiation and i... | 2 |
AskReddit/dbk7t58 | 5jzjwo | To those of you that have experienced lucid dreaming, how would you describe it? | I lucid dream almost every night, and the best way I've found to describe it is a suggestible dream. Basically, if I think that it should probably go this way, or this might be an interesting development, it'll happen. It's always been about slight manipulations than actual grand-scale control, and the actual realizati... | 2 |
AskReddit/e97kjlb | 9uweth | What is your experience with restless leg syndrome? | I call it bouncy knee syndrome. Heres my experience: "Are you cold?" No "You dont have to be nervous" thats why im not "Are you bored?" Why would i bounce my knee if i was bored? "Are you okay?" Yes "Quit shaking the table" buy a heavier table "its oak" well im not hungry or thirsty so stfu Hard to hold my phone when o... | 2 |
AskReddit/ewnzuqk | cp9gkl | Have you ever experienced that your thinking about something and suddenly realise that there's gonna be a day when your loved ones won't exist leaving you all alone in this world and you just wanna quit and not move forward and start complaining about how you never choose this life and fear death? | No, you didn’t choose to be alive, but you are so you better make the most of it. You have to try and build new connections throughout your life. You will hopefully outlive your parents, for their sake (losing a child is just about the worst thing that can happen to someone). But your siblings and your friends will be ... | 2 |
AskHistorians/elzousa | bicj9o | Is there a capitalist piece of literature equivalent, in some way, to the Communist Manifesto? | In some way, you could try Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. It's not really an equivalent, but an often cited book from the time social sciences appeared in its modern form. ​ I'd say it'll be easier to understand if you decompose the current capitalist democratic system into the parts concerning itself with eco... | 14 |
AskReddit/cef1pn1 | 1u64j8 | What was your most awkward encounter with a relative? | Once when I was about 13, I answered a phone call from a relative. He immediately started talking to me as though he knew me, so I kept talking to him instead of giving the phone to my mom, assuming this was an uncle I'd met as a kid and just didn't remember. My family is both extended and wide spread so this was very ... | 4 |
AskReddit/epchzip | bui1ou | What’s your best case of “don’t judge a book by its cover”? | Was working retail, a really old union worker came in and basically had me become his personal shopper. Was thinking the entire time that this was going to be a case of an old person just wanting to jabber to someone who will listen. Ended up being the foreman of a worksite in Seattle and said that because of my good c... | 2 |
AskReddit/do48ft0 | 758ky4 | What are some good questions to ask at the end of an interview? | Ask questions that demonstrate your genuine interest in the position; that is, questions that make clear that you have thoroughly researched this company and this role. You will impress the interviewers and obtain information that matters. | 2 |
AskReddit/cvymgyt | 3omyyb | What is something you were taught in school that you now know is wrong? | I was taught that people laughed at Columbus because they foolishly thought the world was flat. In fact, if they laughed at him at all, or feared for the safety of his expedition, it was because he grossly underestimated the distance to Asia. | 11 |
AskReddit/d8b4dgk | 55jqhx | Is there an online video game that was bad at launch, but which you think is pretty good today? | BF4 was pretty brutal at launch, at least for me. It took about 6 months to a year before they fixed the net code making the game playable. Now it's one of my favorites. | 2 |
AskReddit/e3i0puk | 9433ca | What's something you've been doing for years and are still getting away with it? | I haven't paid for electricity in two years. The electricity companies all deny that they provide electricity to my house, and have no record of the meter serial number on the national database. I keep trying to get set up and pay, but they won't take my money. The law here states that so long as I am trying to pay, th... | 2 |
AskReddit/cnpdk6w | 2sh0bn | What celebrity's death devastated you the most? | Mine was Steve Irwin. His awesome adventures made me seriously consider pursuing the field of zoology for a good part of my life growing up (and in hindsight I should have stuck with it). Instead of cops and robbers me and my friends would play 'Steve Irwin' and go on 'expeditions' into the woods behind my house studyi... | 3 |
AskReddit/dl5ajir | 6rigrd | When was the last time you cried and what was the reason? | A week ago. My kid graduated from speech therapy, and we had to say goodbye to his speech therapist, the office staff, and his OT (he graduated OT a while back but got to see her every week when we came in for speech). He has been in therapies since he was 2 1/2, and at 7 he is officially therapy free. We have been the... | 3 |
AskHistorians/d8bt4qa | 55kpjk | In the past few hundred years, has there ever been a country that asked to join another country? | Depends on what you mean. Including both mergers and joining as a subordinate territory: Spain remained a de jure personal union of Castille and Aragon until ~1715. So they didn't technically become a single country until then. There is, of course, the United States (the 13 colonies) itself, as well as the Republic of ... | 19 |
AskReddit/ec8zgtv | a89ymd | Which song annoys you most and why? | Two "songs" immediately come to mind: I Love It by Icona Pop "you crashed your car into a bridge and you don't care? Lay off the Molly" And Can't Feel My Face by The Weekend "bro, you're having a medical emergency! Stop caterwauling and go to the closest ER!" I can't say I like any songs by either of them. They're anno... | 2 |
AskReddit/cceepmt | 1n0xb1 | What's the most coincidental thing that's happened in your life? | My initials are JAC. There is a guy who was born on the same day as me in the same hospital as me who has the initials AJC. My middle name is his first name and my first name is his middle name. Additionally, our last names are acronyms for one another. Our fathers had the same profession and worked very close by to on... | 3 |
AskReddit/cy7siew | 3xu8bs | How much did your high school charge for a prom ticket? | Mmm. Bulgarian here. Actually we make our proms way different than the way I've seen in the movies that showed the proms made in the US. Here we prefer to go somewhere else, some kind of resort, most often to the seaside. We go to a hotel for couple of nights, we have a official dinner, we drink and have fun, dance and... | 2 |
askscience/c46ge36 | rk3ij | Is there a possibility that Anti-Matter and Matter during the big bang were hurled in opposite directions? | If we assume that the Universe started with a net baryon and lepton number of 0 (ie: only bosons existed), then the decay of these unstable bosons would have been completely symmetric in theta and phi (ie: isotropic). Is it possible that half of the universe is anti matter and the other half is matter? Sure. But on the... | 6 |
AskReddit/ejmzq06 | b6t7ir | How are you supposed tolerate extreme loneliness? | As a highly introverted person who has been living with extreme loneliness (and moderate depression) for many years, the best coping method I have found is a combination of distraction and fleeting human interaction. For the distraction, read books, watch movies, play games, etcetera. For the fleeting int... | 2 |
AskReddit/dvnxebh | 845eay | What job exists because we are stupid ? | lawyers and tax accountants exist because laws are too complicated for people who don't work with them every day, but that doesn't make us stupid. i dunno. i don't think finding something that needs to be done makes anyone stupid. the opposite in fact. the only job that makes us stupid is the one that needs doing and i... | 12 |
AskReddit/d57f53y | 4s8tpg | What was the most awkward or weird class that you've ever attend in school? | Creative Writing in high school. Very small class, and it included a model, a geeky goth, a geeky Jehovah's Witness whose friends were almost all atheists, a really plain guy who seriously his plainness is legitimately a unique thing for him, and a couple other people whose existence just never really made much of an i... | 6 |
AskReddit/c8g9you | 18n2jc | What movies have you had to re-watch to enjoy/understand? | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I saw it for the first time as a giggly teenager hopped up on sugar and spending the night at a friends. I was less concerned with the plot and more with the one-liners. I watched it again last week and finally understood what was going on. | 12 |
AskReddit/dgyknwc | 68hrny | How do you effectively haggle with cell phone and cable companies? | i told them sprint offered unlimited 4g net, Suddenlink said i couldnt live with only cell phone internet. 6 months later they sold me thier gigabit plan for the cost of thier 20 meg plan (similar to 4 g on cell phones) those CoD games were tough on teathered net. A negotiation is only as good as your word. dont give i... | 2 |
AskReddit/ei4kjsy | az0vsv | What’s a hobby you loved and wanted as a dream job, but now you’re so burnt out, you hate even thinking of it? | Cooking. I spent 20 years in the kitchen, and only want to cook for my family anymore. I didn't go to school for it, so I am not out the $40K. I thought it would be a great idea as no matter where you go, people want to eat. The problem is no one wants to pay for a good cook. I'm burnt. | 3 |
AskReddit/ec5oa87 | a7thcw | What is your best drunk story ? | Idk if it’s my “best story,” but this one time, I was drunk and/or high af in an AM/PM and this transgender or transvestite person came in. In my addlepated stupor, I proclaimed “that’s a man” at which point the person in question immediately became angered and gave me a dirty look; I immediately said “but you look goo... | 3 |
AskReddit/dkzf9jn | 6qrhhi | What are the Pro's and Con's of going to work early in the morning? | I work from 5am til 2pm. Pros- I get to enjoy the whole afternoon off work, and I tend to be more productive of the morning. Cons - I have lost touch with a lot of friends due to them being night owl's. | 2 |
AskReddit/cgndplt | 22j9nh | What grudge are you holding and for how long? | Guy I went to school with that I was close to swore at me for something I didn't do infront of my mum. All of my friends know that they absolutely can not swear around my mum. What makes it worse is that he thinks I should have apologised to him. Been holding this grudge for about 2 years. Seems a silly reason to hold ... | 3 |
AskReddit/d18ywpm | 4bggj6 | What's the funniest Askreddit thread you've seen? | Maybe this one will be if people post even more funny threads. ^and ^this ^will ^become ^the ^funniest ^since ^it's ^a ^hub ^for ^funny ^threads | 2 |
AskReddit/cky28pe | 2i1puv | What's the stupidest argument you've gotten into? | My ex girlfriend used to always pointlessly 'correct' something I said. When I would point out that I was right the first time in the all-too-often event that I was, she would argue back that I was wrong and then inform me that 'it's a stupid thing to argue over and I need to stop trying to be right all the time.' Afte... | 4 |
AskReddit/e4xhcmw | 9arcs9 | What is your opinion on making sanitary products (e.g. tampons, pads, etc.) free? | There is no such thing as a free lunch. Someone has to pay for materials to be purchased, products to be manufactured, and transported. Those realities don't go away. The money still has to come from somewhere. If it doesn't come from the individual it has to come from society in some way. ​ That being said I th... | 18 |
AskReddit/eu6zrez | cf2m5c | What is one of the hardest pills to swallow in life? | I'm going through this right now so I'll say these, in the hopes that someone going through the same thing will feel better: ​ Sometimes you will disagree strongly about something with your parents. You may side with a significant other, friends, etc. Political issues, religious, etc. And that's okay. Everyone b... | 7 |
AskReddit/dm431tq | 6vz9l3 | What are some tall people problems? | Back pain. The longer you are, gravity has a greater effect on your lever. Tall people are nearly 50% more likely to have back problems than shorter people. Just because you're bigger, and potentially "stronger", does not mean the body's ability to handle stresses to your body exponentially. | 3 |
askscience/c25x0s6 | iquba | What are the most common causes of aeroplane crashes? | Human error. The vast majority of airplane crashes are preventable tragedies. In risk per unit time, takeoff and landing are considerably more dangerous. | 3 |
AskReddit/cqx5tot | 34qr08 | What does 'being present' mean to you? | As a yoga teacher I think of it like this. Think of the mind like a lake. When the waves of our thoughts are thrashing about, it's very difficult to see to the bottom of the lake. When the mind is still, we gain insight and can see clearly to the bottom. As a psychology major I refer to the work of Mihály Csíkszentmihá... | 2 |
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