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explainlikeimfive/cv5dosc | 3ldk7z | Why cant the 200+ corpses on Everest be picked up with a helicopter or something? | They can't even fly that high, never mind hover long enough to pick up a body. The maximum height that a helicopter can hover is about 13,000 feet. The 'Death zone' of a mountain is the most dangerous part, where the majority of bodies lie. The death zone starts at about 26,000 feet! | 9 |
explainlikeimfive/dbkbyfk | 5k0917 | How exposing your skin to direct sunlight gives you vitamin D? | Dermal synthesis of vitamin D from cholesterol is dependent on sun exposure (specifically UVB radiation). Vitamin D from the diet or dermal synthesis from sunlight is biologically inactive; activation requires enzymatic conversion (hydroxylation) in the liver and kidney. | 5 |
AskReddit/csbzcdz | 3aezgi | Has anyone gotten a job purely on learning a skill from a video game? | Yeah, I got really, really good at Guitar hero and got a job as a guitar hero tester. That led to me learning how to test and use dev debugs, which in turn gave me the experience to get a job as a game capture artist. Been doing that for 4 years now | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d6pk5r2 | 4yq0fl | How don't you bleed during acupuncture? | The needles they use in acupuncture are extremely fine. They don't hit blood vessels. In order for there to be bleeding the needle would have to pierce a vein, capillary or artery and the needles for acupuncture are strategically place to avoid these. Also, the end of an acupuncture needle is "rounded" or just not as p... | 5 |
AskReddit/d12s1fj | 4aqzc8 | Why do some people find it so difficult to understand or accept someone's comfort in knowing they don't want children? | It's similar to the people that don't understand why people are ok doing a lot of things by themselves. A lot of people don't know why I'm ok with entertaining myself with no one around, because they're more accustomed to always being around people. It's what they're used to and someone who breaks their bubble is viewe... | 2 |
AskReddit/cfecepk | 1xt0u7 | What is the biggest risk you've ever taken in life, and what did you do (or are doing) to make it through? | I'm in my 40's. After losing a job I hated in the economic collapse, I've gone back to college for a bachelor's and a new career while my wife pays 99% of the bills. | 2 |
AskReddit/e67m7ea | 9gxp1z | What's the moment you realize he became your dad instead of step dad ? | he has been my step dad for almost 16 years and this july i said i love you. i started to think of him as a father figure, but then my mom told me 2 weeks later he cheated on her and they are getting divorced. Im 26 btw and im getting married the saturday. i still want them both to come. | 5 |
AskReddit/cf6mzei | 1wypn5 | What would you really want for Valentine's day? | I'm actually okay with being single, but it breaks me heart to see so many other single people despair on Valentine's day. I was one of those guys once. I feel for them, and every year I just want them to find some happiness. Because being lonely sucks. | 2 |
AskReddit/dh774et | 69jx80 | What's the most jaw dropping joke you know? | This one makes my friends jaws drop when I tell it. Worth the read. There was once a priest who went to see the world after taking his oath. After many years of wandering, he finally arrived in a small village in the middle of nowhere. The people there believed in the same religion as he did, but they had no church; th... | 14 |
askscience/e0dk83i | 8pqjnu | How do they keep patients alive during heart surgery when they switch out the the heart for the new one? | The surgeon sets up Cannulas (tubes) in both the "in" and "out" of the heart, usually the vena cava and aorta (although the sites can vary). These tubes are connected to an extracorporeal circulation machine that does many things: Circulate the blood as a mechanical pump would. It's "smooth" though, there is no pumping... | 3,695 |
AskReddit/ehigemw | avxbxh | What are some of the most unconventional pets you've adopted? | When I was a kid (around 4-5 years old?) my parents adopted a baby boar whose mother was shot by the local hunters. It quickly bonded with my mom and basically didn't let me or my brother near her. It bit and scratched us so we always had to call our parents when we tried to leave our room. In the end things got so bad... | 2 |
AskReddit/ddushnp | 5uktnf | How did you handle someone that was crushing on you when you could not return the feelings of affection? | I was honest. In high school this girl I was friends with came up to me and told me that she had feelings for me and wanted to date and all that. Well I didn't feel the same way so I just told her that I think we should just stay friends. She got weird and bitter about it and we haven't spoken in years. I don't blame h... | 9 |
AskReddit/eq3wyjj | bx71d1 | How do tech companies like Apple justifies their pricing scheme on a not so unique product that seems to be way over priced than what is expected by consumers? | If people buy enough of them to generate a profit, that’s all the justification they need. Obviously the $6000+ desktop computer and $5000+ monitor Apple announced recently are expensive, but they’re targeted at a specific segment of the professional market and the pricing isn’t dissimilar to what you see from, say, HP... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cxesqnf | 3uh78d | Why can't goods and services cost less to increase the quality of average people's lives? | Because average people make those average goods, and want an average wage. Decreasing the cost of the average services, for the average person would also decrease the wage of the average service provider. | 4 |
AskReddit/c3s17wc | pt5fo | What was a moment where you thought "Maybe I shouldn't have said that"? | Aside from misc drunken confessions? Yeah, When I told my cuz that his dad had a previous marriage before his mom. It was a courthouse wedding and my religious grandma somehow got it annulled (or divorced), and then shipped my uncle off to the marines (Korea). My mom (uncle's sister) told me this story decades ago, and... | 2 |
AskReddit/ciwevyz | 2aljuy | What is something that you were able to do when you were younger, but now have no idea how you were able to do it? | Swim. I started doing pool workouts this past year and for the first few weeks I couldn't believe how quickly I got tired. I used to be able to swim forever when I was younger. I suppose it has something to do with being 70lbs heavier. | 2 |
AskReddit/cz6imkc | 41zlsz | What is the most obscure video game? | Not really obscure as much now that it's on Steam, but when Psychonauts released it was pretty obscure. I actually played it back when it came out and fell in love with it. Brilliant game, and it received excellent ratings. People just didn't really know about it back then. | 2 |
AskReddit/d4jhlao | 4pbayt | What is the difference between link and comment karma, and what are they good for? | Link karma is karma you get for posting links. Comment karma is karma you get for posting comments. Karma is good for telling you how much people like the things you post. That's it. | 3 |
AskReddit/dh4xw0o | 6992f9 | What are some "green flags" when dating? | Respecting your boundaries. At no point in time should you feel pressured to do anything, if you're not ready. If you both have trust in a relationship, you will still have a lot of time together (: Personally, I hate being touched by others. My bf asked me for a hug the first time, I found that really nice, but obviou... | 26 |
AskReddit/da84emj | 5dxx07 | What is a good example of a show, documentary, or TV program that is simultaneously educational and really entertaining? | Louis Theroux's original documentaries (with the Nazis, the westboro baptist church, prison life etc.) Also I know these are strange recommendations but I've learnt a lot of pop/historical references from Peep Show and Archer! | 3 |
AskHistorians/chm7w4v | 25ypc8 | Why did serfdom survive much longer in Russia than is Western Europe? | One explanation would be that after the Black Death, which made agricultural labor a much scarcer factor of production, landowners and peasants engaged in a set of class conflicts over who would control labor. In Western Europe, the peasants won (this round) and tenures lost most of their labor obligations and mobility... | 6 |
AskReddit/cygp5gv | 3yse00 | What is your favourite quote from a game? | "Your blade. it did not cut deep enough." Egil, Xenoblade Chronicles This quote has so much depth to it during the scene. Which, the scene is already really freaking emotional and is the turning point of the game, for the most part. I won't spoil anything though, since this game is so wonderful that no one deserves to ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/df98yfd | 60u2yk | Why can you switch gears without using the clutch? | Because on a mechanical level, when you can change gears without the clutch, it is because the input and output shafts are rotating at the same speed, and without tensions on the gears. The gears are able to move in and out smoothly. It can be potentially more damaging to the transmission in a vehicle with synchronizer... | 12 |
AskReddit/daz0q3o | 5hbm12 | What movie terrified you as a kid? | I will tell this story again. For me, spirited away. I saw it when it came out and I was a little kid (forgot exactly how old I was). Fantastic movie looking back, but when In first saw it, I was scared shitless. I had pretty bad separation anxiety, and the scene in the beginning where her parents get turned into pigs ... | 2 |
AskReddit/elsdp07 | bhfbd8 | What do you think of politics? | A democracy is healthy when everyone can have a healthy conversation with their fellow citizens, about politics. It's kind of a patriotic duty, to be involved at least at a conversational level with one's peers. To implement any hindrance to people's ability to be involved at any level of politics is contrary to the be... | 2 |
AskReddit/d4a1u2d | 4o6xlt | What's the biggest sacrifice you've made for your SO? | I've been looking for a new job and someone contacted me regarding a position that was perfect for me, and they wanted someone with my background. It involved relocating, which they were going to pay for. Sign on bonus, and a starting salary about 30 grand over what I'm looking for. My bf did not want to move, and I co... | 3 |
AskReddit/czlencl | 43vrle | If you were a dictator, what pet peeves would you shamelessly make illegal? | People who decorate the windows and outside of their houses with fairy lights at Christmas would be first to disappear in the night. All tinsel would be made illegal although other decorations and fairy lights on a tree near a window would be acceptable. Text speak in supposedly professional emails at work would be cau... | 3 |
AskReddit/efuq0lf | anlmz9 | What's your clothes related pet peeve? | shrinking, clothes that have to be dry cleaned, material so thin that it gets holes after a few months of wear, the lack of natural fibers, anything plastic or non biodegradable, jeans that fall off by the end of the day. | 2 |
AskReddit/c74kat5 | 13jrbd | How do I become a better older brother? | Growing up with a much older brother, I always hated how he expected me to function at his level of maturity. If I didn't, he wouldn't respect me or even react around me. Just sink down to their level, and have fun with them. That's all that really matters. Edit: I'm 21 now, and my brother's 33. The way he hated me gro... | 2 |
AskReddit/c8aiakf | 180lxu | What are some non-emergency situations that people frequently call 911 for? | My mother is a dispatcher and they get a lot of calls for people who said they heard a gunshot far back in their woods. During hunting season. Our town is surrounded by deep woods. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/d2x1xi9 | 4ictoe | Why are there lone railroad cars on the railway? | Mostly the "headless" cars are sitting idle because of logistical and or track safety reasons. Leaving traincars along a side track is no more or less dangerous than leaving a motorcar on the side of the road. The difference is that most main train tracks have to have dedicated side tracks called "spurs" instead of med... | 2 |
AskReddit/dw7djk6 | 86rkkl | What is the most pain you have ever felt? | The most severe pain I ever felt was menstrual pain. It was so severe I passed out and then threw up and nearly choked to death on my own vomit. But the worst pain I was ever in was a 9 millimeter herniated disk. Because I was at a 7 on the pain scale for almost six months. Sharp severe pain for several hours is one th... | 278 |
AskReddit/c2axr07 | jcbd3 | What's the longest you've gone without showering/washing, and what were the noticeable effects? | 3 days? Amateurs. Now that I have acclimatised with regular society I tend to shower daily but during my time as the sole night porter in a local hotel about 10 years ago where I did nothing but browse the net all night long I used to shower once every two weeks on average. | 3 |
AskReddit/d0mr90r | 48ut85 | What are the most dangerous shoes you ever wore? | Platform wedges. I wore them to my best friend's wedding and she had us walk out into a field for pictures. I ended up falling and scraping my knees. A month later at my wedding she fell down the front steps in her platform heels and skinned her knees. We both found it hilarious. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dh4q6zx | 699360 | In computing (networking), when two people communicate and a connection is established, what actually is happening? | Each computer has an IP address. Each software service on a computer has one or more "ports" that it listens to. For example, website traffic happens on port 80. To communicate, computer A asks a DNS server "What's the address for www.reddit.com?" and the DNS server replies 151.101.45.140. Then Computer a sends a websi... | 2 |
AskReddit/dqpe3mz | 7h9jd6 | What's the greatest movie line of all times? | "You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake." -Fight Club There are more fun lines out there. There are more interesting ones. But I think this is the greatest because of how much it has gone past its original source. We now use the term "snowflake" in every day practice in not referencing the movie, like all the othe... | 3 |
AskReddit/daguyds | 5f24tt | What are some underrated fruits and vegetables? | Cabbage. Cabbage is completely underrated. If you slice it thin, then pan fry it, it is a good "keto" noodle. If you blanch is and give it a gentle cooking, you can use it as a wrap. If you fry it, it makes great chips. All hail the cabbage! | 5 |
AskReddit/eizyxfg | b3j7ci | What would our world look like if being "high" was the default state and you could take drugs to be "sober"? | you just gave me another question to annoy my friends with. Like you know those "If you exit a room and can no longer see the chair. Is it there?" questions. Well now I will ask them "What if we are all high and smoking weed or drinking sobered you and took you back to reality?" | 2 |
AskReddit/d850odf | 54uag8 | What skill or hobby you developed as a child helped you later on in life? | When putting away my LEGO's, I would put all the 2X4's together, all the 2X3's together, all the 2X2's together, and so on. I wouldn't just stack them either, I'd make small buildings out of all of them for storage. it really helped me with speed building, and that helped me with hand eye cordination, which probably he... | 2 |
AskReddit/eazhnge | a2lhbt | What are you old enough to remember? | The Berlin Wall falling. I remember my dad telling me, "Watch this! It's important!" And I kind of turned my head from my Legos for about two seconds. | 6 |
AskReddit/eqq2qhy | bz56y0 | What's the most trivial reason u broke up with someone ? | I broke up with a girl in 8th grade because her eye shadow was clumped real bad. We were at lunch and she was sitting across from me and I just couldn't stop staring at it. That's technically not why I did, but it started the thoughts. | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/dkhjag1 | 6oia1p | Why is it not night-like on cloudy days? | Clouds aren't totally opaque, and they often don't cover the whole sky. Some light just ends up getting through. You will notice, though, that sometimes it randomly gets dark on a cloudy day. That's when the cloud's shadow lines up with your position, making it dark. | 2 |
AskReddit/ds9xiff | 7ojiqr | How do you avoid the urge to compare your life to others? | Because even people who initially seem very similar have had a very different life to you. You can’t do a fair comparison against something that is so significantly different so why would I want to compare myself to them when I have no idea about the majority of factors in their private life and childhood. An analogy I... | 2 |
AskReddit/eya8b40 | cwehwj | Why does Trump always sound so stupid when he talks? | Not really related, but I had a psych lecture about abnormal psychology recently, and we were talking about personality disorders. My lecturer said "we havent got time to go into narcissistic personality disorder today, but if you'd like to know what it looks like, Donald Trump is textbook." He wasnt joking | 2 |
AskReddit/d4cjki9 | 4ogte5 | What is the dumbest thing you've done, that you didn't think was dumb until someone pointed it out? | Doing a power trial on a boat so we had both engines at full throttle. 3 of us as engineers were in the space doing leak checks and watching gauges when coolant started spraying on the deck. I find the source of the leak which is a bolt that vibrated out of rotation and fell in the bilge so coolant is spraying out of t... | 74 |
explainlikeimfive/dgrjcrq | 67kvjv | Why do we feel the need to laugh when we hear something funny? | My English course is on why jokes are funny. We studied humor, and the theories from Plato and Freud. The incongruity, most popular theory supposedly, is when something in the joke doesn't belong, (which is the incongruity), so we laugh because it doesn't fit, it was unexpected in the punch line. Another theory is the ... | 5 |
AskReddit/c4vxtqp | ujl4b | What was the BIGGEST prize you ever won? | tickets to Nickelback. i hate Nickelback, so i sold them on kijiji for $200. basically, i won $200 cash from a radio station, and the joy of saying i hated Nickelback live on the radio. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/co6ptda | 2uaqld | Is humanity stunting our evolutionary development with all our modern conveniences and advancements? | It's a mistake to think that evolution has stopped. There are still evolutionary pressures acting on humans. In less developed countries disease still kills millions and animal attacks are not unknown. In developed countries other evolutionary pressures still affect people. Not only does traffic kill those who fail to ... | 6 |
AskReddit/cjpp6al | 2dhz64 | What isn't taught in schools that should be? | How to take care of our health! Like how our bodies work and how to eat well, why we need to exercise, sleep enough, drink enough water, floss, etc. I think this type of stuff is way more basic and important than a lot of commonly taught subjects and should be part of elementary education. Also, we should all study log... | 3 |
askscience/d0yrwi5 | 4a8y2b | How do eggs, when cooked over a stove to make scrambled eggs, go from liquid to solid even though they are heating up? | So remove all notions of melting and solidifying from your head, this has nothing to do with that. Egg white is mostly water (~90%) and the remaining 10% is mostly protein, and most of that protein is a protein called Ovalbumin. All proteins are made of long chains of individual units called amino acids. When the prote... | 29 |
AskReddit/e41og9b | 96mwwe | What is your 'long time no eat' food? | My mother, a horrible cook, used to make kielbasa for my step-father all the time, it was his favorite food. I hated it and had to force it down. Every once in while I see it in the store and think about trying it as an adult, but it has too many negative associations. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cclh8s1 | 1nru4j | What happens if you feed an herbivore meat? | People in here know they feed animal protein to cows and other live stock, right? How do you think BSE spread so much (mad cow disease). We have been feeding meat to herbivores for a long time. It is cheap dense protein source. They eat it fine, just dont have the facilities to hunt these food sources down. | 3 |
AskReddit/daa8gmv | 5e751q | If you had five minutes of airtime that everyone in the world had to listen to, what would you say? | People of Earth, your attention, please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet ... | 16 |
AskReddit/dnjm524 | 72mklr | For those of you who pledged fraternities or sororities, what was some of the stuff they had you do? | I pledged to one frat that made me hold 10 pennies in my mouth for a week. I wasn't allowed to spit them out even if I was eating or drinking. I ended up swallowing six of them which was still better than most of the guys. Too bad the decided they didn't want me in the frat. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/csnt50d | 3bnn9k | What happens when we get used to a smell? | Your nose is sending messages to your brain that the smell is something different than what your body is used to. Eventually, your body gets tired and stops sending the same messages of the same smell back and forth, and instead focuses on any other smells that you may come across. | 6 |
AskReddit/eefntd6 | ahlqq7 | What should you be prepared for before adopting a dog? | Be patient if they make messes or go to the bathroom inside the house. Adopting a dog means adopting their history, too- and often times they don’t come from the best backgrounds. They want to please you & be good - sometimes it just takes a long time even if they’re “advertised” as housebroken. | 5 |
AskReddit/eil2z1o | b1eih6 | What's the wisest thing an older person has ever told you? | My 93 year old grandma when I asked her for her top piece of advice for me in life she said something along the lines of: “Take care of your body. I’m the same person I am today that I was when I was 21, just smarter and wiser and more experienced. Also older and slower and weaker. The different now is that I’m a priso... | 4 |
AskReddit/cygh3be | 3ytj6v | When has your opinion changed when you were "on the other side of the fence"? | I used to be very, very pro-choice. And, socially, I still am. I think that everyone should be able to do what they want with their bodies without governmental restriction. I would never support a bill or law that restricts individual liberties about what a woman can or cannot do with her body. But personally and priva... | 3 |
AskReddit/dgo9fq6 | 677bo3 | What was the worst/goriest injury/sickness you've ever received? | Mastectomy due to cancer. Walking around with a drain and bag collecting fluid for weeks after. Developing complications with wound healing requiring surgically fitted wound-vac and months of treatment. Yeah, pretty much gory and worst sickness ever. But hey, I'm good today! | 2 |
askscience/c6sup4k | 127pre | Will a hot drink stay hotter for longer if I'm holding it? | The answer is generally not, although it is possible. This question while seeming simple enough, is actually pretty complex. It comes down to heat transfer, which is proportional to (a) the driving force, which is difference in temperature between the outer wall of the mug, and whatever is touching the outer wall of th... | 14 |
AskReddit/efgwyeb | altsa5 | What song lyrics hit you hard every time you hear them and why? | Tired of running Tired of hunting My own kind But retiring nothing Tires are steady screeching, the driver is rubbing Hands on the wheel, who said we wasn't Dying of thirst Dying of thirst Dying of thirst——honestly this entire song hit me pretty hard | 2 |
AskReddit/dhfdyqu | 6al0hh | What's something you hate being called, even though it's harmless? | I am a big guy, not obese by any means but I defiantly could lose 10-20 pounds. I absolutely hate being called big guy. "how's it going big guy?" | 3 |
AskReddit/ccohhba | 1o3jnk | Is it inappropriate for a man in a committed relationship to have half-naked pictures of models and celebrities on his laptop? | To be fair that is so unattainable it's like a dog chasing a car. The issue is this is something teenage boys do, not men. I'd be more concerned about why you need to be in a relationship with a man-boy. So I'm making this about you. Also, whether it's okay or not there is something to whether or not it's okay with you... | 2 |
AskReddit/dg9w4f4 | 65fsck | How did you meet your SO? | It was 1965. My commander, Ross, had just given me a dossier on Col. Stok, a KGB officer who wished to defect. It was understood he was the real power behind the Berlin wall, so his defection would surely aid the Western powers. So I was off to West Berlin, where I met my contact. One night after a few rounds in a club... | 3 |
AskReddit/el1qxyh | bdyps2 | Why isn't dry ice used to put out building fires? | How would you make enough it, store enough of it, carry enough of it to the location of a fire and then get it on to the fire? Talk about a logistical nightmare! Water is already pumped to every building in a city or town. And it's super cheap. | 18 |
explainlikeimfive/caux86a | 1hj5ub | Why, when I run, do I get cramps and whats the best way to avoid them? | Actual cramps come from dehydration and lack of oxygen, as people have said. That 'stitch' in your side though, is actually a matter of pressure forming in one side of your body. This can happen regardless of how hydrated or oxygenated you are. To defeat that stitch, exhale when you take a step with the foot that is on... | 3 |
AskReddit/er3jkbp | c0c94x | What's the most f*ed up scene you've seen in a movie? | Personally haven't seen these movies, but just hearing about some of the scenes were enough to make me gag: Human centipede, and Serbian film. One I have seen is from a movie called Tusk, when(spoilers) the protagonist is made into a walrus out of human flesh and the antagonist wears a similar suit if human flesh and t... | 102 |
explainlikeimfive/cnrccnk | 2so61m | What are in sleeping pills, that help promote sleep? | There are actually a few possibilities. It depends on what type of sleeping pills you are talking about. Over the counter (OTC) sleeping pills most often use Melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone produced naturally by your body to regulate sleep. From Wikipedia > In animals, the primary function is regulation of day-night ... | 3 |
AskReddit/ebaknbb | a40lat | What's you favorite music Genre/Artist/Album to listen to at work & what do you do for work? | I listen to orchestral music when i work as i find singing too distracting,. Usually stuff like the music of John WIlliams unsurprisingly as i work in IT and am a contented nerd. | 2 |
AskReddit/ckho2ww | 2gc8mt | Can the USA take away citizenship from citizens that are found to join ISIS? | A natural born citizen cannot have their citizenship taken away by the government. But the person CAN renounce their citizenship. And we want them to. Then Geneva conventions wouldn't apply to them. But naturalized citizens CAN be DEnaturalized. Especially if they are found belonging to groups like Al Qaeda or ISIS. | 3 |
AskReddit/es26xr6 | c5jik3 | Why do civilian people need to own guns? | Ok i own guns cause i enjoy them . i enjoy shooting them and working on them its like any other hobby. Just that my hobby has danger to it. i collect old and new guns . its fun for me and a hobby ive shared with my grandfather. seeing how guns have evolved over the years is pretty cool to me. I also own them for protec... | 6 |
AskReddit/c5bzqia | wbwda | Is it racist to simply not be attracted to a different race in general? | A lot of people have a "type" that they are physically attracted to. I wouldn't consider it racist for a certain race not to fit that type. Now, physical attraction can develop with getting to know someone and I would say that refusing to be open to that attraction because of a person's race is racist. | 3 |
AskReddit/e2o417z | 905xq6 | If you could choose how you died, what would you choose and why? | Peacefully in my sleep, shortly after moving into a nice old folks home at the age of 100 or so, after a visit from my family so I had the chance to say goodbye. I hope my partner will have died before me, but not too long before. I hope when I die my children will be old, but still healthy and happy, with grandchildre... | 11 |
AskReddit/dtibwa4 | 7u7xxw | What is a book that you were forced to read in school that you actually enjoyed? | Hamlet, in sophomore year of high school. Man, I laughed and I cried and I bought multiple copies for myself. That said, I'm a dork, and I've liked a lot of books throughout the years. The Giver, TKAM, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Lots more of them, but I don't really remember which books I was reading for school and whi... | 16 |
AskReddit/eteh7t7 | cb9cx6 | What’s the best thing about your 2019 summer so far? | I traveled for five weeks with many firsts - first time in Africa, first white water rafting, first road trip across (a small part of) the USA, etc. But honestly being home in my modest house with my cats and boyfriend is amazing. I’ve been back for three days, and traveling was wonderful but there’s no place like home... | 2 |
AskReddit/etrq7o0 | cd5vhl | What's the best alarm sound you've ever chosen and worked well? | First alarm is set to a 'morning classical' station on Spotify. 10 min later the second alarm is one of the more jarring default ones. The only one that really reliably works for me though, is setting it at Max volume in the next room, so I have to get up and walk out to turn it off. Otherwise there's always a chance I... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0bk1ai | 965m2 | If you were to jump onto an electric fence without touching the ground while touching the fence, would you still get electrocuted? | Yes, I can tell you from experience that you will get electrocuted. My family has farms in Ireland and use an electric fence for the sheep. They neglected to tell me this. If you did it naked, maybe not (That I don't know) but the current finds a break somewhere and you get shocked. We were fixing a break in the stone ... | 3 |
askscience/c6hezwz | 10wydy | Why don't incandescent solids glow green? | Adding on to iorfeflkd, things can't really glow blue either from black body radiation. If the peak of the emission is at blue, the entire object will be glowing white hot. You can get blue or green flames, but that's a property of whatever chemical is burning. | 3 |
AskReddit/dqylsx1 | 7igpp3 | If heels hurt so much, why do women choose to wear them? | I wear lots of heels, none of them hurt me. The biggest complaint about heels is that they dig into your ankles or chafe your toes, but that's because people buy cheap heels. You can easily find comfortable heels, and nobody I know that wears heels complains about them. I think it's important to note that many women at... | 8 |
AskReddit/cktbnkn | 2hjn2n | What's the best thing to say/do to a-holes who ignore the "No Soliciting" sign on your front door? | You have two doorbells. Put up a sign that says "For Solicitors" and "Everyone Else" if they ring the "Everyone Else" bell you slam the door in their face after telling them you don't do business with dishonest companies. Hook the "For Solicitors" bell up if you want or not. | 2 |
AskReddit/crjyjfj | 375o7t | What little things do you do to make the world a better place? | I wash plastic bags AND {gasp!} plastic wrap. Within reason of course. Just can't stand the thought of all the plastic garbage floating around in the ocean, and people thinking nothing of it. Also limit my food purchases to things that don't involve excessive styrofoam, etc. And I wash/reuse my plastic utensils. Sure i... | 2 |
askscience/co1ciwj | 2tos6o | If all but one species of dog died out, could we theoretically recreate all of those lost species by selective breeding? | It's very likely that with time you could create breeds that look like very much like our current breeds, but they would not have the same genetics as our current breeds . (Meaning you might not be able to distinguish your newly bred lookalikes from the original dog by looks, but you could tell them apart by looking at... | 6 |
AskReddit/emafowg | bjqn8b | How do you effectively boost creativity within teams? | You don't boost creativity. The best you can do is minimize its restraint. (veteran of 30+ years of working for MegaHugeGigantoSmotherTheCrapOutOfInnovation Corp with its endless cascade of team-building attempts) | 2 |
AskReddit/cg9uh00 | 215k2y | What's a lie your parents told you that you didn't discover until you were older? | My parents told me that our cat snuck out at night and was eaten by coyotes. Found out a couple years ago that she actually just drowned in the pool. Not sure they thought a cat being eaten by coyotes would be less traumatizing. | 7 |
AskReddit/emyxzjd | bmr3et | What is something that someone told you at the exact time you needed to hear it? | (I was in a deep depression when I was told this because a very close person to me had died) Hey dude I know ur in a dump right now and I just wanted to tell you that even if people do die you might as well make the most of it before you do so why dont we go and get a burger then watch a movie does that sound good? I n... | 2 |
AskReddit/eqauh29 | bxzigx | What helps or helped you when you are or were going through a tough time in your life? | - Learning how to lift weights. It takes focus, takes up time, and gives you endorphins. If you haven't done it or done it consistently before, you improve quickly which is also an emotional boost. ​ - Volunteer tutoring for middle/high school kids who need it. You have to focus entirely on what another person n... | 2 |
AskReddit/c5u5s5n | ybx8c | Do you check to see which coworkers you are scheduled to work with beforehand, or do you go in and enjoy the surprise? | I used to. When I worked at Pizza Hut I had a few friends I always had a blast with. One in particular I had known for about 7 years and was always happy to share a shift with him. He was funny, we were into the same shows, it made the horrible job more than bearable. Then he killed himself. I stopped checking the sche... | 2 |
AskReddit/ebsps1o | a66rsc | What did you badly want to do as a kid but don't bother doing as a grown up? | When I was a kid I wanted to be one of those adults who go to lavish parties and have lots of friends that I would invite over to have coffee with and have a book club ect. Basically I really wanted to be a social butterfly in my adult years. Now I think about how much fuss that would all be and I dont have a enough fr... | 2 |
AskReddit/cna5pu5 | 2qwgfm | Who would win in a fight, a Polar Bear or a Siberian Tiger? | Probably a polar bear. Just the sheer size and weight of a large male polar bear would be a huge factor in the fight. Coupled with the coarse hair and thick skin a tiger would be pretty hard pressed, despite having the greater agility. | 3 |
AskReddit/di0er03 | 6d751a | What would it take you to drive several hours to spend time with someone that you're falling for? | Well depends on how many hours it was. For me it would depend on 2 factors though, total distance + time I'd be able to spend with them. I drove 9-10 hours to just spend like 5 days with a friend of mine, If I was in love I think the distance could be longer and the time shorter and it would still be worth it. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/etfahjx | cbgiqm | What is human engineering and how has it influenced common products we encounter today? | Human engineering, which Don Normal originally called "The Psychology/Design of Everyday Things", influences many modern design choices. The classic example is the Norman Door Bar. When you approach a glass door, should you pull the handle bar or push it? If you write a sign, then you have to presume everybody reads th... | 7 |
askscience/dfvjb3c | 63m8ca | Why don't LEDs "run out" of electron-hole pairs during recombination? | In a conducting LED holes are created in the p-type material and migrate towards the junction. The electrons freed in creating holes become the current flowing round the circuit which eventually flows into the n-type material where they recombine with holes. Every extra free electron created results in an extra hole to... | 3 |
AskReddit/chmlurg | 260pbk | How do you want to die? | I was expecting "death by snu snu" tp be top comment. Personally I want to be that one person a year that dies parachuting or something like that so people can be like "It's ok, we can all go parachute now, he was our death for the year" | 2 |
Ask_Politics/d8ip9tb | 56emvy | Are Hillary Clinton's change in opinions sincere or pandering to the majority? | Society really shifted. A lot of people did change their mind and I would give her the benefit of the doubt on things like gay marriage. Obama didn't even support gay marriage until 2012. Clinton's views on that (generally speaking) shifted with the democratic party. Her flip flops are much less severe than Trumps. He ... | 7 |
AskReddit/dhdi8fp | 6acx41 | If you were to hide a body, where would you put it? | I would call my son and best agent to my lavish apartment and tell them that masked assassins broke in and killed the Italian prime minister and shot me in the arm. I would then also call the rest of my employees, including the mad scientist, to come as well. I tip off the police that the Italian prime minister has bee... | 39 |
AskReddit/c9znnh2 | 1efc30 | What is a song that will put you in a good mood even when your day has made you feel as if nothing else could go wrong? | "Can't Touch This" and "2 Legit 2 Quit" But it has to come on unexpected. I don't think that putting either of these songs on would cheer me up, but if they just start playing out of nowhere . always makes me smile. | 3 |
AskReddit/e1ui3p7 | 8wczpn | What is happiness to you? | Not having to worry about money. I know the saying goes that money can’t buy happiness, but I honestly believe if I didn’t have to worry about money then a lot of my other problems simply wouldn’t be a problem anymore. | 2 |
askscience/cqx8lzr | 34q92e | What makes certain metal ions suitable for use in biological systems? | Abundance and chemical properties determine which elements we use. Abundance isn't just for metal ions and so the explanation will be generalized. If you look at what elements living things use, you'll see that the most common elements used are also the most abundant elements in the universe. Because there's so much of... | 4 |
AskReddit/c96ar8u | 1bf3yn | What are some petty things for which you judge people? | If they cite Malcom Gladwell as their source I think less of them. If they have political opinion that either all conservative, all liberal, or all libertarian. If they correct other people's grammar or spelling for minor mistakes in a way that just points it out, but can't change anything. I judge all the people that ... | 16 |
AskReddit/cdq12z8 | 1rr4lg | What was the worst day of your life? | December 21, 2009, roughly 8pm. I was quite young at the time and I picked up my mom's phone for her while she was driving me home. It was my dad, who muttered "put your mom on the phone." As she listened I saw her smile gradually fade away, and I knew that something was going terribly wrong. Unfortunately, I was compl... | 2 |
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