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AskReddit/eayr4qj | a2itaa | What's the song that brings you the happiest memories? | Fireflies by Owl City. I loved that song when I was a kid and listening to it makes me feel so nostalgic. I feel like I’m 9 again with no responsibilities and no stress, everything was so easy and I was happy almost all the time. Still love the song. | 3 |
AskHistorians/ci3bcx2 | 27q8az | Does anyone know the history of vitrified forts across Europe and the reason/cause behind their vitrified state? | Vitrified forts also occur in Sweden, and in this context are subject of my own research into hillforts of the Migration period. The vitrification there is considered to be corresponding to a destruction phase, and is thus useful for thermoluminescence dating of these things, in correspondence with a C14 date from cons... | 6 |
AskReddit/dlhvjpf | 6t4fey | What are some of the genius methods that you used to sneak alcohol/drugs into a festival? | I've done this one several times, not just for festivals but as a safe and inconspicuous way to keep my drugs in my home. I'd buy some common otc medication in capsule form, or even better, when possible I'd use a medication prescribed to me. I'd empty the capsules and fill them again with weighed out doses of stims in... | 4 |
AskReddit/er9t8ni | c11dmw | Why is your dad the best? | My dad isn't the best. My best bud's dad, however, is absolutely The Best. Back when I was in college, my buddy and I were roommates. His dad came to pick him up for winter break and asked me what my plans were. I tried to lie about actually having plans and a place to go, and he saw through it and called me out. He ha... | 4 |
AskReddit/cd3knbk | 1plibi | If your 30 year-old self could write one sentence of advice to your 13 year old self, what would it be? | Don't think about the future so much, enjoy the present; years later you will spend much more time remembering a moment fondly than you did in the actual moment. (But I know 13 yo me wouldn't have taken it to heart.) | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dk5k0c6 | 6mzg38 | What is this odd feeling I get before falling asleep? | Your sensory body is expanding. It happens every night as part of the falling to sleep process but we usually are not conscious of it. In waking state the sensory body is contracted because of various thigs going on in our body and psyche. For example yoga means union and the goal is to expand the sensory body back to ... | 5 |
AskReddit/damcvft | 5fqqr7 | What is something unfair that happened to you in your youth that you're still mad about today? | My school librarian was a nasty old crone. I had checked out, read, and returned H. G. Wells' War of The Worlds in sixth grade. Somehow, the book got put back on the shelf without being marked returned. At my school, if you had an overdue library book you were put on a "stop list." This meant that you were not allowed ... | 41 |
AskReddit/d9p71z7 | 5bke4m | When was the last time you watched your favorite movie/played your favorite game/read your favorite book? | I just finished rereading "The Shining," which has been one of my favorite novels since I was in high school. Though it took me five times longer than the last time I read it, because I just. sort of didn't want to read those last few chapters. Every time I sit down and read it through, it seems more and more to me mor... | 2 |
AskReddit/cs3z266 | 39js2j | How do you watch a tv series again without getting extremely bored? | Background noise. I am either writing studying playing games or on reddit so I throw on shows I have watched before so that I only have to listen for the good parts. Lazy TV watching. Do not have to get invested in it just wait for the jokes/plot | 2 |
AskReddit/e580n6k | 9c4ypk | What ending to a tv series have you actually felt satisfied with the ending? | House. It really lost its way somewhere between season 5 and the final season. I felt they ended it nicely: paying homage to Sherlock Holmes, and concluding most loose ends. | 3 |
AskReddit/dzue2n0 | 8nc3un | What's a weird habit/quirk that you have, that you didn't realize you had until someone else pointed it out? | When I get excited about what I'm talking about I'll start talking louder and louder until I'm basically just yelling. I can't ever realize when I'm doing it. I didn't know I was until a couple years ago my boyfriend pointed it out when we were talking in ihop and I kind of embarrassed him lol. | 2 |
askscience/dws332p | 89jjsp | How does the Fourier Transform actually 'work'? | The Fourier transform multiplies all values of a sine wave with a given frequency with your signal. If their values often correlate (your signal is above zero when the wave is above zero etc), you get a higher value / contribution for that frequency. If that frequency does not correlate well with your signal, it will a... | 11 |
AskReddit/c5o7ml4 | xooae | Are there any scientific studies that explain in a more logical sense, as to what demon possessions really are? | Oh it's totally a mental disorder. I think the whole "demon possession" think stems from back in the olden days, people weren't aware of certain mental diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar, or autism. Therefore, anything foreign to them was seen as something demonic. If you don't understand it, blame the devil. | 2 |
AskReddit/cphn1tk | 2zcfjg | What has a fellow movie-goer yelled out in a theatre that took everyone out of the movie? | When Anakin kills the younglings in Revenge of the Sith some little kid in the front row dressed up as a jedi yelled out ".but you were the chosen one!" in the most distressed voice. | 7 |
AskReddit/ddu5wuf | 5ui46a | When jamming, how do guitarists know which notes to play? | Because a good musician knows what notes sound good together, and a good bandmate knows where his fellow bandmates are gonna take a jam. If you're all on the same page it's not hard to keep up. | 3 |
AskReddit/eo9ruac | br3lk0 | How do you deal with someone who did you real wrong just carrying on with their life happily, (like nothing ever happened, no apology) ? | Take a deep breath and go on with your life. And if you meet back up again in a group setting or otherwise light heartedly joke about what they did to you like it's no big deal. It will be deeply awkward for them and probably cause them to answer some awkward questions to other people. It will small and petty revenge, ... | 2 |
AskReddit/ei8k1d0 | azl401 | Do you put the toothpaste on then rinse it before putting it in your mouth, or do you rinse the toothbrush first then put the toothpaste on then put it in your mouth, and why? | Life hack! Or something: I rinse, put on toothpaste, then drizzle hydrogen peroxide on top. Just a habit I developed that I've never changed, but peroxide is amazing for oral hygiene, and coupled with flossing will give you the cleanest mouth you've ever had. Helps whiten too �� | 2 |
AskReddit/d95qivk | 594y9e | How did you get that scar? | I get my scars when the dermis (deep, thick layer of skin) is damaged. The body forms new collagen fibers (a naturally occurring protein in the body) to mend the damage, resulting in a scar. The new scar tissue will have a different texture and quality than the surrounding tissue. | 8 |
AskReddit/d3igzb3 | 4kx39z | What is the most computer illiterate thing you've ever seen a person do? | You mean beside installing 6 billion search bars and or weatherbug? I also saw my father plugging and unplugging his computer over and over trying to turn it on, entirely ignoring that whole 'power' button thing. Installing AOL everytime they got a new AOL CD. Trying to use AOL when they had a DSL line. Deleting that p... | 4 |
AskReddit/dtdwhi0 | 7tnj4a | What's the one thing you hate about yourself? | I find it very hard to sympathize or empathize with others. I try my hardest to put myself in the shoes of others when they are feeling really sad or scared about something, but for some reason, I get frustrated with them for feeling whatever they are feeling. I've caught myself looking at the person and thinking "What... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ct3so92 | 3dc6dx | How does protein affect the body? | Okay so protein does all kinds of things in the body. The word "protein" is like this overarching term for enzymes, hormones, etc. Your body doesn't store protein either like we store sugar and fat. Protein doesn't make you stronger if you don't workout. You have to workout and make tiny tears in your muscles by doing ... | 3 |
AskReddit/d8le1fg | 56psae | What are some "close calls" you've had where you believe you almost became a murder/abduction victim? | I was once on a run where i got the strong vibe I was being followed by a weird white truck- I had just left some trails nearby my house and was running up through the neighborhood. My neighborhood is in a pretty remote area however, with the houses having quite a bit of property & wooded areas between them. As I was r... | 6 |
AskReddit/cdo963e | 1rkx65 | What is the most infuriating abuse of power you've witnessed or found out about in the work place? | A guy who inspected public swimming pools red tagged one particular public pool because he found it to be unsafe for swimming. A legislator from that area ordered him to open it back up. The inspector refused citing that it was unhealthy and could make a lot of people sick. The legislator had the guy fired, then hired ... | 4 |
AskReddit/cku1ey6 | 2hmmpk | What're unsolved mystery/phenomena do you find fascinating? | There are a few unsolved murders I find interesting, but it's frustrating because many of them will never be solved. Who was Jack the Ripper? There are dozens of theories, but multiple people actually confessed to the crimes and whatever physical evidence there was has either been lost or severely decayed by time. Supp... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/csh6wx8 | 3ayti6 | Why are people so upset about Arkham knight(a game made for consoles) being only comparable on PC? | The issue is that the PC version's graphics are terrible in comparison to the console version, to the point where people are having difficulty playing. Sure, the game may have been designed for console first, but if you are making it available on PC, it should at least work. | 3 |
AskHistorians/cs9m2mk | 3a5hv4 | Is it known how Hindenburg planned to keep Hitler in check? | Sadly I've forgot to pack Joachim Fest's Hitler biography when I moved, but I remember that in order to get the chancellorship Hitler had to make one, at least from a modern perspective, incredible concession: When he formed the government in Jan. 1933 he was only able to put two NSDAP members in his cabinet. Wilhelm F... | 10 |
explainlikeimfive/da97owj | 5e249k | How do instant hot water systems work? | Plumber here. Very simply, imagine if you ran your garden hose to a metal pipe, then ran that pipe through your fire pit with a nozzle on the other side. Turn on the water, light up a fire, and the water will come out warmer than it went in. Those systems really aren't anything more than a gas/electric element and a bu... | 6 |
AskReddit/ecbxkky | a8mnok | If you had one extra room in your house/apartment (and money was no issue), what would you do with it? | If money was no issue I would fill it floor to ceiling with stacks of $100 bills. Then if money ever became an issue I would just go grab a hanfull of bills from my money room. Plus if people found out about it I could act surprised that they don't have a money room. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c31n7a4 | mkdmu | What is Acid Reflux? | Well, your stomach makes among other things acid to digest the food you eat. Your stomach is ok with this because it also produces mucous that protect it's walls from the acid. Normally the acid on your stomach only has one way to go, to the duodenum. The duodenum is also ok with all this acid because your pancreas mak... | 8 |
AskReddit/cerx0ye | 1vg5h0 | How is the party scene different today from several decades ago, if at all? | More pictures of everything. There are luckily very few pictures of me partying in College and I graduated in 2005. Even less pictures a decade before that. The most pictures are from my senior year. Before digital photography and facebook, there wasn't much fear of a future employer finding out about your binge night ... | 2 |
AskReddit/epptlwq | bvk5lo | Which Celebrity's death pained you most? | I feel a little bad for the family since losing a loved is heartbreaking but I generally don't feel affected by celebrity deaths. I don't know them personally so the impact in my life is minimal. | 5 |
askscience/cy4byly | 3xb1i1 | Why aren't the oxygen atoms in Iron Tetracarbonyl positively charged? | While in many cases the donor of the pair would have a positive partial charge (polarity), oxygen is more electronegative than carbon. It is the exception to the rule. The carbon is actually slightly positive and this is what enhances its ability to bond with the iron atom in heme or in tetracarbonyl. | 2 |
AskReddit/c2b33wr | jcute | What do you dislike about nerd/geek culture? | In large circles of nerdy guys, the misogyny is HORRIBLE. In large circles of nerdy girls, there is way too much reactionary "feminism". I feel like in nerd culture, when faced with gender discussion, there is never a place where I can find a place where people are aware that misogyny exists, but don't call a photoshoo... | 123 |
explainlikeimfive/d9n3gyo | 5bagxx | Why do some militaries require men to be clean shaven? | Former Austrian Solider here. Austrian soldiers are allowed to grow beards since June, I think. Before that we could only have mustaches and sideburns no longer than the end of the earlobes. The main reason for that, was, and still is, the proper seal of the ABC-Protection Mask and consequently suit. While it is possib... | 127 |
explainlikeimfive/c28pems | j2yuq | What things should I look for most, when buying a used car? | If possible, have a mechanic you trust take a look at it. You're gonna want a vehicle history (ie "Show me the Carfax") to know if it's been in any accidents (don't want that) or if previous owners were smokers (may or may not care) and other things of that nature. Others will supply more thorough answers but this is j... | 2 |
AskReddit/dt3z1x6 | 7sdytl | How come people are more empathetic towards their pets than their fellow men? | Owning a pet gives people 100% of the power in a relationship. God complex. If it wasn't for you they'd die of thirst or hunger, right? Right! It's easy to feel bad for something you've nurtured and controlled since infancy as opposed to people you don't know, can't control and more than likely won't get a "thank you" ... | 2 |
AskReddit/d8hfgg8 | 569bsl | What would you comment to get gold? | I'd comment for all to behold A limerick begging for gold. With obvious greed, I'd shamelessly plead, And hope that the gilder was sold. Edit: Well surprise, surprise. A gold! | 3 |
AskReddit/ermmlua | c2usq3 | How did your best friend became your best friend? | In kindergarten we were enemies because we were the bosses of the two groups fighting each other. Well there was this one kid we hated both so from safe distance i asked him if he would like to fight him so i can push him. After we did that the kid cried and we decided to meet in the afternoon.Turns out he was my Neigh... | 3 |
AskReddit/c0tdml2 | clbtr | Do you think American society secretly dislikes intelligent people? | We're bred to hate/dislike the intelligent. How many little girls have heard, "School is boring, let's go shopping!" or similar lines? How many shows have you seen where the nerd is pushed down just because he's fascinated by physics instead of football? Intelligence is hated. Why else would "nerd" be considered deroga... | 17 |
AskReddit/djfkfnn | 6jnj18 | How much does appearance mean to you in a relationship? | Appearance is what makes me interested in someone in the first place. If I snag a date, only then will I start looking for personality. (Unless they've shown really bad personality before I ask them out). If I were to get in a relationship, appearance isn't the be-all-end-all, but it's the thing that starts my interest... | 10 |
AskReddit/cn8cex5 | 2qptpd | When was the first time you can remember money having significance? | My twin sister and I were 8. The FurReal Friends cat had just been released. That little thing didn't walk or wag its tail like they do today, but we wanted our own cats to pet and fake-feed and hear them purr. My parents had always bought spoiled us and bought whatever toy we asked for. Not this time. No, no. If I wan... | 2 |
AskReddit/enhu6t2 | bombxp | How come nobody ever talks about how good the Americans on FX is? | It was a fantastic show and people should talk about it. But aside from American Horror Story and the People v. OJ, FX shows never really get watched by all that many people, and The Americans would probably have more streaming success if it were on Netflix instead of Amazon Prime. | 2 |
AskReddit/erqdu99 | c3dtl4 | What would you do if someone kicked your pet? | Not kicked but someone threatened to hit my puppy with a very large stick. My other dog almost charged the dude. So, when my Doberman was a little puppy, I was working with him on walking and trying to ignore people when we walked. I had another dog at the time (RIP Kisa) and she was good about ignoring other people so... | 4 |
AskReddit/cn76mza | 2qlgkw | What's the worst trouble you ever got in as a teen? | I stayed out past curfew with my friend once, 30 minutes. We were at Denny's and didn't notice. I got grounded for a week. .wasn't exactly the worst teen. | 2 |
AskReddit/dtaskf9 | 7t8lm7 | What's the scariest movie you've ever seen? | I don't know if I would say Paranormal Activity is the most scary film, but it definitely was the most tense film I've seen in a long time. The tension all throughout it was just so well paced. I told my niece it was real before we watched it since she was pretty young and she broke down crying during it lol. I felt aw... | 10 |
AskReddit/dqk6qkb | 7gmezu | What is the stupidest thing you have ever had to explain to somebody? | This may not be the stupidest, but I've had to explain it to multiple people who still didn't understand. I had to explain that you don't need data or an internet connection to make a phone call, or send a text. I even said "remember when we had flip phones? Those didn't have data, right?" They agreed, but still didn't... | 2 |
AskReddit/er3bvu4 | c0b0f3 | Which would you choose, to be deaf in one ear or color blind? | Enchroma glasses offer some if not absolute correction to colorblindness. A cochlear implant for the deaf ear working in concert with natural hearing would offer near but not perfect correction. | 3 |
AskReddit/daxml95 | 5h5lxk | What is the strangest thing you've heard or seen in a public toilet/restroom? | People think they're in their own private world when on the toilet. You hear a lot of funny noises and talking. Once I heard a guy practicing a speech, -"Ladies and Gentlemen, I am hnnnnggg. honored of being called to this momentous nhhhnnn. occasion.ggggg plop" | 2 |
AskReddit/cyat8r5 | 3y5vou | What is/are your experience(s) with sensory deprivation tanks? | I submerged myself into a Sensory Deprivation tank. It wasn't scary, honestly . . . You just start receiving your sensory input from your own head, Luke your imagination is suddenly more vivid. Even when you recall a memory, you can hear and see and smell the sensations associated with that memory very clearly. I guess... | 2 |
AskReddit/ch8f1pf | 24lxks | For as long as you've been gaming, what has it taught you that the real world hasn't? | Not video games but MTG taught me that people's miniscule actions can give insight to their motives. Ex: glancing at mana but not playing a card means he's probably 1 mana short. Can't think of a better example but it would be equivalent to someone checking the time. meaning they want to do something else or need to be... | 2 |
AskReddit/e7l91xu | 9nclcz | What is the most racist thing you've ever experienced? | Im white, so obviously I haven't personally experienced racism, but I remember once my family and I were driving from Toronto to Miami for a cruise. We stopped at a restaurant in North Carolina and our waitress started joking that she loved the Miami Dolphins and we should bring her back a football player, "just not a ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dweh1xk | 87ohmi | What are necessary but difficult to learn skills that all adults should have, and what’s the best way to learn them? | Phonetic alphabet isn't very difficult to lean but should be learned by everyone. Actually difficult to learn and every adult should learn it: speed reading. There are a lot of websites that'll teach you to speed read. Geography(knowing most major capitals and almost all countries' general location). Google maps, flash... | 2 |
AskReddit/c62dzl7 | z8e7n | Have you ever talked a cop out of giving you a traffic ticket? | My wife knew a girl who had one long fingernail. She said it was for when she gets pulled over, she jams the nail into her nose until it bleeds. Then when the cop walks up she starts hysterically crying. She has never gotten a speeding ticket. But I think she's a bit crazy. | 2 |
AskReddit/cdaqoan | 1qa736 | What's a store-brand product that's just as good as/better than the name brand? | If you live in Texas, Hill Country and the HEB brands are pretty good. In fact, I believe lot of the items are the genuine thing, but have been repackaged for selling at a different cost point. | 2 |
AskHistorians/cjd1ar8 | 2c8hps | Are there any success stories when it comes to the dismantling the British Empire? | I think this needs a little more clarification and will dare an answer even though it is wildly out of my scope. Canada and Australia were both part of the empire and seem to be doing pretty well. Is there something about either that you consider unsuccessful? Many of the island territories (Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad... | 5 |
AskReddit/cmd4j59 | 2nfea4 | Where do you download books for free? | Amazon. You can download a Kindle reader for free, to just about any device. Once you have that, go to kindle books; "advanced search" sort by; "price, low to high". There are thousands of free books in there. Just be aware, many of the free ones are "book one" in a series, although some are not. I usually check out th... | 2 |
AskReddit/cmxp5jw | 2pla49 | What is a useful skill you've learned in 6 months or less? | I got a small screen print press from a friend and learned how to use it here and there. Now I make money on the side printing shirts for bands, churches, businesses, etc. Also, I buy blank shirts for 1-2 bucks and print whatever I want on them. | 2 |
AskReddit/dckrlhw | 5oo0ll | What are the first 3 things you would tell to a person new to Reddit? | as much as possible stay anonymous your comment history can be used to piece together seemingly random information to identify a single person, you delete your account every week On point 3: the benefits of deleting your account are: it makes it harder for random people on the Internet to identify you it forces you to ... | 3 |
Ask_Politics/drnu125 | 7ln4mo | How would the Queen of England theoretically to consolidate power and turn the commonwealth into an autocracy? | The Queen can declare war. Enthusiasm for the monarchy rises during a war. That’d be the first step I’d take were I Evil Queen Elizabeth. Many of her powers require the advise and consent of elected Government ministers. For instance, she can create Lords, and could theoretically pack Parliament with puppets, but would... | 5 |
AskReddit/cw623hz | 3pfmjz | What's your gamer tag and how did you come up with it? | Deviouswhiskey because i didn't renew my subscription to Xbox live 7 years ago and when I got a new console this was the new gamer tag it suggested after trying to come up with something oroginal a hundred times. | 2 |
AskReddit/dju0ztv | 6li6xs | Where are some good places to make friends? | I made some of my best adult friends through work. We went out for beers on Friday at 5 and we got talking in the pub. Met a couple of one night stands that way too. Tread carefully. | 3 |
AskReddit/ckdm1fo | 2fx5sn | What's the weirdest/funniest reason your SO cried? | My ex cried while we were talking about dinosaurs. It was because she was scared humans would go extinct too. The conversation went like this. Me: Brontosaurus is the coolest dinosaur. SO: Nah, it's all about the T-Rex Me: I would say pterodactyl but I don't know if they're considered dinosaurs. SO: crying What if huma... | 8 |
askscience/e3cekv0 | 93bogc | Why aren't reflections in a mirror clear when I'm not wearing glasses? | When you look at an object in a mirror, you're focusing on the virtual image of the object. This means that if an object is 10m away from the mirror and you look at it in the mirror, you're focusing on a spot 10m beyond the mirror. | 30 |
AskReddit/e5ygn72 | 9fqmr9 | What is something you went a substantial amount of time being 100% sure of, only to be wrong? | Up until my SO corrected me while playing the new Spider-Man game, I was certain that the Chrysler Building was the Empire State Building and the Empire State Building was the Chrysler Building. I'm 24 years old.yeah, I'm not from the US nor have ever visited New York but that's a pretty long time to be sure of somethi... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cgh99kr | 21wv6v | What exactly causes that insane pain in our sinuses when we jump in the pool and water shoots up our noses? | Pressure, depending on how fast it shoots up there. It's kind of like the sudden pain of a prostate exam, just a different orifice. Using a Neti Pot you can fill up your sinuses with water with no discomfort at all, but having water injected into them at high speed is quite different. | 2 |
AskReddit/eribq5p | c288ej | What's the most pathetic meal you've had to make as a student? | Not as a student, as a father. I usually don't get to eat daily, to guarantee that my kids get 3 full meals a day. If I eat something, and they get hungry another day, I feel I've literally taken food out of their mouth. | 4 |
AskReddit/ccu0178 | 1oonyp | What are your pet's names and why did you name them that? | Valentino and Murphy. Tino is a retired guide dog and his whole litter was named with "V" letter names. Murphy we named to welcome Murphy (like Murphy's Law) into our lives in a more positive way. | 2 |
AskReddit/ckqy8i3 | 2har76 | If your roommate's cat has infested the house with fleas, is it her responsibility to get rid of them, or the whole house's responsibility? | It's mostly her responsibility, but . I imagine that the rest of you are highly motivated to get rid of them. It may be counter-productive to stall and wait for her to fix it. Let your roommate know how much it will cost you to have someone come in and fix it -- she then has the option to either pay that or do it herse... | 2 |
AskReddit/d4ndfu2 | 4prw7l | What video game has changed your life? | What introduced me to gaming and changed my life (mainly by wanting to play more video games) would be Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the PS2, me and my cousin sunk days into that game. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e5939no | 9c9m45 | How does your phone automatically know which police station to call when dialing 911? | Your phone doesn't know that at all. It just notifies the phone company that an emergency call is needed. The phone company knows the approximate location of every phone, and automatically chooses the assigned emergency call center for that location. | 15 |
AskReddit/dbdc0bd | 5j4igg | When you wait for a waiter in a restaurant are not you a waiter? | All of us are 'waiters' in a restaurant, you wait for an empty table. You wait for a waiter to wait on you. He waits for you to place an order. He again waits as the kitchen staff fills his delivery tray. The kitchen staff always waits for that waiter to bring along an order to fill. While you eat/drink, another custom... | 2 |
AskReddit/ermeuyv | c2ssfs | What happened on the best day of your life yet? | It was the last time I walked out the door to my parent’s house. I finally left behind an abusive family, settled into a new place with my husband, focused on my pregnancy, and never looked back. It was hard, and we’ve had many difficult times, but that one day, where I gained my freedom by literally trading one life f... | 59 |
AskReddit/e3ryuhj | 95e2ws | What premise do you really want to see turned into a reality TV show? | There was a reality show where they left a bunch of strangers on an island with cameras and neglected to pick them up until the end of the season (several months later) even though it had been canceled in the second month of the running. We need to do that again, but tell them it's canceled without canceling it and wat... | 2 |
AskReddit/ey7l30j | cw0b1s | If your boss called you and ask you to work on Saturday, What would you reply to him so that he will never ever make a mistake to ask you to work on Saturday? | Always say I'm in a nearby city helping my dad build a fence. I tell all of my bosses when I get hired that I help my dad with his fence building business on weekends for more money than I am paid at my job (my dad doesn't build fences for a living). Three things: 1.)Bosses tend to feel bad pulling you away from helpin... | 2 |
AskReddit/cmsgqa5 | 2p1f8u | What's your favorite sound? | The wind howling through the trees, the sound of an orchestra tuning before a performance, the guitars in old goth rock (especially in A Forest and in Bauhaus), crows cawing, wood splintering/snapping, wood fires, thunder, record crackling, the horns in swing music.I have too many favorites. | 3 |
AskReddit/coqpxri | 2wgx8g | Who was your worst teacher or professor and what made them the worst? | My high school Geometry teacher. He pretty much did all of our homework for us during class so we didn't learn a thing. Someone even was making food in the back of the room and he didn't even notice. Like grilling something. It was ridiculous. | 6 |
AskReddit/exn1d9u | ctr54n | What if Juul slowly decreased the nicotine percentage in the pods and slowly weaned the American populace off nicotine. ? | I don't think this would be an effective approach. Full disclosure, I'm a cigarette smoker, so my knowledge of Juul is purely based off friends I know who use it. However, I have at least two friends who used Juul to quit smoking cigarettes, then just severely ramped up how much they were vaping, since they got used to... | 8 |
AskReddit/dd6449w | 5rcacq | What are your tips for people with low self confidence? | There's a few. And alot of them generally fall into the "fake it until you make it" Here's a question you need to ask yourself. Why do you suffer from low self esteem? And be specific. You need to be honest with yourself before you can expect to shine with confidence. But if you want to do one thing? Look into the mirr... | 3 |
AskHistorians/c8gjo6x | 18o47p | Why was there no European intervention into the Bosnia genocide? | The Balkans was a powder keg of proportions. One of the reasons it got so messed up was the alignment of the major powers supporting the 3 sides, which at many points had ample opportunity to spread and evolve into something much, much nastier. While the West generally supported the Christian Croats, Russia and several... | 14 |
askscience/dto002m | 7uupsq | What would happen when a black hole loses exactly enough mass through Hawking Radiation to stop being a black hole? | As they lose mass they shrink. Once they reach the Planck mass (a mass similar to a speck of dust), it is expected that they either evaporate completely or (more exotic case) leave some stable remnant with unknown properties. | 4 |
AskReddit/ds4fyau | 7ntvh7 | What would you do if you found out you had a disability? | I was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder and my initial thought was that my life was ruined. I'm glad to say that is not the case, but when I first found out. That is how I felt. I remember sitting with my best friend the night I was diagnosed, crying and asking if he would still speak to me, I drank a lot o... | 2 |
AskReddit/cv3yhvf | 3l7mdo | What is the best charity to give money to and why? | There's actually a group that does tonnes of research to find out what the most effective charities are. They look for cost-effective ones that have a lot of evidence to back them up. www.givewell.com Right now they only recommend 4 charities: Against Malaria Foundation Give Directly Schistosomiasis Control Initiative ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c09cj05 | 8i1ox | What advice do you have for a coder who is moving into a project management position? | I am going to bear the title of PM for the first time. I have done work as technical team lead for several years. What advice do you have for a female coder who is moving into the management space? | 5 |
AskHistorians/ch58u45 | 24a5fm | Were Domitian's economic and building policies as misguided as Suetonius has suggested? | It seemed like Domitian lowered the money supply by increasing silver purity for coins. I can not say if that is a good or bad thing. It would keep prices stable but limit growth. While Domitian does seemed to have increased expenses by building roads, rebuilding Rome and providing welfare and entertainment for Romans,... | 2 |
AskReddit/c49dc3g | rx86t | When an airplane experiences turbulence, how much is it really moving? | Anywhere from a few inches to several feet vertical. An it's nothing to worry about until you're a few feet above the ground. I've not experienced significant lateral movement either in an airliner or my personal airplane. | 2 |
AskReddit/dip4rt1 | 6gbvez | When you're dreaming do you see text clearly, and do you use your phone in dreams? | I can definitely read text -- I once read an article in my dream all about how people are unable to read in their dreams so it's a good lucid dreaming technique to know if you're dreaming. It was really confusing when I woke up . . . I've never used my phone, but I don't use it too much in real life, so that's probably... | 2 |
AskReddit/e4zifni | 9b0wyg | What is your go-to tomato soup and grilled cheese recipe? | I don't make my own soup.but Campbell's with milk instead of water, oregano, pepper, and garlic. Grilled cheese using miracle whip mayonnaise instead of butter to make it tangy, sharp cheddar cheese, and white bread. You are giving me pregnancy cravings.I must go to the store now. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dhwg6lv | 6cps0i | Does a Soda/Coke/Fizzy drink contain/weight the same when it goes flat? | When the drink has gone flat, it has released carbon dioxide which is dissolved in it. A can of Coca-Cola has circa 2.2 grams of carbon dioxide in it. If it went perfectly flat, it would weight about this much less than before. | 6 |
AskReddit/dunelyf | 7zehwl | What is your opinion on Myers–Briggs Type Indicator and which one are you ? | I think the test tells us a lot about society. Years ago, we were classified by our humors: choleric, phlegmatic, etc. Then came horoscopes. Now Myers-Briggs. The takeaway is that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who love classifying other people, and everyone else. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cpbz6gy | 2yqcjq | Why will a pen stop working in one area, but when you scribble elsewhere it works just fine? | Most of the time it's not about the area, but pen itself. The little ball dipped in ink gets stuck and doesn't roll. If you scribble, direction and position of writing changes in fast manner, so the ball pops back into it's place, dirt gets out, or whatever the reason of ball being blocked, is fixed. Most of the time, ... | 7 |
AskReddit/ervkhcb | c48nl6 | What’s an event that occurred in your life that made you think “I’m lucky to be alive”? | There are many things that have made me think this. The majority of them are for nerdy reasons. Things like seeing 'Avengers: Endgame' (like the other poster mentioned), watching GoT episodes with my girlfriend, various emotional moments in games, etc. It can also just be a thought whilst hanging with friends or my GF.... | 2 |
askscience/djvkjgs | 6lm89k | Does a low plasma osmolality imply that we have a low blood volume, and vice versa? | The short answer is no. The most commonly seen situation where a person has a high blood volume is heart failure. The simplified mechanism is that the heart is having trouble pumping and the body sees it as not having enough blood so it retains sodium. As water follows solutes, water is retained as well giving a genera... | 4 |
AskReddit/dxbwzeb | 8c3tgq | What are some places that would seem absurd to be open any less than 24 hours a day ? | Most stores, really. Especially in major cities where there are people who may live their entire lives on an afternoon/night shift and thus don't have the ability to purchase things at normal hours. | 2 |
AskReddit/ej6m4om | b4h0kf | How do you get over or deal with the feeling of being trapped in you circumstances? | When I feel trapped in my circumstances I usually do a couple different things. I internalize and ask myself why do i feel this way? Is there anything I could be doing or doing better to help myself? If its a major hurdle i break things down and work backwards step by step. Keep breaking things down into smaller and sm... | 2 |
AskReddit/d4jukpe | 4pcqij | What is something that is morally appealing, but 100% illegal? | A little bit debatable on how morally appealing it is but assisted suicide would be a possible answer. Watching someone writhe in pain and agony as they await their certain death and then putting them out of their misery is pretty frowned upon legally. | 447 |
AskReddit/cc3ya90 | 1lybot | What are some simple investments that will instantly class up a crummy apartment? | Good lamps with good lightbulbs. I had a crummy apartment that actually had fluorescent lighting, the kind you'd find in an office. Just by getting some lamps with natural light lightbulbs it changed the look of the whole place. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/delwe35 | 5xyiac | Why is "good morning" two words, but "goodnight" is only one? | copypasta from another post. You may be thinking about the adjective form of the word "goodnight," as in "she gave him a goodnight kiss." In that part of speech it is one word, but as a noun or an interjection it is still two, as in: > "Good night," he said. "It will be a good night indeed," she replied before giving h... | 66 |
AskReddit/edc5pt1 | aczjtb | What's your worst nightmare and/or phobia ? | I once had a dream where I had 24 hours to find 7 random items all across my country. I ended up only finding 2 and I had the worst stress I've ever had when I woke up. | 2 |
AskReddit/chwixpv | 271lkw | What news would actually crash the internet? | I don't know about crashing the internet, but I'd be interested to see how something like a zombie plague spreads across social media. Like. there WILL be a "first" person to tweet about zombies. And then, probably pretty quickly, news would spread, and we'd be able to track the spread of the plague geographically, bas... | 345 |
AskReddit/e7il3jd | 9n05ze | What is a movie/tv show you can't watch because of a phobia you have? | It's not a movie or TV show, but I played the PS2 port of Half-Life when I was like 5 and the intro scared be a bit too much lol While it's definitely ridiculous now, even at 19 I still am a little uneasy playing anything on the Source Engine, maybe except for TF2. | 2 |
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