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AskReddit/c78w8ic | 140zrf | Is it normal for my ear piercing to take almost 3 months to heal? | A few years ago, I got a cartilage piercing in one ear, about halfway up. I left the earring in for an entire year, and it always very slightly ached a little. Took it out for two nights, and it closed up. I don't think it ever fully healed after I pierced it. It takes a long time for some people to heal. Sometimes a p... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/db1g08u | 5hm5wr | What is the back and forth issue that AMD and Linux are bickering over? | Disclaimer: neither a Linux kernel developer, nor a 3D expert, but a programmer. This is my personal understanding of the issue: AMD submitted some code to the linux kernel, which contains a Hardware Abstration Layer (HAL). A HAL is a layer that makes different hardware look the same for another piece of code. For inst... | 4 |
AskReddit/chng6e3 | 2645pd | What did you purchase to accumulate credit card debt? | I do not have a credit card anymore. I know that it is hard to resist, but using your own money is much more rewarding. The only time you should use a credit card is in an emergency when your outgoings are more than your incomings - like funeral, death overseas, etc | 2 |
AskHistorians/cgyg50u | 23mjp3 | What was Japan's (long-term) plan when they attacked Pearl Harbor? | I'll repost an answer I wrote to a similar question. The Japanese high command was not stupid nor were they blind, they could see the massive disparity in terms of military resources and industrial capacity that existed between the USA and Japan. Pearl Harbor was not necessarily intended to cripple the USA in the long ... | 28 |
AskReddit/cjfdsyh | 2cgzfo | What is the coolest thing you found when you moved into a new house? | Not the coolest of items but when I was around 8 years old, I would go under my house which was raised high enough that I could get in there and almost sit up comfortably. For some odd reason I decided to dig a hole, after digging a pretty decent sized hole I started finding little toy soldiers and cars/trucks. It was ... | 5 |
AskReddit/c0vw6qp | cx0cp | How often do you overdraft? | My bank has overdraft protection. It connects to a savings account. If you ever overdraft it will take the money out of your savings account instead. Check to see if your bank has this and maybe keep $50-$100 in savings "just in case". | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ce87ud8 | 1ti5rf | Why are vegetables yucky and candy so yummy? | Our bodies are designed to eat food to give us energy. Candy, which is sugar, is the most direct source of energy of any type of food. So naturally our bodies taste candy, and our brain tells us "wow, this has a bunch of energy, this is great!" Historically, candy and other sweet foods have been a very limited part of ... | 4 |
AskReddit/dej4aai | 5xlza7 | What is the saddest subtle thing you've ever seen in person? | Someone I work with said "this job is the best thing in my life right now" and I realised that he absolutely meant it, and I felt profoundly sad. Don't get me wrong, I love my job too. but I love my friends and my family and my hobbies and weekends. | 8 |
AskReddit/d2080sf | 4ehq37 | What is the worst pitch you could give about an excellent movie? | So there's this kid, right?, but it's not about the kid, the kid's really sick though. So his old grandfather, I guess you could just call him a grandfather, the old is kind of implied, comes buy and reads him a book. At first the kids all "I don't like books, this is the 1980s" but he's sick and the grandfather talks ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dzd468y | 8l6205 | What limitations that the God of the Bible seems to have that current technology have since surpassed ? | With modern technology we are able to communicate with people directly through stuff like email, text messages, and phone calls. God really seems to struggle with that whole communication thing. | 2 |
AskReddit/dunmqhz | 7zfiya | What are the darkest secrets of nurses in the hospital that patients don’t know? | The prevalence of drug and/or alcohol abuse in the medical community > The most disturbing statistical “potential” comes from Monroe and Kenaga, who suggest that between 14% and 20% of all RNs in the United States may have a problem with dependence or abuse of drugs and/or alcohol. I've worked in a few different ERs ar... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ebzf3ut | a6y1ww | Why do laundry detergent bottles have the word "detergent" extremely small? | I was part of the design team that worked on this package and other laundry care products for P&G. The goal is to make your brand so iconic that its name replaces the product description. Brands like Kleenex and Q-tips have replaced "tissues" and "cotton swabs." P&G doesn't want you to buy laundry detergent and fabric ... | 27 |
AskReddit/c4nqezv | tlwsr | When there are barriers at the urinals, do man-law spacing rules apply? | Urinal etiquette always applies. Spacing should begin at the furthest spot from the door if all are open, and subsequent spaces must be filled in based on furthest possible distance. Whenever possible a gap of at least one urinal should be left. The one urinal buffer should only be negated at times in large social funt... | 2 |
AskReddit/cnz3fst | 2thhe3 | Do other parents take kids that aren't theirs on vacation? | Yup. It's not uncommon for those who can afford it. I went on others "family' vacations as a junior high/high school kid. We'd head out to his Uncles cabin and hangout for 2 weeks, then come back. We'd help with chores, cooking, cleaning and the like. I see nothing wrong with it. | 2 |
AskReddit/dhgf7f5 | 6aorog | Have you ever met a stranger, who you never saw again, that you still think about on occasion? | After my parents divorce was final, my mom and my brother and I packed into our car and drove from Fresno CA to Portland Oregon. It was a really dark time for my mother and she was not patient with us. We stopped at a gas station once and my mom was sort of yelling at us. This man tapped gently on the windshield and sa... | 339 |
askscience/crpylkl | 37tsq7 | Do plants have stem cells? | The meristematic plant tissue then redifferentiates into three distinct type of cells; parenchyma, collenchyma, and sclerenchyma. These three cell types will form more complex tissues performing basic functions as structural support, vascular, and storage. | 12 |
explainlikeimfive/cerwupy | 1vg6gh | What exactly makes clean engine oil turn black over time? | Typically, left over carbon deposits, dirt, and grime. When you turn your engine off, those deposits will settle, turning your oil a darker and darker color as time goes on. A good maintenance practice is to clean your oil pan during oil changes as well, but the Jiffy Lube guys won't tell you that. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dhwvp7d | 6crjzl | Why if I set my thermostat for 65 in the summer its perfect but if I do that in the winter it's freezing? | It depends on how well your home is insulated. In the summer the heat is going to seep in to the home so the air conditioner is going to work hard to push cold air into the house. In the winter, he heater would normally be pushing out hot air to fight the cold that's coming in from outside, but if you have it set to 65... | 2 |
AskReddit/cmb8hj6 | 2n7zpj | If an egg with a "double yolk" had been fertilized, what would happen to the chick? | We just learned about this in my ornithology class actually, its possible for both to become fertilized and hatch although they may hatch slightly under developed as opposed to a single yolk egg. But also often times one embryo would die and the other would use it for nourishment | 2 |
AskReddit/dszk0a6 | 7rtysp | If you scream “Hey Siri” in the middle of the train or elevator when people are on their phones, do they all go off? | No, Siri recognises specific voice patterns. Some phones might go off but it’s unlikely most or all would. Even if you have Siri set up for your voice, it won’t recognise you when yelling unless you set it up by yelling instead of using a normal tone. | 2 |
AskReddit/d628z8u | 4vxib1 | What's a good date other than dinner and a movie? | Get a bunch of blankets and pillows and make a warm/cozy pile in the back of a truck or on the lawn. Bring a tablet or laptop for a movie/star gaze/talk. Just think it would be a mad cute date. | 3 |
AskReddit/cjuhl3c | 2dz6fb | What is the worst album cover of all time? | There was that one album cover with the naked underage girl on it. I forget whose it was, and I don't feel like adding "album cover naked underage girl" to my Google search history. | 4 |
AskHistorians/eqshj8k | bzgf8u | Is there historical proof outside the Bible of specific disciples of Jesus? | (I'm going to use CE for years in this answer, because while I don't like the CE system, AD might make readers think this it's the number of years after Jesus's birth, which it almost certainly isn't.) Not exactly a disciple, but the historian Josephus talked about Jesus's brother, James, and also John the Baptist. Jos... | 59 |
AskReddit/dksmktu | 6pw5ue | What do ugly guys do to get a girlfriend? | Most of the "ugly" guys I have encountered have had such high standards for a women that its quite horrifying to the point it feels like they would be controlling in a dating situation. Just be kind, be yourself, and be charming, but not creepy. Find common interests and hobbies. Don't feel threatened if a girl happens... | 42 |
AskReddit/dosso06 | 78ckir | If you could have either a tree that grows money or a goose that lays golden eggs, which one would you take? | The goose. You can legitimately declare the sale of golden eggs from a goose in your tax returns (you might be audited/investigated, but once they verify you actually have a golden-egg-laying-goose, it's all above board). Gold is a commodity, its value is on the material itself, there's nothing inherently illegal about... | 3 |
AskReddit/e5yootz | 9frqjp | What is the one thing you tell yourself to keep going on days when you feel like ending it all? | Full disclosure I'm not suicidal but being surrounded by RUOK posters (suicide awareness in Australia) has got me thinking more about the subject. There are days when life gives us more than we can take. Not everyone will have the means or courage to have an open conversation with friends/family about their mental heal... | 3 |
AskReddit/dh8ybvf | 69s9ne | Why do we have to pay for bridge tolls if our taxes already pay for bridges? | Not all bridges are paid for by taxes. Sometimes, a government will make a deal with a company to build a bridge for a reduced cost in return for the right to charge tolls for some period of time, after which the tolls go back to the government for maintenance and so on. | 3 |
AskReddit/e4yuiga | 9axsrw | How many hours a day do you spend studying? | Currently working full time in a hospital. Got accepted to University, starting in October, so I try to getting used to learning again. Started with half an hour every day (after work), 45-60 min when I have a day off. Honestly, I thought it would be easier to restart studying but concentrating on something like chemis... | 2 |
AskReddit/czy4m43 | 45iha7 | What was your worst year of school and why? | Final year of university. Trying to graduate while you prepare for your first child, and found out that your wife has cancer. Her parents, trying to help, decided to redo the wiring in our house as it was aluminum. So we ripped it out and replaced it with copper over the course of two months. Baby came in February. Cla... | 2 |
AskReddit/c2280my | iackf | What is the most crazy display of wealth you've ever seen? | I used to work for a catering company down in Nashville. We took equipment out to some freakin' nice houses. One of the more extravagant displays I witnessed was for a young girl's bat mitzvah. It was held on the top floor of a building overlooking the Volunteer's stadium. There was a full dance floor, live band and DJ... | 2 |
AskHistorians/cofb1k6 | 2v82wi | Why doesn't Winston Churchill seem to be judged as critically by history as other WWII leaders? | I think most people who take an active interest in history and most academics in history do see Churchill as a more morally ambiguous character. It's just the mass media in the UK which chooses to idolise him, much as the mass media in the US idolises George Washington and the Indian media idolises Ghandhi. They're all... | 8 |
AskReddit/c99jn2y | 1bs73y | Have any of you ever really dropped everything and started over? | Yea one time I had to carry my mattress from my house to the car, but when I got there I realised it wouldn't fit, so I had to carry it back up, but it was getting really heavy. So I just dropped it right there on the ground, and then I picked it back up and started over carrying it up the stairs. | 4 |
AskReddit/etjz3um | cc2944 | What thing did you recently discover you've been doing wrong your entire life? | Using a can opener. I'm left handed but grew up in a family of righties. I copied what they did and just flipped it to work for me. Apparently I've been cutting cans with the gear and not the blade this whole time ��♀️ | 4 |
AskReddit/c35jl7e | n1juh | What is the worst thing you have overheard a coworker say? | Didn't really "overhear" it since I was part of the conversation, but a coworker of mine decided to loudly reenact a scene from Lethal Weapon 2 and kept saying the word "kaffir" over and over again. I was pretty embarrassed until I quickly scanned the area and saw no black people around. I doubt any of the plump, white... | 2 |
AskReddit/e5nit8r | 9eayuh | How much sleep do you get and why? | Varies from about 6 hours on a regular workday to about 10 hours on a depressed, menstruating, drinking workday or weekend. My optimal sleep is 9 hours, or was last time I checked haha | 2 |
askscience/diculpp | 6esyab | Why can radio waves pass through solid objects? | In the same manner that light can pass through glass: the electrons bound in the solid do not strongly absorb the photons passing through. It does depend on the crystal structure and atomic composition of the solid | 18 |
explainlikeimfive/curdadu | 3jof2d | Why do most people sneeze more than once when they start sneezing? | It's always possible that whatever irritated the nose to cause the sneeze wasn't dislodged by the first one. Also, do most people do that? I'm a multiple sneezer, and usually about the third time, everyone in the vicinity starts asking me if I'm okay. "I'm fine. I'm just sneezing." "Yeah, but you did it three times!" | 2 |
AskHistorians/dkte923 | 6pzaui | Did citizens of the Byzantine Empire refer to themselves as Roman? | Yes, exclusively up until the late period (1204-1453). The Byzantines viewed themselves as the exact same people as the western and more ancient Romans. A common name applied to the Byzantines in Byzantine literature is "Ausones" or "Ausonians"^1, which comes from an ancient Greek term for people from Latium. In the 13... | 24 |
AskReddit/cwrxjpy | 3rvsk8 | What stereotype about your state, region or country is absolutely true? | West Virginia is full of dumb rednecks. To be clear, not every person in WV is a redneck, and not every redneck is dumb, but an overwhelming majority are. It's hard to live in a state that is stereotyped so heavily when you know that the stereotypes are 100% true. | 10 |
AskReddit/dmb5wmr | 6wtu00 | What makes you irrationally angry? | When someone asks me the same question for a third time after I've given them the same answer twice. It sets me off, makes me go from 0 to 100. "Hey do you want some coffee?" "No thank you." "I mean it's really good coffee, you sure you don't want a cup?" "I'm sure, I don't want any." "I mean it's no trouble, you sure ... | 7 |
AskReddit/cbhvjig | 1jsjna | What's one thing you did as a kid that you still feel guilty about? | Once when I was somewhere between 5 and 8 years old, I found a nail on the ground outside of a store. When my mom and brother weren't looking, I placed it point up right beneath my mom's tire. I wanted to see if it would pop the tire. It didn't, but I remember my mom being rather unhappy when she saw the nail (it had a... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/c3qqnj5 | pndse | Why is spray deodorant cold? | When gas is decompressed (same amount of gas, larger volume) it cools down. Opposite effect (compressing gas heats it up) can be seen when using manual bicycle tire pump - it will heat up significantly. Deodorant is gas, but is being kept in liquid form under huge pressure (shake the bottle and you will hear liquid ins... | 12 |
AskReddit/ece9ehi | a8vwyf | What is the worst Christmas present you have ever received? | My aunt didn't have money to get us all gifts. That's no biggy, she's really crafty and usually makes us all something cool. Last year, however, she didn't make us anything and instead dragged us all 3 hours to go see a Christmas light display. This was bad enough as none of us really wanted to go but to make matters w... | 3 |
AskReddit/dkvbpza | 6q889l | What is the most foolish way people spend money ? | Weddings can be ridiculously expensive, yet people seem to feel the need to dump their life savings into them. It shouldn't cost thousands of dollars to get married, but that's just what some people do, even if they wouldn't spend that much money on anything else. | 3 |
AskReddit/c199iki | emoez | If you owe someone money, do they have a right to hold onto your possessions? | Technically no they cannot hold your possession as collateral unless it was in writing as you negotiated the agreement. The first contract of you being loaned money didn't specify that property would be held. Because you didn't agree to your guitar being held as collateral it is not an agreeable as second contract. The... | 2 |
AskReddit/c9dtmcg | 1c7ev8 | What's a harsh truth about feminists that they don't want to hear? | some of us would very much like to live our lives filling a traditional womanly role, taking care of the house and children etc. thanks to feminists, we now will be looked down on for it, and also suffer signicantly financially compared to couples who both work. | 30 |
explainlikeimfive/csw6f7d | 3cjuyx | Can someone explain Dungeons and Dragons to me? | Dungeons and dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game. Essentially, players take the role of characters and interact in a shared, imagined world. One player acts as the "dungeon master" who facilitates the game by being the one in charge of creating and managing the world, non-player characters, and other things the play... | 3 |
AskReddit/d3y67zp | 4mtij9 | What are common misconceptions that ignorant people have? | Truly ignorant people believe in their hearts that real knowledge and expertise don't really exist, and that their ill-informed opinions are just as valid as anyone else's. They are also likely to confuse correlation with causality. And they are prone to binary thinking (everything black and white, no shades of gray). ... | 3 |
AskReddit/dt4l2ey | 7sge1r | What don't people realize are actually rip-offs? | JustFab I mean, most people realize it's a rip-off but they are still weirdly successful and they have a strange fan-base that excuses their horrible horrible ethics. The website automatically signs you up for a $40/month subscription after buying one pair of shoes. You sign up unknowingly when you buy the shoes. Ultra... | 1,151 |
AskReddit/cw4xfv3 | 3pboqx | What is a crazy thing that happened on your school bus? | One day, there were a bunch of kids that skipped school that rode my bus and as the bus was entering their neighborhood they ran out of the woods and started bombing it with water balloons. Quite a few made it through the window, some were caught without busting and were thrown back. Bus driver high tailed it out of th... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cyx7uz1 | 40uljb | How does a higher salt intake eventually increase blood pressure? | When you have more salt in your blood your body needs to retain more water in order to maintain the proper concentration of salt. More water=more blood volume=more blood pressure. | 2 |
Ask_Politics/d405akh | 4n1xo7 | Has there ever been a president that has succeeded mainly on his ability to delegate responsibilities to the best possible people, as Donald Trump often says he will? | No, there has never been anything similar to a Donald Trump presidency. The closest would be an alternate time line where PT Barnum ran for president and won. or The guy who created the WWF. Or that guy who used to sell WOW shamies on TV. But we don't live in those timelines. | 2 |
AskReddit/e6r759g | 9jg5y9 | Which is better; having no memory of your parents together or having memories of your parents together but also having memories of the process of them splitting apart? | Defo having no memory of it is better. At the moment I’ve been wondering what is worse, going through it as a kid when you don’t really understand the ins and outs- or going through it as a young adult/older teen where you are mature but aren’t shielded from the facts. (My parents have separated last year and I’ve expe... | 2 |
AskReddit/dj475yr | 6i891z | What do they teach German children in school about Hitler/WW2? | They don't learn about it at all. At least, not ten years ago when I was a junior in high school. I had a German exchange student in my history class. She said that in Germany they're still too ashamed to talk about it. | 2 |
AskReddit/d8f2w9q | 55zv21 | What nursery rhyme from your childhood sounds more and more screwed up once you get older? | There's a lot of debate as to the origin of Ring Around the Rosie. Some contend that it originates from the Bubonic Plague. But it wasn't written until the late 1800s, even after Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The likelihood of a rhyme existing 300 years before it had been recorded is highly unlikely. Especially seeing as... | 3 |
AskReddit/es7997g | c6aasb | What are some hidden gems of video games? | I second Titanfall 2, primarily the singleplayer campaign. Really good character building. Also the Earth Defense Force games are unique and silly. They are shooters where you have to kill thousands of giant bugs and things, like 20 foot tall ants and spiders. I can't account for the newer EDF games but I loved the old... | 3 |
AskReddit/dvz5q39 | 85p9o2 | What if we mess with Facebook's data by intentionally liking odd and obscure things occasionally? | You wouldn't be fooling anyone. This data is so over analyzed, I'm sure that they could come up with decent realiabilty numbers to gauge just how accurate those clicks are. The only way to fool it would be to go all in on fake clicks. If you drink Coke, like pepsi. If you have Xbox, like PS4. But you'd have to do it ac... | 2 |
AskReddit/d1gvqxp | 4ccc0w | What’s an open secret in your line of work that you don’t think most people realize? | I'm not in that line of work anymore but this holds true for anything related to weddings. If you say/mention/hint at purchasing/renting anything for a wedding, it's going to be marked up considerably. Renting a room.a limousine.a tux.fake flowers. You say wedding and I guarantee you there is a seperate wedding price l... | 3 |
askscience/egqyyqs | as0mbn | How do rockets keep themselves stable during liftoff when the main source of thrust if coming from the bottom? | There are usually several thrusters spread around the bottom (not just 1), and through the use of a computer, or sensor which can sense if the rocket is tipping or starting to drift at an angle, more thrust is sent to the corresponding thruster to cancel out the pitch/tilt. Imagine if you're standing on a board balance... | 5 |
askscience/d9di8pe | 5a3ps6 | Are protons from different elements identical? | As far as we know, all protons throughout the universe have identical mass, charge, spin and internal structure (two up quarks and one down quark). It's the number of protons in the nucleus that determine which element the atom is, not any differences between the protons. | 27 |
explainlikeimfive/czjeybo | 43m0rg | How can white be described as the absence of color? | When people talk about color, they can be referring to two different things. They can be talking about electromagnetic frequencies or they can be talking about pigments. In terms of EM frequencies, black is the absence of color and white is the presence of all colors. That's why white light can be refracted into the sp... | 2 |
AskReddit/ed59dmy | ac3v1s | What is your worst memory of P.E? | Not worst but my most memerable. High school senior year, Had first period Weight lifting class @8am. Was lat because of traffic and not feeling so well. Coach had a rule that you had to do 50 situps for being late to class. Told coach I dont think this a good idea. Coach said do it now. DID THE 50 SITUPS AND as I stoo... | 154 |
AskReddit/ddyvj0i | 5v303f | Why did your ancestors flee their home country to immigrate to your home country? | They didn't flee I don't think. The story is that on my grandpa's line (dad's side) our first ancestor to come to America got drunk in a pub in England and woke up on a ship to the colonies. Grandma's line (also my dad's side, I don't know about my mom's side) definitely came over as an indentured servant. When his tim... | 2 |
AskReddit/djsv6pe | 6lcxgi | What's one huge realization you've made in life? | You won't change anyone's view arguing with them. Both sides will throw up a mental wall and just start defending themselves. No progress will be made. The best way to change people around you is to change yourself. People will see how you happy/confident/popular/whatever you are and want that as well, so they start wo... | 2 |
AskReddit/evc32ie | cjas7z | Is drinking your mother’s breast milk still vegan? | Obviously not. Milk from any animal source is totally against vegan practice The baby MUST have a soy based vegan formula to be a legitimate part of a vegan family./s | 2 |
AskReddit/ceeiz1p | 1u4m53 | What does love mean to you? | This is going to be weird and lengthy and might not make sense but, here it goes. Love means that someone means so much to you that you'd put up with or work around things for the person you wouldn't for just anyone. Love is that feeling in your chest when they leave the room and you miss them a little because they are... | 2 |
AskReddit/dscrc52 | 7ow9q1 | What event ruined your life and how did you turn it around? | I sustained a traumatic brain injury while skiing. 2 months in hospital. Left the hospital as a disabled person. Lost my job. Endured the "prison" of being "trapped" living with my mom and racist dad. Mom stole my car and CC permit. I turned it around by recovering from injury, getting my car keys back, and drove >1,00... | 6 |
AskReddit/ccpifno | 1o7pqy | What are the best online sources for learning new skills? | I just found this cool language-learning site called duolingo. I only just found it a few days ago, but it's fantastic. It has 4 different languages, I believe (Italian, French, Spanish, German) with little games you play to learn grammar/vocab. There's also a section where you can translate articles from spanish to en... | 3 |
AskReddit/e33waqg | 928ohr | What was the best gift (in your opinion) that you ever gave to someone? | My girlfriend is a huge Washington Capitals fan. I got her a jersey signed by Ovi because I know a guy who knows a guy. She cried. I've never been so happy to give a gift. | 2 |
AskReddit/d2qtm8p | 4hlvzp | What did you learn the hard way? | That you need to try, practice and work hard to get good at something. Yeah. I've been lazy my whole life and I almost literally lost the ability to learn because I was always bored. I can only 'remember' for a test and forget it an hour later. It's incredibly annoying not being good at anything. | 2 |
AskReddit/dgynd45 | 68i6gh | What do you believe causes some people to overpost about their relationship on social media? | Insecurity in the relationship, and/or trying to put on a facade of how good the relationship really is. If you're spending your time proving how good it is on social media, I guarantee it's not. | 5 |
AskReddit/cbyjkqm | 1leybw | What's a very odd thing that has happened to you that haunts you to this day? | Earlier this month, it was dark and I was driving past a curve in the road, and all the sudden there was a man laying across the road in front of me. I slammed on my brakes and ended up just bumping him with my car, but if I had been going any faster, I would have completely run him over. I called 911 and he was taken ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cjz2pf6 | 2efpgk | How prepared are you right now for a disaster? | Depends on the disaster. A flood. Pretty well prepared, live on a hill. An earthquake. Pretty well prepared, don't live near any fault lines. A tornado. Ok prepared, have a basement. A hurricane, pretty well prepared, dont live near an ocean. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cor4oly | 2wi1b9 | Why do women throw up on the first weeks of pregnancy? | It's probably a way to protect the sensitive fetus from toxins. The fetus has a lot of development and cell division, so a toxin is a much bigger deal to a fetus than to an any other human. I can also tell you that women who do not experience any morning sickness are more likely to miscarry. | 3 |
AskReddit/dmbusw8 | 6wz3pe | What person in your life makes you bullshit meter start going off? | I work with felons and drug addicts all day. My bullshit meter rarely falls below 50%. You can tell when someone is lying to you, but it's EASIER to tell when they are lying to themselves. The trick is figuring out whether they realize they are lying to themselves or not. | 4 |
AskReddit/dvdwtty | 82z7ki | What is the best case scenario for an apocalypse? | Let's get a premise here - the Apocalypse = 90% of the population is dead. So instead of 6 or 7 billion people on earth.think like 60-70 million - "survivors" across the globe.So the world resembles something more like "The Road" (in which it looks like a nuclear holocaust) in scarcity of people. There ARE people . jus... | 2 |
AskReddit/db6odxb | 5iat5m | How would one go about petting a cow? | Bring it a carrot with the greens still on it, pet it's head while it eats to establish a rapport with said cow. Repeat until the cow comes to you when it sees you. Worked on a dairy farm, once they know you are cool they love being petted. | 3 |
AskReddit/ckfgrvo | 2g499f | Do you believe Oscar Pistorius is guilty of murder? | Yeah. I find it hard to understand how shooting a gun 4 times can be accepted as not meaning to kill anyone - maybe I am misunderstanding the verdict? He didnt mean to kill anyone so its not murder? Like I say firing 4 times, its reasonable to expect the person to die. However I would rather a guilty man get off than a... | 5 |
AskReddit/c12pim4 | dt3xt | Would you stop downloading television shows if they were available free online with limited ads? | Yes. I have to say that sites like Hulu seem to be doing it right when they have the content. Where they're doing it wrong (and it's not Hulu's fault, its the content providers) is by creating the artificial scarcity of waiting a week to release new episodes, and only having the X most recent episodes available. If I w... | 723 |
AskReddit/dawxx5y | 5h0jbl | What behavior can instantly make you hate someone? | Constant complaining. We all complain, but when you complain about the same thing ten times in a half an hour what do you really think you're going to acconplish other than make people not want to be around you. "I'm cold," okay there are ways to fix that; "I'm hungry", okay, eat; "my X hurts" okay, well, that sucks bu... | 2 |
AskReddit/e3eg6qd | 93mmun | What do you think of straight feminine guys? | The same way I feel about white guys that 'act black' or urban or whatever the term that doesn't trigger someone is: I have a knee-jerk judgment as a human being and then realize I'm being stupid and that my perspective of their physical mannerisms and traits does not exactly define who they are as a person and that ho... | 2 |
AskReddit/c9mj8t8 | 1d3ikr | Is it even possible to have a guy friend that doesn't want to bone you? | Definitely. My best friend is a guy. I know he's thought about it at some point, & I have too, but both of our reactions have been something along the lines of, "Ew. Gross. That would be like sleeping with my brother/sister." He came to stay this weekend & slept in my bed because my air mattress kept deflating. We were... | 2 |
AskReddit/e3201t9 | 91zsr5 | What is your wedding night story? | Prior to the birth of my daughters, the most exhausted I've ever been was after my wedding. Weddings are long, draining, emotional events. So, on night 1 of the honeymoon, we slept for about 10 hours. Probably not as scandalous as you might want, but there it is. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cws08b3 | 3rwt4g | How can you store baked goods at room temperature for days when they contain things like butter and dairy? | Butter and eggs can actually be left out on the counter for days without spoiling. Refrigeration of those items is more of an American convention than a requirement. Milk does spoil at room temp, but it's lifespan is increased through pasteurization. If you've ever bought raw milk, you'll notice it starts to smell funk... | 16 |
AskReddit/cngiql3 | 2rjs5o | How did you quit? | I quit drinking first (which allowed the other stuff-eating better-I never smoked) to fall into place pretty easily. No DUIs, no horrible drinking-related problems. Just drank way too much every day for forever, was beginning to feel the effects, and alcoholism runs in my family. Knew what I had to do for a long time, ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dg0zads | 64ath9 | Why are cartoon characters always drawn with 4 fingers rather than 5? | In the sense of practicality, it's cheaper and much easier to draw. It's basically a work around that made animation much easier to produce. Obviously the hand of a character plays a vital role when trying to depict an action or emotion, so it is crucial to animate the hand more effectively without the burden of adding... | 8 |
AskReddit/c3qpwz9 | pnapf | Why does walking on a stopped escalator feel so weird? | The elevator is sinking backwards with every step. You're feeling it give a little. One day, something is gonna snap and the escalator is just gonna start tumbling backwards from your weight.* *Not a scientific explanation. | 2 |
AskReddit/e3jrui9 | 949iwv | What do you like to do while waiting at the airport? | When i fly out of London GAT, i like to go to the Armadillo and get myself pancakes. Sadly didnt manage to do so last time, so ill have to come back with a revenge and double stack those gits this september. Rare times when im out of Cheremetyevo (Moscow, my family lives there) is simply to observe people. We Russians ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dyjcmwp | 8hfie8 | What awkward thing did you say when meeting a celebrity? | So I once had a meet and greet with Cannibal corpse (maybe not the type of celebrities you mean). I have met with a few of my rock gods before hand but it always sends me into a panic and I try really hard not to be the usual gusher and ask the same questions or say the same things that they probably always hear. I hav... | 3 |
AskReddit/coxk9n2 | 2x7bcg | What makes you think, "I'm living in the wrong city"? | My wife and I came to that conclusion when we were living in Los Angeles, CA. The smog was terrible, our daughter's asthma had her in E.R. at least twice a month and we were afraid of losing her. The cost of living was horrible as were the long traffic jams on the freeways. Sound familiar ? Well this was in 1980. We we... | 3 |
askscience/cc126bn | 1lnpzp | Is a light-year a fixed distance? | Yes, a light year is 9.4605284 × 1015 meters as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a light-year is the distance that light travels in vacuum in one Julian year (A Julian year is a unit of measurement of time defined as exactly 365.25 days of 86,400 SI seconds each). | 12 |
explainlikeimfive/dmdydkt | 6x83xi | Does having marijuana in your bloodstream affect patients when donating blood? | If they didn't want marijuana smokers to donate they'd ask about it, they don't ask. Drugs rarely circulate freely in the bloodstream, they bind to receptor sites in the body which is how they work. There are drugs that are specifically banned from donations and they ask about them. Beyond those few if they don't ask w... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cs7vl79 | 39zh9u | Why are some foreign countries called states? | All countries are States. Well a state is a chunk of land controlled by a government. The United States is weird because it was formed to act a a bunch of individual States with their own governments that all United under a single government as one state. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dempbhr | 5y2t9z | Why do professional football teams (American) make so many simple mistakes such as false starts? | It ain't simple. These men are trying to judge the exact moment the ball is snapped and they have to push their 300 lbs of mass at 300 lbs of opposing mass -- both of which run 40 meters in less than six seconds and are among the most athletic people on planet Earth -- in the hopes of stopping the rushers trying to get... | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/e2qm8yq | 90ignp | Why do farmers plant sunflowers around corn fields? | Corn crops leave an excess of Nitrogen in the soil. Sunflowers can be planted as a follow-up to take advantage of that. They like the nitrogen-rich soil. Farmers used to do this with soybeans as a pairing but found that the soybeans had various problems that the sunflowers do not have. But the short short answer to thi... | 46 |
AskReddit/e98t1ky | 9v25g0 | How many first graders could you take in a fight if they came at you in waves of 5 with a 5th Grader coming every ten waves? | I don't think I could make it past one or two of them. 5th graders have endless energy and I am a low energy lazy 20-something year old guy with no formal combat experience. My best bet is to grab a small one by the ankles and swing him around like a meat club | 8 |
AskReddit/e1ez4f1 | 8uf9za | How do straight men deal with male beauty? | Straight male here. Not 100% clear what you're asking, but i have no problem identifying make attractiveness or admitting it. I will say it's more controversial to people to hear a man admit another man is attractive than it is to say another man is attravtive. | 2 |
AskReddit/e7jo92l | 9n4tkb | What is one song you genuinely can't stand when it comes on? | I could just throw out my radio as I can’t stand ANYTHING on the pop station. The classic rock station also plays the same music every day, to the point where I want to stop believing. And the rest is boring country stuff. | 2 |
AskReddit/efx9j0e | anzy5h | Does losing a significant amount of weight change your tastes when it comes to dating? | Yes and no. I always liked slimmer, more toned men, but when I was fat I didn't realistically have a shot with them. After losing some weight, I began to feel more confident in some ways. I still have some hangups about my body, but I didn't necessarily feel like I had to settle for someone I found less attractive. &#x... | 3 |
AskReddit/d56rrk8 | 4s5y7k | What is something that people say happens often, but you don't think so? | People in online games being predictable. "High level" players on reddit love to talk about how easy it is to beat up on bad players because they always do such and such but there is nothing more dangerous or unpredictable than somebody with no idea what he is doing. | 3 |
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