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AskReddit/cdbigrb | 1qcgcg | What was the stupidest rule in school? | In 1970, while in 10th grade, I was called into the principals office for wearing pants to school. Girls were not allowed to wear pants at that time in many public schools. I asked the principal, " Why? ". So did my Dad, who came to school when they called him to take me home. After that silly discussion I continued to... | 3 |
AskReddit/c7whgeq | 16j1e8 | How can I get over my fear of drowning? | Well for starters pools have lifeguards that'll keep you from drowning, to follow up you could pay for private lessons, and third of all you could bring water wings to the pool so you can explain to people you're doing it as a joke, if they ask you to take them off say you have to pee or something and when you come bac... | 2 |
AskReddit/ccq13uc | 1o9mc9 | What should a first time apartment renter know? | BEFORE RENTING: See the actual apartment you'd be renting. Not the one next door, not a model - the one you'd be living in. You have no idea how good or bad you could have it. Drop by unannounced to the apartment/building and ask questions: is the landlord fair? Do repairs happen in a timely manner? How good is trash/s... | 3 |
AskReddit/d5sm0vz | 4usz8o | What took you way too long in life to figure out? | That the special sauce on a big Mac can be purchased at any grocery store however if you can figure out how to perfect the KFC chicken skin at home you can pretty do anything in life. | 2 |
AskReddit/eelankx | ai5l15 | How close to the speed of light could humans realistically get with some kind of futuristic tech? | Provided we could orbit a black hole to study the distortion of space, technically we can speedup and slow down the speed at which any energy can travel. So if we could slow down the speed of light, we could potentially get faster than it actually. It would have devastating affects on the time in which we perceive howe... | 2 |
askscience/c1lzafi | g9t4c | Why do our finger nails grow faster than our toe nails? | More wild speculation here, but are you sure they do grow faster? I, too, trim my toenails much less frequently than my fingernails, but I also let they grow to a much longer length before I trim them. They may grow at the same rate but long fingernails are more problematic than long toenails so you simply trim them mo... | 3 |
AskReddit/dpfa5as | 7b51bo | Why don't you use your turn signal? | I lived in New Jersey for a long time, and I got out of the habit for using it to signal a lane change, because, up there, if you signal a lane change people speed up to close the gap. I still use it for turns, but to this day my instinct is not to telegraph the lane change. | 3 |
AskReddit/cmof8x5 | 2om29o | What is the best thing to do during a home invasion? | Keep a gun about 3 feet away from your bed, and easily accessible. People can debate on what the best kind to use are, so I won't make any specific recommendations. Make sure you're using home defense rounds, though. Make sure you know how to use the gun. Don't just buy it and assume your collection of 24 on dvd will g... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dpqhtat | 7ck0or | Where do all the leaves eventually go after Autumn? | In the wild they just pile up and eventually rot away into mud. It can take some time for this to occur, and the floor of a largely deciduous forest can be pretty well coated with discarded leaves from the last few years. On your lawn they'll get mulched by the lawnmower in spring if you don't rake them up. | 4 |
askscience/c3kcvsk | ovfw1 | Can someone explain how something be created from nothing according to quantum theory? | The problem with interpreting physics using common sense is that common sense is not adept at dealing with questions of such a realm. Even in framing you question, you betray your humanity and the fact that you are accustomed to reasoning within the constraints of this world as we commonly know it: "The universe starte... | 9 |
AskReddit/ej0dj22 | b3l4uv | What is the most disappointing thing your parents have ever done to you? | My mom kidnapped me when I was 12. Both of my parents are pos and everything they’ve done has disappointed me. I don’t have contact with either one or their new families. My Nanny and Papa raises me and for all I’m concerned they are my parents | 3 |
AskReddit/d4p85xh | 4q0g17 | How has ice cream saved your life? | I am on the keto diet and make my own ice cream that contains very little carbs. (heavy whipping cream, coconut cream, and truvia). I found the keto diet to be extremely hard, but at least this little treat makes it bearable. | 2 |
AskReddit/cgs7ktb | 230kz0 | What is the craziest thing you've ever seen while you were driving? | Craziest thing was coming back along the Nullarbor in the middle of the night. Hundreds of kangaroos, literally hundreds of them lined up along and jumping across the road. They were literally everywhere. I was so paranoid I was going to hit one I was doing 40kmph for about 200k's. But the road-trains just go straight ... | 2 |
askscience/c4d5p4j | sdi7x | Why does light move at the same speed relative to everything else? | >But why does light always move at this speed Amarkov gave a good classical answer. If you assume Maxwell's equations, out pops a constant, reference-frame independent speed at which electromagnetic radiation propagates. An alternative perspective is that it's geometric. As presented in the theory of relativity, space ... | 13 |
AskReddit/cd9jiqi | 1q4lp0 | Is it possible for an animal to evolve to a human level of intelligence while we still exist? | Absolutely. Look into orca whales or even dolphins. They have more complex emotions than we do. Socially are more evolved and incredible apex predators. No natural enemies and have been proven to language as complex as ours. Even with variation in different places! Sometimes I feel that as humans we think we're above e... | 2 |
AskReddit/eel0a92 | ai4i0u | How do r/AskReddit posts blow up? | It asks something of people that they want to share. Most people like talking about their experiences and ideas and hearing others, so if you post a question that a lot of people can and want to answer and also look at other answers, then your post might blow up | 2 |
askscience/ddcr5xb | 5s3zuw | Is there a theoretical limit to the number of chemical elements that could exist in the universe? | I think the answer is more nuanced than a simple yes or no. Theoretically there should be no limit, you keep smashing nuclei together to form higher and higher number elements which will decay faster than we would ever hope to detect them. A more appropriate question would be, would we still consider it to be an elemen... | 35 |
AskReddit/dr4a4m8 | 7j7kcq | Why does the number ten become a double digit, is there any reason that there couldn’t be 11, 12, 13 etc. single digit numbers? | Because we use the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, which is base 10. Computers use binary(base 2), in which 2 becomes a 2 digit number so it goes 0, 1, 10, 11,100,etc The Babylonians used a base 12 system, which you can see on your clock. A bunch of competing systems in ancient history were combined, resulting in a base 6... | 3 |
AskReddit/dpp6q2t | 7cdq1d | What’s a memory you have that is completely useless, but impossible to forget? | When I was in daycare (probably about 5 or 6), the lady who ran the daycare let me and another girl eat our lunch outside while the younger kids took a nap. She has a huge wooded backyard. Before we went out there, her son told us this really fabricated story about a huge black snake that went around eating kids. Being... | 2 |
AskHistorians/ccqbmh5 | 1o92y5 | Why was Roman identity in modern day Romania preserved even when the Roman presence in Dacia was relatively short and the area suffered from successive invasions by Germanic, Slavic and Magyar groups? | It is a much-debated question whether Rumanian identity as such existed back then, and if it did was it actually preserved in the territory of today's Rumania. This question is extremely politicized, as both Hungarians and Rumanians seek to justify their claims on Transylvania by their completely different theories on ... | 2 |
Ask_Politics/cc60gk4 | 1m5gid | How did the US get involved in Syria in the first place? | Okay, first we aren't really engaged in much at the moment. Iraq is largely done and Afghanistan is slowing down. So we now have a large military with not much to do. Second, the US is involved for two reasons. First, we really don't like people to use ABC weapons. Frankly no one does, but countries still use the chemi... | 4 |
AskReddit/diiz4m2 | 6fl06h | What's a good thing about Twitter? | If you follow the right people then it's a good way to get news and information in one scroll. For example, when I was a music teacher I followed a lot of education journals, music education researchers, educational resource sites as well as education specific news. I also follow a lot of local businesses and can see w... | 2 |
AskReddit/dw6f3qg | 86nj9f | How’d you meet your best friend? | I met my best friend, Aspen, when I was 13 years old. We had an art class together, and when I sat next to her she kinda just looked at me with this weird expression. Like I was a ghost or something! It took her another couple of days to talk to me, but we soon became inseparable. Our art teacher hated us because we wo... | 3 |
AskReddit/evdz347 | cjku1j | What’s your biggest regret in life? | not realizing that when my best friend gave me a hug on the last day before spring break that something was wrong. this kid never ever hugged anybody. not even on special occasions. he was never the one to say "I love you" cause with him you just knew. I wish I had asked him if something was wrong that day. instead, on... | 2 |
AskReddit/dtdfeed | 7tlezy | What was the shortest time someone lasted at your work? | I hired a guy that lasted only three days before being told not to bother coming in again, because he showed up late for work all three of those days. That wouldn't be particularly egregious, if I hadn't selected him in part because I could look out the window from my desk and see the condo building he lived in, immedi... | 7 |
AskReddit/eh58qiz | au34ls | Has anyone ever actually been to a high school party like you see in movies/shows? | Of course. Parties are a big part of high school. Parties at the rich kids house when his parents are out of town. Parties in the woods. Parties at the lake. | 3 |
AskReddit/efxort2 | ao2d2c | What is it that you thought of inventing that’s been already invented you didn’t know? | I invented something called the Save-A-Brush. It's a device you put wet paint brushes inside during a painting project so you don't have to clean them after each use. It's fairly fancy using vacuum evacuation to eliminate curing. One day I went to home Depot to buy something and someone had already patented a similar i... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d53nx92 | 4rryni | What is leading to the continuous generational increase in accumulation of college debt? | There's a ton of factors. But a big one is who is going to college. In your grandfather's college day (eatly 1950s), you didn't need a college degree. So many people who couldn't afford to go, simply didn't, but they got good jobs and went on with a fine middle class life. Others often came from backgrounds who didn't ... | 5 |
AskReddit/caevpm9 | 1fxyu7 | Who are the people today who make more than they should? | Everybody makes close to what they should ie. market prices. If the market didn't support it they wouldn't be making it. But often the are restrictions or bottlenecks that help shape these prices in unseemly ways. Personally, I'd say that anybody making over 120k ie 3x median salary (base income from job) is making too... | 2 |
AskReddit/eeohzw8 | aikw29 | What have your friends & people you used to know from school ended up doing with their lives? | One landed a job at an expanding auto parts distributor. One died of cancer of the everything. Another one is in a fairly successful local band. One is formally military and got a job as a miner. One lost all his teeth to bone infection and got divorced. His brother left his wife for another brothers fiance. The family... | 2 |
AskReddit/coydmkm | 2x9ldc | What Game, on any platform, Do You Regret Buying? | Outlast on the PC. I regret buying that game for a few reasons. I am not wanting to rant. I just want to say why I do not like the game. I do not scared of the "Asylum" theme. If you are not afraid of the asylum theme you will not enjoy the game. With the Overwhelmingly Positive votes on Steam, it already has a high st... | 3 |
AskReddit/cdr1h8b | 1rulw6 | What's the most pain you've ever felt that wasn't physical? | Leaving the hospital with my wife and going home to the nursery without our baby boy. He was in the morgue instead. We felt robbed. Robbed of a beautiful baby and that he was robbed of a long amazing life. Helplessness | 5 |
AskReddit/c7hvsbo | 14zieq | What is the best party you have ever thrown? | Not one that I threw, but an ex-girlfriend's 19th (legal drinking age in my neck of the woods) birthday party took place at her house. She had dinosaur decorations, candy, pop, chips, pizza, etc. No alcohol. No drugs. It was essentially a five year old boy's birthday party. It was both awesome and refreshing. | 2 |
AskReddit/des6rfv | 5yqogv | What's the WORST book that you were forced to read for English class? | Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. Read it for 11th grade. I'm a huge reader, I was actually the top of the school when I was in Middle school, but that book was horrible. | 2 |
AskReddit/cdmqh7b | 1rfkj1 | What is the scariest thing that has happened to you while you were in a foreign country? | My appendix burst after a long day in Amsterdam. I'm an american and was going to uni in the Scotland. I was heading over for the first year and had a long layover in Amsterdam so I went and got some Absinthe and spent the day just hanging about enjoying the city. I got on the plane still tipsy and when I got the the U... | 21 |
AskReddit/d7ymzwh | 543pbj | What's the best book you've ever read? | Fight club hands down (edit: for me). The way the author describes insomnia was really important to me. As someone who is scrolling through Reddit because I've been awake for over 30+ hours, it really hit home and he did such a detailed/great job. I've never connected with literature like that before. It also did an in... | 2 |
AskReddit/cf0o236 | 1wcef0 | What songs make you reflect on life whenever you listen to them? | You're Gonna Miss This - Trace Adkins Especially as a student in college, I know I want to grow up, get a job, and become successful in the real world. At the same time, this song makes me realize that the "carefree" days are almost over. Soon I won't be able to walk down the hall and play Minecraft with friends or go ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d87cf5l | 5541jk | How were copies of Lincoln's conspirators' wanted poster created if they used pictures? | Halftone printing technology was invented in the 1830s. It was compatible with the ink printing presses used for newspapers and handbills like wanted posters. Photocopiers are a 1930s invention, 100 years later. | 6 |
AskReddit/d7wficv | 53uvyl | Who is one person you have never forgiven, and what did they do? | I'm a pretty easygoing person (especially considering my anxiety disorder) but I've never been able to forgive the man who sexually abused me as a child. Because how do you intentionally traumatize a little kid for years and then have the nerve to pretend it didn't happen? | 2 |
AskHistorians/d91eqg2 | 58jhit | Is it normal to feel depressed when you study history? | Preface: This post is entirely based upon my views, my experiences, and my extensive reading into human violence. It may not be for everybody, and it's not very 'academic', but it's my view on this matter. In my studies I read and think a lot about killing in battle, which is one thing, but I also am forced (for the sa... | 21 |
AskReddit/e8eywq8 | 9r8i4e | What is a song you listened to once and hated but heard again a few weeks/months later and instantly loved? | Redbone by Childish Gambino, at first I thought it was just some old woman soul singer singing over a beat that he made, when I found out it was him singing my mind was blown and I heard the song in a whole new way and loved it. | 2 |
AskReddit/c2mfil3 | kqrur | What are, to you, the most important issues in the world nowadays? | I know you said no newspaper headlines, but to me the most important issue today is the American economy. I will be finishing school soon and I am going to need a new job. I honestly am scared that if Republicans keep winning elections that I might not have much of a future. | 2 |
AskReddit/cpcixal | 2yskoe | What did love doing when you were younger that you don't enjoy at all anymore? | Maths. I genuinely enjoyed it as a kid, it was like an adventure learning how different concepts within mathematics were connected and how you could solve real world problems. At university you just memorise proofs and methods and if you try stuff your own way you lose marks. Made my love turn into a hate. | 2 |
AskReddit/dmzdos8 | 7003mb | Why do some people have the ability to sleep until 12? | People's bodies are all different.and sometimes there's other things going on. I can basically sleep until someone or something wakes me. Today I slept until noon and laid in bed until one. I can easily sleep 10-12 hours on weekends (could go longer). I also have Narcolepsy. We're all different. | 2 |
AskReddit/e7k3tvs | 9n6hy6 | What are some helpful ways to gain weight? | This where I shine haha. Cheapest way? Gallon of milk a day. Start at skim, then 1%, 2%, Whole, Chocolate. That’s 128g of protein for roughly $2. Olive oil is also easy to add to most anything and good. Switch to fattier cuts of meat. Bring baggies of nuts with you to snack on. Cheese goes well with most every meal. Th... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dnc8pf1 | 71n1dg | Why do many people get easily spooked by small animals that don't actually pose a thread? | a)They are not life threatening but they can still hurt you. And no one wants to get hurt. b)People get startled because they're not expecting. Jump scare doesn't need a scary object. A gust of wind blowing a door shut can still startle you when you're not expecting. And animals aren't predictable when you're not famil... | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/cc4mdhi | 1m0kla | How does someone own a level in a building? | You have an agreement that gives you a space in a building. This agreement means that the 'real' owner can't just demolish the building out from under you. How does that count as really owning the place? When you buy land from the government they still don't allow you to do illegal things on your land, all property pur... | 3 |
AskReddit/e874iaa | 9q6xr4 | Why is simply stating facts to parents during an argument automatically seen as "disrespectful"? | It's all about how you state them. If it's "You're wrong and this is right," that's disrespectful in most contexts. There's really not a good way to tell someone they're wrong when they're angry, so usually it's best to just turn the other cheek and approach the issue when everybody is calmer. | 2 |
AskReddit/c2qlmlg | l8e69 | Why don't Mexicans just cross the border with a passport? | It's not that simple. Mexican citizens need both a visa (which costs $100 to apply for) and an entry permit if going past the immediate border area. And when those items expire, you're back to illegal. | 7 |
AskReddit/cgpin15 | 22qyoq | What's the worst way you've gotten yourself out of a situation? | A homeless person approached a car with my friends and I in it, and asked for money saying he lived in his car and needed money for gas. I immediately pretended to have a learning disability by talking with an accent that a person with down syndrome would have and asked why he didn't have a home He responded with "beca... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cj1p5qm | 2b4f9g | How is it that practiced martial artists are able to break seemingly hard things with seemingly no injury? | Tons of training. These martial artists repeatedly strike hard objects causing micro fractures in the bone. The body heals these tiny fractures by depositing calcium and making them stronger and more dense. It also deadens the nerves in that area allowing them to strike harder. Add in proper form and you have a brick b... | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/d5jnnpy | 4trmfz | What is currency manipulation or currency rigging? | Currency manipulation means a bunch on different things depending on context. In this case, what they are talking about is financial institution rigging foreign exchange (forex) rates to cheat their clients: > Johnson, who works between London and New York, is being charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud involvin... | 3 |
AskReddit/cgrpzqy | 22yt88 | To those that have had a part of their body removed during surgery, do you have phantom pains/feelings? | Hate to be that guy but I'll say it anyways; Not me but my great uncle had his leg amputated towards the end of his life and the very next day after the surgery he said he went to itch his leg and couldn't because it wasn't there. He also had to take some sort of medication for getting pain in his "leg" which was no lo... | 2 |
AskReddit/cls6dlg | 2l7jw9 | Are there any precautions to not getting mugged while traveling? | Take your wallet and put it in a pocket that's not the normal pocket. Since you aren't used to the pressure against your leg, you will immedately realize if it has been missing or not due to pickpockets. As to not getting mugged, act crazier than them. | 2 |
AskReddit/euoybc5 | ch483m | What’s the meanest thing you saw someone do to their teacher? | In junior high a kid kept playing dumb to a substitute teacher who had been a sub for decades, even my mom had him, to a point where the sub threw a book down on the table and bounced up and barely touched the kid, who obviously played it like it it was chucked at him and fell to the floor. Then the teacher wasn’t allo... | 3 |
askscience/c1ykwy5 | huyhv | How does something like Chantix NOT produce withdrawals/nicotine cravings if it binds to nicotine receptors? | chantix is a partial agonist, which means it binds to the same receptors, but doesn't elicit as strong a response. the response is weak enough that it doesn't lead to a lot of dopamine release downstream, so it won't really have withdrawal effects. | 8 |
AskHistorians/c8cwdku | 1893f8 | What is the largest topographical change that humans have ever made to the Earth? | The construction of dams has permanently changed massive areas of the Earth. Large open cut mines would probably be up there somewhere too. One of my geology lecturers demonstrated that the material moved by humans was equal to that of natural erosion over the entire surface of the earth. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/c6ese81 | 10mp4v | Why do I have a lisp? | I'm not qualified to answer this question, but it's reddit, so here is your answer: It's your tongue being too far forward. Practice enunciating words with your tongue hitting the top of your mouth, not your teeth on "esses" and other sounds you lisp on. | 3 |
AskReddit/cf5pswb | 1wv3vj | Why is it that only homogeneous white societies are pushed to be more diverse, yet no one pushes for African, Japanese, Indian, Muslim etc societies to be diversified? | This is just my opinion (and I don't want to think that I'm either right or wrong) but "homogeneous white societies" have that standard set for them because they have never been at the short end of the stick in any period of time. They are never marginalized or the ones we see as "at the bottom". Look at all the other ... | 2 |
AskReddit/do62mta | 75h2t3 | Where are the “trashiest” vacation destinations? | In Sweden, basically Ullared. It's a supermarket full of low priced stuff. I'm inclined to include everyone who goes on vacation to supermarkets no matter what country or location is trashy. | 5 |
AskReddit/c0u208m | cogyq | What city surprised you the most when you visited it for the first time, and why? | Winnipeg surprised me a lot in many ways I could never have predicted. I had never experienced a place so cold, so sprawled out for such a small population, with such absurd roadways, so much racism, and such a negative mentality. | 4 |
AskReddit/cz5260y | 41tpev | Why are human babies born so functionally dependent on parents for several years, yet many animal babies can walk and eat by themselves in just a few days, if not immediately? | Typically, the slower the speed of physical development into reproductive age, the greater capacity of intelligence. That being said, the faster you develop into reproductive age, the dumber you are and more likely are going to die/be eaten quickly - so you mature quickly to pop out offspring before your stupidity caus... | 2 |
AskReddit/dpybw2k | 7c02wi | Why is your best friend, your best friend? | Because she's genuinely just an incredible person. She truly cares about not only her friends, but all the people around her. Being around her really puts you at ease, it's hard to describe but her existence makes you start to believe that the world is a better place (sorry it's really hard to put into words.) Her inte... | 3 |
AskReddit/cx4dy15 | 3t9zwp | What's the worst teacher you've ever had? | My high school home ec. teacher. She was in charge of FCCLA (an organization mainly dedicated to homemaking, at least that's all I understood of it) and acted like she had so much on her plate 24/7. My freshman year we had to do a poster board project. Another girl, Courtney, had been sick with the flu and out of schoo... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0swlbl | ciz68 | Why do people hate BMW drivers ? | I can say that I have been more threatened by the owners of these cars more than any brand owners when I am on my bike. More often than not, it is one of those guys that will try to race me, invade my space, obstruct me when splitting lanes, and/or tailgate. Thanks to people like them, I wear horse spurs on my boots to... | 3 |
AskReddit/dew5adz | 5z8nqx | What's the stupidest reason you've ever been fired from a job? | It's the only job I've been fired from but it was pretty stupid as well as super illegal. Anyways I was "shadowing" for 2 weeks, basically working without being paid, worked the next week, got paid straight from the register, no taxes taken out or anything. Ended up getting "let go" the next day for no reason whatsoeve... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/eu6paw8 | cf1xxp | Do memories occupy a physical space in the brain? | Memories are pretty much connections between nerve cells, the more numerous (edit: and stronger) the connections the better you can remember something. Since this is a physical connection, theoretically there is a limit to how much we can remember. However we dont know how much of our brain is available to store memori... | 8,522 |
AskReddit/dlwaf7p | 6uy54b | What's the 'Bitcoin-ten-years-ago' of today? | Honestly I'd say Nvidia stock. With a increased demand for bitcoin mining, the PC gaming industry, and their hand in the business tech market as well I see them becoming extremely extremely popular. Also, take a look at their stock price now compared from three years ago if you don't believe me. | 2 |
AskHistorians/cjv13gc | 2e0jod | Were there many historically significant battlefields in WWI and WWII? | There was quite a sizeable battle in Verdun in 1792. A better example might be Metz where there was a big battle in both the Franco Prussian war and the second world war. Besides that, it wouldn't be too hard to find battlefields in Belgium or northern France whereseveral battles could have taken places. | 2 |
AskReddit/d07p9wt | 46tb3y | What event made you realize your friendship was ending? | High school graduation. I wasn't close friends with anyone, so I knew my friendships were pretty much over. Luckily, I made new friends in college who I hope to stay friends with for a long time. | 2 |
AskReddit/dcwaqq1 | 5q4s8v | Why did you get punched in the face? | I tend to get punched in the face for stupid reasons. Here are two examples: In Boston, someone drunk at a bar must have heard my New York accident, yelled "Yankees suck", and punched me in the face. I'm a Mets fan. Also in Boston, I was at a bar with a few friends. A guy who we weren't with was hitting on one of the g... | 3 |
AskReddit/ek9pt4b | ba8gdu | Why don't majority people care about the environment and the planet? | I don't think it's that they don't care at all. They just don't care about it as much as they care about maintaining their current lifestyle. And I'd be willing to bet you don't either. When living in an environmentally responsible manner is substantially more expensive than the way the vast majority of people currentl... | 3 |
askscience/cblqqwb | 1k5g1d | Could radio waves be combined in such a way that a wave with increased frequency is created? | Not in any linear way. That is, you can't just have some radio waves out and about, then add them together (like overlapping two beams) and get something with different frequency content than what went in. In fact, by superposition, a wave that is made from two waves is precisely the same thing as the two waves being i... | 6 |
AskReddit/ddjpche | 5t2r5k | How do you describe the type of person you see in your head when you read witty responses to Reddit posts? | Always a man, never a woman. He has nearly perfect computer posture and a slight smirk right above his cleft chin. His wavy, ink black hair as glossy as the rims of his reading glasses. Eyes so kind they could make Shakespeare weep. He chuckles softly as his neatly manicured hands type "This." | 6 |
AskReddit/dgyxas1 | 68j2bd | What is your opinion on tipping waiters/waitresses? | If I buy a meal worth $50, tipping 20% would be $10 and hence minimum wage. I would be paying an hour's worth of salary. $50 is the price of two pizzas. We want waiters to receive minimum wage. How do we do this? Are there any petitions we can sign? I know it's obviously not that easy, but is there anything we can do t... | 2 |
AskReddit/dk0aksv | 6mbav3 | What is something you were made fun of as a kid? | How I dressed. In middle school my family moved from Jerusalem to NYC. My mom thought that the cold winters would get me sick so she always made me dress like I was going on an arctic expedition. | 3 |
AskReddit/e5mmjmu | 9e6w8c | What's the best way to get over a break up with my lover/best friend of four years? | I was in the same situation last year. Granted, our relationship was already deteriorated some months before it ended, so the breakup wasn't too shocking and I was already somewhat "prepared" for it, but I was still pretty sad a few days after it. What made me overcome it was understanding that it's a normal part of li... | 2 |
AskReddit/d1ggrao | 4cahsu | What seems funny until it happens to you? | Not so much funny as it seems the law of the world but, seeing someone in a sports car get a ticket. When I was young I was like, that's what you get with your mustang. Now I'm constantly looking around at night like fuuuuuuk cops are everywhere. True to form though, I never got speeding tickets in my non performance c... | 5 |
AskReddit/erqzr3o | c3hh12 | What’s the weirdest traffic stop you’ve been in? | A-6 Spain A Coruña to Madrid in AP-7 There was a wild pig in the middle of the highway and the police stopped the traffic for half an hour but that was hilarious to see haha | 2 |
AskReddit/e6zuy1k | 9kl2n2 | Why is football (the NFL kind) not a popular sport outside of the United States? | Even though NFL is explosive when played, it’s actually barely played. There so many breaks and stoppages it becomes a chore to try watch. Rugby in a sense is very similar but slower with constant pressure. Soccer is easy to understand and you can play with a ball and jumpers for goalposts. In loads of places in the UK... | 4 |
AskReddit/ej5lheh | b4bis2 | Who is a perfect modern example of "love the art, not the artist"? | Is the 40s considered “modern” because if so then i’d say a good example would be german WW2 military equipment and desings, they are all beautiful and very interesting, but the reason to not love the artist is VERY ovious | 2 |
AskReddit/cltm8cg | 2ld3h9 | What was it like when everyone could freely smoke indoors and on public transportation? | The first couple of flights I took as a kid had smoking sections. I don't really remember it being an issue. Public places were different; my local mall was smoking-allowed until I was about 17. It sucked walking past smokers, but the building was big enough and well-ventilated enough that it wasn't really an issue if ... | 2 |
AskReddit/e6ce76c | 9hjbrz | What "serious" movie was unintentionally funny? | Pretty sure many people have already mentioned it but The Room is no doubt one of the most unintentionally funny movies in history. The dumb script and terrible acting makes anyone watching it wonder how it ever got to production. | 1,671 |
AskReddit/dc9gy15 | 5n8gh2 | Why are Western conservatives often unconditionally pro-Israel, to the extent that Israel can seemingly do no wrong? | I am fiscally conservative but socially liberal. Studying history, and the 5 times that combined Arab armies tried to by force drive the Israelis into the sea I side unconditionally with Israel's right to make autonomous decision for themselves. It also doesn't help that Palestine's attitude going into negotiations is ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dulyrjw | 7z7usk | What was your most interesting text from a wrong-number? | It was a Merry Christmas text, and when we realized it was a long number, we had a friendly conversation about how silly it is that often people are rude or angry when someone texts them by accident. That was about 8 years ago, we still talk several times a year, and definitely send Merry Christmas texts. Over time we’... | 3 |
AskHistorians/ddf33jz | 5sgzar | Has there ever been a "vote of no confidence" in the United States? | To my knowledge no. I guess impeachment is as close as it gets to a vote of no confidence in the U.S. In an impeachment scenario, articles of impeachment are brought before the House of Representatives. (A government official can be brought up on charges of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors.) Once the articl... | 3 |
AskReddit/di4p1m6 | 6dqwfv | How are illegal immigrants deported if their birth country is unknown? | I don't know for sure about all countries, but according to some message board I read, a number of countries in Europe don't deport a person if their home country can't be proven. However, they are apparently arrested from time to time for failing to comply with a nebulous order to leave the country. This is probably a... | 3 |
AskReddit/c8al3bi | 180uwi | What do you think would be the absolute worst way to die? | Alone. I stay in forrest most of life. No one come visit me, no one say hi. I very sad for long time. But meet animals. Shunned animals for long time, they see me sad. Give me companionship, friends. If die without animals, worst way. | 12 |
explainlikeimfive/cevknc5 | 1vsyds | In the Long term, How did the Breakup of AT&Ts Bell System benefit consumers? | Before the breakup, every telephone in the United States was connected to one company, and one company decided what services that phone would offer and what price you would pay to use those services. The focus of that company were: first - protect its monopoly; second - be incredibly reliable so consumers would have no... | 2 |
AskHistorians/c86axck | 17kepg | How respected was a surveyor in 18th century Colonial America? | Surveyors in those days were highly trained and respected professionals. Their judgment meant success or failure for a lot of landowners. They had to spend days hacking straight lines through wilderness. A surveyor needed a sharp mind and a strong back, and they needed a way with words as well as a musket. They had to ... | 13 |
AskReddit/e3zc6sf | 96bqjk | What are things that Hillary Clinton did that shot her in the foot for the presidency back in 2016? | Not even campaigning in certain states. That really reinforced the feeling of abandonment that many people feel towards the democratic party. The "deplorable" speech where the guy screamed out "Pepe." She gave Trump more voters with that one. Initially saying that her emails were fake, then all of a sudden they were st... | 6 |
AskReddit/e64s1ar | 9gkkiw | What's the best piece of gossip you've ever heard? | I heard once in high school that kids of another class had this big orgy where every hot girl of our calss went. Whats sad is that we used to compare power levels of goku and cell at that age. | 7 |
AskReddit/dzjxcdh | 8m0sbd | What did the person said to you that made an impact and stuck with you until now? | I was in the car with my grandparents, and my grandmother was talking about a guy she didn't like. She asked for my grandfathers opinion, and he said he didn't have one, and that he chose not to spend energy thinking about things, that didn't make him happy. Such a simple notion, but as a young teen, it really stuck wi... | 2 |
AskReddit/crxzmwd | 38upxx | How did your final high school score affect your current career? | Not at all. I dropped out of high school, ended up going to uni and finishing before anyone from my high school year, then working a cushy job in sales. High school isn't the only road. There are plenty of paths you can take if you're willing to work hard. | 2 |
AskReddit/ci9mden | 28cgfq | What is something you can never seem to understand regardless of how many times it is explained to you? | I love how the topic is "something you can never understand no matter how many times it's explained to you" and yet every top level comment is followed by an explanation. I get it, it's the natural thing to do and it's good for conversation, but it's just going to be forgotten anyway. | 158 |
AskReddit/doheg30 | 76w6ky | If the US split into 50 individual countries, what would be the fate of your state in 5-10 years? | Missouri would be a hot mess. First of all, we have a major divide between most of the state - which is rural and deeply conservative. Meanwhile, the two largest cities - Kansas City and Saint Louis - are on opposite sides of the state. On top of that, a chunk of Kansas City is technically part of Kansas, and a chunk o... | 288 |
AskReddit/do72slj | 75ledh | What unverified world record are you pretty sure you hold? | I am one of the World's best PS3/PS4 players of BAJA Edge of Control. I have never seen a video of someone faster than me. As of today I still have the fastest time ever recorded in the in-game Baja 1000. | 2 |
AskReddit/epg5qmd | buqvtu | What's the best way to make money as a teen? | Grocery stores hire at a young age, but the work is tough, even for minimum wage. As long as they have you work short shifts, you should be good. The money you make there should be more than enough for your age. But I’d recommend finding different work when you turn 18. | 2 |
AskReddit/d7lhpso | 52mpgl | What's a video you thought was funny and you showed to your friends who didn't think so? | There's a video of a deer getting hit by a racecar and all you see is the deer just shoot straight up in the air and disappear and the car keeps going. It makes me laugh EVERY TIME and whenever I show it to people they don't laugh. | 2 |
AskReddit/dzlejoz | 8m73z9 | What’s the weirdest time you were caught masturbating? | One time when I was 10- as a patient at a children’s hospital. Nothing in the hospital really made me want to do it, it was a daily routine that I didn’t quite yet understand the sexual implications of yet. I tried to do it when no one was looking, but then I turned around and saw a staff member looking at me. Not a pr... | 2 |
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