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AskReddit/dzd5734 | 8l66rp | Which is your favourite Quest in all of the PC/Video games you ever played? | Well one time I was playing me some good ole shooty shooty games with my bud and he was like what if we made a quest and I said ok so we made up our own quests but then the dog got into the chocolate again and let me tell you he gets CRAZY when he eats some chocolate anyways he came in and started preaching about Bill ... | 4 |
AskReddit/dy5xfvo | 8frk2c | What is your personal meaning to life and the reason why you want to be alive? | You're assuming I want to be alive. The only reason I'm still here is the slight bit of hope I may one day be loved. If I'm not by the time I'm 30, I won't be staying here any longer. | 28 |
AskReddit/etx56b8 | cdyoqc | What was the worst time an employer made you "cut corners" in an unethical way? | As a server in a restaurant, I discovered all of our to-go boxes had been infected with cockroaches. I put half of them (there were probably about 200 total) in the trash before he came up, yelled at me and made me put them all back to be used later. Most disgusting thing ever, I doubt it even saved that much money | 11 |
AskReddit/d7kzxuc | 52km6i | What is the dumbest thing you have done while stoned? | I was on a three hour trip from my college to my hometown. I always found the free-way drives mind-numbing/ boring, so I smoked two rather large joints at the start of my drive. A little over halfway down, I stop to get gas, and then get back on the freeway. I'm driving for a little over another hour before I notice I'... | 4 |
AskReddit/c4lrbu1 | tdtpl | Can someone help explain why I, in North Carolina, was 'forced' to identify with a specific party and then given a ballot with only candidates of that party listed? | The purpose of a "primary election" is to determine which candidate will be on the ballot for each party during the 'general election' where the candidate is actually elected. It is, by nature, a partisan event. You aren't voting for governor, president, etc. during the primary. You're voting for who you think should b... | 2 |
AskReddit/chow56c | 269az7 | If no one had Nuclear Weapons, could the U.S. take over the world? | Nuclear weapons aren't a factor now. At least not where conquest is concerned. Nukes are very good at obliterating targets and killing millions of people. But killing all your enemies isn't really conquest if their former territories are rendered uninhabitable for centuries or millennia. And especially not when fallout... | 2 |
AskReddit/edfdzl5 | ada4pk | How many of you are actually poor, or poor because you spend your money in very irresponsible ways? | I am a college student.I currently have enough money in my bank account to make my tuition payment for the last semester of school and pay for rent for the rest of the school year. I am going to college for electrical engineering.So I would say that I am poor responsibly. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/el8p4us | beudow | Why do open beers in bottles foam up and make a mess when you hit the top with another bottle? | Hitting the bottle creates shock waves in the beer, which break up existing bubbles into a ton of smaller bubbles. Tons of smaller bubbles have more surface area than a similar volume of bigger bubbles. The increased surface area makes it easier for the carbonation (CO2) to come out of solution. This makes the smaller ... | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/cgi4vzi | 220a07 | Why do we round up on 5? | As a couple have mentioned, it isn't actually correct to always round 5 up IF the 5 is the very last significant digit. You are supposed to follow the "odds/evens" rule. The rule is simply that you round to the even number (the way I was taught at least). The point is that you want to avoid having all of your rounding ... | 3 |
askscience/c36qsln | n6zm1 | Is there any reason 2 unflavored vodkas should taste any different? | The perfect "pure" vodka is an ethanol grain-neutral-spirit diluted with pure water to a palatable level. The differences in flavor between vodkas come from impurities or contaminants, since no process is perfect. | 7 |
AskReddit/c1x6vhf | hp552 | What's the most awesome thing you've done/said in a job interview that got you the job? | I had an interview yesterday and added a partially joking, friendly [non bribe] offer of bringing in baked goods if I got the job [I have previously worked in bakeries before]. Still no word on whether it worked or not. | 2 |
AskReddit/er4wbwu | c0gzqf | If you won $10 million, what are literally the worst ways you could spend that money? | There was a dude who won something like 60 million pounds and blew it all over a few years on cocaine and hooker parties. He was quoted as saying something like, “ I spent most of my money on hookers and blow and the rest I wasted.” | 3,002 |
explainlikeimfive/dghgfd2 | 66cr9b | Why do our noses run and eyes tear up whilst eating spicy foods? | The compound that we register as being hot is an irritant ment to teach animals not to eat the plants as a defensive mechanism. We have developed a taste for that burn because it triggers an endorphin rush (pleasure chemicals). But because it is still irritating to our mucus membranes. (Any body tissue that is wet and ... | 5 |
AskReddit/dgs62zq | 67pdpo | What is a mistake you almost made that still gives you chills to think about? | I threw a rock in the air to try to trick bats into following it (bats will chase a small object in the air because they see it through sonar, thinking it's a bug/food). It came down straight on my uncle's truck hood and made a nice ding.my uncle is a car nut and LOVED this truck. My dad forced me to call him and tell ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c7ffg5t | 14qax1 | If scientists came up with a way to prolong life indefinitely, should everybody be entitled to this treatment? | I doubt such a thing would be economically possible. Just like anything else that requires expertise and effort the price would fall and the service would be steadily available to a wider group. No different than any other life prolonging service. | 3 |
AskReddit/dcnrwtu | 5p1vwh | What movie did you watch with low expectations but turned out to be really good? | Dale and Tucker vs Evil. My friends and I turned it on in the background while we played cards. We ended up stopping the card game to finish the movie. | 6 |
AskReddit/dgxqcrc | 68cvsm | What conspiracy theory do you believe is true? | -At the Oscars this year, I'm convinced that the Best Picture debacle (where they announced the wrong movie to win Best Picture) was all staged, in order to generate controversy and get more people watching the Oscars. Edit: Get more people watching the Oscars next year, with the hope they'll see another 'mistake' live... | 656 |
askscience/c5s99hy | y4d35 | Why are all animals with horns are vegetarian? | The ability to grow horns or antlers arose after the phylogenetic split between herbivora and carnivora. To paint with broad strokes, all modern mammalian carnivores are descendant from an ancient root carnivore, and likewise herbivores. This is a generalization, many mammal carnivores have become omnivores, for instan... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/c37kvri | nak97 | Why do materials such as fabric get darker when wet? | So "white" light contains all the colors of the rainbow. The color of objects are determined by the color of light that isn't absorbed and gets reflected back. So with a blue shirt, all the colors in white light are absorbed and blue light gets reflected back When something gets wet, it changes how light gets reflected... | 2 |
AskReddit/d3mia6o | 4ld4dj | What is the saddest thing you've ever witnessed in public? | I used to work at Five Guys. This tall and, honestly handsome guy came in. Bit of an accent, I want to say french but, it was kind of busy, and all I heard him say was his order. Ordered two burgers built the exact same, two little fries, two water bottles, two sides of ketchup, and some salt packets. Guy got his order... | 5 |
Ask_Politics/cdjjmve | 1r4jdc | Are there any states that have movements to legalize marijuana that have a high chance of succeeding in 2014? | Alaska Marijuana reformers in Alaska have been hard at work trying to make their state the next to legalize pot. In June, a ballot measure to tax and regulate pot and legalize it for adult recreational use was certified. Organizers must now collect at least 30,169 valid signatures of registered Alaska voters by Decembe... | 14 |
AskReddit/c49mpxa | ryf14 | How did your parents influence your life past high school? | You know, man, my parents have alway been really cool. With the college deal, mine are the same way, though. Now they are not telling me where I have to go and what I have to study, but it is very clear that if I am not in college, I should be working full time. Now, for helping for school, they gave me an ultimatum; I... | 2 |
AskReddit/e4drq0j | 985mp3 | How would your life change if you suddenly lost or gained a foot (30cm) in height? | If I gained a foot I'd be 8 feet tall and I already hit my head on most door frames, I can't image walking into a room and being smacked across the neck | 2 |
AskReddit/eu443hk | cent9w | What is your most mind-numbing fact? | if time travel were possible, and time itself is infinite, then there would be a %100 chance that someone has traveled to our current time, not only that, but it would also occur infinitely, in all spaces, so everything would be destroyed in a instant. same thing with alternate universes, if there is a infinite amount ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dgy6qga | 68f57m | What scares you most about death? | I've had some time to think about that for the last 9 months. My wife died last summer. She had cancer and toward the end, when she knew she wasn't going to last much longer and her quality of life was gone, she opted for assisted suicide. She actually set it up well ahead (it takes 2 months to get approved) and was re... | 6 |
AskReddit/dsz4pbu | 7rs0cs | Why would bad cholesterol increase and good cholesterol lower when switching to a clean, healthy unprocessed food diet? | because your body doesnt care if your bad cholesterols come from a McDonalds Burger or an organic farm fresh hens egg. If you are eating more bad cholesterols with your 'unprocessed' food diet then your levels will increase. | 2 |
AskReddit/er5d2jc | c0kuxk | What is the difference between democratic socialism and national socialism? | Centralization. National socialism is the centralization of the economy under the government. Not necessarily a command economy but socialized and centralized. The government does not necessarily have to be a direct democracy but could be a democratic republic (like we have in the US) Democratic socialism is a direct d... | 7 |
AskReddit/cvwg9kv | 3oebvs | What is the scariest thing that has happened to you? | I once had a ceiling collapse on me while fighting a structure fire. Not just like a section of the ceiling, but the entire ceiling in one big sheet. I happened to be on a ladder at the time, so the ceiling landed right on my helmet before knocking me six feet to the floor. Imagine 70 pounds of smoldering drywall, and ... | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/dcjdn9o | 5ohszw | Why do we have fingernails? | To this day, humans sport broader fingertips than other primates. Whether fingernails are an adaptation that helps to support broad fingertips or a side effect from the loss of claws is unclear, Hawks said. Another reason for fingernails: They serve as a visual advertisement of a person's health, he said. | 3 |
AskReddit/ecf9nbo | a8zl73 | Where do you live and are you going away for the holidays? | I live in the Great State of Texas and I'm going away this week--not really for the holidays since there are none that I celebrate during this time, but just because this guy in the community can use some extra drivers to go up to the area where my parents and in-laws live. Very convenient and mutually beneficial. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dhfkfmo | 6alwh1 | How do multi-billionaires, such as Elon Musk or Bill Gates, receive and store their money? | Generally a lot of assets aren't in the form of money, it's in the form of things. Now that doesn't mean that they don't have a few hundred million dollars somewhere, but I wouldn't expect someone to have a trillion dollars in an account. Personally, I would have multiple bank accounts averaging $200,000 as anything be... | 15 |
AskReddit/eim3jux | b1jgle | If Trump loses in 2020 and there is not a peaceful transition of power, what will that look like? | Better than liberals in 2016 Edit: seriously, we already saw this happen in 2016. If Trump loses, nothing will happen, because we're more mature than that Edit 2: hahaha some hypocrite just downvote me they can't handle honest answers | 2 |
AskReddit/csheebo | 3azi09 | What are your studying tips and tricks, that work really well for you, but aren't common as far as you know? | Common or uncommon, I couldn't tell you. I study in 30 minutes on, 10 minutes off intervals. I write down everything I have reviewed after I'm done and compare it to the source material to see how close I am. If it's a game of memorization, I start with one block of information, then repeat the same block and add anoth... | 2 |
AskReddit/dxznmyt | 8f0qa5 | How would you feel about a law that gives unvaccinated children above ~13 the decision to vaccinate, regardless of their parents? | I'd be for it, but it would be far more comprehensive to charge anti-vax parents with child endangerment. In fact, they should be charged with multiple counts of endangerment, one for every child below the age for a particular vaccination within 3 square miles of their residence / everyone who was placed at risk by the... | 4 |
AskReddit/c764v5d | 13q4x0 | Why does everyone think Americans are fat? | I live in Colorado, statistically, the slimmest state in the nation. However, at our current average weight as the slimmest state, we would have been the fattest state just 17 years ago. That pretty much tells you all you need to know about how fat Americans are. | 2 |
AskReddit/ddacc2m | 5ru4xr | What are your plans for Super Bowl Sunday? | Celebrating lunar New year with my wife's family. I missed it last week due to work so we're celebrating on Sunday. I wouldn't have watched the super bowl anyways. I'm not a fan of sports in general but I definitely can't stand football nor the quasi-holiday status that super bowl Sunday receives. | 2 |
AskReddit/doltqg9 | 77grto | What advert actually made you buy the product? | This mattress called Purple and all their products. I'm currently saving up for their kickass seeming mattress. Those ads are pretty funny, to me at least. Oh and that one product from the 90s that was basically a soundsystem you'd wear and it would make you feel like you were in the game. Wicked disappointed and felt ... | 3 |
AskReddit/cbmzy20 | 1kam9c | What would you see if you went back in time to where you live now but in AD1013? | Huge beautiful mountains (still there), lots of cactus, Mesquite trees, Creosote (some of the creosote would even be the same plants as are still here now. They can live 3,000 years, surprisingly enough), a river (not there anymore), lizzards. Also wolves, they're no longer here. I don't think there were any people. Th... | 2 |
AskReddit/ej5fbab | b4amyd | What plants are you growing at the moment, and how are they doing? | I have some flower seedlings, an aloe that's about five years old ( I'm pretty anxious about him because I've just discovered scale and now I've got to treat it), an ornamental thing my husband's grandmother gave us, that is an offshoot of the one his father brought the first time he came to dinner, some succulents and... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/es4upsi | c5xyac | How can certain foods have so many more calories while being so much less material? | Oreos are basically sugar and fat. Sugar is 4 calories per gram, protein is 4 calories per gram, fat is 9 calories per gram. 100g of Oreos contains 69 grams of carbohydrate, 20 grams of fat and 5 grams of protein. Which means 100g of Oreo contains around 500 calories. Tuna is mostly water. 100g of tuna contains 0 grams... | 28 |
AskReddit/cq419nq | 31qdvd | If you had the money, what kind of business would you start? | I'd start a roller skating rink, there isn't one within 100 miles and roller skating is awesome! They don't make heaps of money though. If I wanted to make money I'd just buy some houses to rent, which is what my parents have done with their life savings. | 2 |
AskReddit/cwbtal8 | 3q3u0y | What are good ways for recent college graduates to handle their finances after starting their first salary job? | buy the cheapest food you need to survive at first. Upgrade slowly. So basically a dozen eggs, dried kidney beans, and sack of rice. Your food budget needs are going to change a lot the next few years, so start cheap at first to avoid waste and spoilage. Setup a savings account and automatic deposit say 25 a week into ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/derhcmm | 5ymups | Why does closing one eye allow me to look at a very bright object? | You shouldn't be looking at the sun head-on even with one eye. The damage to your eye is physical, the sensation of it being too bright is perceptual. That is, your brain is telling you it's too bright. Simplistic analogy if you were a camera. The lens would be your eye and the sensor would be your brain. The lens in t... | 129 |
AskReddit/caj0mkh | 1gcy1s | What was the weirdest, most awkward, worst, or best first date you've ever been on? | Went to NYC to met up with this girl after she had been flaky/putting off going on a date for a couple months. It was unexpected, and I wasn't able to prepare/plan anything exciting. We even had to take about a 2 hour detour/subway ride/bus ride so she should drop some keys off back at her place for her roommate. No pl... | 3 |
AskReddit/cdx56sl | 1sfqdl | How did you and your first love end up? | As a young person, love is not complicated. I had a girlfriend for a few years in high school. We talked about getting married and such, but after 13 years of life experience, she and I would never have worked out long-term. We both ended up marrying the opposite of the other in fact. | 2 |
askscience/c37l931 | naczq | Could you build a box (or other container) that could fully contain a nuclear explosion? | stick it in a very very deep mine? or at the center of some large object held together by gravity. its the heat and pressure that's going to do the most damage. no chemical is going to stay together when placed next to an atomic bomb. There's just too much energy but that doesn't mean that the inside of your "container... | 2 |
AskReddit/cxfmmrb | 3ukkoj | What is the meaning of life? | You make your meaning. Nature developing consciousness has no inherent meaning or purpose. What you want to do with your sentient existence is your meaning. Deep philosophy on life is pointless, you exist with consciousness, no other globs of atoms in our solar system, possibly the whole galaxy, can say the same. Life ... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cukw7fi | 3iyz24 | What's the difference between blubber and fat? | Blubber is a higher density deposit used as insulation against the cold and also protection against impacts and shallow cuts. It is comprised of lipids and collagen fibers. Body fat is intended to function as insulation and backup calorie supplies. It is mostly just lipid deposits. It also functions as lubrication arou... | 7 |
AskReddit/eoemd0h | brki2f | Are you being insensitive if you’re jealous? | It depends on the reasons why you are jealous. Jealousy is a fear you'll lose what you have. If the person you are jealous of, and thus fear losing, has given you no good grounds to believe they'll abandon you, you are being insensitive. This is so because you are disregarding their feelings and, effectively, accusing ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dux3z88 | 80p0t8 | Why is anti-semitism still an issue in places like the U.S., France, etc? | It really depends on the country. Anti Semitism in Germany is becoming a real problem again and many Jews are leaving for Israel. Islamic immigration sure is isn't helping the situation because of historical and religious feuds. There isn't one clean, all encompassing reason for anti Semitism in the west | 2 |
AskReddit/ekdbsnx | bapr3g | How have you quit smoking cigarettes? | I just pinned a date on the calendar. "From this day on, I will never smoke another day in my life". I smoked untill that very date, finished my pack of smokes on that day and just bought a new one. I did have craving, but my will was strong enough not to buy new cigarettes. The day I decided to quit was while I was on... | 2 |
AskReddit/ctk1p2n | 3erk0t | Which is the funniest response to an AskReddit post where OP forgot to put a serious tag? | OPs don't forget to put the serious tag-- the point of not using it is to get on-topic fiction. Not movie or TV plots, not tree fiddy, not "if OP had tagged serious, I wouldn't have made up this bullshit," but the AskReddit equivalent of NoSleep stories-- stuff that might be bullshit, but appears to be real and on-topi... | 2 |
AskReddit/ed0135j | abeali | What is the most expensive thing you accidentally destroyed? | My dad was letting me play with his brand new, very expensive Drone and it ACCIDENTALLY, I really didn’t mean to, have it ran into a bunch of tree branches and then take a nose dive onto some recently fresh concrete and sorta stuck there. He was really mad. | 2 |
AskHistorians/cdnulri | 1rj768 | How do I teach the Glorious Revolution and English Bill of Rights? | Have the students break up into groups of 4-6 and come up with a statement of the importance of the "Glorious revolution" and the bill of rights and how the two effect the U.K to this day. You could have them define "Constitutional Monarchy" and explain how the events prior to and during the "Glorious revolution" (star... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cbd7zbl | 1jc8ls | Why is Korean age different to American age? | In South Korea when a baby is born they're automatically rounded up to 1 year old. When a New Year arrives everyone collectively ages 1 year together. The concept on birthdays is not traditional in Korea, everyone "ages" together during New years. So if a baby is born in December 2011, they're considered to be 1 year o... | 9 |
AskReddit/daw95g4 | 5gzpfh | If you had to base whether you get into a romantic relationship with someone on three questions, what would they be? | Will you try to convert me to Mormonism? If we went to a three day vegan festival, would you tell me it is vegan in advance? Will you drunkenly blaspheme my family's religion at my Nephew's baptism party? . No particular reason, just general questions. | 5 |
AskReddit/edfy02q | addcqo | How can you tell if you’re fat or just weigh a lot from muscle? | 1st step: look in mirror 2nd step: observe body for muscle 3rd step: if no muscle is apparent, you are fat. If there is muscle, then you have muscles | 2 |
AskReddit/esb8wq5 | c6ucja | What's one opportunity you took and gave you the most profit? | I had the opportunity to go to an Early College High School, so I was able to complete high school and earn an AA and AS degree all in just 5 years (4 high school and college mixed and just one year of high school). It’s saved me a few thousand dollars and an entire year of college. Plus it really made me come out of m... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cuv7ytb | 3k6m5f | What determines who gets on the ballot for the Presidential Election? | Each state has its own laws on this matter. Oklahoma is the hardest state to get on the ballot. Often they will only have the big 2. All the other states routinely have 3rd party candidates on the Presidential ballot. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/djir4hi | 6k22q5 | Why does oxidation of iron (i.e. rust) typically happen when it's exposed to water but not air? | So in air oxygen is bundled up as a nice stable gas in the form of O2. It's happy how it is and isn't looking to make any new bonds however water is a polar compound that's more than willing to create new bonds. The Iron gives up electrons which hydrogen ions pick up(to go on to form hydrogen gas and to bond with oxyge... | 7 |
AskReddit/c1873mf | ehul6 | Does anyone know the statistics on how many people have clearance to view United States government documents labeled "secret" and "top secret"? | I know this doesn't answer your question, but there might be 3 million people with a Secret security clearance, but that doesn't mean they are able to view all documents labeled Secret. In order to view a document, you need the proper level of security clearance AND a "need to know". | 3 |
AskReddit/c1i71e0 | fs1sp | What to do with money? | Depending on how much money you're talking about. A smart thing would be to invest in it something. If you're worried about losing it, you could always shoot for investing it in low risk stocks and bonds. If you just want to have some fun with it, and losing it isn't much of an issue, you could always try starting up a... | 2 |
AskReddit/eli95oy | bg4go0 | Why should people have the same freedom to consume marijuana as they do alcohol and nicotine? | Marijuana is much safer than alcohol. somebody could be super high but still relatively in control of their actions and remember it the next day. Not so much with alcohol. Nobody ever smokes a joint and goes home to beat their wife X3 saying marijuana makes someone violent is like saying cocaine makes somebody tired. p... | 2 |
AskReddit/dsrzf62 | 7qum9f | What’s your favorite movie and why? | Interstellar - tops in the list of my favorite movies. Others in the list are mostly superhero movies. Reasons why I like it the most: because Christopher Nolan I have always been fascinated about space or universe science. wormholes and black holes are interesting and mysterious parts out there in space. alternate uni... | 2 |
AskReddit/ers5264 | c3mxwg | When's the most inconvenient time to get slapped in the face? | When you are having a particularly restless night and you have a big day the next day. As soon as you start to gently drift off into sleep, you get slapped and you wake up and then it takes you 30 more minutes to fall back asleep again. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dcl6wno | 5oq4wi | What's the deal with protein denaturing when you cook it? | As with most food fads, they are almost completely wrong but have based their wrong assertions in truth. Protein "denaturing" means that the protein changes shape, in this case due to heat. This does cause the protein to change functionality; it will no longer do what it was designed for. That part is correct. Where th... | 6 |
AskReddit/ci4cfyu | 27tzum | What is the most stupid change you've seen made to the education system? | When I was in high school, the experts decided that girls were being scared away from the sciences. What was their solution? Introduce a comprehension section to the Physics exam. Basically, they made science more accessible to girls by making it no longer be science. | 2 |
AskReddit/cuznn2k | 3kqgg9 | What is the cheapest/ best way to travel the world and is there any ways to travel for free? | You can travel cheaply in most poor countries if you are willing to tolerate very basic accommodation, food, and transport - hostels or the cheapest possible hotels, street stall food, local means of transportation like often overcrowded buses and vans on often bumpy roads. Most parts of Asia, Latin America, Africa, th... | 2 |
AskReddit/egj0om5 | aqwncs | What's the best thing you won? | It’s gonna sound cheesy but I think the best thing(s) that I have won are personal goals. It makes me feel real good and stuff but besides that I beat my older brother in a race so that was cool | 3 |
AskReddit/c129yqq | dr54r | Why do some men pee in the stalls instead of at the urinals? | I am 6'5". I work in Florida, so 90% of the time I wear shorts. Now imagine this: As tall as I am, I pee into a urinal that is way to short for my stature. Imagine what I feel splashing back on my legs. This is why I urinate in a toilet. | 3 |
AskReddit/e3yis5a | 968jfj | If you could have any special ability but with a catch, what would it be? | Ability to freeze time. The catch would be that a cool-down effect would happen where I couldn't do it again for an amount of time equal to the time (relative to me) I kept the world frozen. So if I froze it to take 30 seconds to get past someone, couldn't do it for another 30 seconds after time starts again. Froze it ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cc1bvlk | 1lowsg | What was your worst fart experience? | I cleared out a Joanne Fabrics. I mean literally cleared it out, people put down their baskets and left. Luckily I was able to go unnoticed in the ensuing chaos. It was the most satanic fart I've ever experienced. | 3 |
AskReddit/cz9o04e | 42ecrc | What animal makes you think, "God must have been drunk that day" and why? | Mantis shrimp. God must've decided to make an OP monster of an animal. It's a good thing he accidentally made them super tiny. | 5 |
AskReddit/cefu6bf | 1u8axz | What are some of the weirdest habits/obsessions you have? | I have to set the thermostat to even numbers. Not always though, I can live with an analog thermostat. I must set the TV volume to multiples of 5. Maybe other TVs will have a different scale, but mine works just fine. This is challenging when I want to watch TV at a low volume because sometimes 5 is too low and 10 is t... | 2 |
AskReddit/ctotye4 | 3fhtyw | What is something you did/do that you didn't realize was weird until someone pointed it out? | Apparently I pronounce the word "tour" like "too-er." Never realized this is weird. Edit: my friends all say it so that it rhymes with "your," while mine is more like "you're." Edit 2: Apparently I'm supposed to say your and you're the same too. There's another thing to answer the OP. | 167 |
explainlikeimfive/co07lm0 | 2tlzza | How does adding volumes work? | There are some simple rules for calculating with db. The easiest one to remember is that multiplying something by a numbers adds something to the db value. Multiplying with 10 adds exactly 10 db. So you would hear all the people talking at 30 db. Another rule that is handy to now is that multiplying by 2 adds about 3 d... | 9 |
AskReddit/dweic8e | 87osew | When have you seen the police coincidentally turn up at the perfect moment? | I was doing a mission trip in some of the worst parts of San Antonio. Each day we focused on the kids and gave them breakfast and lunch and had a bunch of activities and games we played. The last day we had a big meal for the whole community. Some guys started getting very rough and it loked like a serious fight was ab... | 2 |
AskReddit/ejdt6nd | b5j1tb | How do you figure out what your goals are so you can set and achieve them? | Accept that you probably won't be able to 100% 'figure out' exactly what you want, and waiting for that perfect set of goals is worse than making decisions and actions based on good, but imperfect goals. Make plans, enact them, and adapt | 2 |
askscience/cebw3zr | 1tvhi5 | Do people with different iris colours see anything differently? | By your definition, yes. People with lighter colored eyes (simply blue vs brown) are more sensitive to light or tend to be more photophobic because have they have less pigment in certain layers of the iris tissue. Less pigment, and less Iight is absorbed, (more light is transmitted through). Think of it like regular bl... | 19 |
askscience/c38u9ev | nfwh8 | Do stimulants (like Adderall and Ritalin) really have a different effect on "ADHD brains" as opposed to "normal" brains? | Everyone's brain is structurally different - this is the reason that we are all unique. Stimulants like amphetamine and methylphenidate work by increasing the levels of the neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinepherine (although the mechanisms in which they do so vary slightly). ADHD disorders are associated with lowe... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/c3b24j1 | nq4b4 | Was the Christmas tree originally a pagan concept? | A lot of pagan solstice traditions (the Christmas tree, 25 December, etc) were adapted by the early Church as a way of converting people. They were already celebrating a certain way; the Church just put a new spin on it | 8 |
AskReddit/d1j6356 | 4cknka | What ever happened between you and your biggest crush? | The biggest crush I ever had was for a few years in elementary school on a boy named Kaleb who kept ending up in my class. I was so smitten with him: he was immensely popular and cool and wore a lot of hair gel. This came to a head when we were walking in line next to each other and accidentally touched hands, palm-to-... | 5 |
AskReddit/ebhgpi5 | a4sqbv | What is a dream you've had that you can still remember clear as day? | When I was younger, like 10, I had a dream that a boy my age was in "my" garage. I say that because the garage, the house, even the neighborhood weren't at all like reality. Too nice. Anyway this boy was blonde with green eyes, and had a bowl cut and old fashioned clothes. Like really old fashioned. I asked him his nam... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/egwyqga | asvhsy | Why do some cultures use the date format month/day/year instead of the more logical day/month/year? | One isn't really more "logical" than the other, they are just two different ways to say the same thing. For example, in English you generally say a date Month-day-year, example: May 1st, 2006. So is quite logical to write that as 5/1/2006, as thats how it would be said. Its a direct shorthand translation of the languag... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/dnxa4ar | 74ccz2 | How do ant colonies spring up overnight? | Ant colonies are underground, and it times of draught or dryness, they will preffer to stay underground and collect moisture in the deeper, cooler layers of the earth. Once it becomes apparent to a colony that there's water and moisture above ground again, they will make it their business to become active above ground ... | 3 |
AskReddit/eu4g5t7 | cern5p | What do you regret apologizing for? | I regret apologizing to the police. When my ex lied and had me arrested I was crying and saying I was sorry for trying to leave and that if she would just stop this I wouldn’t try to leave again and I was sorry I tried to leave in the first place. I regret that so much, it feels disgusting. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cjej6uh | 2cdmd7 | Why do some people get degrees in things like evolutionary biology if they don't believe in evolution? | As an atheist with a religious studies degree, I was simply very interested in religion because it wasn't something I grew up with. It was truly a mystery to me, and five years out of college, I still love learning more (although, financially not very lucrative). It has allowed me to understand people who do believe a ... | 4 |
AskReddit/eb3we49 | a36mjj | What job is much worse than it seems on the surface? | working in pharmacy, from the pharmacy manager to the assistant. outpatient is worse, and especially so if you're in retail - patients don't see you as health care professionals, but as retail clerks. it's thankless, and most people coming in are either in a bad mood from being sick or are too early for their narcs and... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c5503tr | vjadd | Why do TV shows and movies look "different"? | Movies tend to be shot on film, which means that the device being used to record the movie is one of those movie cameras with reels spinning around inside to capture the scene. Movies are expensive because to take one shot takes a really long time. The lenses on a film camera need to be adjusted properly to capture the... | 61 |
AskReddit/ecy9wty | ab8jiy | Is college actually fun because you're "studying what you want to"? | It's fun because you're in an environment designed for people your age and there are always activities going on. That being said, it is nice to be able to take classes based on what interests you or matters for your career goals, rather than being stuck with a set schedule. | 36 |
AskReddit/cl5maxs | 2iuo29 | What is the best sledge/trash talk you have ever heard while playing sport? | Oh man. I can't remember who or the exact context (It was SA cricket match) but in response to a question from a player on the other team about why he was so fat, this dude says something like, "Its because every time I f*ck your mom she gives me a biscuit." Classic! I was not playing, but still awesome. | 3 |
AskReddit/dv87eqt | 828j02 | What's a book you like that isn't popular sci-fi, fantasy, George Orwell, or commonly assigned in high school? | Here's a few: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I think it's still raunchy enough that no high school has assigned it, but I could be wrong. It's basically the definitive zany novel, but it takes place in WWII. Lots of moral quandaries and insanity and underlying calls for anarchy. Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole ... | 11 |
AskReddit/dun7hel | 7zdflf | What TV show were you completely addicted to, season after season, only to be let down in the long run? | Supernatural. My sister introduced it to me when it was in Season 7, so I started a little late in the game. I remember somewhere in Season 1, Dean's life was in danger and I was thinking, "golly, how are they going to get out of this one." I new Dean would survive because it went all the way to season 7, but still it ... | 5 |
AskReddit/eekzn7q | ai4dsx | What are some gestures a first time father can do for their SO to make pregnancy easier for her? | I rubbed my wife's feet while she laid in bed. When baby came, there were difficult times when the baby was upset and she was so stressed she couldn't calm him down. In those moments, I had her lay down while she nursed/snuggled the baby and I would rub her feet until they were both relaxed, sometimes until they fell a... | 3 |
AskReddit/cxgoo0k | 3uohre | What would be the worst thing to find with a metal detector? | as a metal detector user (since 1999) I always thought finding a ring on a skeletal hand (attached to a body) would be the worst thing I could find. Or. an active electrical line. Ran across quite a few cables/wires in the ground but never cut into one. Scariest were lamp post wires. | 2 |
AskReddit/c4rgc9i | u18x1 | Is there one person you despise so greatly, that every single action of theirs makes you see red? | A coworker. He is an older, corny joke telling,one upping pathological liar. The type of guy that goes out to get lunch for the office and ends up getting in some unbelievable situation. For instance, the first week he was here, he made a trip to quizno's. Apparently he got into fight out front of the store. The man is... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dpq8dwt | 7cix06 | What is an autonomous province? | A province is typically not a country or a state, but a region governed by some other authority, like a child not yet old enough to make its own decisions. An autonomous province is an area that governs itself while still operating under some other authority, like a teenager who decides when and where they go but could... | 4 |
AskReddit/ckx0u76 | 2hxz4r | What's the coolest thing your parents did for you while you were growing up? | My dad made a pact with me when I started high school. He said if I was ever in a situation where my ride was a drunk driver that I could call him at any time, no questions asked. I used it once when my friends got wasted at a party that I didn't tell my parents about. He picked me up and hasn't ever brought it up to t... | 4 |
AskReddit/d8nbu1q | 56y39k | What is something that people usually buy outright - when actually it's more logical and cost effective to rent instead? | Boats come to mind. Depending on where you live (from a U.S. standpoint), you're likely to get 5-9 months of usable weather for a boat, with some exceptions. Most people aren't going to be able to take a boat out nearly every weekend, and once or twice a month is probably the norm. When you consider depreciation, maint... | 3 |
AskReddit/ci1ao04 | 27j09c | What is the most impressive thing you've built by yourself? | I know this is going to sound douchey but at one point I would say my body. It looked good, I felt awesome, and was in the best shape of my life. Then I let it go. But I would say getting to a point where you love your body is absolutely one of the best things you can build by yourself. | 8 |
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