Contrary to Popular Belief

[lacktheknack]

Hitting women in the groin does cause pain... and it's usually worse than what men experience.

Source, pls.

I've talked to a couple girls that have been kicked in the groin, and they compared to having their foot stomped, except higher and causing more adrenaline rush.

A knee to the balls, in comparison, is similar to having someone shove a red-hot knife into your arm for a second, then letting you deal with the aftermath (some extrapolation used).

OT: Contrary to popular belief, teenaged girls ARE psychopathic, and many will freely admit it.

(This not-very serious observation has been used in lieu of any factoids not already mentioned.)

 

[sageoftruth]

While violent crime may not go down, it's harder to shank large numbers of people to death than shoot them, which would at least reduce the number of massacres which seem to be so popular in America.

The weird thing is that they aren't that common. However, whenever they do happen they become a massive deal, completely forgoing the twelve other instances where this person was stopped. Frankly, I still maintain that if there had been a single person with a concealed carry permit in that Aurora theater, we'd be reading about a hero that stopped a potential massacre rather than some fucked up college student.

In regards to your desire for sited evidence, I would be doing that, but I didn't bring my laptop to college with me and all my saved data regarding firearms threads on the escapist was saved on my desktop. I apologize, I'll see if I can find it.

OT: Contrary to popular belief, shotguns are actually pretty effective past 2 feet, people can't just pick up handguns and shoot super-accurately, and without the US Army Rangers at Pointe du Hoc, D-Day would have had many, many more losses.

The Aurora theater was in Colorado. Do you really think no one had a gun in there?

 

[lacktheknack]

This is true for both men and women. People don't like to admit it but it's the truth!

[spoiler/]<youtube=i0PR0B2C2KY>[/spoiler]
.

I....I don't even....

do you live in anything that resembles the real world?

Keep in mind that people who do think like that tend to be extrapolating their own pathetic outlooks onto anyone else.

I don't really care what my girlfriend/wife looks like (within reason), as long as she's someone I can LIVE with. I also find it annoying when people take clips from American Psycho (problem is in the title) and tell me I think like that... because.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Cats are not most active at night, but rather during dawn and dusk. This is called a "crepuscular" pattern, as opposed to nocturnal or diurnal.

Toilets do not spin the opposite way across hemispheres.

Power Rangers was not an original American show. It was, in fact, Japanese before America make a few surface changes and marketed it as Power Rangers.

The Lion King was never *confirmed* to be a ripoff of Kimba The White Lion. Any accusations were dropped on the grounds that the Kimba studio said it would be honored *if* TLK were in fact a ripoff.

Most of your childhood famous Disney movies are *really* old -- if you're a twentysomething now, you just saw the 1990's advertising and re-releasing of them and thought they were new. Snow White is from 1937. Bambi was 1942. 101 Dalmatians was 1961. Aristocats was 1970. Unless it was formally in theaters after Beauty and the Beast, it wasn't a hit Disney movie made in your lifetime.

If you are shot and it isn't in a major organ, chances are you'll be just fine. If it's a low-caliber bullet like a .22, you can even rarely survive a shot to the head, as the skull is *really* tough and can ricochet bullets if they hit at the right angle.

If you are impaled by a stick/other object, your best course of action is to cut it off a little outside your body, leave it there, and go seek help. Don't pull it out, because it will encourage more bleeding.

 

[sageoftruth]

As anyone who has ever fired one can attest, most shotguns have an effective range of more than five feet. We wouldn't use them otherwise.

I hate it when games do depict shotguns with shit range.

Also, when people say money cant buy happiness, they are typically not all that worried about money. When you dont have money, than can money buy happiness (or to be specific, piece of mind, which leads to happiness.)

What I really hate is how they're ONLY ever buckshot.

Contrary to popular belief, shotguns have solid ammo as well, often referred to as "slugs." These are actually accurate and still lethal at medium range. Kudos to the old Doom games for actually having these. Goddamn modern gaming and "lolol all that exists in the world is scattershot, hahahahaha."

And as someone who's been struggling with finances for 4 years, I agree on the money part. Having money itself doesn't make me happy, but the peace of mind that comes from it does.

Hell, BF3 is the only game I knowof that actually gave you the option of using different shells. Nothing quite beats sniping someone in bazaar with a rifle-scope shotgun though

Just to add to the list, Metal Gear Solid 4 let you choose shotgun ammunition as well. Still, I had no idea what difference it made, so thanks for the ammunition lesson.

 

[TAGM]

Interesting ones, and I'd like to make two additions:

It's called the book of revelation, not revelations.

*Snip the rest*

Contrary to popular belief, the "eye for an eye" mentality came from the Code of Hammurabi, which was the BASIS for Biblical law (Mosaic law). Which segues me right into my O.T. post.

*snip the rest*

Isn't it almost ironic that I go here to, among other things, show some intelligence on these matters, and it takes only a page for two people to find flaws in my own pointing out of flaws?
(Perhaps flaws is the wrong word but you get my point.)
Not complaining or anything, just saying...

While on this subject, actually:
Irony is not a funny coincidence.
But, also contrary to "popular" belief, it is ALSO not just complete and utter reversal of an expected happening.
There is, for instance, dramatic irony, where the audience knows something within a play or show, but the characters do not.
And, depending on which definitions you accept, (Possibly wrong ones but I'm not sure) sarcasm can be classed as irony in a sense.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Gun-control laws produce increases, not decreases, in violent crime.

Evidence for this?

Edit: nvm manic_depressive13 already said what I was getting at

 

[KP Shadow]

Death doesn't always wear blue, and he, in fact, can fall. (Cookie for reference)

It really depends if he's quick on the draw, for in this town, that is the law.

You get a cookie.

Death doesn't always wear blue, and he, in fact, can fall. (Cookie for reference)

The Megas disagree.

I said that he doesn't always wear blue. While the default color scheme for Mega Man is primarily blue, he changes color depending on what ability he uses. Though he's blue most of the time, that's not always the case. Thus, Death doesn't always wear blue. And, remember, by the time the X series rolls around, the original Mega Man has been deactivated for a long time (He was intended to appear in Mega Man X: Command Mission, though he would have been broken-down and covered in rust).

 

[Casual Shinji]

Contrary to popular believe, the Matrix code from The Matrix was ripped off from the Ghost in the Shell credits, as were other little visuals. Still a great movie though.

The Rapture is not part of the Book of Revelation. It was added by some Irishmen in, I think, the 17th century and then spread across America.

 

[axlryder]

Both mostly true.

.

you as well? seriosuly?

do you know any women in real life?

He said it applies to both men and women. I'm saying most people are easily judged superficially. I didn't specify that it was women, the video is clearly supposed to be purposefully misogynistic for a failed attempt at comedy or bachelor-esque charm. I'm not promoting the video.

I'm currently in a relationship with a girl who I'd like to think is an exception to that rule. Other people I see, however, that are alone (men and women) and "can't seem to figure out why," it's easy for somebody on the outside to figure out why it is that this person is repelling mates. And most mundane situations do fit under the idea that looks and personality are inversely proportional. It's not some balance of nature, it's more of a power thing. Attractive people become spoiled by their social success and become more and more selfish and corrosive, so much so that they often test how nasty they can be while still being revered by their body image alone.

It's a wonderful world we live in, hmm?

Citation needed. Also, the film is a cutting satire of modern society (that scene included). You seem good at missing the point of things.

OT: When being used as a possessive, 'Its' should not have an apostrophe between the 't' and the 's'. I'm no linguist, but I see that one quite a bit.

 

[ZehMadScientist]

Contrary to popular belief, the phrase 'Omelet du Fromage' is grammatically incorrect. The correct phrase would be 'Omelet au Fromage'.

 

[Faladorian]

Citation needed.

That has to be the least effort you can put into being passive-aggressive.

Also, the film is a cutting satire of modern society (that scene included). You seem good at missing the point of things.

I'm not promoting the video.

Apparently so are you. There is such a thing as using something as a conversation piece as opposed to a shining example, a one-to-one copy of your exact opinion.

 

[axlryder]

Interesting ones, and I'd like to make two additions:

It's called the book of revelation, not revelations.

*Snip the rest*

Contrary to popular belief, the "eye for an eye" mentality came from the Code of Hammurabi, which was the BASIS for Biblical law (Mosaic law). Which segues me right into my O.T. post.

*snip the rest*

Isn't it almost ironic that I go here to, among other things, show some intelligence on these matters, and it takes only a page for two people to find flaws in my own pointing out of flaws?
(Perhaps flaws is the wrong word but you get my point.)
Not complaining or anything, just saying...

While on this subject, actually:
Irony is not a funny coincidence.
But, also contrary to "popular" belief, it is ALSO not just complete and utter reversal of an expected happening.
There is, for instance, dramatic irony, where the audience knows something within a play or show, but the characters do not.
And, depending on which definitions you accept, (Possibly wrong ones but I'm not sure) sarcasm can be classed as irony in a sense.

Sarcasm is classified as a form of irony.

 

[In Search of Username]

Contrary to popular belief, [list of every QI episode here]

Source: Stephen fucking Fry

 

[Nieroshai]

As anyone who has ever fired one can attest, most shotguns have an effective range of more than five feet. We wouldn't use them otherwise.

Hell, they're the weapon choice for bird hunting. You know, those animals that usually won't let you get within the 20 ft effective range of a VG shotgun. The spread isn't even that great.


My turn.
A duck's voice does, in fact, echo. The quack simply sounds exactly like its echo because of its reverberation when it comes out of the duck.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Hannibal never used elephants.

Source: Stephen Fry.

Not even remotely true.

He didn't use them in very large numbers, but they were highly effective in early engagements because they were large and frightening. However they weren't that easily trained for warfare. Most of them died crossing the alps. And the Romans were able to subvert their use quite well by simply maneuvering phalanxes to provide gaps, the Elephants which are inherently not very aggressive would prefer to simply avoid the soldiers and move through the gaps ignoring its handlers.

If you examine two areas with the same socioeconomic status, you will find that almost always, the place with more gun control laws has higher crime rates.

Gun-control laws produce increases, not decreases, in violent crime.

Evidence for this?

There is no evidence for it. Persons advocating freedom of guns like to point out that Australia's murders and other violent crimes went noticeable up following their gun ban. However its now below the US rate last time I checked. Basically its a normal fluctuation. Snopes has an article explaining it, but access to guns and legality of guns has no effect on deaths during normal day to day life in peace time.

I actually made a graph awhile ago, but unfortunately deleted this cataloging guns per capita according to various surveys by the UN and NGOs. Essentially it showed that It could swing pretty wildly, and Russia could have far fewer guns than the US and a higher murder rate. Iraq had very few guns estimated per capita and an insane murder rate(yes we are talking murders.) But by contrast states that had high gun rates like Canada and Switzerland also had very low murder rates.

The factors most at play are racial homogeneity and economic parity/equality(eg. the existence of a strong middle class to 'bridge' the gap.)

 

[axlryder]

Citation needed.

That has to be the least effort you can put into being passive-aggressive.

Also, the film is a cutting satire of modern society (that scene included). You seem good at missing the point of things.

I'm not promoting the video.

Apparently so are you. There is such a thing as using something as a conversation piece as opposed to a shining example, a one-to-one copy of your exact opinion.

Well I consider you to be wrong about your assessment of people, but since I don't have sources handy and don't feel like getting into a big long debate, I find it easier just to point out that you have zero hard evidence to back up your claims (thus the "citation needed").

Regardless, you explicitly interpreted the intentions of the scene incorrectly. That's not me missing the point, that's just you being wrong.

 

[irishmanwithagun]

Death doesn't always wear blue, and he, in fact, can fall. (Cookie for reference)

I'm going with Discworld.
A silencer will not reduce the sound of a gun to a tiny pfff pfff sound. Nor will it make only a clack clack sound (could somehow tell me how to get italics on this. That would be great). The sound of gunpowder exploding is roughly 160 decibels and can permanently deafen you hearing it the once. Attachng a silencer reduces it to about 120 decibels.
A guitar is NOT easy to just "pick up and play". If you'd devoted any time to being GOOD at the instrument you'd know this.
Just because the Soviet Union was your enemy during the Cold War doesn't mean that Communism or Socilaism is in any way bad, America.
Just because life may get better after your teenage years doesn't make "it gets better" or "you're just going through a difficult phase in your life" useful or in any way reassuring statememnts.
Yes, you smoke, we get it. Now stop acting like such a fucking martyr because no one gives a shit about your woes when it's your filthy habit that endangers the health of you and the people around you.
That's all I've got right now.

 

[Faladorian]

Well I consider you to be wrong, but since I don't have sources handy and don't feel like getting into a big long debate, I find it easier just to point out that you have zero evidence to back up your claims. Pointing out that you completely missed the point of the scene was my primary reason for quoting you anyway.

You do realize that the beginning and end of your first sentence do all my talking for me, right? "I don't have any evidence but neither do you so you're just wrong."

And I don't want to get in a big long debate either, for many reasons. For one, I wasn't even positing anything as an absolute fact. I made a cultural observation, and even made sure to specify that my experience was strictly anecdotal with term such as "in my experience" and "from what I've seen." I also said "mostly true" which was also my opinion, and I purposefully added "mostly" to guarantee that people knew I wasn't making a totally absolute statement.

Another reason would be that at this moment, before any kind of debate had even started, you've already proven yourself to be an unbearable person. Maybe you're having a bad day, maybe a bad year, but whatever it is that's influencing your behavior makes you one hell of a conversational nuisance.