Nothing serious, this is for fun. My example was a friend told me you get computer viruses if you use disks that were dropped on the ground outside. His logic was he was told you get sick if you eat stuff off the ground. Sickness is caused by viruses. Computers can get viruses. Computers “eat” floppy disks. So if you put a dirty floppy into a computer you will make it sick by giving it a virus.
Yes it’s mostly wrong but you can sorta see the logic…
I had a friend who swore that eating bananas gives you cancer.
Was his last name Kong?
They are radioactive …
I’m remembering the “argument” I had with my daughter when she was six about how I thought it was implausible she could get away with wearing someone else’s skin, WHAT ABOUT THE EYE LIDS?? you can’t make that work!!!
Also even slight weight changes would be evident. They are slightly lighter, you don’t have enough skin to cover you. The are slightly heavier you now are extra flabby with your skin.
One kid put on his dad’s respirator and said it was a gas mask. Then he turned on an air compressor and said it was emitting poison gas and told me I would die over night.
Almost as crazy as “fan death”
My 16 year old nephew told me he can’t date a girl he likes who is 15 because it’s pedophilia if she is not in the same year/grade as you. She’s 1 grade below him.
Kids are cooked these days.
I just had a 26 year old tell me a 28 year old was too old for her… it’s not just kids, we all are
My friend told me there was a ghoul who lived in a tree in my neighborhood. He took me there to see it. In the tree, I saw a crazy looking hairy beast, sneaking around behind the branches… It kept saying “Hosssssssssss” menacingly.
Turned out to be his best friend in a gorilla costume. I was only 6. That shit fucked me up.
My example was a friend told me you get computer viruses if you use disks that were dropped on the ground outside. His logic was he was told you get sick if you eat stuff off the ground. Sickness is caused by viruses. Computers can get viruses. Computers “eat” floppy disks. So if you put a dirty floppy into a computer you will make it sick by giving it a virus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
Hiro Protagonist is a freelance hacker and pizza delivery driver for the Mafia. He meets Y.T. (short for Yours Truly), a young skateboard Kourier (courier), who refers to herself in the third person, during a failed attempt to make a delivery on time. Y.T. completes the delivery on his behalf, and they strike up a partnership, gathering intel and selling it to the CIC.
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven, who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro’s friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file, which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. Hiro meets his ex-girlfriend Juanita Marquez, who gives him a database containing a large amount of research compiled by her associate, Lagos. This research posits connections between the virus, ancient Sumerian culture, and the legend of the Tower of Babel. Juanita advises him to be careful and disappears.
Snow crash is one of my favorite books!
Thats hilarious.
I seriously believed BC stood for before Christ until like a year ago. I’m embarrassed for that. Brainwashing is powerful.
Also I think a kid told me the GBA sp can’t play GBC games. Well guess what I tried it the other day and it CAN.
I think that does stand for “Before Christ”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini
Anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) qualify years in the Gregorian and Julian calendars, whose epoch is the traditional year of the conception or birth of Jesus. AD counts years since the epoch, BC the years before the epoch.
The modern terms are called Common Era:
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are conventions used in the Gregorian or Julian calendar to specify whether the year is before or after the epoch. They correspond exactly to Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC): “2026 CE” is the same year as “AD 2026”, as are “400 BCE” and “400 BC”. BCE/CE are used to avoid religious associations by not referring to Jesus as Dominus (‘Lord’).
Personally, I think we should pick the start of the Holocene as year 0
To add on to this, the article on Common Era actually also mentions when different countries started adopting BCE vs BC.
In 2002, an advisory panel for the religious education syllabus for England and Wales recommended introducing BCE/CE dates to schools, and by 2018 some local education authorities were using them.
In 2018, the National Trust said it would continue to use BC/AD as its house style.
In 2013, the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now the Canadian Museum of History) in Gatineau (opposite Ottawa), which had previously switched to BCE/CE, decided to change back to BC/AD in material intended for the public while retaining BCE/CE in academic content.
Wait… Doesn’t bc stand for before christ? I know there’s also bce which is before common era which is effective the same thing but just renamed…
Well maybe I’m wrong on both!!
I know ad doesn’t stand for after death but for anno domain is or something… Its latin for in the year of the lord. That’s why it supposed to start when christ was born, not when he died. Otherwise there would be a 31 year gap between bc and ad
Maybe you got BC confused with AD? Growing up, I was taught that AD stood for “after death,” which is wrong.
Year of the lord iirc
That’s why we only insert floppies into computers in a sleeve, a bit like a disk condom. And hard disks work better anyway
Yeah but then you don’t get the same speed
