Urban Myths.

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well i like that show a lot called Mythbusters.

here are a few of myths i know of.

New york city has alligators in their sewage system.

Using a cell phone in a gas station will ignite the gasoline fumes coming out of the gas tank.

well thats all i remember right now. do you guys have any?
 
Have you seen the episode with all of the toothbrushes and to see if fecal matter accumulated on them sitting in the bathroom?
 
i love taht show

i wanna see the penny drop episode, thats the only one i havent seen all the way. my favorite is the stinky car episode.
 
Originally posted by lethalAE86typeR
Using a cell phone in a gas station will ignite the gasoline fumes coming out of the gas tank.
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That happened to someone in L.A. this morning. I guess it's debatable whether the cell phone caused it or whether it was from the static electricity that that person didn't discharge, but I'm not going to be the one to find out.
 
Originally posted by Sage
That happened to someone in L.A. this morning. I guess it's debatable whether the cell phone caused it or whether it was from the static electricity that that person didn't discharge, but I'm not going to be the one to find out.
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I saw that too, this morning.

It's funny how Myth Busters ruled out this myth. They like to "bust" a lot of myths, even after they affirm it. Like with that story about the .22 bullet in the fuse box exploding and hitting that guy in the testicle. They prove the cartridge can explode, but they still say they "busted" the myth.

The two dead pigs in the Corvette was classic. 👍
 
A little while ago I was filling up my car, my friend was in the passeger seat using his phone. Next thing the attendant comes running out scraming "WHO IS USING A MOBILE PHONE? HANG UP HANG UP OR YOU'LL BLOW THE TANKS" Needless to say my friend hung up sharpish!!
 
Heres one : Toads give warts when you touch them.

Bull****. as I kid i always used to play around with them, and never got warts in my life. :)
 
Crunching wintergreen Lifesavers in a dark room, does make green sparks, though.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Crunching wintergreen Lifesavers in a dark room, does make green sparks, though.
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Never heard that one, sounds pretty cool.

Not sure if this is a myth or not but here goes: If you leave a goldfish in a darkroom it will turn silver.
 
The biggest con in the history of the world is this:

Mains wire has "live" and "neutral" strands.
 
I love bashing myths in front of adults (as opposed to telling a 5-year-old Sant Clauis doesn't exist). Personally, it's quite a trip to explain to them their friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend story doesn't match up. It's one thing to use another real story as an example, but quite another to vary a false tale and package it as your own.

What about those rural and suburban myths? Never hear much about those...
 
aww man theres a lot of myths in the philippines. like theres one where if you piss on a tree u need to say sorry. haha. man my grandma cracks me up a lot. haha!!
 
One of the more gross myths comes from one of the south east Asian countries, which I think was Cambodia. Eating fresh ox dung will make you more verile. They showed a man actually eating it on TV. Bleh.

One of the best which I always knew was ox dung was the "ice bullet." Like frozen water wouldn't shatter after an explosive went off behind it. If that wasn't bad enough, how the hell could it go through a firearm's forcing cone without falling apart?
 
The biggest con ever is that the Great Wall of China is visible from space. I've been to the great wall, and it's no wider than Broadway in New York City - and you probably can't even make out Long Island from space (let alone Manhattan or any individual streets). Yet, everybody believes it - because everybody's stupid.
 
maybe your stupid
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No, no - definitely you.

I have no idea what this picture is of or what it proves, but if you're (note the spelling) saying it's the Great Wall, there's a few problems. First, this picture isn't from space. Saying the Great Wall is viewable from space and then showing a picture that's either from a high-altitude airplane or from a high-powered telescope in space sort of defeats the purpose. Second, there's no proof that this is the Great Wall, not that it matters because the tag line is that this is the only man-made object you can see from space and I can pretty clearly make out about a hundred other man-made objects.

Try harder.
 
I say that if you can't see it from space with the naked eye, it doesn't count. Why, because the US probably has spy satellites that could read your license plate, so there fore anyting is visible from space. HA!
 
That's the original myth - that the Great Wall is the only man made object visible from space with the naked eye.

A myth which powripper spectacularly failed to prove.
 
Well, darn it, you can see The Truman Show studio from space.
 
Originally posted by M5Power
No, no - definitely you.

I have no idea what this picture is of or what it proves, but if you're (note the spelling) saying it's the Great Wall, there's a few problems. First, this picture isn't from space. Saying the Great Wall is viewable from space and then showing a picture that's either from a high-altitude airplane or from a high-powered telescope in space sort of defeats the purpose. Second, there's no proof that this is the Great Wall, not that it matters because the tag line is that this is the only man-made object you can see from space and I can pretty clearly make out about a hundred other man-made objects.

Try harder.
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I was going to say that you can see the Great wall of China, but there are also many other man made structures that can be seen from space as well. You see, the myth is that its the only one that can be seen from space. So i'm sorry but you are wrong. I actually didnt post this because I knew you would get all riled up from this...and I wanted to see your reaction :trouble:

so who where you saying was stupid?
 

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