"The food pyramid is a healthy way to eat."
"Before that was just the four food groups."
"I thought we were going to be offered drugs by strangers a whole lot more."
"I've never once found a free eddie in my halloween candy, and I'm greatly disappointed."
"You won’t always walk around with a calculator in your pocket."
"Yes! S#ck it, eighth-grade math teacher! In the future, we all walk around with a calculator!!!"
"The safest place to be during a nuclear strike is under your desk."
"I took my son to a dinosaur exhibit; literally everything I learned about dinosaurs is now wrong, including names of dinosaurs."
"I still remember reading books that the dinosaurs evolved into modern-day reptiles, only to be taught again many years later that dinosaurs are actually modern-day birds."
"Eggs are bad for you. No, wait, they are good for you…hang on, are they bad again?"
"Your child is hyperactive solely because of sugar."
"I wasn't allowed to have orange juice as a kid because of this."
"If I swallow gum, it will take seven years to digest."
"Not on fire as much as I thought I would be. So much 'Stop, drop, and roll' growing up."
"I recently discovered that my niece and nephew haven't been taught about 'Stop, drop, and roll' in school. They looked at me like I was crazy when I explained it to them!"
"Don't sit too close to the TV or you'll go blind! Then computers came and we would have to spend eight-plus hours at work with a screen 5 inches from our eyes."
"Acid rain wasn’t an actual threat to the extent it was touted. Oh, and killer bees!!!"
"The tongue has a map of different taste buds that taste different things."
"The tongue map being debunked was one of those 'I f@#king knew it!' moments when I started reading about how they BS'd us with this one."
"Japanese cars are poor quality and unreliable."
"Slightly foolish but true, LOL: that quicksand would be a real-life problem"
"Dude, it was quicksand and amnesia for me — like, I was ready for that sh#t, and nothing. But it seems it was more cartoon narrative tropes than anything. Oh well."
"You will have to write in cursive for the rest of your life."
"Plastic bags will save the Earth because we won't have to kill as many trees to make brown paper bags to carry groceries."
"OMG, I think about this every time I go shopping."
"The United States will be using the metric system by 1983."
"Technology would give us so much free time in the future that we'd only have to work 5–10 hours a week. And we'd be able to do it from home, and employers would be on board with it. That one still hurts."
And last: "Mikey didn't die after eating Pop Rocks while drinking a Coca-Cola."
"So you're saying he had a.......Life."
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get lost
So you drank the Kool-aid?
You also think not using plastic straws will save the world too?
Two generations from now, they're gonna be sweating their butts off and making lists like this about you (and everyone else who's in denial.)
If your house ever catches fire are you going to throw gasoline on the flames?
Exactly. Climate 'Emergency'.
Drive an electric car to save the environment; even though the carbon footprint is SIX times greater than that of a non-electric vehicle.
#13 The first Japanese cars imported to the US were built with thin/cr#ppy/recycled steel bodies that rusted very quickly.
Not true...
I've seen plenty of conservatives who are just stupid.
straight from Wikipedia. So technically the US is metric people just can't be bothered to switch.
Metrication (or metrification) is the process of introducing the International System of Units, also known as SI units or the metric system, to replace a jurisdiction's traditional measuring units. U.S. customary units have been defined in terms of metric units since the 19th century, and the SI has been the "preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce" since 1975 according to United States law.[1] However, conversion was not mandatory and many industries chose not to convert, and U.S. customary units remain in common use in many industries as well as in governmental use (for example, speed limits are still posted in miles per hour). Unlike other countries, there is no governmental or major social desire to implement further metrication.[2][3]
Although customary units are used more often than metric units in the U.S., the SI system is used extensively in some fields such as science, medicine, electronics, the military, automobile production and repair, and international affairs. Post-1994 federal law also mandates most packaged consumer goods be labeled in both customary and metric units.[4]
The imperial/standard system is based on the kilogram. It's quite funny actually. Maybe one day. ;)