Urban myths that somehow, people still believe

Urban myths that somehow, people still believe

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1878

821 posts

162 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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shep1001 said:
Haven't got time to read all 7 pages yet but.......

I keep seeing the one on Facebks about putting you PIN number in backwards if you get held up at the cash point & the old bill will come steaming in to arrest the perp whilst your cash & card is safely held by the machine.
Or even time to read the initial posting, it would seem biggrin

rodericb

6,657 posts

125 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Randy Winkman said:
If you try to keep your eyes open when you sneeze, they will shoot out of the sockets. yikes
And if you sneeze seven times in succession you'll spontaneously orgasm. Doesn't matter if you shut your eyes or not.

otherman

2,190 posts

164 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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rodericb said:
Randy Winkman said:
If you try to keep your eyes open when you sneeze, they will shoot out of the sockets. yikes
And if you sneeze seven times in succession you'll spontaneously orgasm. Doesn't matter if you shut your eyes or not.
If only. My standard sneeze count is 11. Or maybe the orgasm happens exactly on 7 and it doesn't have time before #8 comes along.

mister_ee

347 posts

181 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Billsnemesis said:
I have seen a clip of someone opening the cover on a petrol delivery tanker while talking on the phone and there was a flash over from the fuel vapour.

So it must have been the phone that ignited the vapour right?

It couldn't possible have been static, or friction, or a spark from two metal surfaces being in contact?

No, it had to be the phone. Even though it is at ambient temperature, causes no sparks and emits nothing but radio waves.

It can give you can you cancer though. The phone that is. Not the petrol.
No, petrol definately gives you cancer

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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rodericb said:
Randy Winkman said:
If you try to keep your eyes open when you sneeze, they will shoot out of the sockets. yikes
And if you sneeze seven times in succession you'll spontaneously orgasm. Doesn't matter if you shut your eyes or not.
Please pass the pepper!

shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Rick101 said:
Ki3r said:
If you are being asked to stop by a unmarked police vehicle you should get your phone out and dial 112. This was put you through to the Police as 999 does, but at the same time pinpoint your position to the phone op. Katie phoned 112 when a unmarked vehicle wanted her to stop. Because she phoned 112 they were able to pinpoint her location and stop her being attacked. Or something along those lines.
I was recently told 112 allows them to find your location by a serving Police officer.
Why would 112 allow them to do this, but 999 not?

What a load of old bks.

Zoobeef

6,004 posts

157 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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shakotan said:
Rick101 said:
Ki3r said:
If you are being asked to stop by a unmarked police vehicle you should get your phone out and dial 112. This was put you through to the Police as 999 does, but at the same time pinpoint your position to the phone op. Katie phoned 112 when a unmarked vehicle wanted her to stop. Because she phoned 112 they were able to pinpoint her location and stop her being attacked. Or something along those lines.
I was recently told 112 allows them to find your location by a serving Police officer.
Why would 112 allow them to do this, but 999 not?

What a load of old bks.
Maybe they meant instead of phoning your mum, local Asda, the chemist, etc.

Deadlysub

511 posts

157 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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One which has rumbled on for years and has been proved a hoax; is Avril Lavigne died at the height of her fame and was replaced with a look-a-like by the record company.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
Posh is an acronym of port out, starboard home.
That's true. It is an acronym of any 4 words which start with the letters P, O, S & H.

bearman68

4,642 posts

131 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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justinio said:
BMW's come from the factory without functioning indicators.
You're mixing this up with the fact that recently BMW have been developing driverless cars. They worked out the technology, and placed the computer the size of a house in the boot, and drove it around the country. It was only after many thousands of miles they found a programming error had disabled the indicators.

Yipper

5,964 posts

89 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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silentbrown said:
HTP99 said:
In the whole history of mobiles, has there ever been a fire in a petrol station actually caused by someone being on their mobile; that rule about not being on your mobile on a petrol station forecourt, due to a fire risk, has always perplexed me.
Err, no. That's why it's a myth...

http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp

All the petrol pumps here still have warning stickers on them, though.
It is because of the (tiny) theoretical risk of someone dropping their phone from height and the battery sliding off the back onto the concrete floor and any metal contacts creating a spark by friction that ignites vapour.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Pothole said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Posh is an acronym of port out, starboard home.
That's true. It is an acronym of any 4 words which start with the letters P, O, S & H.
As an ex sailor, that is definitely correct.

cootuk

918 posts

122 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Ari said:
Just seen the aids infected needles in petrol pump handles one shared on Facebook.

Honestly, 10 seconds on Google... but no, got to be seen as cared and protecting her mates.
Vandals glue a dozen RAZOR BLADES all over children's playground was a real one, so you can see where needles come in to it and is believable


Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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nonsequitur said:
Pothole said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Posh is an acronym of port out, starboard home.
That's true. It is an acronym of any 4 words which start with the letters P, O, S & H.
As an ex sailor, that is definitely correct.
What is?

br d

8,388 posts

225 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Ari said:
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
Chalk marks on your house means you're about to be burgled by the local diddycoys.
This one! rofl

Even got released as a warning by one particularly dopey police force! biggrin

Do they really not stop to wonder why a potential burglar, instead of robbing a house, would inscribe helpful secret chalk marks (known, somehow, only to other burglars) and just toddle off home?
Every single time this comes up I have the same retort. This did used to happen. I have witnessed it many times and removed the marks myself.

In very rundown Tower blocks in the east end the local crack head burglars would knock at a given time and then write on the wall if there was no answer. You had to look hard to find them, just tiny pencil scribbles off to the side of the door.

They would take the form:
2xxx or similar. This meant they had knocked 3 times at 2pm and no one was in. When they were happy it was a pattern they kicked the door in.

There were hundreds of flats burgled with this technique, even long after it was known about people just didn't believe it or couldn't be bothered to look.

I've seen it hundreds of times. This was 25 years ago, the estate I witnessed it on isn't even there now but it did happen.

I'm going to save this reply for the next time it comes up.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Pothole said:
nonsequitur said:
Pothole said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Posh is an acronym of port out, starboard home.
That's true. It is an acronym of any 4 words which start with the letters P, O, S & H.
As an ex sailor, that is definitely correct.
What is?
All of it. Your user name is almost the same as an oceanographic window. How appropriate.

Matt-il77s

330 posts

89 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Mr Gearchange said:
More Facebook fkwittery:



"So HIV infected needles in petrol pumps is now a thing... Wtf. Be careful... Please look before pumping up they are putting infected HIV needles In the petrol stations. Please warn every friend of yours and family members. Please share share"

Also the "Don't flash people without their lights on as they will shoot you as a gang initiation"

FB really is a great tool for fking morons to spread their idiocy far and wide..
Similar thing from a while back


Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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br d said:
Ari said:
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
Chalk marks on your house means you're about to be burgled by the local diddycoys.
This one! rofl

Even got released as a warning by one particularly dopey police force! biggrin

Do they really not stop to wonder why a potential burglar, instead of robbing a house, would inscribe helpful secret chalk marks (known, somehow, only to other burglars) and just toddle off home?
Every single time this comes up I have the same retort. This did used to happen. I have witnessed it many times and removed the marks myself.

In very rundown Tower blocks in the east end the local crack head burglars would knock at a given time and then write on the wall if there was no answer. You had to look hard to find them, just tiny pencil scribbles off to the side of the door.

They would take the form:
2xxx or similar. This meant they had knocked 3 times at 2pm and no one was in. When they were happy it was a pattern they kicked the door in.

There were hundreds of flats burgled with this technique, even long after it was known about people just didn't believe it or couldn't be bothered to look.

I've seen it hundreds of times. This was 25 years ago, the estate I witnessed it on isn't even there now but it did happen.

I'm going to save this reply for the next time it comes up.
I lived in a tower block in Bow between 1992 and 2008...never heard of the like!

Halmyre

11,147 posts

138 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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br d said:
Ari said:
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
Chalk marks on your house means you're about to be burgled by the local diddycoys.
This one! rofl

Even got released as a warning by one particularly dopey police force! biggrin

Do they really not stop to wonder why a potential burglar, instead of robbing a house, would inscribe helpful secret chalk marks (known, somehow, only to other burglars) and just toddle off home?
Every single time this comes up I have the same retort. This did used to happen. I have witnessed it many times and removed the marks myself.

In very rundown Tower blocks in the east end the local crack head burglars would knock at a given time and then write on the wall if there was no answer. You had to look hard to find them, just tiny pencil scribbles off to the side of the door.

They would take the form:
2xxx or similar. This meant they had knocked 3 times at 2pm and no one was in. When they were happy it was a pattern they kicked the door in.

There were hundreds of flats burgled with this technique, even long after it was known about people just didn't believe it or couldn't be bothered to look.

I've seen it hundreds of times. This was 25 years ago, the estate I witnessed it on isn't even there now but it did happen.

I'm going to save this reply for the next time it comes up.
Why not just kick the door in first time round instead of repeatedly coming back and increasing the chances of being spotted?

Alex_225

6,233 posts

200 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Haha the blood injected bananas is a sore point in my house. My other half read me that utter horse sh!t with a deep concern and I just laughed. She got annoyed at my mocking.

Every now and then, when we're in a situation where I need to give here a bit of credibility, I raise the "AIDS bananas" and usually get sworn at hahaha. smile