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Most incorrect thing you were taught?

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    #722
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    Boombastic wrote: »
    the summer solstice isn't always on the 21st of June, it varies from year to year between the 21st and the 22nd

    20th to 22nd

    20th on a leap year (early due to over-correction of leap day), 21st on next 2 years, 22nd on 3rd (late as leap-day correction due the following year).

    This isn't perfectly accurate either of course, to keep in line the leap year is every 4 years except on turn of the century and double-except on turn of the millenium. (i.e. 1900 wasn't a leap year, 2000 was)


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    #723
    Al Capwned
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    Seanchai wrote: »
    In Ireland this is perfectly correct. Just as Bealtaine/1 May is start of summer, Lúnasa/1 August is start of autumn, and Samhain/1 November is start of winter. It has been thus for many, many centuries. It's unlikely to change merely because the Oxford English Dictionary, and the British generally, start each of these seasons a month later.

    Surely we should base these dates on accepted scientific knowledge, and not on a centuries-old tradition.


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    #724
    Quazzie
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    alproctor wrote: »
    Surely we should base these dates on accepted scientific knowledge, and not on a centuries-old tradition.
    It is. As I explained its based on the Solstice in each season, which is mid season and at the start of the season as was suggested.


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    #725
    Capt'n Midnight
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    jill_valentine wrote: »
    The best part is, since the Soviets characteristically kept it top secret, and the Americans didn't know about it, it had absolutely no deterrent effect,
    That was the plot of Dr Strangelove so they probably had an idea.

    Edit The President's name was Merkin Muffley :pac:


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    #726
    Capt'n Midnight
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    shuridunno wrote: »
    The principal of our primary school told us there was a man in Russia with his finger on a button,

    http://i.imgur.com/KmKlm.jpg


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    #727
    SellingJuan
    Registered Users Posts: 255 ✭✭SellingJuan


    ronnie3585 wrote: »
    Catch a ni*ger by the toe.
    Haha I remember that haha :)


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    #728
    boomtown123
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    left and right


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    #729
    kippy
    Registered Users Posts: 18,566 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Agent Smith wrote: »
    I wonder if its the same one I had, who insisted that Bonn Was the capital of germany.


    (i showed that bitch a capital.... Bitches Love capitals....)     :pac:

    When were you in school, it was the capital of West Germany.......


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    #730
    EmatoelDiablo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    Didn't think I'd see this thread resurrected again! Awesome!:D


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    #731
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    faceman wrote: »

    So after hours, what happens when the cartilage wears down and bone rubs against each other? SOMEBODY TELL ME!!!!

    Arthritis, AFAIK....


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    #732
    Duggys Housemate
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    Gurgle wrote: »
    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    Rivers definitely slow down. I've seen them reverse.
    There's some new-fangled notion doing the rounds, might be worth your while googling it. I think its called 'gravity' or something.

    Are you opposing my point or sarcastically agreeing with it? gravity is indeed what makes rivers speed up or slow down. The reversing is tidal.


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    #733
    Duggys Housemate
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    Quazzie wrote: »
    alproctor wrote: »
    Surely we should base these dates on accepted scientific knowledge, and not on a centuries-old tradition.
    It is. As I explained its based on the Solstice in each season, which is mid season and at the start of the season as was suggested.

    Outside Ireland most northern hemisphere countries see May as Spring. June is colloquially the start of summer , but meteorologists see the equinox and solistices as start of the seasons. .


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    #734
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    Are you opposing my point or sarcastically agreeing with it? gravity is indeed what makes rivers speed up or slow down. The reversing is tidal.

    Jaysus, that was yesterday. I only have the vaguest memory of typing it at all, never mind what I was thinking.


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    #735
    kfallon
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    If the wind changes your face will stay like that!

    Santa is real.

    Christ we are so gullible as kids


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    #736
    paddyandy
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    Give people a second chance and the benefit of the doubt .....with your money not mine .


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    #737
    SdoowSirhc
    Registered Users Posts: 524 ✭✭✭SdoowSirhc


    A teacher told me this year that Iceland isn't in Europe :confused:

    *edit* He concluded that it wasn't in Europe after he told me that the most western point in Europe is Achille Island. When I said what about Iceland he said it wasn't part of Europe


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    #738
    RandomName2
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    Patriot missiles and scud missiles are exactly the same thing (just different names due to US propaganda)

    The Roman Empire fell because the Romans all got fat and lazy.

    Sentences can never ever start with but or because.

    Triangle and circle geometry is useful.

    Germany and Italy were the only fascist powers and Germany invaded the USSR because Hitler was just plain mad.

    St. Patrick converted Ireland to modern Catholicism


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    #739
    thethingis
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭thethingis


    SdoowSirhc wrote: »
    A teacher told me this year that Iceland isn't in Europe :confused:

    *edit* He concluded that it wasn't in Europe after he told me that the most western point in Europe is Achille Island. When I said what about Iceland he said it wasn't part of Europe


    Mmmmm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland

    wiki is always right.

    Careful not to show up that teacher or you will be a marked man or woman (badly marked Id say)


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    #740
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,921 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    SdoowSirhc wrote: »
    A teacher told me this year that Iceland isn't in Europe :confused:

    *edit* He concluded that it wasn't in Europe after he told me that the most western point in Europe is Achille Island. When I said what about Iceland he said it wasn't part of Europe
    Iceland isn't in Europe.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union


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    #741
    Insect Overlord
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    Quazzie wrote: »
    Iceland isn't in Europe.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

    The continent of Europe and the European Union are not the same thing.


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    #742
    Shorty11857
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    Water freezes at 100C, was a typo in our Geography book and pretty much proved that our teacher had no business teaching at all


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    #743
    SdoowSirhc
    Registered Users Posts: 524 ✭✭✭SdoowSirhc


    He never mentioned the EU or any thing else, he said it actually specifically said it wasn't part of the continent. Maybe I am wrong but I'm pretty sure it must be part of Europe.


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    #744
    Insect Overlord
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    SdoowSirhc wrote: »
    *edit* He concluded that it wasn't in Europe after he told me that the most western point in Europe is Achille Island.

    He was wrong there too. The Blasket Islands are further west than Oileán Acla.


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    #745
    Conall Cernach
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    RandomName2 wrote: »
    Triangle and circle geometry is useful.
    I use it every day.


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    #746
    RandomName2
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    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    I use it every day.

    Engineer much? :D


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    #747
    RandomName2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,570 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    Oh I have one that I just remembered from Leaving Cert Physics:

    Pluto is so small because its gravitational strength was powerful enough to make it collapse (i.e. it's a Neutron Star). Naturally it would be impossible to stand up on Pluto because you would be squashed flat! :pac:

    This was taught by our Physics teacher. I tried to convince the teacher that you might find it hard to stand up on Pluto because if you're not careful you could float off it, its mass is so small - but I wasn't the one with a degree in physics.. :eek:


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    #748
    hatrickpatrick
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    That the universe would eventually stop expanding and hurtle back together in the Big Crunch.


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    #749
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    RandomName2 wrote: »
    I wasn't the one with a degree in physics.. :eek:
    Neither was he.


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    #750
    SdoowSirhc
    Registered Users Posts: 524 ✭✭✭SdoowSirhc


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    He was wrong there too. The Blasket Islands are further west than Oileán Acla.
    Hahah, brilliant :D


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    #751
    Turtwig
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    Gurgle wrote: »
    Neither was he.

    Actually he probably was such is the standard of today's graduates I wouldn't be surprised if he was.:(


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