Common Misconceptions

Arthur Beesley

Suas11 wrote: »

Sherlock Holmes never says, "Elementary, my dear Watson".

Because he was a fictional character?

Donkey Oaty

Suas11 wrote: »

Sherlock Holmes never says, "Elementary, my dear Watson".

Oh yes he does! Not in the books though - but the phrase has been used in screen and radio versions.

maguic24

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

If you eat an apple whole, pips an all, contrary to popular belief, an apple tree will not grow in your stomach.

I remember swallowing an apple seed as a kid and telling my uncle. His response 'Oh no, an apple tree will grow out of your mouth'. I remember absolutely balling, the bastid. :mad:

WeHaveToGoBack

People thought the earth was flat

Call Me Jimmy

Snoop dogg has never actually smoked marijuana, it's water vapour!

CrookedJack

super_furry wrote: »

"Up the bum, no harm done."

You could call that a... missed conception!
Geddit?

Arthur Beesley

WeHaveToGoBack wrote: »

People thought the earth was flat

Not sure how common this is now though.

Arthur Beesley

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Snoop dogg has never actually smoked marijuana, it's water vapour!

Yes, and they were water pistols he was caught with, not real guns.

RDM_83 again

That woman have a higher pain tolerance than men, its been properly shown that woman have a lower pain threshold and pain tolerance but its still trotted out even by biologists and medics.

Barely There

RDM_83 again wrote: »

That woman have a higher pain tolerance than men, its been properly shown that woman have a lower pain threshold and pain tolerance but its still trotted out even by biologists and medics.

and women.

deseil

That people are nice,

the vast majority are a%%holes.

Paramite Pie

That Napoleon was short. I still see that one alot.

RDM_83 again

RDM_83 again wrote: »

That woman have a higher pain tolerance than men, its been properly shown that woman have a lower pain threshold and pain tolerance but its still trotted out even by biologists and medics.

I've a pretty high pain threshold. I've danced around on a cracked tibia and torn ligament thinking I'd "be graaaand". Thought my knee was just a bit sore after a fall and turned out I'd broken my knee cap. Walked a couple of miles for a taxi after falling at a gig in the Phoenix park only to find I had completely torn all the ligaments in my ankle (two years later and it still gives me grief the odd time!)

Stub my baby toe or get a paper cut on my knuckle though and I start making funeral arrangements.

Gannicus

Deleted User wrote: »

I've a pretty high pain threshold. I've danced around on a cracked tibia and torn ligament thinking I'd "be graaaand". Thought my knee was just a bit sore after a fall and turned out I'd broken my knee cap. Walked a couple of miles for a taxi after falling at a gig in the Phoenix park only to find I had completely torn all the ligaments in my ankle (two years later and it still gives me grief the odd time!)

How many of these were done 110% sober????

Gannicus

Gannicus wrote: »

How many of these were done 110% sober????

>.>
<.<

Well the cracked tibia and torn ligament I did whilst tipsy. It was the Friday night of electric picnic, I woke up in agony on saturday morning, drove to portlaoise and got nurofen, kept going on Saturday. Sunday I was totally sober as I was driving home that night, was sore but figured I'd be fine. I was not fine.

Cracked kneecap totally sober.

Torn ankle ligaments I had been drinking before the gig, had a few pints, no drink at all at the gig but definitely must have been slightly numb because that was a pretty bad injury.

Gannicus

Deleted User wrote: »

Cracked kneecap totally sober.

A doff of the cap on that one. But yeah pain tresholds while drinking are very misrepresenting when it comes to a proper guage of the pain we can stand

Gannicus

Gannicus wrote: »

A doff of the cap on that one. But yeah pain tresholds while drinking are very misrepresenting when it comes to a proper guage of the pain we can stand

Another boardsie will vouch for my soberness and continued dancing on the Sunday of EP

o1s1n

'Immaculate conception' meaning virgin births.

The amount of Catholics I see trotting out with that one is fairly amazing.

Deadzone

Tommy used to work on the Dart

Gannicus

Deadzone wrote: »

Tommy used to work on the Dart

Did you mean dock????

Deadzone

Gannicus gets the point of my post...

RDM_83 again

RDM_83 again wrote: »

That woman have a higher pain tolerance than men, its been properly shown that woman have a lower pain threshold and pain tolerance but its still trotted out even by biologists and medics.

I duno, the stuff on google is basically "women report feeling discomfort first". Maybe men feel it and don't want to admit it like

I'd say it could go either way unless there's something else more conclusive I haven't seen

stoneill

Drinking beer and smoking fags is good for you.
The amount of time I hear that old one being trotted out!

Rothko

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Oh yes he does! Not in the books though - but the phrase has been used in screen and radio versions.

Well, that's what I meant. He doesn't say it in any of the written stories.

wretcheddomain

That Linda Martin is a woman

Donkey Oaty

Suas11 wrote: »

Well, that's what I meant. He doesn't say it in any of the written stories.

Very true, and that is the curious incident.

It was what he didn't say.

RDM_83 again

bluewolf wrote: »

I'd say it could go either way unless there's something else more conclusive I haven't seen

Its an awkward thing to prove outright because pain is obviously a subjective experience to some extent, and also those damn pinko's will let people take MDMA on live tv but when you want to hurt people in the name of science suddenly the ethics committee has a problem :pac:

bluewolf wrote: »

I duno, the stuff on google is basically "women report feeling discomfort first". Maybe men feel it and don't want to admit it like

That basically disproves the old wives tale anyway since it shows that men are socially conditioned to accept a higher level of pain before complaint, therefore there is a higher pain tolerance in men (as a general stastical statement).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_tolerance
(giving the wiki link cos of paywalls but there has been other lots of other studies with similar results but very few the other way).

This study has an similar finding in terms of verbalizing feeling pain, but also this

The pupil dilations seen during the last 10 sec of the 20-sec pressure application turned out to be a highly significant indicator of pain intensity. When female and male subjects were compared on this measure, a similar divergent pattern as in the psychopysical data emerged, with female subjects showing greater pupil dilations at high pressure levels only. The fact that gender differences in pain perception can be demonstrated using an autonomic indicator of pain that is beyond voluntary control suggests that these differences reflect low-level sensory and/or affective components of pain rather than attitudinal or response-bias factors.

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Another study
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1828033/

This brings us on to Pain Threshold, this is where it gets awkward because biological sex differences may actually mean that woman actually perceive more pain than men for the equivalent action possible reasonings include the Opioid system and the effect of testosterone.

The thing about this misconception is that there is no evidence to support the idea that woman tolerate physical discomfort* at a higher level than men (can you find a single study that says this?), there is plenty of evidence though its obviously awkward to show that the opposite is the case but it tends not to be accepted.

* using the word physical discomfort because for the same effect a woman may actually be feeling more pain.