Post some random weird things you've learned through life experience

Bryophyte

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I'll start:

Chickens LOVE to eat bananas and watermelon.

When chickens eat bananas, they have to stop every so often and wipe the sticky stuff off their beaks.
 

Don't break a toy limousine on your basement carpet with a metal hammer. You WILL ruin the carpet. :(
 

RossMAN

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If I walk by Victoria's Secret and they have a buy 1 - get 1 free sale ...
 

yukichigai

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Originally posted by: Papagayo
If you pop a zit, it gets bigger..
Today I learned that Papagayo bought into Dermatologist propaganda wholesale.

Whether or not a zit gets big is completely independant of popping it. The area around it may swell up temporarily, but it will pass in a few hours.

Anyway, my bit of random info is that if you ever cut yourself shaving/etc. you can use stick antiperspirant to stop the bleeding. If you don't have a Steptic Pencil around that is.
 

Bootprint

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Originally posted by: jumpr
Don't break a toy limousine on your basement carpet with a metal hammer. You WILL ruin the carpet. :(

Well, duh. That fully stocked mini-bar will make a real mess.


I didn't know that in that stupid little "this little piggy" song, when that one little piggy goes to market was as a porkchop. I never thought about it and figured it was going shopping.
 

yukichigai

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Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Cows won't eat oranges, or any kind of citrus fruit. Neither will chickens.
Really? Our chickens didn't seem to mind. They had a hard time really doing anything, but they'd at least try.
 

Lazy8s

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baby birds should be fed cat food

rabbits don't actually eat a lot of carrots or lettuce, it will kill them; instead a healthy diet consists of mostly dry food because their digestive tracts don't absorb water as well as humans and they get diarrhea easily
 

Encryptic

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Rice will clog the bejesus out of your kitchen sink if you dump a lot of it down the garbage disposal. :eek:
 

Bryophyte

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Raccoons LOVE grapes. And they don't actually "wash" food, they just put it under water to feel it because they can feel better that way. Giving them leftover rice is mean because it falls apart when they get it wet. heh
 

maziwanka

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Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Raccoons LOVE grapes. And they don't actually "wash" food, they just put it under water to feel it because they can feel better that way. Giving them leftover rice is mean because it falls apart when they get it wet. heh

hahahahhaha
 

jurzdevil

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if you see a dumptruck on the road and a sign on it says keep back X amount of feet....keep back that amount!

yesterday at work the tailgate fell off of the truck we were hauling stumps with. luckily the guy behind us stayed back because that thing made one hell of a bang when it hit the ground.
 

Bryophyte

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Coat your sandals with tea tree oil after you wash them if your SO threatens to burn them because they smell like death warmed over.
 

kranky

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Young drivers aren't anywhere near as skilled as they think they are.
People lie a lot more than they used to.
A true friend is about the most valuable thing there is, and you can never have too many.
When a company sends you a letter that contains the phrase "In order to serve you better..." don't count on being served better.
Material things are way overrated. You don't own them, they own you.
You need to start saving when you are young.
A police record is something to be avoided unless you will be self-employed.
Very few people work hard, making it comparatively easy to be a star performer.
People need to boot incumbents out of office far more often to accomplish real change.
Many of our new hires (right out of college) have terrible social skills and can't work effectively with other people.
Good musicians make good programmers.
 

brentman

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Cattle won't walk across metal grating of a certain spacing. They are afraid of it for some reason.
 

RedRooster

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A dog collar will not double as a slingshot, those kinds of slingshots you spin.
And any rock attempted to be slung from said slingshot, WILL break the only window within range.