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Urban legends people think are true

Of course there a lots of false urban legends out there, but I've run into a few that people commonly seem to believe in. I'd say my top two are:

Tapping a Soda Can

and

Rice Bad for Birds

What other urban legends have you encountered as "facts"?

EDIT: :music:Let's do the time warp again!:music:
 
Holding your car keys to your cell phone will somehow magically convert it through the phone and you can unlock a car from anywhere.

I had a few people claim that this was "true"


Also, hybrids are better for the environment.

Oh, at solar/wind power are viable replacements to fossil/nuclear energy.

Supplemental? sure. replacement? not with current tech.


 
Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: EGGO
Recycling is better for the planet.
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I fail to see how "not recycling" is better for the planet.
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It's debatable depending on circumstances. In some cases, it costs too much in terms of resources to recycle products rather than to produce new ones.

The other two "R's" (Reducing and Reusing) are better options that aren't as questionable in terms of environmental benefit.
 
Originally posted by: coldmeat
Originally posted by: Pheran
Of course there a lots of false urban legends out there, but I've run into a few that people commonly seem to believe in. I'd say my top two are:

Tapping a Soda Can
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You don't tap the side of the can, you tap the top.
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Irrelevant, because neither work. The time you waste doing the tapping may be helpful to let it settle down though.
 
Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: EGGO
Recycling is better for the planet.
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I fail to see how "not recycling" is better for the planet.
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Given: a lot of people don't recycle - there isn't 100% participation in recycling programs

Not recycling results in an increased value of materials in landfills. A higher value of unreclaimed materials is a larger incentive for someone to start an industry that essentially mines landfills. We don't have the technology right now, but I see no reason that in the future, the technology wouldn't exist that would allow extraction from landfills on a massive scale.
 
By far, the one people claim most often to be true gets repeated here in one variation or another about every 4-6 weeks.

- I know someone named <insert ridiculous name>.

Most often claimed to be true is "sh*thead".

And they won't just say they "heard", they insist they personally know someone with <ridiculous name>. Never mind the fact that these made-up names have been kicking around for decades.
 
Originally posted by: Crono

The other two "R's" (Reducing and Reusing) are better options that aren't as questionable in terms of environmental benefit.
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I got in an argument with an owner of a natural product/organic shop. I bought 2 items, and declined a bag because I was 300' from my house, and it was an easy carry. She was insistent on me taking a bag, with her justification being they were recyclable ! I asked if it wasn't better that I didn't use a bag in the first place :^S
 
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: Crono

The other two "R's" (Reducing and Reusing) are better options that aren't as questionable in terms of environmental benefit.
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I got in an argument with an owner of a natural product/organic shop. I bought 2 items, and declined a bag because I was 300' from my house, and it was an easy carry. She was insistent on me taking a bag, with her justification being they were recyclable ! I asked if it wasn't better that I didn't use a bag in the first place :^S
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Lol, that's a fail in logic on her part if she thought it was better to use a bag.
Maybe she was just trying to be nice.
 
FOX news commentators actually believe what they say and aren't just playing their audience for fools.
 
Originally posted by: Crono
It's debatable depending on circumstances. In some cases, it costs too much in terms of resources to recycle products rather than to produce new ones.

The other two "R's" (Reducing and Reusing) are better options that aren't as questionable in terms of environmental benefit.
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Recycling PROPERLY is better for the planet. An easy way to tell is that recycling PROPERLY is better for your pocketbook. If you can get paid for an item, then recycle it. If not, then don't recycle it as at the moment it isn't good for the planet. It may be good for the planet later when we have the proper technology, but at the moment leave it be. It is such a simple concept, yet few people ever understand it. Instead, they tend to fall into two groups: people who never recycle (bad for the earth and their pocketbook) and people who try to recycle everything (bad for the earth and their pocketbook). So few people understand that the optimum lies in between the extremes and that it is a moving optimum as technology and needs change.

Note: economical recycling goes far beyond the easy aluminum and paper examples, especially for industry.

Note 2: reuse is the dictionary definition of recycle. It is hard to say that reusing is a better option than recycling since recycling's definition is to reuse it. Bring a paper or plastic grocery bag back to the store and you recycled it by reusing it.
 
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: Crono

The other two "R's" (Reducing and Reusing) are better options that aren't as questionable in terms of environmental benefit.
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I got in an argument with an owner of a natural product/organic shop. I bought 2 items, and declined a bag because I was 300' from my house, and it was an easy carry. She was insistent on me taking a bag, with her justification being they were recyclable ! I asked if it wasn't better that I didn't use a bag in the first place :^S
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Do0d, huge fail! Her phone number was inside that bag along with a humorous "Beavers are Reusable" post card. :shocked:
 
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