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Could be major or nitpicky - what fake facts bug you when you see/read them?

One of mine is when someone suffering bloodloss and it makes their pulse slow down instead of speed up.

That we only use 10-20% of our brains, that one annoys the fuck out of me because it's completely false. We use 100% of ours brains, just not 100% of it at all times because each part of it has it's own function. But even then we're not only using 10% of it while awake or something, it fluctuates.

Yet it's a very common misconception that plagues a lot of sci-fi media so that the protagonist can get a psychic-powers upgrade down the line.

People with nosebleeds tilting their heads back or being advised to do so. You tilt it fucking forward, you nitwits. Not only is the error curiously omnipresent, but it makes me want to gag thinking about it. Are you a vampire? No? Tilt it forward.

I was taught as a kid to tilt it back by teachers. No idea why.

My mother did the same with me growing up. I didn't get them a lot but when I did she would go "TILT YOUR HEAD BACK AND KEEP IT THERE." I don't know how that idea started. It makes no sense.

It's common sense. Blood is coming down out of your nose, so to stop it, you tilt your head backwards. It's not correct but it is intuitive.

Re: Misconceptions that bug you in media

syncing_feeling - 2019-01-22 02:03 (UTC) - Expand

Makes less of a mess that way.

This is true! I just hate the feeling of it going down the back of the throat. Ugh.

The SCHOOL NURSE told me to tilt my head back (had me lie on my back, too).

I used to look after a few ladies who had frequent nosebleeds, and they would aaaalways tip their heads back. I'd explain that that results in the blood going down the throat, tip them forward, turn away to get tissues and they'd be tipped right back again. I think for some people it's just how they were taught to deal with it growing up.

sticking your finger under your nose does not stop you from sneezing, blinking does not keep you from crying and yelling at someone does not cure hiccups.

As someone who gets nosebleeds pretty frequently, this.

That if you don't see it on screen, it didn't happen. Apparently, some people actually believe that Steve Rogers didn't know that Tony Stark got his arc reactor removed. Because he never explicitly tells him.

It's like when people complain about "plot holes" that actually aren't plot holes, it's just not spelled out by the canon.

Now I'm reminded of an MLP fancomic I stumbled upon that almost entirely hinged on the author's assumption that Celestia and Luna, after the first episode of the show, never discussed what happened in their backstory. Considering what it involves, their characterization, and the fact that (at the time at least) they weren't viewpoint characters the assumption felt pretty damn far-fetched.

The old "Back in Ye Oldene Dayes, 12 year olds got married all the time, especially to old men" chestnut that get trotted out in vampire/other immortal fiction whenever the writers want to give their 300 year old were-vamp-alien a non-creepy reason to perv on a 15 year old.

Because first, for the most part, 15 was about the bottom limit for most people when it came to marriage, and second, those teenagers were mostly getting married to other teenagers or very young 20-somethings. The age gap between spouses was 2-5 years. Not 25 years.

Now, sure, there were exceptions. The high aristocracy would marry off kids to adults, but those were less marriages as they're currently understood and more real estate transactions. Second marriages (due to widowing) often had large age gaps, but generally both partners were coming in with kids and needed new housekeeper/breadwinner. Also, weird things tended to happen in communities where there were a lot more men than women. Also, occasionally some pervy 40 year old would rape and knock up a 15 year old, and a shotgun wedding would ensue. But mostly, teenaged girls marrying middle-aged men was not a commonly accepted or encouraged practice in Western culture from at least the Renaissance onwards.

Fuckin' THIS. Just - all of THIS.
Plus, like... old timey folks might not have known dick about shit in a whole lotta ways, but they could generally pick a pattern like 'pregnant 15 year olds die a lot more than pregnant 25 year olds' and come to a conclusion like 'maybe women shouldn't have kids until they're a bit older, just maybe'.

I hate the misconception that everyone who writes about 13-year-olds getting married in an old-fashioned setting knows better and is intentionally lying about being historically accurate. No. They don't do their research, and they believe the misconception too. The writing world isn't full of guys just sneaking around being liars so they can get off on child marriage. For fucks sake.

Feel like it's sorta both? They don't do the research because they don't want to do the research, because they're happy with the conclusions.

You seem to be reading an awful lot into this, nonny. No one accused anyone of being a liar. It's a popular trope in certain genres for modern characters to excuse some immortal whatever's attraction to a tween under the 'that sort of thing was normal back when they were young.' This trope is based on a misconception. Unbunch your knickers.

That whole "I get ONE phone call" thing when people get arrested in movies.

Goldfish live for years if you put them in a proper aquarium.

This is true, though? You can get 5 or more years out of a goldfish when it's not swimming around in a small bowl of unoxygenated ammonia.

That's what I meant.

Okay - sorry for the misread. You're absolutely correct about that one, especially if the poor goldfish wasn't half dead from being a carnival prize in the first place.

Animated/drawn media only, but it drives me nuts when someone is figure skating and does a spin on the tip of the blade like a ballerina doing pirouettes. No! That's where the toe picks are - you know, the jagged bits of the blade? You use them to enter the spin, you don't balance on them unless you want to fall over.

(In case anyone wonders, you spin on the curved bit right behind the toe picks.)

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