Things you believe in despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

totally believe that full moons cause werewolves

Also, I'd be careful about relying on data from cops, because there are a lot of superstitious cops. A lot.

Anyway, I've never been able to shake the feeling that Reagan had dementia a lot longer than is currently accepted.

(I mean, had it longer before what is currently accepted.)

Maybe the cops are the ones suffering lunacy during full moons and therefore arrest more ppl.

1. Sunkist didn't have caffeine in it until I was about 15 or 16.
2. Cold temperatures produce cold-like symptoms, as in, symptoms of the virus.

i still believe in the existence of "clutch hitters"

yeah that whole thing recently about how the parameters were wrong and you are probably a different sign was weird b/c I am totally Scorpio, even though my TRUE sign, now, is Virgo

FWIW that wasnt actually true. The signs have not changed, it was misinformation spread by a ranty skeptic astrology hater dude.

Not that I believe in astrology, but neither did the signs "change".

If we stop believing in Tinkerbelle, she will die. I swear it.

I find it really amusing that astrology is so solid that one over publicized guy can make tons of people question their pseudo-beliefs. Say something like that about actual religion and people would be up in arms.

I like to think that if I concentrate, I will know what I need to eat to have balanced nutrition. Like, my body will make me hungry for broccoli if I lack iron or something.

that line of thinking led to a pint of peanut butter fudge swirl ice cream today

I like to think that if I concentrate, I will know what I need to eat to have balanced nutrition.

Heh. On a similar tip, I like to think that the cravings I have are my body flagging a need for a certain mineral/vitamin/trace element. And its not like I crave ice cream and chips, I'll get WEIRD random cravings for broccoli or sardines or V8 juice or something.

2. Cold temperatures produce cold-like symptoms, as in, symptoms of the virus.

yeah, but are people really so dumb that they can't distinguish between a runny nose caused by cold weather and a runny nose caused by an actual illness?

(answer: yes)

if you stay out in the cold long enough to get pneumonia, your immune system is definitely going to suffer. but a few minutes in 30°F weather isn't going to do it, and frostbite is a more immediate concern than the possibility of coming down with the sniffles.

MERCURY IN RETROGRADE

that drinking water with your ears plugged cures hiccups

I don't know about that but drinking water without taking a breat and taking as many sips as poss before you have to breathe actually does cure mine every single time.

whenever i get hiccups (which is thankfully not often because i hate them) i spend the whole episode wondering if i'm going to be one of those poor hiccup people who can never stop hiccupping, year after year.

That happened to my mom's uncle and so the thought of it scares me to death. He had them for like 7 years or something until he died of something totally unrelated.

sometimes i complicate my wondering by wondering if worrying about it might perversely bring on the condition so then i try not to think about it but i still do.

lol same - it's very stressful!

rip poor uncle hic.

i was not scared of this phenomenon until now.

hiccup runneth over

i wasn't scared of it either before i heard of it and then when i did i decried it by saying wtf and whatnot but my criticism was to no avail, it didn't help sufferers one bit.

if you shouted WTF very loudly behind them, perhaps?

Though it would probably just add nerve problems to an already tough situation

If the moon can affect tides and we have water in our brains then surely it has the capacity to affect the water in our brains.

Uh guys the gravitational attraction between the moon and your brain, even at the moon's closest approach, is less than that between your brain and the chair you're sitting in. Gravitational force is a function of mass. The moon weighs about 7.35 x 10^22 kg. The ocean weighs about 1.4 x 10^21 kg. Your brain weighs about 1,400 g.

LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA

so full moon madness has something to do with bigger chairs?

Pictured: The full moon effect

http://therearehymnsweshout.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/edith_ann.jpg?w=300&h=365

*hic*

This thread is infuriating. That is all, carry on.

i think some of youse are looking for the thread where we believe in stuff fully supported by science

I like to think that if I concentrate, I will know what I need to eat to have balanced nutrition.

I had a friend who lived by this philosophy, that he body was giving her cravings for nutritional reasons & we should all just listen to our bodies to have a balanced diet. This lead to her regularly doing things like making an entire pot of caramel sauce & eating it with a spoon, or eating a bag of mini Babybel cheeses in one sitting.

Yeah that would be me if I tried that tbh.

You must also eat the red Babybel wax for a balanced meal

Oh she totally did that. She'd also make & eat batches of the salt dough you make for kids to play with. I am blaming the copious amounts of marijuana her body also told her to smoke.

i am always drawn to people like that, i believe the water in my brain is gravitationally attracted to the liquid molecules in their caramel sauce.

My brain has been telling me I need a constant supply of whisky lately, but I'm trying to tell it to shut up.

When I was an early adolescent, I used to believe that girls would deeply know if I had ... impure ... thoughts about them. Not as in: "he likes me, and he's unsubtle," but the actual content and/or narrative of the fantasies I had imagined. Poor, poor Jazmine D.;

I also imagined it was possible to share dreams; to meet up and hang out with other people in your sleep.

xp: That tangentially reminds me of how I used to think (ca. 5th grade) that teachers could tell if I had done my homework that morning, as opposed to the night before when it should have been done. I imagined that they had equipment that could determine how recently the pencil marks had been made, or whatever. I have somewhat of a history with giving authority figures entirely too much credit for their technological sleuthing abilities.