I fought with my aunt about "mom jeans." I was telling her it was a style of jeans and she was adament that it was any kind of jeans that a "mother" is wearing.
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Well technically you are both right though she is being pedantic.
Well, definitely arguing with my mom over me going outside in winter with hair that wasn't fully dry, when I didn't have time or I'd miss the bus and be late for college. I usually dry my hair enough that if I cover it with a hood or hat during colder days I'm perfectly fine, but she insists that one of these days going out with wet hair in the cold is gonna get me sick, which has never happened. I ain't changing the habit of not fully drying my hair after I get sick from going out with wet hair and that is the sole cause of me getting sick (so, probably never).
This happens every time I go outside without a coat during winter. If I'm going to the grocery store, and I'm only outside for 60 seconds, I dont need a coat. Obviously if I was going on a hike then I'd need it.
Where'd this myth even come from about cold causing colds? Its even in the name! I can't imagine how many hours of pointless arguing occurred between parents and children because of it
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I'd hike across campus in college with wet hair and it would be frozen solid by the time I got to class in the winter. lol
I'm lucky I don't live in an area where it normally gets cold enough for my hair to freeze during the cold season. Closest I've ever had to that was a miserably cold winter last year. Only subzero winter I've ever been in and I would never wish it even on my worst enemies.
So dumb.
Hour argument, that the final cliff fall scene in Predator 1 was two different jumps in the 2 cuts.
Can see in the first one he is rotating. Second cut is a straight plumb drop into the water.
How were the rotational moments counteracted?
They weren't, it's two different jumps/takes.
2 friends came up with some hair-brained arguments that you could stop rotating on the way down. (๋_๋)
The only way would be air resistance, and hands/arms is not going to be enough to create drag to counter the rotation.
I hate when people get into minute arguments about what is visually happening on screen versus the story that's being told. It can be a single jump narratively but two jumps in production. (I've never seen the movie.)
I was not invested in the outcome of the argument, just seeing how far they were willing to take being wrong about aerodynamics/physics. Quite far it turns out.
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Kinda related, I studied in Spain for a semester. Was taking with my fellow American roommate about the debate of if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. Our host mom's daughter's boyfriend (Cuban, fwiw) overheard, and we told him about the "controversy" in the US but all 3 of us agreed it was a fruit. Host mom overheard us and asked what we were talking about, and the Cuban told her. "Well yeah, of course it's a vegetable"
I couldn't understand every word but when I could tell they were arguing about some vegetables having seeds or something like that I knew I spread something.
All fruits are vegetables, not all vegetables are fruits. All edible plant matter is vegetable. Fruits are, well, the fruit of a plant.
Fruits are the reproductive organs of plants designed to be eaten by other animals in order to spread their seeds.
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