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…True or False?/ Real or Fake?/Fair Dinkum or Bullshit?...

Mr Stickyfingers

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…this thread is just a little fun thread bordering on the ridiculous and plain stupidity to pass some time away with silly questions and hopefully even sillier answers or even fully plausible answers!... and you never know… you may actually learn something… the basic principle of it is a sort of Forum ‘Mythbusters’ whereby if you don’t know something… like whether you think that something is real but aren’t sure… just post it here if you can’t find the answer on the Internet and someone may actually know the answer…

…you can also put ridiculous and nonsensical questions that are impossible to answer and someone may come up with an impossible theory and perhaps an impossible nonsensical answer to it… let me give you some examples…

(1) …a friend of mine once told me that to kill off all of the ‘dust mites’ and ‘bed bugs’ in your pillow all you have to do is put the pillow into one of those vacuum seal bags and then suck out every single bit of Oxygen to create a total vacuum and leave it like that for two days at least and they die because even bugs need Oxygen to survive don’t they?... the first thing that I thought was… was it True or False?...

(2) …I love this video but is it just a prank?... I’d like to believe it to be real but surely it is impossible?... the speed of him going down that slide and over that river could never be slowed down that quickly by a little splash pool surely?... Real or Fake?...


(3) …when a Fly lands on you and you want to catch it just swipe your hand from behind it because Flies jump backwards when they take off to fly away so they basically land straight into your hand… is that Fair Dinkum or Bullshit?...

(4) …a ridiculous and nonsensical question?... okay… if you are working hard all day and you are tired at the end of the day and you have a rest and then you get your ‘second wind’ and you are ‘bright and sparky again and then you become tired a second time… are you ‘retired?’… silly I know but it is actually a question with an impossible answer isn’t it?...

…as I say… it is just a thread for a little fun that’s not to be taken too seriously… so if you have inane and stupid questions that you don’t have an answer to just post them here… someone may search ‘Google’ and find your answer that you have been unable to… another ridiculous and nonsensical question?...

(5) …why is it that if someone pours boiling water into a cup and asks you to drink it obviously you say that you can’t… it’s boiling water!... but if they pour a ‘Cup-a-Soup’ into it that you miraculously can drink it?...

…anyhow… I think that you all get the idea don’t you?... this thread may die a sudden death or it will be a little bit of fun… it’s just something different at least… as you can see I had an idle moment and when my mind gets bored it thinks of silly and ridiculous things… this thread obviously being one of them I guess?... lol!... cheers.
 
...did you know that if a Mosquito is biting you that just before you swat it hold your breath... the pores on your skin expand and the Mosquito can't pull it's 'Proboscis' out of you making it easy to kill them... True or False?... cheers.
 
Speaking of mosquitoes.. true or false that they won't even bite you if they don't like your blood type? Or do they bite you once and then not sample you again if you taste crap? And do they die after one feed, or spread your crusty blood to someone else?
 
Speaking of mosquitoes.. true or false that they won't even bite you if they don't like your blood type? Or do they bite you once and then not sample you again if you taste crap? And do they die after one feed, or spread your crusty blood to someone else?

...urgh!... I'd like to know what blood type they don't like lol!... can you eat something to make your blood taste like crap to them?... hmmm!... I don't think that it's true that they die after one feed though... so I'm calling that False... speaking of spreading your blood to someone else... what if they bite someone that had say... Aids... if they go to you next can Aids be transferred to you?... a ridiculous question I know but that is sort of the point of this thread in some parts isn't it?... besides... I was once asked that very question at work one day so some people do actually believe that :wideyed:... cheers.
 
...urgh!... I'd like to know what blood type they don't like lol!... can you eat something to make your blood taste like crap to them?... hmmm!... I don't think that it's true that they die after one feed though... so I'm calling that False... speaking of spreading your blood to someone else... what if they bite someone that had say... Aids... if they go to you next can Aids be transferred to you?... a ridiculous question I know but that is sort of the point of this thread in some parts isn't it?... besides... I was once asked that very question at work one day so some people do actually believe that :wideyed:... cheers.

I think the simple answer to that is no, mosquitoes can't spread the HIV virus because they don't transfer blood to you, only saliva. They can transmit other diseases which are more readily spread that way.

I agree, the whole point of this thread you've created is to myth-bust, so no question is too stupid, and I'm always happy to be proved wrong if I can learn from it.
 
...this is a good example of whether something is fake or real... I had made up my mind that this was Fake when those 'creatures' quickly scuttled away off that rock because they all seemed to run away along the same paths as if tied together by fishing line or whatever... when he confirmed it at the end I just thought... "I knew it!"... lol!... cheers.

 
I think the simple answer to that is no, mosquitoes can't spread the HIV virus because they don't transfer blood to you, only saliva. They can transmit other diseases which are more readily spread that way.

I agree, the whole point of this thread you've created is to myth-bust, so no question is too stupid, and I'm always happy to be proved wrong if I can learn from it.

...well I sort of said something similar to that person way back then when he said that because HIV was only just coming into the mainstream media at the time so many people had fears of something that was relatively new... that being one of their fears... it's amazing eh?... whenever something new and unexplained comes out people instantly jump to the worst possible scenarios until they reach confirmation of otherwise?... we all have our phobias I guess lol!... thanks for the answer though Meglos... cheers.
 
(3) …when a Fly lands on you and you want to catch it just swipe your hand from behind it because Flies jump backwards when they take off to fly away so they basically land straight into your hand… is that Fair Dinkum or Bullshit?...

not sure about when its actually on you...but i submit this anyway...
i could of sworn someone did catch a fly like this on another episode, but cant find it >.<
 
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what does "fair dinkum" mean?

...Lindsay it means 'ridgey didge...true blue or dinky die'... (sorry... I'll stop being silly)... in plain English it means... genuine or authentic or it's true etc... it's Aussie slang that I threw into the title for the 'Aussie' related content that may appear in this thread... do you have any slang like that in South Africa?... you now have me curious... lol!... cheers.
 
...Lindsay it means 'ridgey didge...true blue or dinky die'... (sorry... I'll stop being silly)... in plain English it means... genuine or authentic or it's true etc... it's Aussie slang that I threw into the title for the 'Aussie' related content that may appear in this thread... do you have any slang like that in South Africa?... you now have me curious... lol!... cheers.
LOL do we have slang he asks...well feast your eyes on these
http://www.wavescape.co.za/culture/surfrican-slang/surfrikan-slang.html
 
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