Things That Should Be Common Knowledge By Now

[Conscentia]

global warming is real.

It should also be known that anthropogenic climate change is occurring & and genuine threat to the lives of millions.

[Ivory Record]

There actually is a centrifugal force, the greeks and arabs both beat Galileo to the heliocentric punch, and "it still moves" is apocryphal.

[Castouria]

It should be common knowledge that Africa is a CONTINENT, not a country.
Seriously, it's shocking how many people still get this confused.

[Uieurnthlaal]

There actually is a centrifugal force, the greeks and arabs both beat Galileo to the heliocentric punch, and "it still moves" is apocryphal.

Well, yes, there can be a centrifugal force under special circumstances. For example, if I attached an iron ball to two springs in high tension, one at the center of a merry-go-round, the other at the edge, and I slowly turned the merry-go-round, the outer spring would exert a centrifugal force on the object, but the net force on the iron ball would be centripetal: pushing towards the center. If there wasn't a net centripetal force, then the iron ball would continue moving in a straight line as opposed to a circle, as dictated by Newton's First Law. So that's just a subtlety to remember.

[Ivory Record]

There actually is a centrifugal force, the greeks and arabs both beat Galileo to the heliocentric punch, and "it still moves" is apocryphal.

Well, yes, there can be a centrifugal force under special circumstances. For example, if I attached an iron ball to two springs in high tension, one at the center of a merry-go-round, the other at the edge, and I slowly turned the merry-go-round, the outer spring would exert a centrifugal force on the object, but the net force on the iron ball would be centripetal: pushing towards the center. If there wasn't a net centripetal force, then the iron ball would continue moving in a straight line as opposed to a circle, as dictated by Newton's First Law. So that's just a subtlety to remember.

That was more or less misdirected anger at a decade of the following conversation:

"So if we take into account the centrifugal force, we get a net-"
"THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS CENTRIFUGAL FORCE!"

[Bolden]

Things That Should Be Common Knowledge By Now:

Don't eat canned sardines before you go on a date..
Don't cook bacon while you're nude..
Don't take a laxative before...intimate activities..

Do Not put your hand in a aquarium - if you have a cut or wound on your hand and do that, you may be in serious medical trouble.
If a sharp object is stabbed in you, don't immediately take it out - go to the E.R. first.
If you're making a pinch pot, make sure there's no cracks in the clay before you put it in the kiln (pottery oven).


There, three joking-ly ones, and three serious-ish ones.

[Tiami]

Things That Should Be Common Knowledge By Now:


Don't cook bacon while you're nude..

I do everyday, though. =/

[Breadknife]

Don't cook bacon while you're nude..

I do everyday, though. =/

There are any number of somewhat unwise things you could do, but that is a rasher one.

[Coccygia]

That Communism* was absolutely the worst idea of the 20th century, surpassing by far even recreational drug use and the Edsel.

*Please don't tell me the USSR wasn't Communist. I know and I don't care, because if the USSR wasn't Communist there were never any Communists at all except Marx.

[Luziyca]

That Communism* was absolutely the worst idea of the 20th century, surpassing by far even recreational drug use and the Edsel.

*Please don't tell me the USSR wasn't Communist. I know and I don't care, because if the USSR wasn't Communist there were never any Communists at all except Marx.

If there is no communists without the USSR, then why did Lenin impose such a regime?

[Blakk Metal]

That Communism* was absolutely the worst idea of the 20th century, surpassing by far even recreational drug use and the Edsel.

*Please don't tell me the USSR wasn't Communist. I know and I don't care, because if the USSR wasn't Communist there were never any Communists at all except Marx.

This is a joke, guys. I know this because...

1. ...he's mentioning drugs and a flop from the Fifties to convey age, and, by extension, mindless conservatism.
2. ...he has negative measurements on both axes on his political compass.

[Northern-Armeania]

The Indo European migrations and their massive effects on your life,
How the Ancient Romans had Republicans and Democrats
That the fall of Rome was made possible by China
That the viking raids were caused by the arabs who also preserved Greek and Roman knowledge
How Asia caused the reinsaccue
How the first english settlers weren't the pilgrims but the royal Jamestown company out too make a profit
How modern communist regimes always becomes a corrupt dictatorship

People should know their basic history

[Escasia]

It should be common knowledge that Africa is a CONTINENT, not a country.
Seriously, it's shocking how many people still get this confused.

Really? If I ever heard someone call Africa a country I'd probably black out and wake up in a padded cell.

I can't believe the amount of people who don't know where Poland, Sweden, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Brazil etc are. All of those and many more should be common knowledge.

A list of terms whose meanings should be common knowledge by now:

-Capitalism
-Democracy
-Communism
-Socialism
-Libertarianism
-Conservatism
-Theism
-Atheism
-Gnosticism/Agnosticism
-Christian
-Catholic
-Protestant
-Orthodox
-Evolution
-Religion

[Libertarian California]

That you were trouble when you walked in.

[Siaos]

Just because you know that disestablishmentarianism is a real word doesn't mean you are suddenly a political genius.

[Anachronous Rex]

Just because you know that disestablishmentarianism is a real word doesn't mean you are suddenly a political genius.

Antidisestablishmentarianism on the other hand...

[Frisivisia]

Just because you know that disestablishmentarianism is a real word doesn't mean you are suddenly a political genius.

Antidisestablishmentarianism on the other hand...

Which I knew...

[Bendira]

The social contract is total bullshit that people hide behind because they need to resort to magical fairy dust to defend the state, so I will say the common knowledge should be that social contract is toilet paper.

[Blasveck]

The social contract is total bullshit that people hide behind because they need to resort to magical fairy dust to defend the state, so I will say the common knowledge should be that social contract is toilet paper.

Are you an anarchist, mate?

[Arumdaum]

That Communism* was absolutely the worst idea of the 20th century, surpassing by far even recreational drug use and the Edsel.

*Please don't tell me the USSR wasn't Communist. I know and I don't care, because if the USSR wasn't Communist there were never any Communists at all except Marx.

The USSR wasn't communist, because a state being communist is contradictory. A person can be a communist, in that they believe there should be communism, but an established state cannot be communist. It was meant to be a transitional state on the road to communism.

[Bendira]

The social contract is total bullshit that people hide behind because they need to resort to magical fairy dust to defend the state, so I will say the common knowledge should be that social contract is toilet paper.

Are you an anarchist, mate?

I don't like to use labels, but when I have to I have used that one in the past.

But even if there are good reasons for the state to exist, social contract wouldn't be one of them.

[Grenartia]

The social contract is total bullshit that people hide behind because they need to resort to magical fairy dust to defend the state, so I will say the common knowledge should be that social contract is toilet paper.

It should be common knowledge that without the social contract and a state of some form, we'd be in a world of shit.

[Bendira]

The social contract is total bullshit that people hide behind because they need to resort to magical fairy dust to defend the state, so I will say the common knowledge should be that social contract is toilet paper.

It should be common knowledge that without the social contract and a state of some form, we'd be in a world of shit.

You could potentially argue that without the state the world would be "shit" depending on your metric for success, but I think it is laughable to argue that by virtue of simply being born we are somehow the property of the collective will of the state.

[The Scientific States]

Things that should be common knowledge?

I'm sure about 100 people have said things like what I'm going to say below, but those things should be common knowledge .

Evolution is real.

Homosexuality isn't a sin, nor is it a choice.

The USSR wasn't communist, in fact there has never been a true communist state just countries that have claimed to be communist.

Obama is not the anti Christ. 17 percent of America believes he is, which is untrue.

Winston Churchill is a real person. I recall reading somewhere that quite a few British teens think Churchill was a mythical person.

Labor Unions aren't bad, they're good.

Climate change is real, and if I may add it may be one of humanity's biggest threats.

Violence is never the answer. With all the violence plaguing earth it seems that many people don't realise that violence solves nothing.

Atheists aren't evil, and they don't eat babies either. Who would've thought?

The holocaust happened. There's a lot of narrow minded neo nazis out there who can't accept that.

No race is superior.

[The Scientific States]

Things that should be common knowledge?

I'm sure about 100 people have said things like what I'm going to say below, but those things should be common knowledge .

Evolution is real.

Homosexuality isn't a sin, nor is it a choice.

The USSR wasn't communist, in fact there has never been a true communist state just countries that have claimed to be communist.

Obama is not the anti Christ. 17 percent of America believes he is, which is untrue.

Winston Churchill is a real person. I recall reading somewhere that quite a few British teens think Churchill was a mythical person.

Labor Unions aren't bad, they're good.

Climate change is real, and if I may add it may be one of humanity's biggest threats.

Violence is never the answer. With all the violence plaguing earth it seems that many people don't realise that violence solves nothing.

Atheists aren't evil, and they don't eat babies either. Who would've thought?

The holocaust happened. There's a lot of narrow minded neo nazis out there who can't accept that.

No race is superior.

Here's the British teens/Churchill source.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... teens.html