Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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Childproof electricityCan't claim this one personally, but Mumm-ra senior (father of the clan), while at university (Manchester, circa 1971), managed to slip this past an actual physics undergraduate.
PhysicsGirl: "What are those little plastic plugs doing in the sockets?"
Dad: "Well, you've got a charge building up in the cable and it's got nowhere to go. If you don't put something in the socket, electrons will pour out over the floor..."
PG: "Really? You're joking..."
Dad, hardly able to believe luck: "No, seriously. That's where you get static electricity from..."
Just how much she believed him only became apparent when her friend's boyfriend approached him in the bar to remonstrate that this wasn't, in fact, strictly within the boundaries of truth. And they say education is getting easier...
(, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 13:21, Reply)
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