Some of these only appear obvious due to the power of hindsight. Take these:
-Smoking pot and driving is safe - duh, pot isn't as bad as people say and should be legalised. -People with generous partners don't necessarily have happy marriages - duh, it takes more than generousity to make a marriage happy. -Parents think their kids are doing drugs - duh, just like rainbow parties. -Restricting driver's licences does not decrease teen fatalities - duh, kids will just drive without a licence. -Presidents live shorter than their contemporaries - duh, they have stressful lives and have occasionally been assassinated.
...except that all of those are the exact opposite of what was really found. It's easy justify the findings of studies to make them appear to be obvious.
Crispy m&ms (my varourite m&ms variant) are still sold in Australia too. At Christmas every year they bring out a limited run of crispy m&ms where the crispy inside is mint green in colour and the shell has mint flavouring.
Sydney funnel web spiders - one of the most venemous and aggressive spiders in the world - are attracted to water and can often be found in swimming pools where they can survive for hours by breathing the air bubbles trapped in the hairs on their body. *shudder*
If you think that's adorable, you should see them waddle around. When you come across one in the bush, they curl into a ball and wait for you to go away. Sometimes they will actually quiver with fear. Adorable!
@kitandterl, perhaps you should read the entire post before criticising it as "IGNORANT" and "stupid". You seem to have completely missed the point. The intent of the post was to explain why the odds of having multiple double yolkers in a carton are NOT as astronomical as some people would have you believe.
@Sharyn, I have had double yolkers from free range farms in Australia before. By the way, I hate to be a grammar Nazi, but it's "luck of the draw".
When I was a kid, my bank somehow changed my date of birth in their files so that my date of birth was 10 years earlier. As a result, they began charging me fees, which they do not charge to those under the age of 18. When I realised I was being charged these fees, about 10 months later when it had amounted to about $60, I went to the bank after school to try to sort it out. They said I would need ID, so the next day I brought my passport. Because the date of birth on my passport was "incorrect" (which is the whole point), they would not accept it as correctly identifying the account holder. I had to get my mum to call them up to change my date of birth. Afterwards, I tried to get the fees that I had been charged as a result of their own error waived and they refused, stating that I must have filled in my date of birth incorrectly in their forms, so it was my fault... except that I was signed up with them when I was 5 by representative that came to my kindergarten - talk about vultures.
Being a 12 and a total pushover, I never pursued it further. I should have. How that lady at the bank who looked my 12 year old self in the eye and told me that no, they would not give me back the money that they had charged me as a result of their own incompetence is beyond me.
It looks like she has central heterochromia - where eyes are one colour in the middle around the pupil, and a different colour towards the outside of the iris. Hers have a small ring of browny/gold in the middle and are blue on the outside. It's actually quite common. My boyfriend has brown on the inside and green on the outside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_heterochromia#Central_heterochromia
-Smoking pot and driving is safe - duh, pot isn't as bad as people say and should be legalised.
-People with generous partners don't necessarily have happy marriages - duh, it takes more than generousity to make a marriage happy.
-Parents think their kids are doing drugs - duh, just like rainbow parties.
-Restricting driver's licences does not decrease teen fatalities - duh, kids will just drive without a licence.
-Presidents live shorter than their contemporaries - duh, they have stressful lives and have occasionally been assassinated.
...except that all of those are the exact opposite of what was really found. It's easy justify the findings of studies to make them appear to be obvious.
@Sharyn, I have had double yolkers from free range farms in Australia before. By the way, I hate to be a grammar Nazi, but it's "luck of the draw".
Being a 12 and a total pushover, I never pursued it further. I should have. How that lady at the bank who looked my 12 year old self in the eye and told me that no, they would not give me back the money that they had charged me as a result of their own incompetence is beyond me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_heterochromia#Central_heterochromia