40 Myths We Believe Now Due to Tiny Mistakes Years Ago

[NuclearDem]

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_883_40-myths-we-believe-now-due-to-tiny-mistakes-years-ago/



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Also: why it's perfectly acceptable to call Frankenstein's monster "Frankenstein", women's periods don't attract bears, and Washington's "wooden" teeth.

[randys1]

1. Is she the same lady driving a pink Cadillac with Ronald Reagan welfare checks in her purse?

[NuclearDem]

2. Also the same one using ALL the birth control pills.

[unblock]

3. in the mcdonald's case, the sensational multi-million dollar award was radically reduced.

eventually i think they settled for an undisclosed amount belived to be in the neighborhood of a $250,000-$300,000 or so.

the victim probably got rather little after the lawyers and doctors took their cut.


yet it's the poster-child case for calls for "tort reform".

[Jim Lane]

6. Another little-known fact: what McDonald's wanted to hide

As one of the conditions for settling the case, so that the victim could receive some compensation without further litigation delay, McDonald's insisted on and got a gag order. The victim and her lawyer had to agree not to talk to the media about the case. McDonald's and its fellow corporate criminals were thus left free to spread their version of the case without fear of refutation by the people who had the best access to the facts.

[NightWatcher]

4. BS on one of those. I had a concussion so bad they kept me up all night

Granted it was because I was getting scans and tests done for most of the night and I didn't sleep that night in the ER.


Also, I hear that Cracked is changing their name to Clickbait.com

[unblock]

7. well, that's the thing. until they establish there's no intra-cranial bleeding,

they should keep you awake, according to dr. cracked.

[raccoon]

5. I can't see the pictures at that link. Right-click and "show picture" and still nada.

What gives?

[taught_me_patience]

8. I own a coffee shop and we brew our coffee at 203

the proper temp for extraction. If someone asked us to turn down the heat, we'd probably refuse.

[ieoeja]

9. Have you done studies on how much money you can expect to pay out for injuries?

And contrasted those against costs of brewing at a lower temperature then finally decided to brew the coffee at a temperature that exceeds the safety recommendations of industry experts because it would be more profitable?

Because McDonalds did all of that. A local coffee shop may go its entire existence without putting a single person in the hospital with several inches of thickness burnt off the skin. McDonalds with their "billions sold" were doing that on a regular basis. But they concluded that hospitalizing people was profitable.

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Owner of the Dairy Queen franchise where my aunt worked realized he could take advantage of radiant heat by placing pans for hot water on the stove tops. My aunt told him somebody reaching above their heads to pull that pan down would eventually drop the scalding water all over themselves. He thought it unlikely. As chance would have it, it was my aunt (already in her 60s) who did just that. She had to be hospitalized. The franchise owner paid her medical bills and discontinued the practice.

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Are you the guy who believes nobody is going to get seriously injured? Or the executives who know people are getting seriously injured, but choose to do it anyway to maximize profit?

And wouldn't you agree that makes a difference?

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FYI: Dairy Queen lawyers were unhappy with the man because paying her medical bills was tacit admission that he and, by extension, Dairy Queen (even though it was this guy's idea with Dairy Queen uninformed) was responsible for her injuries and therefore liable should she sue.

She did not, of course, sue. He paid her medical bills. That's all she wanted. Had he not ... I suppose she would have had no choice but to sue.

[Scuba]

10. Cool. Now, what can you tell me about the "shocking French video"?