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aperson•

You read xkcd too? No way.

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InAFewWordsOP•

wikipedia.

For example, a veteran of the group might make a post on the common misconception that glass flows over time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29#Early_history

I think you are an asshole but I'm not going to downvote you assholeperson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asshole

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aperson•

STFU swifty, this was in Wednesday's XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/843/

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InAFewWordsOP•

eat a back of weiners

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ragaploster•

I was going to upvote the post, but then I saw you were a dick and downvoted it for not being on TIL. What could be more ungrateful to a great comic like xkcd than denying it the credit for what it has taught you?

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InAFewWordsOP•

Science class, elementary school :(

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frycookhero•

Same. I think I learned all my urban legends from elementary/middle school teachers. I had teacher that had daily facts, which, among other things, included this and the eating 8 spiders in your sleep.

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TheBlasto•

I had never heard or imagined that solid glass would flow. Better to have not conceived than to have misconceived, that's what I say.

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[deleted]•

I think that misconception comes from extending "glass is an amorphous supercooled fluid" to imply that glass flows like all fluids.

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TheBlasto•

I thought Morpheus was a super cool dude.

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Bomb-20•

I work as a tour guide in an historic house during the summer, and the most interesting thing about the house is the 150 year old, 8 foot high coloured glass window at the top of the stairs. One guy who came in to see the house, upon seeing the window, immediately started to lecture me about how glass was a liquid and how the window should be thicker at the bottom and yadda yadda yadda... I restrained myself from correcting him until he finished and once he was done I (as politely as I could manage) refuted his entire spiel and went on to explain the origin of the "glass is liquid" myth.

He stood there kind of agape for a moment, and then we went on with the tour, him completely silent, not even willing to acknowledge my presence and me realizing that I would not be receiving a tip from this man. As he left I apologized but he made no sign of acknowledging that either. I learned a valuable lesson that day: don't chop a customer's balls off.

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jillzor•

Dammit! My high school physics teacher always told us "Glass is a very viscous liquid."

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lemoncholly•

It does flow article says the relaxation period is 10^32 years (older than the universe), but still...

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