Urban Myth Busters.

[MontyVeda]

I've just tried and failed to convince someone that the hair on one's head doesn't grow quicker if it gets cut regularly. This myth seems to be perpetuated by hairdressers, as the justification often seems to be 'ask any hairdresser!'... but surely it's a myth... isn't it? How on earth would the hair's roots know that the ends have been trimmed?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Cut half your hair and leave the other half untouched, and then see which is longest a year later.

 

[MontyVeda]

[QUOTE 3243736, member: 45"]My mom used to say that a cup of tea is the best drink to cool you down.[/QUOTE]
mine too, and i believe her... well... sort of.

given the choice between a cup of tea or a pint of lager... i know which I'd choose.

 

[MontyVeda]

My nan said vinegar dries your blood up. I never understood what that meant.

mine too. I think it's just to stop kids from drinking it.

my granddad, if we complained at having a sniffle or a cold, used to chop an onion in half, cover the exposed half with sugar and leave it to draw out some onion juice, then he'd scrape the oniony sugar into a glass, add a drop of whiskey and top it up with hot water and give it us to drink. Medicinal value = bugger all. Stopping kids from whining about minor ailments = worked a treat.

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 3243762, member: 45"]Yeah right. Introducing heat to your body cools you down.[/QUOTE]
It makes you sweat more, giving your bodies cooling system a boost.

 

[DaveReading]

[QUOTE 3243762, member: 45"]Yeah right. Introducing heat to your body cools you down.[/QUOTE]

"Yes, the hot drink is hotter than your body temperature, so you are adding heat to the body, but the amount that you increase your sweating by - if that can all evaporate - more than compensates for the the added heat to the body from the fluid."

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875

 

[Saluki]

My mum said that having a bath, or washing your hair, when you have a cold would give you pneumonia.

I think that she might have been wrong on that score as a nice bath when you've a bad cold, is rather lovely.

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 3243795, member: 45"]There's all kinds of argument both ways on the Internet. But simply, your body wants to keep you at your normal core temperature. If you drink a hot drink your temperature will rise and your body will bring it back down. So it feels like you're cooling down but you're only getting back to square one.[/QUOTE]
But you feel cooler, well I do anyway.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 3243736, member: 45"]My mom used to say that a cup of tea is the best drink to cool you down.[/QUOTE]
It is and an ice cream will warm you up quicker than a hot drink.

 

[Peteaud]

If you swallow an apple pip it will grow inside you, and you will die.

 

[Julia9054]

"Did you know that a butterfly only lives for one day?"

"I think that's a myth"

"No, I'm fairly sure it's a butterfly"

 

[cosmicbike]

Doing too much of something makes you go blind apparently...

 

[welsh dragon]

It is and an ice cream will warm you up quicker than a hot drink.

I understand it's because of the calories., ice cream has a high calorific value, and when you eat it it burns the calories and heats you up.

 

[classic33]

I understand it's because of the calories., ice cream has a high calorific value, and when you eat it it burns the calories and heats you up.

Your body has to work harder to bring it up to normal body temperature.

 

[stephec]

Doing too much of something makes you go blind apparently...

Who said that?

Come out where I can see you.