Random Information You Learned on or because of GreekChat
 

Obviously, we probably expect to learn Greek related stuff here, but the recent "I don't have a lease; can my landlord kick me out?" thread made me think about how many random non-greek-related bits of information I had either learned directly here: AKAMonet's gracious tutorial about food safety and cloning, or that I looked up because of something I read here: the definition of negligent homicide, Georgia eviction laws, etc.

What's the most random, not Greek related thing that you have learned on GreekChat?

(And no, I didn't search before to see if this thread already existed. Just let me know and I'll delete it.)

No one should have learned anything from the "can my landlord kick me out" thread except that they should consult someone who knows the local law.

Right, but the thread caused me to look up the local laws, and I think that happens with a lot of issues on GreekChat.

This is one I started ages ago:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...e+learned+from

...but it's really old! It'd be great to hear what else people have learned since then. As for me, the non-Greek stuff I've learned here has either been latebreaking news or shockingly off color stuff about my husband always asks,"Did you learn that on Greek Chat?":D

Some job/career related things.

Lots of good recipes.

LOTS of sex stuff...except for the pegging, thank one of my pledge daughters for showing me that (porn, not actual technique), lol.

I totally understand this. As I was commenting on a thread today, I thought to myself, "why in the world am I commenting about people masturbating in public?" I mean, it was about a news story and it is interesting from a sociological perspective to wonder why we usually hear about men doing stuff and not women, but really, it's kind of inappropriate never-the-less, and yet, EVERYTHING gets talked about on GC.

ETA: Ew, just looked up "pegging" on urbandictionary.com. Thanks a lot, Dionysus. At least, thank goodness, there were no illustrations.

I learned about territorial waters :D

Pegging (though I could have lived without learning what that was all about)

I learned most people are 30% as smart as they think they are, but are 90% more opinionated.

Ding ding! I think we have a winner.

I learned that everyone's a little bit racist.

(c) 2003 Avenue Q

I love it.



I learned that there really are crazy people out there just bursting at the seams to live out their college dream of being in an NPC sorority. (Ok, still Greek-related, but not a normal "GLO Fact".)

I learned that you should do your cardio exercise after strength training so that the weightlifting burns the glycogen stores in your muscles (carbs) and the cardio burns the fat off your body.

I learned that here too.