Channelknight Fadran

There are two types of speeches in fantasy:

"The orcs are coming! Will you abandon your lands, or will you stand and fight?"

Stand and fight, stand and fight... add that to my list of lines in fantasy I would like to never hear again. Up there with "we've got company" for the Least Engaging Set of Words award.

And then there are

"Arise, arise, riders of Rohan! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered! A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride to Gondor!”

"A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship... but it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down... but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you, stand, men of the West!"

...I don't have anything more to say than that. Sorry.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Tag your favorites!

Here are some of mine:

• Ye is not pronounced ye. It's pronounced The. Because þ. (I knew this one neener-neener)
• Violent video games do not cause violence (take that, karens)
• Marco Polo did not import pasta from China (I didn't even know this was a thing people... like, thought about)
• July 4 (we really oughtta pick... literally anytime else for this holiday)
• Napoleon wasn't short (I like making fun of the people who argue that he was "average for his time")
• The dark side of the moon is regularly about as lit as the side we usually see (it's just that only one side ever faces us earthlings)
• When things reenter the atmosphere, they don't burn up because of friction (they burn by literally squishing the air molecules - kind of like Friction Plus)
• Bats aren't blind (and several actually have really good night vision!)
• Only one species of frog makes the ribbit noise (I looked it up on youtube to check)
• Snake jaws don't unhinge (instead they have another bone that allows their jaws to extend, which I just think is neat)
• Not all worms turn into two worms when cut in half (this one because THAT MEANS THERE ARE SOME THAT DO)
• Preying mantis ladies don't always eat preying mantis men! (which means that SOMETIMES THEY DO)
• BUMBLEBEES. CAN. FLY. (GAH.)
• Birds are dinosaurs! (Like, there isn't even any controversy on that)
• Glass is not a slow-flowing liquid (you smart-alek)
• Nuclear is one of the safest forms of energy (unless you're stupid and absorb neutrons with granite instead of water)
• Leprosy as described in the bible was probably another disease entirely (huh)
• Thomas Edison did NOT invent the light bulb (because  F - - -   THOMAS EDISON)
• 0.999... is apparently equal to 1 (in base ten, anyways)
• Vaccines don't cause autism (even though I vaccinate... and am probably autistic. Until I'm sure I'm going to assume that autism causes vaccines)
• People do not "only use ten percent of the brain" (only around 10% of neurons will be firing at a time - and using 100% would likely result not in psychic powers, but in a fatal seizure)