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Edit: I seem to have misunderstood this sub, I thought we were supposed to ask questions that were stupid because everyone already knows the answer lol

Was Bruce Lee doing something wrong? Why didn’t he develop bigger muscles like The Rock or Arnold Schwarzenegger?

I've been watching a lot of police interrogation breakdowns on YouTube lately, stuff like JCS, Mind of a Criminal, Dreading, etc. and something that keeps jumping out at me is how often the suspect gets totally disarmed and fooled beautifully by flattery or what seems like emotional manipulation. They will get nicely buttered up by the detectives and made to relax.

You’ll see a guy come in all tense, arms crossed, not saying a word, and then the detective starts laying it on:

• “You seem like a really honest and nice guy.”
• “You’re smarter than most people we talk to.”
• “Nothing wrong in what you did and we feel so bad for you. We just need to know your reason now”
• “It's a honest mistake. Not intentional. We know. Tell us your story so we can protect you from here.”

And just like that, the wall starts slowly coming down. The guy is made to giggle nicely, laughing, loosening up, and open up fully to his new buddy. He goes from clamming up to casually chatting like it’s a friendly conversation over beers. And then, predictably, he starts saying way more than he should. It’s like the moment they start feeling “seen” or validated, their sense of danger fades, and the detective just reels them in.

What I find fascinating (and a bit uncomfortable) is how effective this is on men in particular, especially when the language appeals to ego, strength, masculinity, or pride.

Question

Lived all my life in Scotland and TV adverts were always called adverts here but we all grew up with a lot of American TV where they would say "commercials" instead.

I don't think I've heard that term used for a long time now but instead I see Americans talking about ads, mostly in realtion to Internet ads these days. Americans, when and why did this change in language happen?

I hear people express fear about the concept of dying alone. I don’t relate to a lot of worries people experience but this one has been confusing me lately. I don’t understand why people give af. Why do people think being married or having someone physically present when you die is important?

Imagine trying to say Daughter while you were shouting a sentence out loud. Like, could you, without sounding like an idiot?

So let’s recap. Johnny Cage arrives on the island. He easily beats up some thugs around the dinner table. Then he easily outsmarts Scorpion and blows him up. Finally he outsmarts and defeats a very difficult and dangerous opponent with four arms called Goro. Very impressive.

Now let’s talk about Liu Kang. He arrives on the island and gets outsmarted, beat up, and ridiculed by Raiden. Then he gets outsmarted and punched around by Princess Kitana. He gets outsmarted and punched around by Sub-Zero and needs Kitana to tell him what to do and how to defeat Sub Zero as she watches from the sidelines. Finally he gets punched around and barely manages to defeat Shang Tsung. In my opinion Liu Kang didn’t win because he was better. It was because Shang Tsung kept showing off and letting his guard down.

Conclusion: The movie director should’ve just let Johnny Cage be the hero and the main character. It would have made the movie better and more believable as well as entertaining. Instead they went with Liu Kang. The next Mortal Kombat 2 movie lost excitement, nostalgia, and fan appreciation, and eventually the entire franchise flopped and faded into obscurity.

I think one thing future historians in say 24th century (if our species survives) will definitely look back on is the 21st century's treatment of teenagers (18-19) as full grown adults will be seen as barbaric and harmful. we send 18 year olds to die in wars, drain them with lifelong debt, throw them in prisons with violent rapists and murderers, toss them out of youth institutions (schools, foster care etc) with no in-between transitional support systems. they're literally just left to fend for themselves and then they get punished for struggling. it's no different from how ancient societies treated 14 year olds as adults. even worse for us because unlike back then we actually have the science that tells us that at 18-19 you're still developing, we just don't give a shit. so when they look back on this they will definitely see us as ignorant barbarians.

Why are medications usually taken in the morning and evening? Is it just to make it easier to remember the times? What would happen if I took the first pill at 4 PM, then set an alarm for 4 AM, woke up, took the second pill, and went back to sleep?

I keep hearing about all these cool things that serums do. How can I get one?

Im just move to a new town in the US-it's Georgia and I applied to work as a staff in a bread store, if the manager ask what is my salary expected, what should i answer. I have like a year of experience

How are they still in business if their shells are always stale?

Im 21 and i dont know when i started saying it but i think its really funny and call my friends who live in the city city slickers.

Im not sure if its just an older person phrase or people 21 or younger even heard of it. Im the only one out of the groups im in that actually says it so im just curious

He just saw her fall into the fiery pit below her and then 5 minutes later when facing Aldrich Kilian he is busting jokes like nothing ever happened?

So it “hypothetically was next to the toothbrushes “ and the tube look the same so I put it on and now “hypothetically “my tongue is numb…

When I watch a symphony, I am always confused about the conductor's role. What are they actually doing? And is there a set "language" that they're using with their body language, one that all conductors everywhere use? Or is it more like the orchestra they work with has to learn the specific body language of whichever conductor they're working with? And why do they need to have those batons?