"Our eyes are just REALLY good"
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It'd be nice if we could go one post without seeing the fuckwad's name.
Many app can filter post/comment by keyword. If not in webview, maybe try uBlock origin or uBlocklist with custom site definition. Pretty sure can also match text content.
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my dude:
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huh. i was always told that they threw carrots at the other planes during dogfights as a way of taunting them. tomato tomato
Throwing vegetables at enemies...
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Explanation: In WW2, Britain spread word that carrots improved night-time vision, and that its pilots were eating lots of carrots, in order to 'explain' why they were intercepting Nazi planes over Britain so reliably at night.
In reality, they'd figured out how to fit radar on their fighter planes, and wanted to keep that a secret for as long as they could. The hope was that Nazis keeping tabs on civilian British news would fall for the ruse, and buy the UK a little more time undetected.
Carrots may prevent nutritional deficiencies that lead to poor night-time vision, but they aren't going to make your MK1 eyeballs into NODs.
It was double pronged, I think. Carrots are quick and easy to grow in an allotment. Telling British kids that the fighter pilots they saw overhead were eating lots of carrots helped a lot. If only for the morale of people.
Getting kids to eat their veg without complaining isn't a new problem.
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You know, I've heard that story a bunch of times, but nobody ever says the conclusion. How long did the ruse work?
Blind Nazi after eating carrot.
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This lie was repeated for years in American pop culture, so I think then and future generations of Americans fell for it more than the Germans did.
i mean, that tracks lol
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German who grew up in the 21st century here. The myth that eating lots of carrots will improve your eyesight/nightvision significantly is still more or less alive and well here. I sort of believed it until I saw a variation on this meme for the first time.
I'd say it seems to have worked pretty well.
German who grew up in the 21st century here. The myth that eating lots of carrots will improve your eyesight/nightvision significantly is still more or less alive and well here.
As a millennial American, I was taught it as a child, and I'd estimate most people I know believe it to be true.
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Throwing vegetables at enemies...
it was the RAF so it was princess. remember she could fly
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Throwing vegetables at enemies...
But when I do it it's unethical and dehumanising for the patient.
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