Made up facts

Just a quick thought-

The other day when listening to the radio on my way in I came across a segment on the Chris Moyles show called ‘Made up fact’. He and his team were reeling off facts that were made up and text in by there listeners. In the process they were confusing the hell out of there dim witted producer Aled who couldn’t work out if the facts stated were true of false even though they delivering them under the title of ‘made up facts’. Even though this was extremely funny in it’s self the best part was when I realised I was checking the ‘facts’ validity my self!

When told ‘It’s imposable to touch all your teach with your tongue’ if found myself running my tongue along all my teeth one by one checking the legitimacy of this fact. How stupid! I knew this ‘fact’ was made up, I had been told just a few seconds earlier, yet still I felt the need to prove this to be a fraud to my self again. I chuckle at catching myself in the act.

This realisation is affirmed by their colleague Becky who tells them her story of listening to the show on the way in. When confronted by the ‘fact’ ‘your earlobes line up with your nipples’ she not only catches her self looking down to check but in doing so catches everyone else on the bus with earphones in doing the same thing. I giggle aloud at this if only to stop myself from doing the same. I give in and look down at my chest moving my head around attempting to line my earlobes up with where I expect my nipples to be beneath my bra. I obviously can’t get it to work.

It’s funny how labelling or stating something as a fact, even when you know its made up, makes you believe it is true.

FACT – ‘It is impossible to make up a fact’