Sentences with phrase «urban myth»

Online dating has been around for quite some time now, and even though it gained popularity and community members, it also suffers from being linked to a couple of urban myths.

And while drinking beer does not increase your milk supply, as urban myth suggests, consuming alcohol of any kind may decrease the amount of milk your baby drinks.

There is a popular urban myth going around that you could eat as much fruits and veggies as you like.

What stories or urban myths did you hear as a child that made you afraid?

This is an untrue urban myth, and women should be advised as such.

It's a gluten - free urban myth that many deli meats contain outright gluten ingredients as fillers.

In fact, bankruptcy is a great solution even though people carry all sorts of urban myths and irrational fears about filing bankruptcy.

He participated in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and, in 2004, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria presented Luis Gispert: Urban Myths Part II (Return of the Hypenaholics), the artist's first solo New York museum show.

Education debates are like urban myths.

«I am grateful to my hon. Friend for asking that question, because it enables me to puncture one of the great urban myths in the immigration debate, which is that most immigration comes from within the European Union.

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I started painting again when I was living on a council estate in south - east London and wanted to tell the stories that people tell each other about living in a place like that: stories that become urban myths.

Becoming a renewable resource It is not urban myth that is relayed in the three - times - removed stories of your colleague.

«Complete urban myth»: BP finance chief refutes reports that CEO Bob Dudley was poisoned in Russian plot

While its use of social media and YouTube made it decidedly a campaign born of the moment, it also served to settle long - standing urban myths.

Amidst leaks of low - quality pictures and an almost urban myth level of scuttlebutt about it's beautiful graphics engine, a new gameplay trailer is confirmed to be incoming tomorrorow!

Getting that coveted post-workout flush without actually working out can seem like a makeup urban myth — but not if you know the right products to use and, really, how to use them.

And I discovered that one by one my cherished beliefs about GM turned out to be little more than green urban myths.

«I had a hunch that was more urban myth than fact,» Arms says.

Chip Heath says there's plenty entrepreneurs can learn about branding their businesses from the persistence of silly urban myths.

But what I do know is this: From that sharing of tips, tricks, rumours and urban myths emerges a gaming experience with more sense of community than anything I've seen in years.

Early last year, when news broke of Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson in the U.K. anthology series Urban Myths, the backlash and uproar was swift.

All the guff about Kos does two jobs on the field — his own and covering for Merts — is the stuff of fairytales and ridiculous urban myth.

With the best of intentions, those people will sometimes suggest that your baby would be fine if you could just relax - there is a prevailing urban myth out there that colic is caused by parental anxiety.

«This study starts to unravel and provide some insights into one of the real urban myths about soy protein and resistance exercise in men,» said Dr. William J. Kraemer, the lead researcher of the study.

Clark and his screenwriter A Ray Moore had only Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, the»60s urban myth of the babysitter and the man upstairs, and Italy's gialli, to guide them in their invention of the tropes that would come to dominate the horror landscape of the late»70s and»80s.

Cow tipping is a common urban myth (although some would argue it's true) portrayed in some films.

It is part of the forthcoming Urban Myths season, which features The Sex Pistols vs Bill Grundy, starring Steve Pemberton, When Bowie Met Bolan (Lion TV), starring Jack Whitehall as Marc Bolan and Luke Treadaway as David Bowie, The Dali and The Cooper (Me & You Productions), starring David Suchet, Noel Fielding and Sheila Hancock and Public Enemy feat.

Dr. Thomas Jordan, seismologist from Southern California Earthquake Center, dissects urban myths and action gags in Dwayne Johnson's disaster movie

Still wondering if she's the victim of a harmless urban myth, she tries one other test: Watchers of the video have their faces distorted in photographs.

URBAN LEGEND The film has an unbeatable premise — a serial killer is re-enacting urban myths (for example, the one in which someone with an ax is lying in wait in the backseat).

The PG - 13 romp shows some restraint for teen audiences, (thanks studio system) but still manages to invoke some creepy urban myth making with The Bye Bye Man.

By «cage - busting,» I mean finding ways to rethink the web of rules, regulations, contracts, and routines that have accreted over the past century, and to shrug off the self - imposed cage created by urban myths, professional norms, and a «culture of can't.»

I feel like I've been writing stories since I was a teenager (more than a few years ago now), and I wrote a web series pilot called Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths starring Jen Lilley, Lesley Fera, Tamara Taylor and Kris Polaha that we filmed in 2013.

Such sweeping generalizations do little to increase public safety; they encourage unwarranted and unrealistic urban myths, and ignore the legions of families who own these targeted animals without incident.

Based upon a terrifying urban myth, Don't Knock Twice with saving the life of your estranged daughter from the clutches of a vengeful, demonic witch.

So bad was the Tower's reputation that one urban myth told how the architect, wracked with guilt at creating this monstrosity, threw himself from the roof.

Just a bunch of self - serving urban myth BS that you guys share because it fits your preconceived beliefs.