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“Drives Me Nuts”: 45 Basic Life Skills That An Oddly Large Amount Of People Don’t Have
While common sense often gets mocked (perhaps, unjustly) as not being common enough, as every now and then, we have encounters where someone has made a decision so astoundingly strange that you almost feel like taking them aside and learning exactly what makes them tick.
Someone asked “What do you consider to be basic knowledge everyone should know (but they don't)?” and netizens listed all the things some folks are simply ignorant of. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own examples in the comments below.
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#1
When you're about to enter an elevator, WAIT FOR THE PEOPLE IN IT TO GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!
Libstak 8 months ago
And don't hit the close doors button when people are clearly approaching to get on, hit the doors open, i see you.
Bronwyn 8 months ago
I've done this accidentally and am mortified when I do! Something about people rushing and my wanting to help makes me panic and depending on the button icons/placements I sometimes hit the wrong button. Most of them understand I think as the look on my face is sheer OMG I'm so sorry! As the doors close they say it's ok, it's ok.
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Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
And for crying out loud block the prox beam to allow people off/on.
Sascha Winter 8 months ago
Yes and if the elevator is on an upper floor, and you are on the groundfloor wanting to get up ... you press the UP button, not the DOWN one ... and hitting the very button doesnt make the lift go faster
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#2
There's a profound difference between knowledge and belief.
Beak Hookage 8 months ago (edited)
I'm so sick of people with that mindset of "I believe it, therefore it is an unassailable fact".
Anony Mouse 8 months ago
You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts.
The Darkest Timeline 8 months ago
“I’m entitled to my opinion,” is the true last refuge of a scoundrel
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Paul C. 8 months ago
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, common sense is not putting it in a fruit salad!
keyboardtek 8 months ago
If you are going to believe in something that is not true, at least make it somewhat possible and not a fairy tale of improbability. So at least you don't appear a gullible idiot.
Toothless Feline 8 months ago
There's also a profound difference between knowing something and understanding it.
Sarah 7 months ago (edited)
Absolutely . I know space and spacey things like asteroids , meteors are out there, don’t attempt to ask me to explain . I even bought S Hawkings book that was diluted down from his first edition. My brain was fried and I accepted my limited intelligence
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 8 months ago
There is also a difference between having access to information and knowing things
#3
If somebody is helping you, even if it's their job to, say thank you, you p***k!
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
You're welcome. Wait, WHAT did you just call me?!
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Billo66 8 months ago
I say thank you to Alexa. When the robots take over they will remember I was nice :)
Anyone-for-tea? 8 months ago
I say please all the time because it’s so ingrained! I did say thank you a few times and sometimes she says you’re welcome or something like that.
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Mook The Mediocre 8 months ago
say thank you, you p***k! D**n you, Panda Censor. Why pick on the poor plank? Or did you mean to censor something else apart from lengths of wood? Padlock?
Robert Trebor 8 months ago
I came upon the attitude in the Navy that just because people are doing assigned jobs, they do not need to be thanked or praised, even if they do it well. That is so much cwap. Everyone likes to be appreciated. And if you praise and thank for good work, it makes the times that you have to criticize so much easier for them to receive.
#4
The difference between "lose" and "loose"
Drives me nuts...
Corvus 8 months ago
It's and its... also lie and lay get confused so much nowadays.
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Little Bit 8 months ago
People why say "of" instead of "have". "Should of" "would of" "could of". "Should HAVE" "would HAVE" "could HAVE"
Philippa Davies 8 months ago
This is my biggest gripe with incorrect grammar 🤨
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BookFanatic 8 months ago
Say it all together now. "Couldn't care less!" Not "Could care less." I have ongoing battles with my bestie about this one.
Jason Kennith 8 months ago (edited)
PRECISELY!!! Finally someone who understands! I've always been bothered by that one scene in Guardians of the Galaxy where Peter Quill says to Gamora: "I could care less whether you live or die!" It drives me crazy!
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A. HAM 8 months ago
The one that absolutely kills me is breath vs breathe. So many people get this wrong.
Jason Kennith 8 months ago
YES!!! I knew this and even my second grade teacher couldn't figure it out! I kept telling her, but she didn't' believe me!
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#5
Africa is not a country.
You get better customer service if you're polite.
The sun is a star.
Saltwater fish go in saltwater.
the sixthgirl 8 months ago
I remember lying in the sun with my best friend as a teenager. She was the extroverted popular one and I was the quiet/smart introvert. The sun was so hot, and I said something like, "Isn't it amazing to think our sun is just one of billions and billions of stars?" Sure enough, her response was "The sun is a star?" She went on to home-school her children.
Floeckchen 8 months ago
Also for #4: Do not "rescue" sweet water fishes from the shops and "set them free" into the ocean... like some braindead activists did on TikTok...
PenguinEmp 8 months ago
I would think that the sugar would k**l them no? Obviously
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Anonymous 8 months ago
but.. but.. south africa is a country, shouldn't north africa also be /sarcasm
ss 8 months ago
Astute geographical comment: This is a fairly updated globe. It shows Nigeria's capital as Abuja (it used to be Lagos). Speaking of globes, I gave mine away last year, inasmuch as everyone seems to think their telephone is a superior tool. Now then, does your globe have the Gulf of Mexico correctly re-named? Canada as the 51st state?? Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine as puppet states of Glorious Peoples' Republic of Rossia?
Jason Kennith 8 months ago
I knew a kid in 5th or 6th grade who thought the sun was smaller than the moon because "it looks smaller." I went into the next room and just about had a nervous breakdown.
Lady Lestrange 8 months ago (edited)
..and also, no. People in India don't speak hindu. Do your research before visiting a place.
Ron Man 8 months ago
Hindu is a religion. I think you mean Hindi, which is a language.
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#6
That to one degree or another, evolution exists.
Edit: Just thought I'd add... I'm a Christian, and I know this to be true. There's a difference in faith and ignorance.
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
Too many get "Christian" and Christian mixed up.
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StarCrossedFriday 8 months ago
I once had a conversation online where someone claimed evolution wasn’t real ‘because you can’t see it happening in real time’. Fascinating. I did ask her if she could see the tree outside growing, and whether that then meant trees don’t grow. Never got a reply.
Marianne 8 months ago
Also evolution can visibly change a species in only a couple of years. Ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_melanism
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KDS 8 months ago (edited)
The thing everyone gets wrong about Darwin and evolution is that he never said we came from monkeys what he said was we shared a common ancestor and that ancestor split into two species.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
It was apes, not monkeys, and mega millions of years ago.
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K 8 months ago (edited)
I just want to comment on the photo for this.. anyone else see us evolving backwards. Notice how the phone is restructuring our head and neck. The 3rd statue looks just like the man... head down bad posture and tool in hand.
Rob D 8 months ago (edited)
Here's the problem. If you dismiss creationism as simply myths and symbolism, then where does original sin come from? It would have had to have been arbitrarily hoisted upon us by God; not as a punishment for the specific action of eating forbidden fruit. Therefore, to be a Christian, but not a creationist, is to admit that the very framework of salvation and its necessity, falls apart. It becomes nothing but an arbitrary cruelty placed on us by a God that was evidently not disobeyed, because the Garden of Eden did not exist, nor did Adam and Eve. This is the crux of my atheism. Without the creation/fall of man story actually taking place to justify the existence of original sin, it is pure malice. And I'll not acknowledge or worship a God who is pure evil. Any entity capable of creating the salvation/damnation narrative that arbitrarily is pure evil.
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Rich Black 8 months ago
To one degree or another, each of those human ancestors in the picture is oversized.
#7
How to read analog clocks. It's not rocket science.
StarCrossedFriday 8 months ago (edited)
Also, why is 24 hour time apparently so difficult for so many Americans?
CP 8 months ago (edited)
Because that is the primary system used. Humans get used to a certain way when it is that one way all their life. That is like asking Europeans why the farrenheit scale is apparently so difficult.
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Rick Murray 8 months ago
The lovely thing about analogue clocks is that you don't even need to read them. A quick glance will give you the positions of the hands so you can get an idea of the passage of time without having to know the time. Like when the big hand is at the top I'll go make myself some more tea. It's a little over a halfway, so about twenty five minutes. Digital clocks, on the other hand, give you the exact time (looks aside: it's 10:36) but it's completely devoid of context, it's just a number. All of the clocks on the wall here at home are analogue, for that reason.
Panda McPandaface 8 months ago
We won't mention Roman Numerals eh? Nah, best not confuse them more.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
When I was in primary school in the '80s, we had a weekly one latin class. So, for me the roman numerals are easy to read, but I see, why is confusing for others: you have to do the math.
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quentariel 8 months ago
We were taught it by kindergarten and were expected to know it when school started. Along with things like writing your own name, tying shoelaces, eating properly with knife and fork and so on...
XenoMurph 8 months ago
Must be a regional thing, most kids where I come from can read both.
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Irene Bucior 8 months ago
All healthcare records are in 24 hr time in the US. We don’t have as much trouble as you apparently think.
Pam McDougall 7 months ago
I learned to tell time when I was 4-years old. I wore a watch to Kindergarten. I expected all of my classmates to be able to tell time, when we were 5. I was amazed in the '80s that my stepson wore a Swatch, but couldn't tell time by the hands.
Jackie Lulu 8 months ago
Because when clocks were first invented, there wasn't enough room to put 24 numbers on it. There still isn't! It made sense to divide it in half.
Nikki Gross 8 months ago (edited)
I was incredibly fortunate to grow up in a military family, so I was taught both formats of telling time. I was 15 years old when I started my first job in 1992. The only place that didn't use a 24hr format, was a privately owned grocery store, which had been around since the 1950's. One thing that I've consistently noticed, is that more older people struggle to understand the 24 hour format. Something you guys don't understand is we are talking about generations that were forced to quit school in order to help the family. My Mom, who is my fūcking hero, had to stop going to school when she was 13 AND my Dad was only 14 when he had to drop out. My Mom fought me kicking and screaming, but my Senior year I dropped out and got my GED. There are so many reasons why that was necessary and no one's business. Again, NO it wasn't Mom's idea and a decision that I made on my own and something that she NEVER stopped feeling guilty about even though it wasn't her fault.
#8
If you're married/in a relationship, don't have affairs/cheat on them. No matter what the situation is, don't do it.
Libstak 8 months ago (edited)
Don't claim to love someone and then do things which are clearly a betrayal and going to hurt them. It's not just the act of cheating it's all the lies about loving them that hurt the worst, it make you a c**p human being.
Karen Bryan 8 months ago
And please--don't say "I never meant for this to happen." It's always nonsense.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
When you take marriage vows, you’re supposed to remain true to your spouse, and keep their feelings utmost in your mind. It isn’t a huge stretch of the imagination to realize that responding to another person’s flattery and apparent interest in you/attraction to you is going to hurt your spouse’s feelings, so shut it down when it happens and keep it shut. Don’t just sit there and let it happen, because every second you do it just deepens the pain you’re inflicting on the person you’re supposed to love and hold above all others. You’re not single anymore, you’re married. If you want to still be single, then don’t get married. Not rocket science, ffs. Now, if the marriage isn’t working out and you’re unhappy, there are things you can do to either try and fix it or get out of it. Cheating is not on that list.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
I am too selfish and self-centered to cheat on my wife. I am too lazy to do all the work it would take to get away with it and too concerned about my own welfare to risk the consequences if I didn't. Plus, I love her.
Danish Susanne 8 months ago
If that is, you have done what you can do to get the relationship to make you both happy.
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KatSaidWhat 8 months ago
Asking for an open marriage is asking permission to cheat. It never ends well.
Kat 8 months ago
Don't ever forget that being unfaithful isn't always about s*x. If you are having any kind of relationship with someone outside your marriage, and you can't tell your spouse because it will upset them, break their heart, make them feel betrayed, you are officially being unfaithful. Online, in person, on the phone, etc., it doesn't matter. Have enough respect for your spouse to be faithful or set them free!
KnightOwl 8 months ago
I lost a friend because she told me she was cheating on her bf of 8yrs, with 3 different guys! I told her it was an awful thing to do and she should just leave her bf if she wanted to play the field, she insisted that she loved him and didn't want to destroy their relationship. I told her that she was destroying the relationship already by betraying him and lying to him, her reasoning was that he'd cheated on her so it was only fair that she do it back (he kissed another girl 6 months into their relationship and told her immediately after, she dumped him, then took him back after a month apart saying she forgave him and then constantly used it against him for their entire relationship) I spoke to her once after this and haven't spoken to her since. Apparently the bf eventually found out and broke up with her, she lost her job (2 of the guys were coworkers) and moved back in with her dad, turns out she was pregnant and doesn't know which of the 4 guys is her sons dad.
Pandaroo 8 months ago
that this is even here is... around equal to the state of the world, climate change, rate of US influence waning, and so on
#9
Don't randomly stop walking when you're in front of someone.
MOVE when you're in someones way (like while shopping, or in public in general).
StPaul9 8 months ago
People who go up an escalator and then stop. You saw the sign downstairs that the shop you wanted was up there, right? Step a bit to the side. Otherwise, why else would you go upstairs?
Tim Douglass 8 months ago
I'm frequently guilty of this, but it's simply because I have balance issues and sometimes I have a choice of stop a second and stabilize or fall over.
Load More Replies... My O My 8 months ago
This is situational awareness. I'd like to understand why some lack it completely. Is it genetics? Evolution? I mean, if the mammoth is behind you and you don't move you're gonna be flat
Tabitha 8 months ago
Somewhere between stupidity, entitlement, and hubris.
Load More Replies... Libstak 8 months ago
People will stop when they need to, for any number of reasons. Especially in shopping strip's and malls. Better advice is watch where you are walking and keep some distance. I have had people breathing down my neck when I want to stop and check out a display or look at signals to know where I am and where the toilets, cinemas and food courts are and they get frustrated. Back the f**k off, then you will be able to skirt around. Same in supermarkets, stop trying to push me forward, if I want cereal, I'm going to stop and peruse the freaking cereal a.holes.
Karl 8 months ago (edited)
I think the broader point of this is not act as if you're the only person in the shop/on the escalator and be aware and considerate towards those with who you're temporarily sharing this public space. I see behaviour like this most commonly in certain upmarket supermarkets where certain people feel entitled to block whole aisles with their trolleys, pushchairs - oblivious to anyone else.
keyboardtek 8 months ago
When I get eyes in the back of my head I will remember that. On the other hand, don't tailgate people even when just walking.
Sailing Leprechaun 8 months ago
Or, maybe, you could go to the side of an aisle, sidewalk, etc. before you stop, instead of just stopping in the middle of everything
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JHD 8 months ago
How is this different from when you're driving a car? People behind you have to watch where they're walking, we don't have rear view mirrors.
Don't listen to me 8 months ago
So when you stop immediately at the top/bottom of an escalator where do you expect the people behind you to go??
Load More Replies... Tabitha 8 months ago
If I’m shopping, and the only way around someone who is standing still looking at something on a shelf is to walk in front of them, I always say pardon me, duck down a bit, and quickly pass them. I was taught it’s rude to just walk in front of someone when they’re looking at something (think about how you feel when someone just walks in front of you while you’re taking a picture), but if you have no other choice, you always excuse yourself when you do it.
Ron Man 8 months ago
What? No. Randomly? It only appears random from the person behind. If you're walking and you've reached where you're walking to... stop walking. Why would you not stop walking? If people stopping while walking is affecting you somehow, YOU ARE FOLLOWING THEM TOO FVCKING CLOSELY. This is just like when you're driving. Back off. No need to be crawling up someone's a*s when you're walking.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
DON'T STOP AT THE ENTERANCE OR EXIT TO FIDDLE WITH YOUR PURSE/WALLET/MONEY/LOTTO TICKETS OR WHATEVER. FFS, get out of the way!!!
#10
Turn Signal 101.
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago (edited)
Sorry, my blinker subscription lapsed.
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Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
By the way, when changing lanes on the highway, most cars have the '3 flash' feature on turn signals. You don't even have to remember to turn it off, 3 flashes and it's done.
Andie Day 8 months ago
What! What is this witchcraft? My cars have always had the change lane 'forget to turn off, drive like a feckin' idjut for miles' feature.
Load More Replies... PataSata 8 months ago
"turn signal" 101 is what he means. 101 is meaning the "basics of", so e.g. "carpentry 101" would be an absolute beginner book for people wanting to learn carpentry. Non-US, non-native english speaker here.
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Anonymouse 8 months ago
It is like telepathy - you are sending your thoughts to people around you!
#11
Eat with you mouth closed and breathe through your nose whilst chewing. Seriously.
Nova Rook 8 months ago
Yup, we have to learn to pace/switch between eating and breathing. Must be nice for all the people who can do both at once.
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Jemima Bauer 8 months ago
I’m impressed with some people’s ability to slurp things that should be un-slurpable.
StumblingThroughLife 8 months ago
It's so much worse when people, around noisy eaters/drinkers, have Misophonia. It's the bane of my life, tbh.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
This does depend on what culture you are in. What's rude in some places is polite in others.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
It is remarkably difficult to eat anything in public, while standing up, and look polite.
#12
In almost 99.9% of the situations you're in, the person you are yelling at isn't to blame. I see it happen on tech support phone calls, restaurants, shops, towards police, teachers, etc.
Pandaroo 8 months ago
but, in some important moments, the person really should be shouted at. like, an American voting for national sabotage
Patricia Steward 8 months ago
Shouting at them isn't going to change their minds. Tell them that there's no shame in changing your mind if you have new information.
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Ron Man 8 months ago
Even if they are, you shouldn't be yelling. It solves nothing and is actually counterproductive to fixing your problem.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
All it does is make someone on a minimum wage have a shītty day.
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Customer service calls.."would you please pass up the chain how frustrating the policy is?"
JHD 8 months ago
The general public can't get hold of the person high up, so someone has to take the blame.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
That's poor philosophy and worse humanity. If you can't find out who made the mistake, why pick what's essentially a random person?
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Just Another Karen 8 months ago
i always say 'sorry to be mad at you, i know it's not your fault'
Fire Singer 8 months ago
I used to work for an airline call center. Absolutely horrible job. I understood where customers were coming from most of the time, but some were just downright mean and horrible. Really did a number on my mental health.
April Pickett 8 months ago
It's not my job to yell at someone trying to help me. I feel much better after I thank someone for their efforts on my behalf.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
In these situations, people don't shout to cast blame. They shout to be intimidating and get their way.
#13
An understanding of economics. You would think that most people (in the US anyway) vote with their pocketbooks. But at least half of the people consistently vote against their own self-interest because they apparently do not understand economics.
turk 8 months ago
We have a "president" who doesn't understand how tariffs work. Just for starters.
TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago (edited)
Starting trade wars while having three bankruptcies under the belt is a very subtile hint that he maybe doesn't know what he does...
Load More Replies... Corvus 8 months ago
These days you can see a lot of idiots online who say tariffs are a good thing and would help fix some alleged "trade imbalance." Fun fact - trade imbalances are fixed by *removing* tariffs, not by imposing them. In the end, tariffs are always paid by the ordinary working people.
Ace 8 months ago
You don't need a detailed understanding of Economics to recognise a moron though.
JSD 8 months ago
A lot of Americans believed a convicted felon and proven liar that he was going to make everything cheaper the first day he was president... How is that working out for us??
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
If you live in a single wide mfg home, the GOP has consistently shown it does NOT support your station in life. So, what's stopping you now that the abortion issue is off the table? Yet here we are, voting for an "Orange God".
Anna Drever 8 months ago
They vote against their own self interests because the current government gives them permission to be bigots against other groups. Then they’re shocked when the leopard eats their face. I highly doubt it was ever about economics.
SlightlyTarnished 8 months ago
The US government has worked very hard the past 30 years to dumb down their citizens. They're finally reaping their rewards.
antoinette maldari 8 months ago
And the cherry on the top last week was the dismantling of the Dept of Ed
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 8 months ago
Yes and no. For instance, Costco refuses to remove DEI hiring policies, and Target did remove them. Target's sales have plummeted, while Costco has experienced a big surge. But we all still go to Walmart, so...
FlamingZombies 8 months ago
The sad thing is, they vote against their self interests for one reason. It's not because of what the GQP promises to do for them, it's how they can stop "the other" from being equal members of society.
#14
The amount of wasted gasoline caused by people who are constantly braking and accelerating as opposed to coasting as much as possible. If there is a red light/wall of traffic 50 yards ahead, what's the point in accelerating when you know you're just going to brake immediately after? Such a waste of expensive energy.
Khavrinen 8 months ago
They may have taught it, but a whole lot of people failed to learn it.
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WindySwede 8 months ago
Drive like you have five liters left but needs six to make it to the station.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
I do. But more as a survival instinct than a strategy.
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Brian Droste 8 months ago
When I am driving and see a red light ahead of me I will either keep going the speed that I am on even slow down a little bit hoping by the light will turn green and able to cruise through the green light instead of having to stop for the light to change green.
Biytemii 8 months ago (edited)
I play a game sometimes where I can see if I can roll slowly up to the light until it changes. It's something me and my friends have always done don't ask me why I guess just for the fun of it
ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 8 months ago
When I'm on my motorbike and come up to a red light, I'm trying to wait for the green light without putting my foot down. You can get pretty slow before it starts toppling, but overdoing it will become pretty expensive 😅
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geezeronthehill 8 months ago
The 'point and push' technique of driving. Point the vehicle where you want to go, push on the accelerator, push on the brake. We find them at the bottom of ravines here in the mountains.
B 8 months ago
I knew a person who did this. God, my motion sickness when I was in that person's car 🤢
Aelin Wildfire 7 months ago
And what's worse is, braking suddenly on a busy street causes a chain reaction of -others- hitting their brakes. So you're not just messing with your own fuel efficiency: you're messing with the efficiency of the roadway in general.
#15
Common courtesy in public areas. How to be considerate in navigating through a store. Being mindful of your place in an aisle and trying to least obstruct others' way.
Verfin22 8 months ago
Please stop using speakerphone in public. I don't need to hear why you were sent to the store. Use the notepad app and make a list. Get your stuff and move along. Privacy is diminished as it is. No one else needs to hear your whole conversation.
Hobby Hopper 8 months ago
Not to mention people playing their music out loud.
Load More Replies... Ron Man 8 months ago
The problem is Main Character Syndrome, which now seems to rampant. You aren't in my story so you're not important. I'm the star of this line and it's all about me. So many people have fallen into this trap.
Anyone-for-tea? 8 months ago
I find some train journeys to be unbearable because of this now. People constantly on speakerphone, or playing a video through the speakers. I’ve taken to asking if they have headphones if it goes on for longer than a minute or two.
Load More Replies... Nikki Gross 8 months ago
I hate it when people stop in the middle of the aisle or walk away from their basket to grab something. You're halfway down and on the other side looking at bread, meanwhile your cart is blocking my fūcking peanut butter.
Stephanie Did It 7 months ago
A lot of people lack spacial awareness. They just don't realize how much space they occupy, or how to control it. It's not how big you are, it's how you comport yourself in an area shared by others.
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Current and past political events in your country. So many politicians would not get elected if people knew what they have done and what they are planning on doing.
Bailey 8 months ago (edited)
Sadly it seems currently in some countries they can be completely shameless about what they have done and what they plan to do, and still get elected.
Dawn Marie 8 months ago
I so wish I had the money to move out of the USA. I can not take the current climate. What is happening here is criminal. Our food banks have had their budgets cut in half when there have been so many people here who have lost their jobs.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 8 months ago
All the nice people run like hell from the cesspit that is politics, so we're left with the self-serving cockwombles and the necessity to pick "the least worst option".
Hobby Hopper 8 months ago
Okay, but how was Kamala Harris a bad option? Oh right, she didn't have a p***s.
Load More Replies... StarCrossedFriday 8 months ago
At least think for a minute whether the outrageous ‘promises’ someone makes a) are possible, b) are likely, and c) consist of any details of how they’re going to follow through
FABULOUS1 8 months ago
I wish this was true, but it really depends on who the voter is willing to believe. Trump continued to deny to know anything about Project 2025 and we are watching it play out in real time. He could walk up in front of them and shoot one of his voters spouses and still get that persons vote, and they would believe him if he said he didnt do it.
Johnnynatfan 8 months ago
S****y people get elected because (in the US at least) the populace is lazy and cant be bothered to actually learn about the candidate and what they are actually planning to do. Indifference to politics and who is elected is leading to the collapse of American democracy.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Many of my countrymen don't care what politicians do as long as those politicians hate the people they hate. This is not unique to my country - just more successful recently.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Regrettably, I agree - fear causes hate causes knee-jerk reactions to mindless slogans. It's so easy to steer people this way ...
Load More Replies... #17
Just because you can't disprove it, that does not mean it is true.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
Yes. Because this is the sort of logic that is often used to support religion and some of its nuttier aspects. No, I can't *disprove* the beardy bloke in the clouds, but I'm pretty certain there's no such entity.
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LilliVB 8 months ago (edited)
I agree with you. If you tell me that I have to pick a side, I'm leaning towards nobody is out there. But the truth is that I don't know and I don't have a reliable way to know. Hence agnosticism is the most sensible one
Load More Replies... Libstak 8 months ago
You can check if something is true by looking up the facts, don't claim either way then until you KNOW.
CK 8 months ago
There are unknowns, though, and they're neither proven to be true nor proven to be false.
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
Sure you can. Many years ago it was proved that the earth was not flat, that there were not a finite number of primes, that the atom is not indivisible, etc. (Some negatives are more difficult to establish. "Pineapple is not an acceptable topping for pizza" remains a much debated point.)
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#18
How to sew a button back on. It often seems like almost no one still has this skill.
Savannah greenleaf 8 months ago (edited)
I can! Thank you great grandmother for this useful tidbit of knowledge!
Nea 8 months ago
I refuse to believe there is even one adult who CANNOT. They just dont try.
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Mike F 8 months ago
At the end of the day, if someone is staring at your buttons they have bigger problems.
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SlightlyTarnished 8 months ago
I'd say it's more the throwaway mentality that comes with cheap goods. My bet is most people could sew on a button, they just don't.
April Pickett 8 months ago
Way, way, way back in the past, the schools offered a Home Economics class and a Shop class. In home economics, they taught you homemaking skills: buttons, hems, boiling water, simple recipes, ironing, etc.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
It's so easy, you could jusy work it out. Not impaling your finger with a needle. That's another story.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
I bleed with you ;-) - but I was taught needlework at age 5. Learnt for life :-)
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Karen Bryan 8 months ago (edited)
How about threading a needle? Bet there are millions who can't do it. (I'm over 70 and I can still do it on the first try.)
#19
F*****g let me off the bus before you try to get on. God d**n it.
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Around here the bus driver will almost always stop you if you try to get on before people have gotten off, and tell you to stand aside.
Ariom Dahl 8 months ago
Always let people get off the dratted bus before you bloody well try to get in!
Sally Moen 8 months ago
Most of the buses in greater Seattle area have rule that you enter (and pay) at the front door, exit at the rear door. Exceptions are for those using the ramp (wheelchairs etc) or bicycle riders (they have to announce to the driver they are taking their bike off the rack in the front of the bus). The express buses and light rail have multiple doors, so you pay at the station then board/depart at any door, and there is a ramp that extends on the express buses. Light rail is flat, level to the station, so wheels can access without delay
quentariel 8 months ago
We have this too in Finland and it makes things so much easier. Also any person with stroller or pram, who uses the middle door to get in, can travel for free. It was implemented to encourage parents to use busses more and it really works.
Load More Replies... DowntownStevieB 8 months ago
I can't remember where I was, but the bus had an in and out door. Mad helpful!
Stephen Lyford 8 months ago
Always let people EXIT before you ENTER. Doesn't matter what it is. That's the rule.
Michael Largey 8 months ago (edited)
Not only is it the rule - it makes it easier for both exiting and entering passengers.
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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
Where I live, all non-disabled and elderly passengers are required to exit through the back door.
Bacon Tentacles 8 months ago
Gravity wins. I'm coming down and I will not hesitate to take you with me.
#20
Basic math skills. I'm constantly shocked when people can't understand simple mathematics. For example, I used to work at a restaurant that often had X% off your next meal coupons. So many times I had people complain because the percentage was taken off the total "and all the items should have X% off". It's the same f*****g thing. This should not be a new concept.
Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
Math teacher to class: "80% of you will never fully understand the concept of percentages." One of the students: " haha, we aren't even that many in here!"
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I have it as well. It made school a living nightmare :( The highest math class I passed (even in college) was college algebra. If you stick a string of more than five numbers in front of me (say, a phone number without the dashes), my brain goes into "cannot comprehend" mode and it's almost like the numbers start wiggling around :(
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 8 months ago
There's a sign in a local supermarket that says that they are 5% cheaper than the other shop, which it also says elsewhere is 5% more expensive than them. That's not how it works, guys.
Michael Largey 8 months ago (edited)
If it costs $95 in store A and $100 in store B, then yes it is exactly 5% cheaper in store A than in store B. (1 - 95/100 = 1 - 0.95 = 0.05 = 5%). Going the other way, it's 100/95 - 1 = 1.0526 3 = 0.05263 = 5.26% more expensive in store B. Which is also 5% if you're rounding to the nearest percent. Of course in general you're right, especially when it comes to larger differences. If the numbers were 80 and 100, it would be 20% less, but 25% more.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
(US) 20% tip? just double 10%? I ask her what 10% of something is, she has decided I am a math scholar. Just move the decimal dear.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
I was told to do this before I went to the US. It worked. Except I kept forgetting to tip. There is a probably whole swathe of people across Upstate New York with voodoo dolls in my image.
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SirWriteALot 8 months ago
Especially in a country that should be used to working with percentages since taxes are not included on price stickers
Igor914624 8 months ago
Years ago, I bought some ties from a mall kiosk. The sales girl told me there was a 10% off sale. So I picked out 4 ties. When she rang them up, she said "10% plus 10% plus 10% plus 10% is 40% off." I didn't correct her and let her ring them up. I paid cash for them too. I suspect she learned a hard lesson about paying attention in maths class when her boss checked the books.
Honey 8 months ago
Ok so, I feel that with things with numbers (I guess including using military time) is just simply confusing and people can't comprehend it. I am TERRIBLE at simple math. Addition and subtraction. Forget about division and percentages. I'm almost 40 and still use my fingers. It's not that I'm dumb, I just can't grasp math. My work uses military time and I'm fine with that, it was just an added number example.
KatSaidWhat 8 months ago
I'm forever grateful to that teacher who made me write out all the X tables up to 12 as a punishment one day.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Write them out? We had pop quizzes up to 16 x 16, verbal ion class, and boy did you get mocked if you got one wrong. But that was last century ...
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Arthur Waite 8 months ago
coming out of a Dollarama, the total was $9.40. I gave the clerk a ten dollar bill and forty cents in coin. It took her five minutes to figure out how to give me a loonie back.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
If Trump visits Canada, by all means just go ahead and keep the loonie.
Load More Replies... #21
Et cetera becomes etc. not ect.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
Some people actually believe the word is "ecsetera."
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Mrs Wuschwusch 8 months ago
Or people writing should OF instead of should HAVE. Drives me nuts.
86ccg75nrq 8 months ago
Also: there’s no comma in front of etc. as the “e” already means “et” = and …
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
Other than in a typo, I've never seen this one. Is this common to believe "ect" is correct?
#22
Other people have feelings too.
Michael Largey 8 months ago (edited)
Yes. And some of those feelings are quite ugly and dangerous.
#23
The Chinese and Japanese are not the same. They are two distinct groups with different cultures and idea that also happen to hate each other's guts.
Alex Schneider 8 months ago (edited)
can we just talk about humans living in chinese/ spanish/ japanese/canadian culture.. the mean difference lay in the culture the are used to- not in their looks ( yeah I know there are differences in DNS, but they matter only to biologist,since people settle all around the world)
Billo66 8 months ago
That's what happened to me. DNS all messed up, was routed to the wrong family. Was supposed to go to a wealthy tech CEO but thats what happens when you configure your own server.
Load More Replies... SM 8 months ago
It is worse than that, as in thinking "Asian" is "one group of people" and that goes for "White" too for that matter. Artificial groupings of people.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
Yeah, people tend to get "oh you know what I mean" when I point out that "Asian" includes Indians and Turks. 🤦🏻♀️
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tracy black 8 months ago
why do they hate each other? but then why does any group of people hate another group i swear in my 60 years ive yet to figure this out
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Uh well, the Japanese have énslaved, murdéred, torturéd, and rapéd Chinese people for centuries. They've tried to conquer China multiple times (look up the Sino-Japanese War - there were two.) I'm not saying China is innocent as a country/culture, but Japan has been extremely martial and aggressive throughout their history, and has pursued conquering/invading other countries (and murdéring, rap!ng, tortur!ng, and énslaving their natives) for centuries.
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#24
Screaming and freaking out during a bad situation doesn't help a thing. Breathe, calm the hell down. And think about possible solutions with a clear head. Staying calm is the key.
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
Panic is panic, they don't scream and freak out just because they don't have anything better to do.
Mike F 8 months ago
You've not been to Wally World recently have you? Meltdown city. 😂😂
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
But panic is a very, very hard thing to control. Me, I'm calm during the emergency and turn into a noodle after.
CP 8 months ago
Panic is what saved our crude ancestors on the savannah. A lot of these instincts don't translate well to modern society.
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 8 months ago
Best thing is to be raised by parents that model emotional regulation. Try not to have parents that yell when upset, so you don't learn that is normal
KnightOwl 8 months ago (edited)
My parents were a***ive, they yelled and freaked out constantly over the smallest issue. All of my siblings are the opposite, we are all very calm in even the most awful, dangerous and traumatic situations. I've had people tell me that I'm almost too calm and casual in serious situations.
Load More Replies... Hobby Hopper 8 months ago
Old backpackers say if you get lost or something goes wrong, sit down and make a cup of tea.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Adds an element of calm to what might otherwise be an overwhelming situation. US citizens are allowed coffee if they wish.
Load More Replies... Andrew Keir 8 months ago
If you have training, stop, think, use it. But if you're in a situation where you have no relevant training, then panicking is your last throw of the dice to try to invent a new solution to your current problem. Unfortunately, you're trying to throw total = 2 with 2xd20 ...
KnightOwl 8 months ago
Often acting like this makes everything harder and more stressful for everyone around and can even be traumatic for some people. People like this make me irrationally angry, usually you end up with loads of people trying to help them and calm them down rather than dealing with whatever is actually going on. Unless you're being attacked or kidnapped there's no reason to ever scream and freak out like that.
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
No, Manny, we all lost. You just can't cope with that thought yet. Unfortunately, we are all about to learn.
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They're, there and their.
Annik Perrot 8 months ago
Then/than, your/you're, affect/effect, bare/bear, alter/altar... so many of them. For those of us who learned spoken and written English at the same time, those burn the eyes.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Sometimes, comments by people who start out saying English isn't their first language, produce better examples of written English than native speakers.
April Pickett 8 months ago
That's because they wanted to learn and spent time studying it. Those of us raised here, I t's our native tongue. Why should we study it?
Load More Replies... Ariom Dahl 8 months ago
YES!! Also to, too and two: It's too cold to go swimming at two in the morning.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
They're = they are; there = opposite of here; their = ownership (heirs?) .
#26
Climate change is caused by humans.
Libstak 8 months ago
Climate change has always existed. We had at least 2 ice ages that had nothing to do with humans. We know why they happened. We also know that the current accelerated climate changes are due to humanities impact on the environment.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
And when nature does adapt? It won't be good, as we have witnessed. Even the most ardent climate skeptics admit we have SOME affect on the world.
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Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
*the rapid change of climate which has been and is taking place in the 20th and 21st century
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Climate change is cyclical. As in, thousands of years. Humans have caused rapid climate change. As in, decades.
Robin Roper 8 months ago
Climate change is impacted by humans. Currently, the warming trend has been execrated by greenhouse gases.
Kevin Hickey 8 months ago
When people deny human caused climate change by saying "Climate change occurs naturally!!" Oh my!!! Really!!! The scientists must have forgotten about that!!!
Anonymouse 8 months ago
Interestingly, many people do not realize the earth is constantly changing. Climate, rivers, etc - it is man's attempts to lock down those changes I consider foolish! Having said, that, of course we can work to minimize OUR impact as well.
Ange Marsden 8 months ago
Climate Change and Anthropocenic Climate Change are two different things.
April Pickett 8 months ago
Do you pick up your trash when you leave the beach, park, or concert?
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New Mexico IS a part of the United States.
Isabelle 8 months ago
They don’t want to be a state due to the taxes people who live there would have to pay.
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Sally Moen 8 months ago
And Washington DC is different than Washington state. Though DC really ought to be a state. I just finished a book Chocolate City which tells the story of DC, with the history of why it never was allowed to become a state.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
agreed, though so many confuse North America with USA
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Mel in Georgia 8 months ago
Back in the 60s my mom was charged the international rate for postage when she wanted to mail something to NM. The postal worker (in Boston, I think?) refused to believe it was a state.
#28
That Indian isn't a f*****g language! I get asked this on a regular basis and it pisses me off. There's over 20 languages in India and none of them are called Indian.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
The two major dialects are fairly significantly distinct, as well. They're pretty much two separate languages. My ex was born in the States, but his parents are immigrants from China and Taiwan. He's fluent in Mandarin, but he can't understand a word of Cantonese XD They're not mutually intelligible.
Load More Replies... Fred L. 8 months ago
Meanwhile Afrikaans might mislead a few people in that regard.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Had a 65 yr old guy differentiate an Asian Indian from an Indigenous(US) one by putting his palm over his mouth and going "not Whooo/Whoo".
Hey Kat 8 months ago
Sadly here in my neck of the woods here in the states, they differentiate by saying/asking "Dot or feather".
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Lila Allen 8 months ago
Same for Native American. There's no " Indian" language or " Indians or natives believe, do , etc" 562 different tribes with 562 different languages and belief systems.
Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
(Refraining from trying to make a stupid joke about Native American languages)
Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
For those about to bring up "American" as a language, "American" is just English. Or "Canadian" doesn't narrow it down. We have English, French, Ojibwe, Inuit, many other First Nations languages I can't even remember
Robert T 8 months ago
American is not just English. It is a horrendously mangled version of English. Particularly the spelling.
Load More Replies... Ace 8 months ago
The English word 'India' is just an anglification of 'Hindi', which is in fact a language, so this is not quite as 'wrong' as you seem to think it is.
Wombat 8 months ago
But no Indian speaks 'Indian'. They speak Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Urdu and many more. The origin of 'Indian' might be from Hindi but that doesn't make it the name of a spoken language.
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That the President of the United States does not have the power that people think he does.
He can't just fix every problem with the snap of his fingers people.
Snackmachine 8 months ago
Currently he seems able to destroy everything with the snap of his fingers
Libstak 8 months ago
True but when he convinces the right wing supreme court that he is immune from prosecution he can then proceed to make a complete and utter chaotic mess of things in, as it turns out, less than 60 days.....
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
And yet ironically he is able to screw things up with the snap of his fingers.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Can he actually snap his fingers? You know, those bone spurs and all.
Load More Replies... CK 8 months ago
Destructive power is a lesser power. People who wield it all think they're great, but they're not doing what other people can't do, they're doing what other people know better than to do.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Fully agreed but some are quite happy to be limited to breaking things - mostly because they're incapable of creating anything apart from increased entropy
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Andrew Keir 8 months ago
He has powers unless we stop him - preferably, legally
Load More Replies... Bacon Tentacles 8 months ago
It becomes a hell of a lot easier when he seemingly controls all three branches of the government.
April Pickett 8 months ago
First of all, we have to stand up to him. He's not going to stop snapping his fingers until someone breaks them.
#30
When people choose to be gluten free for weight loss yet don't know what gluten is.
Corvus 8 months ago
And that's often healthy individuals who don't really need to avoid gluten, but do only because it's popular to be scared of it.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Too many people jump on diet fads without knowing the least thing about what they really involve.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
I have to avoid gluten because of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Believe me, I would NOT voluntarily eat gluten free, and don’t understand why someone whose body CAN absorb gluten with no side effects would ever want to go gluten free. I developed Hashi’s with menopause, after a lifetime eating baked goods and pasta and other gluten-filled foods. The GF “equivalents” are not equivalent. Most of them do not taste like what their gluten-filled counterparts. They taste like s**t, or have a gross texture, or have a gross aftertaste, or all of the above. Plus they’re really expensive and don’t come in small sample packs, so you’re going to waste money on stuff that’s virtually inedible before you find the ONE that tastes kinda sorta little bit maybe remotely similar to the gluten-filled version. I used to love baked goods and pasta, but after having to give up gluten, I lost my taste for them.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
I remember many many years ago, people railed against cholesterol. Just long enough for cholesterol deficiency to become a thing.
ss 8 months ago
Aren't Glutens those things we plant in the springtime? I forget what color the flowers are. I don't think they are as nasty as Brussels Sprouts.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
How dare you! I love Brussels sprouts! En garde!!! XD (joking about the offense, but I actually truly do love Brussels sprouts, especially raw!)
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 8 months ago
I remember hearing about seitan, which can be cooked with flavors to taste and have the texture of meat. Seitan is gluten. You make it by rinsing down wheat dough into a concentrated ball of gluten, then you can cook with it, it's a great vegetarian food. And then soon after hearing about seitan, the Atkins diet craze happened. And variations of no bread, no gluten, gluten-intolerance diets. Later the many claiming gluten-allergies (when celiac disease is not common). I'm ready for the gluten-free trend to go away, but I'm afraid of what will be next
Fellfromthemoon 8 months ago
Not every person who medically advised to avoid gluten has celiac disease. People with celiac disease can get triggered by trace amount of gluten. People wo cannot digest gluten can tolerate it to some degree (meaning that some cross-contamination doesn't harm them, but a slice of bread is bad for them.)
Load More Replies... Sarah 7 months ago
So many dietary fads. Apparently it’s sugar that’s the worst and destroys your immune system. That’s what we should all be avoiding according to the many many consultants my mother has seen over the yrs for health reasons. I’ll start tomo.. I’ll polish off confectionary in cupboards don’t like to waste money
Sarah 7 months ago
Very few people are actually gluten intolerant. It’s a 50/50… these health people who think cutting out gluten is healthy has helped to make supermarkets/ restaurants more aware of supplying gluten free food and cosmetics. However, when someone like my ex, who is coeliac would try buy a gluten free sandwich in supermarket , they would be all sold out.. likely by people who are not actually coeliac. Be careful of ( I won’t name) big coffee chains in UK.. he asked if they had gluten free sandwiches and was told.. all of our food is organic. ..
Doofnuts 8 months ago
Wife is doing this. Doesn't have a clue and she is making me crazy. Gluten free stuff tastes like freakin' cardboard.
Sarah 7 months ago (edited)
When I was with my ex.. the substitutes used for gluten made me incredibly ill ( I’ve IBS) . We were a dietary disaster
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How to merge into traffic properly. Another word for merge is "blend", as in "Blend into existing traffic", not going half the speed and slowing everyone down around you. It's ignorant, really.
DowntownStevieB 8 months ago
Think of merging like the teeth on a zipper. Keep pace and fill in the blanks.
Curran Evans 8 months ago
I always say like teeth on a sprocket or gear, but yes, this is the way.
Load More Replies... StarCrossedFriday 8 months ago
It does my head in when you leave space for people to merge and they insist on all driving on so they can get a whole three cars ahead, thus creating the traffic jam I was trying to avoid. Good job.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
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Ron Man 8 months ago
"It's ignorant, really." How to say you're a smug ashole without saying you're a smug ashole. There are many reasons you have to merge in at a slower speed, including a metered onramp that doesn't have enough runway to get up to freeway speeds. Not know this is just being ignorant, really...
SirWriteALot 8 months ago
Also the blinker does not automatically force people to stop and let you in
Verfin22 8 months ago
If I'm nice enough to let you in, can I get a wave? Driving would be so much easier if no one was a selfish p r i c k.
Arthur Waite 8 months ago
This used to be a Canadian thing - being polite. Sadly, it's wearing out in the new generation.
Load More Replies... Saint_Zipcodus 8 months ago
Calling it a zipper should make the concept immediately clear. And yet...
#32
"Righty tighty, lefty loosey.".
keyboardtek 8 months ago
Except bicycle pedals. They have opposite threads so the pedals do not unscrew.
TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago (edited)
The german version to remember: "Solang' das Deutsche Reich besteht wird die Schraube rechts gedreht" (As long as the German Empire stands, screws will be turned right)
Ace 8 months ago
Assuming this i about screw threads, It baffles me why anyone would need something to remind them. And the whole point of this rather poor list is about things you should just know.
Wombat 8 months ago
It baffles you because you don't need it. I get mixed up about which way to turn a screw or bold quite a lot so find it very helpful.
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#33
Semi trucks take very wide turns and you need to give them room. My girlfriend was about to stop at an intersection and a semi was turning our way. She kept moving forward and I warned her you need to stop so we don't get hit. She didn't listen and luckily backed up in time and she claimed she had no idea of trucks taking such wide turns. It scares me to think that she got her license and knew nothing of such simple rules of the road.
Earthquake903 8 months ago
Also, don't drive beside trucks on a roundabout. Don't pass a truck then get in front and slow down, we can't stop as easily as you and many trucks have collision mitigation systems which will slam on breaks if something is too close to the front radar. Just pass us and goooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Don't hang around near the rear or sides either. Tires blow, wind can cause us to swerved we may need to change lanes suddenly. You don't want to be around when that happens.
Tabitha 8 months ago
I know if I’m behind you and change lanes to pass you, you guys can’t see me until I can see you in your side mirror, so I don’t hang back by your rear wheels.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
However, if you’re driving a regular passenger vehicle, you do NOT have to get all the way in the left lane to make a right turn, and vice-versa. These days most passenger automobiles, no matter their size (I’m looking at you too, pickup truck owners), can pretty much turn on a dime, so it’s not necessary. You’re driving a minivan, pickup, SUV, or car, not a bus or eighteen wheeler truck, ffs. So if you’re turning left, get in the left lane (and vice-versa), because if I’m turning right I WILL be pulling up beside you—-and don’t be getting all pissed off at me for it!
A girl 8 months ago
My husband drove semi for several years. He has a normal size pick up that he continues to drive like it's a semi. I have a very tiny SUV that he also drives like a semi. It drives me NUTS.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
My wife once asked why I was backing up at an intersection when a semi was turning across our path. Always get a wave from the driver when I do that. "Better swing room dear"..."oh"
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Also, I was told that "if you can't see me (truck driver) I can't see you (car in adjacent lane)".
Robin Roper 8 months ago
And they take a long distance to stop; don't pull out in front of a semi or a dump truck.
BookFanatic 8 months ago
I did a ride-along with my long haul trucker BF. Couldn't believe all the clueless drivers out there.
Nathan Lewis 8 months ago
just dont mess with trucks in general. even if they are in the wrong they will still win.
April Pickett 8 months ago (edited)
If she only has a learner's permit, otherwise she's lying.
Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
Must be a US problem. We in the EU can drive trucks and lorries without taking too much space and crashing into each other. Or we are just better drives maybe?
#34
Don't stand and talk with people in doorways. Somehow people always meet eachother for the first time in years and are then glued by their shoes to the floor in a doorway.
Agfox 8 months ago
Yeah, & supermarket aisles aren't the place to catch up & chat with one or more people
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
And for crying out loud Gladys, parking your cart crosswise in the aisle IS rude.
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
BP's picture shows where it is appropriate to talk in a doorway - when it's your door.
The Queen Of France 8 months ago
OH MY GOSH YES THIS!!! Makes me crazy! People are that self-involved!?!
Patricia Steward 8 months ago
I once had to say "excuse me" three times (the third very loud) because a local LAWYER was standing at the grocery exit. He looked at me like I'd offended him.
#35
That you can use the address bar as the search engine...
It annoys me every time I see someone type google into the address bar and click google then search whatever they are looking for.
Ron Man 8 months ago
Who cares? Nobody cares that it annoys you. There are a lot of reasons not to do that, namely it keeps a search history in your URL history and going directly to a search engine, doesn't.
Ace 8 months ago
Depends on your browser and settings, depends on your preferences, just... depends. For many years I preferred to use a separate search bar rather than the address bar, back when one used to manually type in a URL, when response times weren't always very fast, then you'd need to waste time while it did the search instead of just telling you the URL didn't exist. . . . And these days I use various keywords to preface a search and go directly to ddg, to amazon, to wiki, etc.
Karen Krause 8 months ago
I had to do that because on my old computer, Yahoo took over. It had something to do with the business email I had to use. I would change it, but then I had to use my email, it would change it back to Yahoo. Hate Yahoo search engine!
BookFanatic 8 months ago
Come work at my library. I have had to explain that to so many people. Also, how to use a mouse, and why typing "recipies" into Microsoft Word won't bring you to a list of cooking websites.
Bacon Tentacles 8 months ago
That is true if you are using Chrome. But if you are using Brave...
Andie Day 8 months ago
No, f*****g Edge uses bing which always comes up no matter how much you designate google as your default search engine. Also can happen with f*****g yahoo sometimes depending on how the setup is. I use other people's computers and gad knows what you'll get if you just wing it.
#36
Basic Googling skills, i.e. if you don't know Google it!
If you ask me and I don't know, that's what I'll do anyways...
sdorph 8 months ago
And check multiple sources, don't just trust the first one Google brings up
A. HAM 8 months ago
This. The AI generated results at the top are often so very wrong.
Load More Replies... XenoMurph 8 months ago
Like Wikipedia, it's not the search you do that answers the question, it's the source BEHIND the link/article that proves/gives evidence.
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Hannah 8 months ago
This is very true, but also I think it's nice to just ask someone from time to time, for human interaction purposes. Sometimes also an indication of respect. There are very few (practical, at least) questions that one can't find the answer to on the internet. Completely bogus example, but I could quickly look on YouTube for instructions for replacing a lightbulb, say, but if I asked my dad he would be really pleased and then go on and on about it for hours, talking about elements and filaments etc. Although if it were a lightbulb he would probably be in despair at the thought of having raised a useless daughter ; )
martin734 8 months ago
I partly disagree with this. Google is not an encyclopaedia, there is just as much misinformation to be found there as there is useful factually correct stuff. If you are looking for scientific information there are specialist search engines that will give you far more accurate sources than Google will. If you do use Google to look for information, look at a minimum of 5 different search results and check that those sources are accurate and reliable.
Mike F 8 months ago
And the first page of results are not paid ads but actually useful information.
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Crissy Newbury 8 months ago
I keep telling my husband “Google is your best friend “. He never listens.
#37
If you're an adult and hit someone you can have criminal charges pressed against you. its not like the movies where you can get into a bar fight and walk away like nothing happened.
Pandaroo 8 months ago
but, in a certain nation, which has laxer gun laws than The Massive Soviet Holdover, a shooting will not lead necessarily to you getting a life sentence. But killing one guy at the head of an extortion scheme (sorry-insurance) gets ppl tryna give you the death sentence.
Julia H 8 months ago
Know what you're talking about instead of parroting social media babble
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Marnie 8 months ago (edited)
Not long after George Floyd was m******d, in the same metro area one guy punched another in a bar, arguing about masks. The punchee fell, hit his head, and died. The puncher was charged with the same 2nd degree murder charge that Chauvin was convicted of. This is when you k**l someone while committing felony a s s a u l t that resulted in serious bodily injury, whether or not the intention was to k**l.
My O My 8 months ago
BUT there are situations where a slap in the face is well deserved. (Looking at the guys grabbing asses without consent)
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Those, you kick in the balls - to make it relevant to the issue.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago (edited)
Also that it's very easy to cause heavy or even lethal injuries even in unarmed combat. It's in fact harder to avoid then to cause them
#38
Now that winter is coming up, i would say that the cold itself doesnt make you sick, but the germs that build up in your home because you neglect to ventilate it
not that the cold doesnt make it worse though.
Nina 8 months ago
Also, cold makes your airways go dry easier because of the cold air, which makes you more susceptible to bacteria and viruses.
WubiDubi 8 months ago
Central heating worse for drying you out. Keep a large glass of water next to you everywhere.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 8 months ago
Hmm, might depend how much cold. In the winter my bedroom can get to around 8C and the living room to about 5C (yes, really!) and I find I'm less prone to catching things than when I was living in a heated place. There's a sweet spot that bugs really like and it's right where most people have their homes.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
I should add, I'm not poor, it's habit. As a child at boarding school the dorm windows would be open overnight in the middle of winter because fresh air was more important than not freezing to death and, well, I find a place that's too warm to be intolerable. It's winter, put a fuzzy sweater on!
Load More Replies... A. HAM 8 months ago
1. Prolonged cold temperatures can weaken your immune system. (Note the word prolonged.). 2. Viruses live on surfaces longer in cold temperatures. 3. As previously mentioned, dry air in winter, due to less humidity and forced air heating, dry out airways making you more susceptible to illness.
Hidalgo 8 months ago
This is only partially true. There are viruses that survive better in colder weather. Some flu viruses in particular
Šimon Špaček 8 months ago
Warm environment with more UV light can destroy some virus particles. I'm not saying that summer is safe against flues, but they are bit less common.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
In cold weather you are more likely to be in indoor, confined environments with more people in close proximity.
#39
Hot political issues, like what the Affordable Care act is. This way people can correctly support or disapprove of policies.
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Step in the right direction, fooled the corporate overlords for a while.
Load More Replies... Panda McPandaface 8 months ago
I don't. Surprisingly not everyone lives in The US. Shocker eh?
StarCrossedFriday 8 months ago
True, but that was just one example. Hot political issues in general should be common knowledge - voting, and knowing why you’re voting the way you are, is crucial.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
One positive aspect of this, is if you wanna go 'out' at 62 (US) having benefits is SO much easier and cheaper.
#40
What the passing lane is for.
Robert T 8 months ago
It's a limit, not a target. Just as long as they are overtaking something. ;-)
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 8 months ago
Sad to say, where I live, traffic is so heavy that few people would ever consider leaving a lane open just for passing. Every bit of freeway real estate is up for grabs so we can just keep moving.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago (edited)
If i am driving above limit, left lane, passing a car a bit ahead of me, and someone a ways(1/4 mile) back is coming, I WILL pass the vehicle in the R lane before I get over...sorry. If you're nice, I may tap the cruise up a mph or two to hurry it up. If you're not and ride my rear end like a clown, no politeness for you.
#41
Basic cooking skills.
1) Your stove has different temperature settings for a reason. Not everything should be cooked on full heat.
2) Salt is not evil - flavor your food as it is cooking. And as Chef Symon says, "Cook with Kosher, finish with Sea."
3) Fresh herbs and vegetables add flavor without excess salt.
4) If you burned food onto the bottom of a pan / pot, boil water in it for a while to loosen it up.
5) Rest any meat for several minutes after cooking, before cutting.
6) Don't dump water on a grease fire. Drop a lid or towel over it.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Who is Chef Symon, and how many people have Kosher and sea salt in their homes on a regular basis? Don't many people just have good old fashioned table salt?
Igor914624 8 months ago
I have Kosher, sea salt, and table salt in my pantry. They are not expensive and worth the money.
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Kathy Richardson 8 months ago
If you are on a low sodium diet due to health reasons, then yes, salt can be evil.
LilliVB 8 months ago
Even better, make some water with salt or baking soda boil in it.
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KnightOwl 8 months ago
My sister just turned 40 a few days ago, she has 2 kids and has no idea how to cook. Everything is put in the airfryer, before she got the airfryer everything would be put in the oven on full heat until it 'looks ready.' Whenever I'm at her house I cook proper meals for us all, I've tried to teach her but she just doesn't get it at all and makes stupid mistakes. (She also refuses to eat any fruit or vegetables and has the palate of a toddler)
DowntownStevieB 8 months ago
#3 is a huge one for me! I used to use a lot of salt until I started adding fragrant veggies. Never looked back! I feel good and not bloated anymore.
Patricia Steward 8 months ago
Lots of info on the net about burnt pots -- some of it actually works.
#42
How to whisper. seriously don't get mad when some people start to "eavesdrop".
Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
I hate it when I whisper something to someone and they proceed to repeat it, verbatim, loudly. If I wanted everyone to hear it, I wouldn’t have whispered it, ffs. Or when someone makes a disparaging comment about someone they know full well is in earshot—-then they wonder why that person acts rather cold to them.
antoinette maldari 8 months ago
Tabitha, you just described every sitcom trope.
Load More Replies... Theora Fifty-five Johnson 8 months ago
Some of us are hearing impaired and won't understand if you whisper.
#43
PEE AFTER S*X. It prevents UTIs. How do some girls not know this?
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 8 months ago
Actually, not so much--boys have longer urethras, which by itself lowers the danger.
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Sally Moen 8 months ago
They might not learn hygiene from their parents. Experience is a hard master, and the hassle of leaving a warm bed post-coital has an incentive if that person has had the experience of painful urination from a UTI.
Marianne 8 months ago
Except when you want to get pregnant. In that case, elevate your pelvis after the deed for some time. If you go to the toilet right away, gravity and the muscles close to your v****a that you use for peeing will push out most of the s***m and getting pregnant will be less probably.
Aelin Wildfire 7 months ago
This doesn't matter (as much) if you have an "organism-ni", as the muscular contractions will pull the "tadpoles" toward whichever ovary ovulated most recently. Also, I hear that taking Mucinex (or something similar) thins the cervical mucus and makes it easier for the "tadpoles" to swim through. But I just got sterilized, so don't take my word for it. 🤷♀️
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NewBird 8 months ago
Please ignore this person ^^^. Cystitis has long been known as the "honeymooners disease" because women who had a lot of s*x on their honeymoon would contract cystitis. The OP could have been worded better. Of course people get UTIs outside of the bedroom but people do also get UTIs from bedroom activities so it is good practice to pee after s*x. The, er, rubbing that happens during s*x can push bacteria into the urethra and because ladies have shorter urethras than the gents do, it's easier for that bacteria to get into the bladder and cause trouble. TL:DR, pee after s*x.
Load More Replies... #44
Hallways are like roads, stay on the right side.
Josephine Blogs 8 months ago
In the UK drive on the left, walk on the left. Unless you're in the London Underground where you walk on the left but stand on the right while on the escalators.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
Pro tip for right hand drivers. If you're trying to negotiate a large foreign airport in a LHD country. Follow the Japanese. They will clear a path.
#45
How to eat right. So many behavioral, mental, emotional, and physical problems stem simply from an improper diet.
Bec 8 months ago
Some populations live in food deserts where healthy options are not as available or affordable as processed food,
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
What a proper diet is may differ from person to person. Certain health conditions affect what is "proper".
Hollerfloozy 8 months ago
I would love to eat right, but my budget laughed at me when I asked.
#46
Basic things like how to jump a car, or hell, even where the battery is located or what it looks like.
I once jumped a McDonald's employee's car off. I got my jumper cables out and handed him the other side so he could connect them to his battery. He just kind of stood there like he didn't know what to do. The jump went successful and he told me my next meal there would be on him. IIRC I think I actually did get a free meal, I can't really remember that well.
Stuff like that and how to check your oil, add oil, etc. Most people should know these things.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
My dad taught me all of this when I was a kid. I've always kept jumper cables in my car, and in more modern times, one of those portable battery jumpers as well. I've jump-started a number of peoples' cars, some of them complete strangers. It's nice to be able to help out! Though I'm always surprised - whenever someone calls out "My car won't start - does anyone have any jumper cables?" I'm usually the only person who says yes. Do most people not carry them these days?
Glen Ellyn 8 months ago
I still do, and I also carry a tire inflator - one of those you can' plug into what used to be the cigarette lighter. It sure helped me a few weeks ago when I was about to head to a dentist appointment and realized I had a nearly-flat tire. I cancelled the appointment but was able to inflate the tire enough to drive my car to the shop to get new tires.
Load More Replies... StarCrossedFriday 8 months ago
Do you jump a car ‘off’? I had a very odd mental image there for a second…
Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
To be precise, you give someone’s car battery a “jump start”.
Load More Replies... A girl 8 months ago
Lol. My husband had a car where the battery was under the back seat. We had to pull out the manual to understand there are terminals under the hood to allow for a jump
Mike F 8 months ago
This. Some manufacturers are getting crafty at hiding batteries.
Load More Replies... SirWriteALot 8 months ago
Don't you guys learn these basics when you get your license or do they just hand it to you when you turn 16?
BookFanatic 8 months ago
I'm in the US, and, yeah. Once you pass your behind the wheel test they hand you the license and off you go.
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How to budget.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
I tried to push my mountain of bills off my desk. But I couldn't budget.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Or, bills get paid first. If you have more month at the end, figure a way to cushion that.
#48
Passing gas is a healthy bodily function that should not be shamed. (unless it's abused like the dutch oven).
Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
Yeah, but that doesn’t mean you should pass gas wantonly in public. It’s still not socially acceptable when you’re not around your usual, and accepting, group. While you might like your own “perfume”, it can induce the gag reflex, and sometimes vomiting, in others. Just common courtesy to keep such private functions private. Find someplace away from everyone else to do your release.
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
Only if your sense of humor hasn't evolved since you were 12.
Load More Replies... StarCrossedFriday 8 months ago
When we were still dating, my (now) husband once hugged me so hard he literally squeezed one out - he laughed hysterically for a full three minutes, and now lovingly refers to it as ‘the first and I hope not last time I heard my wife fart’.
Karl 8 months ago
My mother in law farts every time she laughs. Of course we all laugh.
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SirWriteALot 8 months ago
No. Do not pass gas in front of or in smell-distance of other humans. Just don't.
#49
On stairs/elevators, stand right so people can pass you on the left side.
Karl 8 months ago
If you tried that on the Tube in London, you'd soon find out we're a lot less reserved than the stereotype suggests. Stand on the left if you aren't in a hurry and let those that are pass on your right and we'll all get along fine :)
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Everyone should know how to change a tire.
P1 No-Name 8 months ago
Especially when the guy who sells you the tyres does up the nuts with an air wrench
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turk 8 months ago
Then you better put a real jack in your trunk. The included ones nowadays are almost useless. But I'm beyond all that and have roadside assistance.
Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
For those of us who know how, but are physically unable, to change a tire ourselves, investing in roadside assistance is the next best thing—-plus you don’t get all sweaty and dirty doing it.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 8 months ago
Cars these days come with some foamy stuff in a can instead of a spare. It's enough to get you to a place where you can get the tyre seen to by a professional.
Robert T 8 months ago
Changing a tyre/tire requires special equipment (unless you mean a bicycle). Learning to change a wheel is a useful skill to have if you drive or are a regular passenger in a car. The worst part these days is getting the wheel nuts loose after they have been put on with a pneumatic gun in the tyre shop.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
To assist a person who does own a car but is too frail to do so?
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 8 months ago
Having one of those powered car jacks is helpful, the kind that get plugged in to the car to power the jack so you don't have to crank the mechanical type. Also the powered tire inflater
#51
General first aid. The Boy Scouts of America taught me everything I need to know.
Hell'n Damnation 8 months ago
And that general first aid needs refresher courses every few years.
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
And lots of places will do First Aid and CPR for free. Check with your local health department or ask your doctor where you can get certified.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
It's come out lately that the Boy Scouts taught some boys knowledge that they would have been much better off without.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 8 months ago
Yes, but that does not negate the wealth of positive experiences that so many young men like me benefitted from.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Girl Scouts. Again in high school. Red Cross certification in college. And lots of need to use these skills over the years.
TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago
Mandatory for obtaining a dirver's licenese here in Europe, would be cool to learn it in schools though
Sally Moen 8 months ago
CPR and first aid certification is required for many professions, and those classes are normally offered at fire stations for a moderate cost, and your employer might pay for it.
#52
Just some basics about how traits are inherited, what traits can be inherited, and the probability of spontaneously forming genetic abnormalities. It's amazing what people don't know about this and how it impacts their life. A woman can be terrified to have a baby over 35 and change her whole life based on this because she is convinced that it will be a genetic monster when, in fact, it is only an elevated, but still very low, probability of having a problem. The same woman, however, could have a parent that died of a form of cancer that has a very high probability of being heritable and they never think to get checked.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
My mom had me when she was 35, and I'm the oldest. And this was back in the 50s when 35 was considered old to have a child. My youngest sibling is 7 years younger.
T'Mar of Vulcan 8 months ago
My mother had me at 41, my brother at 43. However, her mother had her youngest child (my mother was the oldest) at 46. He isn't right.
Load More Replies... Lila Allen 8 months ago
Yup... the risk of a kid with downs goes from 1% of you're under 35 to 2% if you're over. Not exactly a huge risk.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
It's "Down syndrome", not "downs". And you are incorrect - the risk of having a child with Down syndrome is around 1 in 400 at age 35, and it increases over the next ~5 years until the risk is about 1 in 100 at age 40.
Load More Replies... #53
That if you don't use it, you lose it.
StarCrossedFriday 8 months ago
I’d really like my language students to learn this one. So many of them have one two-hour class a week with me, do no homework or practicing during the week, and then complain they’re not fluent within six months 🫤
Michael Largey 8 months ago
I never used my idea of dangling a certain boss out the window by his ankles, but I certainly retain the notion.
#54
How to use a compass.
Panda McPandaface 8 months ago
A large percentage of people will go their entire lives without ever needing to use a compass.
Ron Man 8 months ago (edited)
Not actually true. If you've ever had to follow road directions... you're using a compass whether you like it or not. You may not have that compass, but the directions are based on someone else's compass and passed to you. Do you realize why your GPS shows you what direction you're heading? A more accurate thing to say is that many people will go their entire lives without realizing why they need to know how to use a compass.
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Libstak 8 months ago
How to navigate without a compass..the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, follow the path of the sun as your starting point. If you are facing the rising sun, the south is to your right and north to your left. If facing the setting sun, south is to your left and north is to your right.
Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
OK, but now it's dark and you lost your orientation!
Load More Replies... Lila Allen 8 months ago
Dude....can't even use a map. I'm certainly not out here like Jim Bowie with my compass and flintlock
Tropical Tarot 8 months ago
In the northern hemisphere, the open end of the Big Dipper points to the North Star, Polaris.
Ron Man 8 months ago
People who think they know how to use a compass, still don't actually know how to use a compass. A compass and a map aren't complicated, but it's a skill that has to be learned. Sometimes it's okay just to know which way north is, but orienteering is a skill that uses maps and compasses correctly and in ways a lot more complicated than knowing which way is north. Because if it was just as easy as knowing ENWS, you wouldn't need a compass because the sun and moon will show you that.
SirWriteALot 8 months ago
You can also use your watch and the sun ... point hour hand at the sun, half the distance to 12:00 is south. (this is for northern hemisphere)
Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
Finding the compass point (N, S, E, or W) is easy but using a compass to navigate is a completely different story. You also need a compass that fits that need. Not the average one.
Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
But you do not have YouTube in the wilderness when you really need your compass.
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Not all debt is the most evil thing in the world. Sometimes the smartest financial decision is to take out a loan. Ever hear the saying takes money to make money? Well that's a lot easier if you can use other peoples money. Also your time has a value, factor that in when you make decisions. Don't waste several hours just to save a couple bucks.
ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 8 months ago
Wait, I could have saved a couple of bucks while browsing BP? Is that what it's saying? /s, but only slightly
Hidalgo 8 months ago
Most all the world’s over-wealthy really just have humongous amounts of leverage. Which is the ability to borrow huge amounts of money
keyboardtek 8 months ago
That is how the rich pay zero income tax. They borrow billions against their property as collateral. They then operate their businesses with that borrowed money. Borrowed income is not taxable. Then they write off the interest on those loans. The banking industry is in cahoots with the rich.
Load More Replies... LooseSeal's $10 Banana 8 months ago
I absolutely understand the math behind this, but I'm still absolutely going to pay cash if I can. Peace of mind is priceless.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
"Banks are always willing to lend you money if you can prove you don't need it." - Bob Hope
Rick Murray 8 months ago
The bank always wins. Take out a loan when the thing is absolutely necessary (like a car that works) and there is no alternative option.
#56
**DON'T WET THE TOILET SEAT! EVERYBODY HATES COLD TOILET SEATS!**.
keyboardtek 8 months ago
Sitting on a warm public toilet gives me the heebie jeebies.
Load More Replies... Karen Krause 8 months ago
If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat. Then wash your hands.
StarCrossedFriday 8 months ago
And guys, don’t leave it up. The number of times I felt like I broke my tailbone going to the loo during the night…
Tabitha 8 months ago
But please put it up when using it. Your aim ain’t THAT great!
Load More Replies... #57
Tires need air to do their job, working in the industry, people do not get this and always blame it on the tire, never their lack of maintenance.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Every so often take a look, if it looks soft? Check it. And don't go by sidewall pressures..those are MAX. I have never had an issue with wear or performance running 35PSI, even if sidewall says 45lb max
A girl 8 months ago
My car goes into dash panic if my tires are .00001 below recommended psi. It's kind of annoying but I never have to check. It YELLS at me to deal with it.
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This may prove to be a divisive or controversial answer, but:
I think everybody should just "know" how many days are in each month.
It's the calendar. You learn it when you're a kid, and it hasn't changed since you were a kid. There are only four months that are thirty days long. You should just remember which ones they are. It shouldn't require any "tricks".
Knowing that April has 30 days is like knowing that Miami is in Florida or that Edinburgh is in Scotland.
I mentioned this on Facebook once, and my friends were kind of divided. Many of them agreed with me. The fact that June has 30 days and July has 31 are just part of the "personalities" of the months. Those are fundamental facts about the world around you, that you learn when you're a kid, and they ought to just "stick" with you, and you should know them forever.
But some of my friends seemed to think the number of days in each month is an "obscure" fact, like it's just trivia that you don't need to remember. That attitude seems so strange to me.
Clown fish 8 months ago
Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, And that has twenty-eight days clear And twenty-nine in each leap year.
Tabitha 8 months ago
Cannot tell you how many times in my life that little rhyme has come in handy for me.
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PataSata 8 months ago
I always use this method, if I seldomly need it. Also, we don't have (at least one I kow of) a poem of this.
Load More Replies... K Miller 8 months ago
I kind of disagree with this one a bit. Nobody just 'knows' something. Knowledge has to be taught, and it's not really anyone's fault if they were never taught something. I never heard those rhymes or learned the knuckle thing in school. I learned they exist in adulthood. Maybe this is a bit of a sore topic for me though, I've been mocked in the past for not knowing something.
#59
**How to tie your shoes:** left over right then right over left *or* right over left then left over right. Anything else is a granny knot and won't stay tight as long. Your laces will sit flat against your shoe too.
**How to dry your hands with one sheet (or equivalent) of paper towel, regardless of its quality:** shake as much water off your hands as you reasonably can then fold the sheet in half to increase its tensile strength and rub the remaining water off your hands.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
My wife taught one of her kindergarten students to tie his shoes, even though he had only one arm.
Sally Moen 8 months ago
Some of the many lessons my parents did not teach me. I walked around tripping on my shoelaces until I turned 7, when a caring adult patiently explained, and had me tie, tying my shoelaces.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Ok...I agree. But why are there SO many shoes that have auto-untie laces? Ya get 'em tight, then NOPE!
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 8 months ago
I learned that I have been tying my shoes wrong just this year. Learning how to do it the right way was hard at my age!
#60
Nutrition. So many people don't realize things they eat are actually unhealthy for them. I don't mean the quarter pounder they choose once or twice a week. I mean the small things that people think are good for you that aren't really bad, but aren't good I.e. A baked potato loaded up for dinner or all the mac and cheese. Those small things are where diets usually get made or get broken.
TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago (edited)
Potatoes are also a better alternative than pasta or rice since they satiate the hunger more efficiently with comparable amounts of calories
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Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago (edited)
Cheese has a lot of fat and is very salty and 1.5 ounces a day is the absolute maximum.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Not every cheese is "very salty" Goat cheese, Swiss cheese, Ricotta, and (fresh) mozzarella are significantly lower in sodium than most other cheeses. BTW, you're incorrect about the "absolute maximum" - 1.5oz is one serving of hard cheeses and 1oz is one serving of processed cheeses. Seeing as the USDA recommends at least 3 servings of dairy per day (and cheese is dairy), one could eat 4.5oz of cheese per day. There's no Cheese Laws or Cheese Police that mandate and enforce the "absolute maximum" a person can consume per day. Oh, BTW, not every cheese "has a lot of fat". Some types of mozzarella are quite low in fat, as is string cheese and cottage cheese, and Ricotta. There are also lower-fat versions of more-common cheeses now too, like low-fat cheddar, Muenster, Colby, Brie, etc. So, overall, you are factually incorrect.
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How to iron a shirt.
Tropical Tarot 8 months ago
Tumble dry for about 10-15 minutes. Then immediately hang up while still warm Or put it on .
BookFanatic 8 months ago
Downy Wrinkle Release! It comes in a spray bottle (at least in the US) and you spray your clothing down the night before. Give it a few shakes and tugs and then it's ready and wrinkle free in the morning.
#62
The difference between storage(HDD or SDD or even flash memory) on a computer and memory(RAM literally being Random Access Memory).
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Many people are just not technically inclined, and learn only as much as they need to.
Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
Most people do not even care. As all things, it just has to work. And on a technical note. You cannot save a file in RAM even if you try. Unless you create a RAM drive, but then you know what you do.
Load More Replies... Anonymouse 8 months ago
I tell people that computer is like a desk, and disk storage is like drawers in that desk where you can store stuff, and memory is like your desk top surface. You only have so much space on top, but you can put stuff in drawers and pull it out later.
Tropical Tarot 8 months ago
Storage is your bookcase. RAM is the top of your desk. You can store lots of stuff on a bookcase but you can only work with a few thing on your desk. Limited space to spread out
#63
Barilla pasta doesn't come out perfect every time. No. You time that s**t so it comes out al dente.
Ace 8 months ago
Indeed, and it's allowed to cook it how you want it - if someone prefers it softer then there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 8 months ago
As I cook pasta I check the consistency of the pasta until it is done to the consistency of what I like.
#64
Good math hygiene or grammar. Don't convert answers to decimals until the very end. It will make your life so much easier!
**Do this!**
(5 / (3 * 2 )) * ((3 * 2)/5) = (5 / 6) * (6 / 5) = (5 * 6) / (6 * 5) = 1
**Not this!**
5 / (3 * 2 ) * (3 * 2)/5 = 0.83 * 1.2 = 0.996.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Go wash your math right now! You have bad math hygiene! XD (joking)
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 8 months ago
What kind of lunatic would do that unless they were using a calculator?
Ace 8 months ago
And if they _were_ using a calculator it wouldn't have rounded to two decimal places anyway.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago (edited)
In other words, rounding off - if applicable - should be the very last step of the calculation.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
I have dyscalculia, so I'm just "nope" about both options. And having been on this cursed planet for half a century, I've never needed to do anything as complex as that. My main maths need used to be dividing price by quantity to work out the better price, but these days retailers have to include that information in the on-shelf price mark, so now my main maths problem is translating imperial recipes to metric.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
I share this ailment, my brain shut down just looking at this. And I've found, Rick, that a lot of recipes have both measurements. Also there are lots of conversions charts available. Just stick to one measurement system for the entire recipe!
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 8 months ago
Why? Is it that decimal answer is less accurate or is not asked for or ?
#65
If you pizza when you're supposed to french fry you're going to have a bad time.
Ace 8 months ago
It's a commonly-used reminder used for basic skiing instruction. 'Pizza' implies a wedge-shape, aka the snowplough, which you use to slow down and turn, 'fries' is when you put the skis parallel to each other to go faster and straighter.
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Probably not something I need to know, as I live in a place where it doesn't snow.
Sally Moen 8 months ago
Good for those folks who have the funds to go skiing. In the US anyway, it's not cheap
#66
The person that is the most stubborn and bold will always get their way.
Michael Largey 8 months ago (edited)
Or reelected president. Or pardoned by that president.
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What do you think ?
Ru Bee 8 months ago
You do NOT have to have your phone on loud speaker in public!... You utter wetwipes!
GhostlySnail (she/her) 8 months ago
Or listen to music or TikTok out loud in public!
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martin734 8 months ago (edited)
That only 5% of the world's population live in the USA. So US laws, customs and traditions do not apply to 95% of people. Also, that the US constitution is completely meaningless outside of the USA.
Corvus 8 months ago
Mine would be "lunch break exists." It's amazing how often people knock on my door, come in, clearly see that I am eating lunch, and still ask to get a signature or stamp on a document... yeah, would you like some greasy fingerprints as well?
martin734 8 months ago
This is the main reason I always leave work to have lunch, or go to the canteen.
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Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
Why are they in the Eurovision Song Contest then?
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Josh Gallant 8 months ago
I'm actually surprised and mildly disgusted that hand washing didn't make the list.
Dirk Daring 8 months ago
Schools in the US should be teaching the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. I'm so tired of hearing, "That's F as in ummmm Frank, U as in unicorn, C as innnnnn candy, K as in Kangaroo..."
Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
C for miles, E for Brick, F for Vescent, I for One, L for Leather, M for sis, Q for a bus, R for minute, V for La France, Y for girlfriend...
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Ruth Watry 7 months ago
How to read. Almost half of Americans read at a 6th grade level or lower
Ru Bee 8 months ago
You do NOT have to have your phone on loud speaker in public!... You utter wetwipes!
GhostlySnail (she/her) 8 months ago
Or listen to music or TikTok out loud in public!
Load More Replies... martin734 8 months ago (edited)
That only 5% of the world's population live in the USA. So US laws, customs and traditions do not apply to 95% of people. Also, that the US constitution is completely meaningless outside of the USA.
Corvus 8 months ago
Mine would be "lunch break exists." It's amazing how often people knock on my door, come in, clearly see that I am eating lunch, and still ask to get a signature or stamp on a document... yeah, would you like some greasy fingerprints as well?
martin734 8 months ago
This is the main reason I always leave work to have lunch, or go to the canteen.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
Why are they in the Eurovision Song Contest then?
Load More Replies... Josh Gallant 8 months ago
I'm actually surprised and mildly disgusted that hand washing didn't make the list.
Dirk Daring 8 months ago
Schools in the US should be teaching the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. I'm so tired of hearing, "That's F as in ummmm Frank, U as in unicorn, C as innnnnn candy, K as in Kangaroo..."
Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
C for miles, E for Brick, F for Vescent, I for One, L for Leather, M for sis, Q for a bus, R for minute, V for La France, Y for girlfriend...
Load More Replies... Ruth Watry 7 months ago
How to read. Almost half of Americans read at a 6th grade level or lower
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