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If you ever put off cracking your knuckles or some other bone due to fears of arthritis, you’ve been the victim of a long-running misconception. If you just learned this now, congratulations and don’t feel bad, as it turns out, situations like this are surprisingly common.
We’ve gathered people’s stories of learning pretty useful things embarrassingly later in life. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, take notes if you have to and if you’ve been in the same boat before, share your own thoughts and stories in the comments section down below.
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#1
My wife and I have this ceiling fan/light in our bedroom in the house we moved into two years ago. It has a remote control for the fan and lights.
About a year and a half ago the lights suddenly stopped working. The fan works well and we didn't have a tonne of money so we've just lived with lamps in the room, always being frustrated with how d**n dark it is.
I was scrolling some other thread on ~~askreddit~~ TIFU a few weeks ago and the top post was a guy talking about how his lights stopped working years ago, and then he found out that it was just dimmed (which you do by holding *down* the button on the remote).
It sounded so much like our fan I went and tried it.
Dimmed.
SouthernGal 5 months ago
I fixed the problem recently in my child’s room to their astonishment, because teens know everything and parents are stupid. ; )
Papa 5 months ago
We also have a ceiling fan and light fixture in the bedroom that works with a remote control. I hate it. Previously the fan and light worked on separate wall switches, but of course that won't work with this one. I sleep with the fan on, and of course with the light off. That's great, until the power goes out. By default, when it comes back on the fan is off and the light is on. Having the light come on suddenly is not a fun way to wake up.
BossyCloud 4 months ago (edited)
I use smart bulbs in my lamps so that they're controlled by an app, meaning that the lamp itself is always on. So, similarly to you, every light in my house turns on when the power comes back on.
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Jeff Peiffer 5 months ago
Yup, I did that in my condo. Only it wasn't a remote, but a smart app I didn't install right way. Bitched for months about how dark the d**n light was. Finally installed the app because I couldn't find the remote for about a day. Noticed a slider under the light. My dumb a** had it at 1%. Turned it up to 100% and it was like the sun just exploded in my room. Doh!
murmelinpaiva 5 months ago
When my ceiling fan stopped working, it turned out that varmints had gone in the attic and chewed the wires. We had it fixed and installed hardware cloth in the garage to prevent rodent access. No problems ever since. Also, my husband (who had dementia) used to periodically fuss that he couldn't see anything on his phone. He had accidentally turned down the brightness to almost nothing.
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
Got new front load washer. Wife went into town when I started it up. Stupid thing almost walked into the gas line when it went to spin cycle. Finally managed to unplug it and called the MFG. to find out what 'the deal' was. "Of course you removed the packing bolts (bolts installed at the factory to keep the drum solid during shipment)".."ummmmmm..."
Janissary35680 5 months ago
I never go near a new home appliance until it has been installed and tested by an authorized tech and I have seen it working with my own eyes. This is SOP for every reputable manufacturer where I live and you have to sign a warranty agreement that says the item was surrendered in working condition. I think this is standard across Europe.
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Uncle Schmickle 4 months ago
An easy fix ! I've done this with new stereo equipment. Though there was something wrong. Nope, just the volume turned all the way down.
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#2
My SO and I were in a fight and he said "You are unbelievably selfish and impossible to talk to". Somehow my defense mechanisms were not engaged at that moment because I *heard* him and realized it was true. I saw for the first time that I had been (mostly) an a*****e all my life - that is - super defensive and wrong about a lot of things (aka a "narcissist"). I have since had to *learn* how to be kind, to listen, to give back and while it has been very hard (I still cringe often when I think back on many moments in my life) I now know *I* was wrong, my life is so much better.
michael Chock 5 months ago
Good for you! Most people never get there. I always tell people "knowing things makes you dumb". For us to learn, we have to first accept what we know could be wrong. I honestly believe this is why kids learn faster. They know they are wrong about everything.
Michael Danhauer 5 months ago
I'd say the OP just has some narcissistic tendencies. A true narcissist is incapable of recognizing their condition.
Yrral Spavit 5 months ago
Had an ex. *Everything* was someone else's fault. Years after we broke up I ran into her and she had had a moment. She had broken up with her latest Bf a month before and was in her apartment. Something was amiss and she caught herself blaming the ex BF and suddenly realized no one else was there. Yeah, when you point a finger, three are pointed back at yourself.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
Realizing you had been defensive and wrong about a lot of things doesn’t mean you’re a narcissist. There is a difference between being a run-of-the-mill self-centered jerk and having Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Tonyah Mcanelly 5 months ago
Not many people have these A-Ha moments . Kudos for taking responsibility for your actions and doing something about it .
no adhesiveness 2020 5 months ago
In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts mind, there are few.
Annabelle 5 months ago (edited)
Your last sentence sounds like a glorified version of, "I can't help it, it's just who I am," which is a cop-out for people who aren't interested in the work it takes to make real change.
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Not me, but my Dad. I'm in the story, though.
We used to have this swingset, which had a kid's swing on it. The kid's swing would always fill up with a huge puddle of water when it rained. To combat this, my Dad would balance it upside down on the crossbar it hung from. I always wondered *why doesn't he just drill a hole through the bottom to drain the water?* Then I thought, *that's so simple a solution, he's obviously thought of it, and why it's a bad idea, and I'll look like an idiot for suggesting it.*
So after a year of this, one day I hear him complaining while he's balancing the swing. So finally I ask "why don't you just drill a hole through the bottom of it?" He didn't even say anything. He just looked at me like I was an idiot, and walked away. I was racking my brain, trying to figure out what obvious flaw in my plan I'm missing.
A few minutes later he comes back with a drill. That's when I realized, the look wasn't directed at me. The look was "why didn't I think of that?"
I've started asking questions more often now.
Uncle Panda 5 months ago
I had a VW Beetle classic that took on water when it rained. One of the wheels could throw water through a hole, down the frame, and onto the driver side floorboard. Braking caused a small tsunami. I really, really hated to do it but I eventually drilled a small hole to let the water OUT, and it worked beautifully.
Brian Droste 5 months ago
I live in a small town. The town has garbage pick up. They supplied the garbage cans for your trash. Even though they have lids 9n them, when it rains I would always get water I. My garbage can. For the longest time I thought to myself why don't I drill couple of holes in the bottom of the trash can. The company thatbserviced my town put up there companyfor sale. A larger trash company bought the company thatnwas for sale. They gave everyone new trash cans. A little bitbofvtime after that I decided to go ahead and drill some holes in the bottom of the trash can. Now I don't get standing water in my trash can anymore.
#4
I used to fill the kettle by the spout... my parents have always done it this way, I thought the center part was mainly for decoration, but not functional. I don’t know why I never questioned this.
One day I bought a new tea kettle and my husband was like wtf what is inside this, and with great ease, opened the center to pull out a manual with instructions and what not.
I was drinking dirty paper water for like 2 weeks.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 months ago
I bought a cheap kettle, and for about the first two weeks everything tasted very plasticky.
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Jaya 5 months ago
Filling it through the spout I can kinda understand. But not cleaning the insides of a new kettle before you use it? Ew!
Kira Okah 5 months ago
Some kettles are intended to be filled with the spout, which is probably why it wasn't questioned, perhaps the ones they had before were meant to be filled that way.
For All Pedernity 5 months ago
What kind of kettles would that be? Very bad design, I'd say.
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Robert T 5 months ago
There is no such thing as a "tea" kettle. Kettles boil water, not tea, you heathen!
Tom Brincefield 5 months ago
Right. You do tea in microwaves. If you're English anyway. 🤭
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#5
I always thought eggplant tasted "itchy", like itchy was a flavor, like sour or salty. Fed some to my baby and his face turned red wherever the eggplant touched, and I realized we're both just allergic to eggplant. And itchy isn't a flavor.
*raspberry sound 5 months ago
I had a friend who said he liked how bananas tastes like electricity. Yeah, bud, they're not supposed to do that, you're allergic to bananas.
PeepPeep the duck 5 months ago (edited)
I was like this as a kid with the ‘burning nuts’ I haven’t tried them again as an adult -and my mother when I met up with her after 20yrs not long ago was like - what are you talking about, pine nuts aren’t hot 😂
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Family's_disappointment 5 months ago
I always thought pumpkins were hard to swallow—and when I did, it hurt and made my throat itch. For years, I complained, but no one believed me. Everyone told me I was lying. (It was kind of funny, honestly, because I ate pretty much everything except maybe one or two things.) It wasn’t until I was 15, when I was forced to eat two or three slices of pumpkin pie (something I’d always avoided), that I couldn’t breathe—and then they finally started taking me seriously.
Xenia Harley 5 months ago
Eggplant is something I used to love to eat, but felt like I was coming down with the flu the next day every time I ate it. Until I told a friend, and she told me there was something in eggplant that made some people sick. Solanine?
Ellinor she/they/elle 5 months ago (edited)
Me and my mother had the exact same revelation about citrus fruits ! It was a bit embarrassing to realise that late that we were allergic to a whole category of food...
Inservio Smurf 4 months ago
I was in my thirties before I learned in a genetic testing documentary, what the OR6A2 gene is and that koriander ("silantro" to some) isn't actuallly supposed to taste VIOLENTLY of washing up liquid even in trace quantities. Mum had just convinced me it was all in my head.
#6
I owned a light blue colored microwave for about three years that a family member gave me for a housewarming gift. Thought it was cool; never saw a blue microwave before. One night, a buddy asked why I never took the blue plastic wrap off my microwave, then proceeded to peel it off for me. D**n; that b***h is silver. Still miss my blue microwave sometimes though...
No Man 5 months ago
I bought my very first new car a couple of months ago... There was a barcode lable stuck to the big screen in the console. I spent a couple of days trying to peel it off without success. I was just about ready to buy some Goo-Be-Gone to peel it off. I was getting in the car to head to WallyWorld to buy to goo stuff and tried one last time to get that ticker off. I pulled just the right way and the plastic sheet protection the screen peeled right off. D'oh!
murmelinpaiva 5 months ago
I also recently bought a new car. The thin silver trim inside was annoyingly reflected in the side mirror, so I covered the trim with black electrical tape. Problem solved.
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Zoe Vokes 5 months ago
I remember an article back when Covid first happened, when some people were buying face shields. The Amazon reviews were full of people saying, “The arrived product was blue and not clear like the photo. I returned it for a refund.” And “The replacement I got was blue as well.” It’s such a common problem. The developers assume people will realise this but with Covid and regular people buying it, they need to make it obvious for the stupidest person. They suppliers probably needed to open every single box and stuck a label on the protective film telling people to remove it.
*raspberry sound 5 months ago
I used to work for a locksmith and the new locks had a blue film to protect the finish. One time a guy brought his new lock back and asked "y'all got any color 'sides blue?"
Brian Droste 5 months ago (edited)
Two things. First, I needed to buy a new microwave a few years ago. Got it home and started too use it. After a few days I noticed the area where the controls were started to bubble up. I thought oh darn the buttons are messing up but were still working so I figuted I will just deal with it. About a week later Then I seen amstory/post, I believe here on BP. About a mother that had the same or similar problem. She had a daughter. The daughter said someone her mother about there being a plastic on the front of the microwave buttons and went over to the microwave and peeled the protective plastic off of the microwave. So I went to my microwave and look at the controls/buttons on my microwave and was able to grab a corner of the protective plastic and peeled it off. 2nd one is a quite a few years ago I read where this couple got married and one of the wedding gifts they got was a mirror with a frame. The frame was blue. See reply to continue with story.
Brian Droste 5 months ago (edited)
So they decided to have a yard sale. They put the mirror in the yard sale. Some guy comes along and sees the mirror and is imptess with the mirror. Buys the mirror and proceeds to grab a corner of the blue plastic and peels it off and underneath the blue plastic is a gold colored frame while the owners look in disbelief at the mirror. I believe the mirror was good size mirror too.
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SuAlfons 4 months ago
We own a blue (plastic housing, it is blue!) microwave by Sharp. It's nothing special, just blue and has an electronic turning k**b to set the time. I like it sooo much better than the one built into our new kitchen cabinets (because of the turning k**b, the new one always needs setting the Watt first and then hold a touch key to set the time and then hold the other one because you overshot ....)
SuAlfons 4 months ago
So K N O B is crossed out? All saints, how do you call the things you turn on a kitchen device or a stereo?
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Ronnie Beaton 4 months ago
My team lead at work got a new whiteboard, and for weeks he was cursing about having to use harsher and harsher cleaning methods to erase his writing on it. He asked another team lead if he was having any problems with his board. Second team lead gives him a funny look, then peels the protective film off the board...
#7
After moving to a new city I went to the laundromat and the Korean lady working was yelling at me about something I couldn’t understand. After some pantomime it became clear that she was upset I was putting in the wrong detergent but it was the same kind I have been using for 8 years (since moving away to college and behind). Turns out I’ve been washing my clothes with only fabric softener for nearly a decade. They always smelled good so I never really thought about it. Not my proudest moment.
michael Chock 5 months ago (edited)
If you are not a sweaty person it's not so bad. It's the washers movement that scrubs the clothes. The detergent is to break down grease and hold the dirt in the water so it doesnt settle back onto clothes. (Still bad though)
Rodriquez 2 weeks ago
Ironic since you're replying to a 7 year old Reddit screenshot. You obviously can't read the bit where they tell you where they copied these from.
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I have a flashlight that I've had for near a decade. I originally got it because it really looks like a lightsaber, and it was cheap. Plus you could twist the lens around to focus it, or so I thought. When I got it home and put batteries in it, I found out that twisting the top didn't change the focus. I assumed the top being able to twist was just a result of it being cheap.
Fast forward to a month or so ago, a storm picked up during the night so I went out to check nothing was going to blow away. As I was trying to open the gate, the flashlight slipped, and I caught it by the top part that twists, but the rest of the flashlight slid about 2 inches down from the twisty part and it turns out if you pull the top part up, it turns it into a lantern type thing for lighting up an area.
It's nothing big, but there have been times where it would have been incredibly useful to be able to put the torch down and light up a wide area...
Jrog 5 months ago (edited)
Can relate. Few years ago I bought a super high powered flashlight for a job related task, and was so bothered by the fact that it was absolutely blinding, like 80k lumens on a super narrow beam: if it reflected on a steel surface you would have a black spot in your view for hours. Twisting the lens did nothing. No dimming also. Used it with great care and a few mishaps, then left it in a drawer. Several months later, I took it out and by fiddling with it considering how to build in a dimmer, I noticed that you could adjust the beam by PULLING the lens instead of turning.
Funhog 5 months ago
A couple of my flashlights have different brightness settings by how many times I press the on/off button (have to press it rapidly though) -- once for brightest, twice for second brightest, and third for dimmest. One flashlight does have a fourth setting that I always regret pressing it that fourth time, which is strobe with the brightest light.
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My mom refused to show me how to use a tampon because she thought I should stick to pads because they were "safer". This was back when googling how to do things wasn't an option, and I was the first in my friend group to get my period and a little sheepish about it.
So basically I was shoving that sucker up there with the entire applicator for like 2 years, wondering why tampons didn't seem to work that well for me.
It wasn't until I was in high school, and one of my friends went on a c*****e against "plastic waste" and started advocating for tampons with no applicators that all of a sudden I realized I had massively f****d up.
Saniyaya m 5 months ago
Right??? but so much of this stuff is dumb. “Unaliving” instead of dying or killing???”Conscious uncoupling” instead of broke up? “Residentially challenges” .. S*x…?
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Rika 5 months ago
They do. I'm always confused when I hear about people not knowing how to put a tampon in because "no one explained me". The instructions are literally on the box.
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That tired person 5 months ago (edited)
dont tell me C*****E is censored?? (Edit: BP, why are you censoring c r u s a d e ? are you stupid?)
iona Butler 5 months ago
But every box of tampons comes with an instruction leaflet complete with pics???
#10
My name is Ryan.
It took me until I was in 1st grade to realize my name wasn't *in* the alphabet.
My mom had told me my name was in the alphabet, and I felt so lucky. She obviously meant the letters *to spell* my name were in the alphabet.
But nope. It took that long to realize the alphabet didn't go "W, X, *Ryan* Z....
Robert T 5 months ago (edited)
The second half of my name is made up of consecutive keys on a Querty keyboard. :D
David Morgan 5 months ago
Honestly, I thought that sequence would have been O, P, Q, Ryan, S, T...
Zoe Vokes 5 months ago
It’s because you say W, X, Y and Z. “Y and” sounds more like Ryan that “R.”
Load More Replies... Mary Peace 4 months ago
Because people say at the end of the alphabet, "W, X, Y and Z." I understand your confusion.
ILoveMySon 5 months ago (edited)
Similar to "eliminopy". I always slow down and enunciate L, M ,N, O, P for children because I thought it was one letter until my sister teased me.
#11
For years I would struggle to take the cap off new deodorant (the one under the lid). It always is so stuck down onto the deodorant stick.
I had an "ah-ha" moment a year or so ago that I could simply crank the deodorant stick up until the cap could easily be removed.
I'm 34. It took me until age 34 to realize this.
Multa Nocte 5 months ago
I'd like to thank the BP staff for this particular edifying photograph. However, I was so distracted by it that I didn't even follow what was being said.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
I'm 43 and I always pull that little cap off with my teeth because I'm an uncouth savage. I never thought about just twisting the deodorant higher XD
Load More Replies... Patricia the Grey 4 months ago
I know someone (not me) who thought they were applying the deodorant but still had the clear plastic inner top on
Maim 5 months ago
Honestly, I am completely floored how often this same "issue" repeats on here. Are there really THAT many people that could not figure this out?
Tom Brincefield 5 months ago
8 billion people on the planet. Even discounting the billions that don't use deodorant, and you're still left with at least a couple billion. 1% of 1 billion is 10 million people. So yeah, there are THAT many people.
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 5 months ago
I am not sure what brand this is, but I buy Sure brand deodorant. I have no problem pulling the inside lid off the deodorant.
#12
My family always had a cup next to the bathroom sink in case you needed to rinse your mouth after brushing your teeth or maybe get a quick drink of water in the middle of the night. My grandma had the same cup at her house. I used it for years whenever I was thirsty. One day she saw me doing this and said, “Don’t use that cup. Thats where grandma puts her teeth.”.
Uncle Panda 5 months ago
A guy goes to visit his grandmother. While he's talking to his grandmother, he starts eating the peanuts on the coffee table, and finishes them off. As he's leaving, he says to his grandmother, "Thanks for the peanuts." She says, "Yeah, since I lost my dentures I can only suck the chocolate off 'em."
#13
Back in the early 2010s, my boyfriend and I had a PlayStation that we used for Netflix etc since we didn’t have a smart tv. The controller was on such a short cord that we would always have to get up from the couch to change the program or push any buttons. My boyfriend also used to have to sit on the floor up close to the tv to play his video games, since the cord was so short.
One day my brother came to visit. We put something on Netflix, and got up to use the remote like we always did. My brother proceeds to unplug the controller, hands it to us, and says “you realize this is a WIRELESS controller right?”
We are dumbfounded. Why would there be a cord coming from it? Turns out that’s just to charge our wireless controller.
Mind. Blown.
Bill Swallow 5 months ago
Can't read what the vendor doesn't supply. I just swapped out my cable boxes for new upgraded models. The remotes have more bells and whistles than you can shake a stick at. And NO documentation provided. Just a few minutes of verbal confusion from the technician. I want something I can read and refer to; spoken words will soon be forgotten - I do not have an Eidetic Memory. So I hit the cable company's web site. They have a few links to abbreviated YouTube videos. Dang It, I'm a server SysAdmin - I *write* procedures documents, in excruciating detail, down to the mouse click, with screen shots. This $#!t makes my blood boil.
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Lori Gibbs 4 months ago
When I asked to see the instructions he said they were in a foreign language and he tossed them, I dug them out and showed him they were printed in 4 different languages,english was the last one.
Bill Swallow 5 months ago
Not in my experience. See my reply to 'Owl on a Mission'.
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So I had always assumed that gas stations had pipes that led to a nearby oil plant or something. I live in Houston so during hurricane Harvey in 2017 there was so much news about the gas stations being empty because they weren't being filled. I was in the car with my sisters and we were talking about it and I mentioned I don't understand how the gas supply was limited when the pipes are underground and not affected by the flooding. They both looked at me with the most confused faces ever and one of them said "you do know that trucks come to fill up gas stations right...?" And I was completely shook by this and had no idea and they asked me "so when you see the big trucks at little gas stations in the city with the tubes in the ground what do you think they were doing??" And I replied "... filling up their gas..." Not something I did wrong but definitely something I thought wrong for 17 years.
GalPalAl 5 months ago
The first time I heard the word deaf, as a child, I really thought it was death. And I questioned why would they use the same word for something so entirely different from the other word until I learned the spelling. English is a difficult language to learn because of reasons like that
Janissary35680 5 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th-fronting Some dialects of English do this naturally.
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#15
Found out I was lighting incense wrong. Boyfriend and I got a bunch to add to our collection of nice smells and we would light them and they would just start a little inferno. Convinced we were buying cheap, garbage incense we stopped using them. I proceed to buy a different brand in a hope those would work. I test light and same thing it just goes up in an inferno. Roommate informs us you are supposed to blow them out once they catch. Oops.
Abel 5 months ago
It is useful to mask other smells, but I am not fan of incense smell. Too charged.
Bill Swallow 5 months ago (edited)
Oh, THIS unlocked a load of *very* old memories! Back when I was really, really young (late 1950s), my Grandma (she lived with us - we're a farm family) had a beautiful little china ornament, a picturesque, rustic cottage, that I always thought was absolutely lovely. There was a small hole in the back; the main body was hollow, with an exit hole up through the chimney. Grandma would light a little incense cone and set inside the cottage, and the smoke and scent would waft up out of the chimney. I was ridiculously fond of that thing...
GalPalAl 5 months ago
There is something to be said about products that really should come with instructions on how to use and not assume it should be common knowledge.
White Sauce Hot Sauce 5 months ago
There's only so much you can do to help people without critical thinking skills.
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Moonie Pinkslip 5 months ago
If they're burning that way, it's cr@p incense full of chemicals to make it burn. Natural ingredients don't do that.
#16
One day I used the key fob to remotely start my dads car. It was an”oh s**t” moment for him. Two years and he didn’t realize he had this handy little function.
Tim Gearing 5 months ago
Boomer here: I remember when cars had a crank handle to assist starting😂
nottheactualphoto 5 months ago
Another boomer here: cars with starting cranks were way, WAY before my time.
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Moonie Pinkslip 5 months ago
Doesn't work if it's not in Park or Neutral.
Load More Replies... Gg 5 months ago
Salesman told me that my car didn't have remote start. I was leary but it didn't work so he could be right. Years later needed a new battery and for whatever reason I was like just maybe... Pushed the button and it started no issue. Come to find out they put a cheap battery in there that couldn't handle the remote start so they just told me it didn't have that function.
Robert T 5 months ago
Not really a feature I've ever wanted, and as my cars are usually parked in gear with the handbrake off when at home (as the handbrakes sometimes stick on if they have been driven in the rain), it'd likely not work. However, I did find a handy feature on one of my cars, that if you forget to put the windows up when you stop, you can put them up (both driver and passenger) by putting the key in the driver's door lock and turning it backwards and holding it there. It also has a feature to turn on the courtesy light without unlocking the car. High-tech stuff for a 26 year old car!
Mike F 5 months ago
You spend a winter in Michigan without a garage and you would learn to love it. I have had remote start on my cars and trucks for 25 years and getting into a warm, deiced car is a total blessing.
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Anonymouse 5 months ago
Was going to lunch one winter day, and there was a car in the lot, idling, all warm and windows defrosted. I said to my friend, lucky bsterd to have that feature. BUT - it was still there when we got back from lunch, and we realized somehow they had accidentally hit the remote start button and was just wasting gas. We were laughing about it at work and our manager had an "Oh s**t moment!" and dashed out to turn his car off...
DeoManus Argentem 5 months ago
In most cars (I worked in rental, have driven most) if you remote start a car it will turn itself off after 10 or 15 minutes, maybe theirs was aftermarket. This was as of 2020 though, I'm sure the timing can be customized in many now. If I started the vehicles physically though, and left them running while leaving with the key (fob), they'd run idling for 60-90 minutes before turning themselves off, which is useful for certain purposes (ionizing, bug bombing, power outages (a lot of trucks now have 110/120v outlets to power stuff like box fans after a storm, or tools out in the field)).
Load More Replies... Zaach 5 months ago
In the winter, make sure the windshield wipers are turned off or it will start to smoke (or at last it did year ago)
BossyCloud 4 months ago
I've never heard of such a thing. Did you have them on hurricane mode or something?
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 5 months ago (edited)
One person's "handy" is another person's "accident waiting to happen". I don't know about automatic cars, but a stick shift parked in gear (which happens a LOT) might make one jump, and may the powers that be help people standing in its way. I doubt this would be legal where I live. You aren't even allowed to start your car to heat it up/defrost it while scratching the ice from the windows in winter.
Gavin Johnson 5 months ago
When locking your car and a window is wound down a bit you can hold the lock button for a few seconds and it’ll wind the window up. Obviously only some makes, my Honda does it and my partner’s Peugeot does too. Give it a whirl.
#17
Not cause I’ve been doing something wrong my entire life but saw it wrong. I’m colorblind and my entire life I thought peanut butter was green until I turned 19. And when I found out it was brown my mind was blown. It took so long because no one really talks about the color of things like that.
Uncle Panda 5 months ago
I made it all the way to high school electronics class before I found out I was color-blind in the orange-red part of the spectrum. If you slowly transitioned from orange to red, I'll keep calling it orange long after everyone else sees red. We were working on color TVs when I heard, "Why do you make everybody's faces orange?" "What do you mean, they look ok to me." "Look at everybody else's' TV." "Oh..."
nottheactualphoto 5 months ago
In electronics class, it might be important to be able to distinguish a 2 from a 3! (Resistor color code.)
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Bill Swallow 5 months ago
"No one knows what 'everyone knows', because no one talks about it, because 'everyone knows' it..."
Billo66 5 months ago
My dude, I have tasted colors. You can't define anything without words :/
Load More Replies... Maim 5 months ago
But if he saw it as "green" that's his "brown" so I don't see how finding out the color name would blow his mind.
Parmeisan 5 months ago
Because he saw both colours the same. So he knew there were two colours and he assumed peanut butter was the same colour as grass, not dirt (random example).
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Living in a foreign country where I was actively learning the language. Social cues go a long way when learning a language on the spot. That being said, someone once said a phrase to me while serving a hot dish, which I assumed as meaning "excuse me". After going through crowds and lines, replicating the same phrase in an attempt to be respectful of those around me, I abruptly found out that the phrase actually meant "enjoy". Hind sight, completely makes sense. The odd looks I would get by saying "enjoy" while squeezing past people all of a sudden made sense..
Edit: Wowzers, y'all really know how to make a grown man blush! Thanks for the gold and silver you beautiful beautiful strangers. I'm glad my mistakes bring such enjoyment and hilarity to the world 😂.
So this happened while I was living in Vietnam. The phrase was "xin mời". It was even more deceiving because it was similar to the phrase for "sorry" which is "xin lỗi"...That was year 1. The following 3 years were full of similar mistakes. Tonal languages are tough!
Moana Manana 5 months ago
I have Turkish friends. One day one friend invited me over because their mother visited her from Turkey. I went and we had Turkish coffee. Everythin looked so nice. The mother proceeded to poor coffee in the very small cups and lastley poored herslef one cup, but blew lightly on top of that while pouring it. She made that just for her, not for others. I didn't think much about it, just noticed it. Before she left to Turkey again, I invited them and proudly made the same coffee. I pour her the first cup (as she is the eldest guest) and blew into the coffe while doing so. Everone started laughing instantly. They explained, that the mother doesn't like the foam from the coffee, and the blowing makes it a thinner layer concentrated only on one side of the cup. 😂🙄 They mention it all these years later....
#19
I grew up without a mom. She passed when I was 6. I was afraid to ask my dad how to put a tampon in. One day I made a comment (about age 18) to some friends that tampons hang out too far out your bajingo and made me feel like I waddled when I walk. My friend asked me how I put them in. I thought it would get stuck up there and wasn’t inserting it far enough. Did it wrong for about 5 years. My friends still make fun of me for it. I can’t help but use the dead mom card, but looking back it’s pretty common sense how to shove it up there.
Edit: for all those asking: I didn’t really feel comfortable with my body, so I’m not sure I really understood what the directions were asking. For others asking: my dad was a really good dad. Obviously he made some general mistakes as a parent (as all parents do) but as a substitute mother he did a great job. He taught me how to shave my legs (funny voices and all) and he was a Girl Scout troop leader for almost 10 years. He tried to figure out how to French braid, and he did comb my nasty a*s ratty hair on a daily basis.
GalPalAl 5 months ago
Never heard any the term bajingo before, but I love it and am going to use repeatedly. Thanks!
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
It is uncomfortable to have a tampon in that's not in far enough. The first time I used one, I hadn't really 'practiced' or read the instructions prior because I had just gotten my period before I went to a swimming lesson for school. It wasn't something I had to do before. So I put one in, and found it uncomfortable and removed it when changing after swimming. I mentioned to my mum how uncomfortable was and she told me to try putting it in further next time, and maybe practice befoore next period.
The Other Guest 5 months ago
Oooh, no, don't put a tampon in if you're not on your period. The vaginal walls will be too dry, and removing the tampon can cause microabrasions, which in turn can lead to an infection.
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BookFanatic 5 months ago
I will forever bless my junior high bestie, who demonstrated exactly how to insert a tampon when I was too embarrassed to ask my mom.
boone williams 5 months ago
...hold up, he combed the nasty hair on your whatnow?! Every day?!?!
Janine Randall 4 months ago
I certainly get it, but don't tampon boxes have an insert showing how to use them? My mom taught me how to use them so I never paid attention.
#20
I was dating an asian woman some years ago, and when we got Chinese takeout, she completely unfolded the box and laid it flat like a plate.
She said that was by design, and for the life of her could never understand why her friends always scooped it out onto another plate when the box *was* the plate.
I now do this all the time and it weirds people out.
David Morgan 5 months ago
This seems American - every Chinese/Indian takeaway I've ever seen in the UK came in a disposable (theoretically reuseable when washed) tupperware container. I guess that's so it can be resealed (preventing any smells in your fridge) and stored if you don't eat the whole thing.
Tim Douglass 5 months ago
Breaking news! If you unfold a folded flat piece of paper it becomes a flat piece of paper again! It's not "designed" to do that, it's just how a folded paper box works when you unfold it. It makes a lousy plate, too. Either eat from the box or put it on a real plate.
Boredandsomea 5 months ago
do it as you please, but this is not a common thing and the design is to keep the food an souses contained and easy to pack up for leftovers.
Lee Gilliland 5 months ago
If you lay it out as a plate, it's h*ll getting all the leftovers back in the container, though.
DeShotz 5 months ago
I've always wondered if this was by design or if it just worked out that way.
#21
Sometimes I assume I know the lyrics to songs I have heard on the radio for a long time.
I always sang Toto's Africa as "I miss the rains down in Africa..." until someone made fun of me and told me it's "I bless the rains down in Africa."
I argued, "That makes no sense! Why would someone bless rain? It's a song about longing to return to Africa, which is why they miss the rain."
Then I went home and looked up the lyrics.
Little Bit 5 months ago
I've always misheard lyrics. I thought Toto's Africa was, "I guess the rain's down in Africa" When I was a kid I thought that most pop songs were just a bunch of random words made up to make it rhyme.
JB 5 months ago
"As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti" - Kilimanjaro is nowhere near the Serengeti.
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Elles Sylvester 5 months ago
ah , how I remember my dear friend singing her heart out to that classic Prince track....'pouring rain, pouring rain'. When corrected she looked at me and said ' makes no sense. Sure now , why would the rain be purple ??? '
Börje Strömming 5 months ago
Misheard lyrics can be hilarious. I have a friend that one day was going around singing on Pet Semetary by The Ramones, he had seen the movie but sometimes he isnt the brightest and didn’t connect the dots… ”I don’t want to be married in a bad cemetery 🎶” I almost folded laughing on the floor hearing his take on the lyrics. When i explained that its ”I don’t want to be buried in a pet cemetery” and thats what the movie is about he finally understood it. He was well in his thirties when this happened.
boone williams 5 months ago
To be fair, there was a popular t-shirt featuring "Wizard of Oz" characters where Dorothy is saying "I miss Kansas!" and Toto says, "I miss the rains down in Africa."
Anonymouse 5 months ago
lookup "Mondegreen" - my favorite is that racist Carpenter song - I'm on the top of the world, looking down on the asians... oops! Although I always sing about "Reverend BlueJeans"
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago (edited)
That’s a pretty tame misheard lyric. Now try “Blinded by the Light” by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band or almost any Michael Jackson song.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
A German radio station collected a lot of these and named the list after one of the entries: a fan misheard the Midnight Lady line "Oh, my feelings grow" as "Oma fiel ins Klo" ("granny fell into the loo")
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Well... This was a few years ago. I was the director of IT for a very large company. I was given a new cellphone and told to setup my voicemail.
I don’t know that when I recorded my name it would be played to whomever I leave a voice mail for.
Well the name I recorded was, “Dooder84 Corporate IT Godddd!!!”
I worked there for 4 years until someone in the hallway referred to me as the “corporate IT GoD!”
I was so embarrassed.....
JB 5 months ago
You obviously are. I remember when television was black and white with no audio. Only the wealthy could afford a tv or landline telephone in their home; there was no such thing as remote control. Mobile/cellphones didn’t exist. I was involved in the internet before it was the internet and nobody had a home computer because 128MB memory took up a large space. You are the “new to this planet” twérp who can’t comprehend just how much has changed in the last 100 years.
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#23
We bought a nice liquor cabinet. We got it delivered and noticed it was a bit shorter than we thought. No biggie. Three years later, we’re moving. Lift up cabinet and these beautiful, ornate, screw on legs wrapped in tape and bubble wrap fall off the bottom. Looks so much better now!
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
Most people assemble the cabinet *before* drinking the contents ... or even RTFM . Just sayin' ...
#24
Not wrong for years, but I work help desk, and we use a specific (terrible) piece of software for our Support system, IBM Notes.
It turns out, that for the first 9 months I had been working there, it wasn't setup properly, so I wasn't sending any emails from it, at all. No notifications that the ticket went to me, no responses from me, no close notifications, **nothing.**
Someone noticed this, took a look, and fixed a setting. I immediately sent out over a thousand emails to everyone in the company.
Bill Swallow 5 months ago
I used Notes at three different employers. When set up and administered properly, it was an absolute joy. Not only email, but full-on groupware. We had folks that could implement durn near anything as a Notes database. Wizards, they were.
Robert T 5 months ago
Quite possible if they are only notification emails telling people that a ticket has been updated.
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No one really ever told me you don’t need to buy shoes with the ‘two-fingers’ space in front of the toes after your feet stop growing.
I had been buying an entire size too big until about age 23.
Twenty. Three.
One day in college I decided to try a pair of Merrell barefoot type shoes and after reading the sizing guide, BAM. Mind blown.
It’s terribly obvious mistake I (29F) like to blame on being an only child. But really I’m just a f*****g moron.
nottheactualphoto 5 months ago
My mom bought me a pair of skates when I was 13. I still haven't grown into them.
GalPalAl 5 months ago
I was over the age of 18 when I learned that you have to change the oil in your car.
JB 5 months ago
Try being a woman where sizes XXS - 5XL are stated in a very flexible measure called “inches”. I never realized until my late twenties that an inch wasn’t a defined measurement so much as a vague guideline, somewhat indicating if the clothing you buy might fit.
Beak Hookage 5 months ago
For months I kept tripping up all the time. Eventually realised it was because my new shoes were a size too big.
Tim Gearing 5 months ago
Again..boomer here. Remembering the days when you could put a shoe on and stick it into a machine and see an x-ray of how your foot looked for sizing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
#26
Until last week, when my father in law would made a phone call on his very basic non-touch-screen flip phone he would open the menu, scroll to the phone icon, open it, hit the soft key for contacts, scroll to the person he wanted to call, press ok, then press the soft key to call.
When he mentioned how he preferred his landline because he could just dial the number, I said "Humour me. Just dial the number and hit the talk button." I've never seen a man so simultaneously grateful and embarrassed.
Sue Ellen Jensen 5 months ago
Years ago Dad was trying to help Mom set up speed dial on their new phone and didn't understand you had to assign a different number to each person. Mom should have explained everyone can't be #1.
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When i first got a debit card and would go out to eat at restaurants with my friends, i would leave a cash tip on the table. when i got the receipt to put how much i was paying i would write down how much money i left on the table. for at least 6 months i gave double tips to every waitress i had...
GalPalAl 5 months ago
As a teenager when I got my first checking account, I didn't understand the entire concept of how certain things worked. Buttons used to be big in the 80's and I had one that I thought was funny but really didn't understand for many years: I can't be overdrawn, I still have checks. Being a person does not come with a user's manual people. Be kind and share your knowledge
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
We don't tip where I live, why would you leave a tip on the table if you are paying by card? Surely it could be taken be anyone then, and you have to get up to pay (though maybe done at table in US?)
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
Some people will pay their bill by card but then have enough cash on them to leave a tip. Yes, it could, hypothetically, be taken by anyone who happens to walk by if they have the opportunity but you don’t really hear about it being a major problem. In a lot of places, yes, you pay your bill at the table with the reader the waitstaff has.
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My mom has been pronouncing Massachusetts "Massa Two S***s" for years and no one corrected her because they thought she just had strong feelings about Massachusetts.
CPooh 5 months ago
My Texan father has said Chi-car-go my entire life so I did too until I was about 12 and someone from Chicago corrected me.
JB 5 months ago
I mean, if a Bostonian said it, it'd have the same meaning as that
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Gg 5 months ago
Some people pronounce it like that to be funny. 🙄 But the one that annoys me the most is "Mass-ah-chew-zits".
Rebecca A. Corvello 5 months ago (edited)
That's actually how those of us who are from there actually say it.
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My husband was from Helsinki. We used to ask him to say "Massachusetts" because it sounded so funny in his Finnish accent.
#29
When I was 5 a pizza hut employee told me that the powder on the breadsticks was called fairy dust. Ordered extra fairy dust on my breadsticks until I was around 14 when an employee said ‘do you mean garlic salt?’ It still devastates me to realize how obtuse I was.
Diana Hoover 5 months ago
As a former Pizza Hut manager, I can assure you that fairy dust was the correct term in my day and we put it on everything.
2bwhctmvgn 5 months ago
The stuff on Pizza Hut breadsticks is definitely not garlic salt. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but it's something more like finely grated "parmesan" cheese and dried herbs.
#30
Former school nurse here. The number of high school boys who don't know what circumcision is is amazingly high. Many think they were "born circumcised." When they finally see a f******n, they are in complete awe. When they find out the brown ring on their p***s is a scar from when their f******n was removed, they are also amazed.
Plentyofoomph 5 months ago
Its so utterly bizarre how normalised chopping off parts of a baby's genitalia is.
Kiki Likes Sweets 5 months ago
They get paid well...I've heard the tips are enormous.
Load More Replies... Adam Zad 5 months ago
🎵 My oneskin lies over my twoskin. My twoskin lies over my three. My threeskin lies over my fourskin. My fourskin hangs down to my knee... 🎵
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 5 months ago
I've never heard this, but automatically Santa it to "my bonnie lies over the ocean". Is that right?
Load More Replies... The Other Guest 5 months ago
And here's my almost-daily reminder that you can use a non-width joiner in "obscene" words and they'll print just fine: foreskin. Penis. Even Willy Wonka.
justme 5 months ago (edited)
It's slowly becoming less common but as far as I know most boys are still circumcised in the US
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Not mine, but my dad has been spelling his name wrong his whole life (he’s 51). His name is Jeffrey, and he’s been spelling it like that since he learned how to spell his name. A few months ago my mom pulled out his birth certificate, and we all learned it’s actually spelled Jeffery. Not sure if he spells it correctly now, but it was definitely an “oh s**t” moment for him.
Rodriquez 2 weeks ago
Why are you asking a 7 year old Reddit screenshot a question?
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Armac 5 months ago
How did he ever get a drivers licence, or a passport without noticing this?
Rodriquez 2 weeks ago
Even with premium you can't speak to people on Reddit. This was posted there 7 years ago and copied here
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SlothyK8 5 months ago
Both my first and middle names are spelled differently on my birth certificate than they have been throughout my entire life. But my parents didn't have my birth certificate...they used my baptismal record for everything. When I applied for my Social Security card and state ID, WHOOPS! (On my BC, my first name doesn't end in "E", but my middle name does. My reality is that my first name DOES end in "E" and my middle name doesn't).
Lorraine Woollands 5 months ago
Mine is the other way round, my name Is Lorraine, my parents and I have Always spelt it that way. That's how they wanted it spelt , but my birth certificate says Loraine, the Clark wrote it down wrong on the certificate .
nottheactualphoto 5 months ago
Technically, the correct spelling would be Geoffrey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_(name)
Jeff Peiffer 5 months ago
I'm guessing Jeffery. I'm a Jeffrey, but people constantly spell it wrong when using my full name.
#32
Since the dawn of time, I would pick up the silverware and utensils out of their tray in the dishwasher and put them away in their drawers then go back and pick up more out of the dishwasher. Then one day I saw my wife lift the tray out of the dishwasher and I legit stood there with my mouth open.
Laura Spring 5 months ago
My father watched me empty his dishwasher once. Same reaction, stood there with his mouth hanging open.
cnn57t8278 5 months ago
My husband saw me cleaning the gas stovetop: remove the iron burner-stand things, check. Remove the metal plate covering the gas outflow — what is this? Then I pulled the whole top of the stove up like the hood of a car to get at the cat hair *inside* the stove (we have a cat who insists on napping on the stove, we haven’t been able to stop her for 19 years) and was called a witch. 😂
Janissary35680 5 months ago (edited)
Our trays are more like baskets and have handles, thus making the correct procedure more obvious.
Brian Droste 5 months ago
When I used to use a dishwasher and would do that too. Then one day I thought why don't I pick the tray up and carry it to where my silverware goes. Did that ever since until I retired and started doing my dishes by hand.
#33
My eldest child had a penchant for blowing out of his diapers—we tried everything but multiple times a week we had to pull that p*o-filled onesie over his head and inevitably give our now super duper p*o covered infant a bath.
Around when I was pregnant with our second, a post went viral about how infant onesies are designed to be broad at the shoulders so you can pull them down and off instead of over the head.
Poor kid would have had so many fewer p*o in hair incidents had I known that then.
michael Chock 5 months ago
Most of them have the neck go all the way out to the shoulders, they overlap the fabric so it stays up.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 months ago
I'm lost. All the onesies I've seen have poppers around the legs. I undo the poppers, pull out the legs and nappy, change the nappy, put the baby's legs back in the leg holes, and do the poppers up.
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
But if the onesie is full of blowout pòop then it's all up the baby's back too. If you take it off the traditional way then that pòop gets pulled up over the baby's head.
Load More Replies... Lene 5 months ago
In Denmark we call that the American opening. It's very common. But we also had lots of onesies with buttons on one shoulder. Also pretty common. For years I prefered the American opening because of the "you can just pull the onesie down and baby will not get p*o up the neck"-thing. Until I realised that my kids would worm about so much they'd still get it up to their neck and in their hair. 😬 so I began to buy more onesies with buttons. Lol.
#34
My mom use to refer to me as a “bull in a china shop”. Always heard it as “bowl in a china shop”. Thinking it was a compliment. At about 22 I hear someone else use the phrase and realized she meant “bull”, not “bowl”.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
In German we have a similar saying - only it's "*Elefant* im Porzellanladen"
Georgia Chouin 4 months ago
When I was a kid I thought it was bull in a vàgína shop. Made a lot of shoppers laugh when I was running around the store.
#35
Couple years ago i was trying to open some toothpaste and had to break the seal of the tube, i used to look for something like a nail to break it, then one day i looked at the pointy end of the cap and thought 'what if I could use this to break it' and oh s**t it did fit and broke it effortlessly, and so did every other tube product i had in the house and their respective cap, my mind was blown.
RoyInTown 5 months ago
This thing is patented. The company saves a fraction of a cent per unit by not using it, so the CEO can buy a new car whenever he wants.
Load More Replies... Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 months ago
Toothpaste isn't like this in the UK, but tomato purée is. My stepdaughter was amazed when I showed her that you pierce the seal with the reverse of the cap!
Brian Droste 5 months ago
I buy Crest toothpaste. There is no seal on the tip of the tube. You just unscrew the cap and squeeze the the toothpaste out.
#36
I was at crate and barrel with my gf talking about how it's so weird they don't make tongs so you open them up super wide and then press in; I thought it was odd that they only gave you a super tiny opening. In the middle of me saying this she just presses the button at the bottom of the tongs I was holding and I stop mid sentence in shame.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
OP didn't notice that tongs had a button to open them wider.
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Do you ever buy soda in a 6- or 8-pack of bottles, and then struggle to twist and pull bottle out of the tight plastic rings? There's a pull tab connected to a serrated line through the plastic. You can just pull that and then the plastic will break easily when you pull at the bottle.
My aunt taught me about this over 20 years ago, because no one in my immediate family was aware of it. I let my fiancee in in the secret just last week.
Sue 5 months ago
Even if they did, who thinks to read instructions for soda?
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Cydney Golden 4 months ago
Be sure to cut the loops completely open when you dispose of them. Saves sea animals.
Michelle Randazzo 4 months ago
Coke zero plastic bottles fall out when you pick up the 8 pac.😡
#38
I used to think just reading the material was how everyone studied, so thats how I did it too. I never quite understood why my grades were so low, id be like "I read the page, idk what happened!" until I saw my friend making flow charts and summaries and I was like "we dont have to do that you know" and he was like "nah, im just studying". It blew my mind how much better my grades got.
Jaya 5 months ago
Then OP's teachers failed OP. No kid instinctively knows good study techniques, we need to be taught.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
As a teacher, I get why not teaching students how to study happens; you have so much material to cover, teaching study skills seems like yet another thing to add to the list. Also, some teachers assume if they teach those skills once, they’re learned forever or that it was the earlier grade’s job to teach study skills (this is particularly true of high school level teachers). Some teachers were naturally good students (absorbed material quickly without much study) or learned study techniques throughout their schooling to the point where it became second nature and they forget that those things have to be taught directly. They might have even developed their own methods of study that helped them and be lead to believe that’s the way it should be for every student (i.e. “You figure it out). Ultimately, though, every teacher should be weaving study techniques throughout their lessons, checking frequently for understanding, and giving feedback often.
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Rob Miles 5 months ago
I'm 60 and it still gives me the ick to think about studying with flow charts and summaries. I don't even know how that would work! I was also terrible at taking notes, very disorganized, and the act of writing down things distracted me from the lesson too much. I wasn't a straight A student, and didn't really care to be, but I got Cs and Bs and was generally content with that.
Kira Okah 5 months ago
If they work for you, do that method, flowcharts and summaries can not work for some. I write out and test myself on material, because that seems to be the most effective method for me, flowcharts are a good way for the chart page to get yeeted, but I am the opposite of a 'visual learner'.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
It’s true that not every study method will work well for every person but learning styles (visual, auditory, tactile) have been debunked; we all learn through each style, it just may not have been presented well.
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I taught myself how to play clarinet.
Six months later someone told me that I'd been playing with the mouthpiece upside down.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
That’s some feat. Most of the time, if you play with the mouthpiece upside down, it will just squeak.
Jeff Peiffer 5 months ago
OP never said "I taught myself how to play clarinet well"...
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 5 months ago
Harpo Marx was an accomplished harp player (surprise). He had taught himself to play and consequently held it on the wrong shoulder for his handedness. No one told him this for decades. He didn't change.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
It only seems odd if there is a lack of familiarity with it. Once you’ve learned a little about it, it would seem odd to have the reed facing up.
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It wasn’t very long, but when I was learning to drive my dad was explaining the rule of thumb regarding a safe distance to be behind the car in front of you. I thought it meant to hold your thumb up and if your thumb didn’t cover the entire car you were too close to it. When he caught me doing that he asked me what I was doing. When I explained he burst out laughing, then considered it, and concluded it wasn’t a bad idea but perhaps a bit distracting.
Sly Schlang 4 months ago
My Das taught me to know just from sound, if I am too close. When the teeth rattling of the terrified passengers get too loud, I am too close.
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Verfin22 5 months ago
You need to see the the rear tires(tyres) on the pavement. Otherwise too close. Been saved from many rear accidents not hitting the car in front of me.
Nikole 5 months ago
Ha in my driver’s ed class they said to do that so two cars couldn’t box you in and rob you and steal your car. You were supposed to leave room so you could maneuver away.
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 5 months ago
A thumb's width at arm's length is about one degree of visual angle. Should you ever need to know that.
#41
When I was a kid, I was told that the paper that came on cupcakes/muffins was edible.
I would spend a decade eating them like this (paper and all), until a friend pointed it out.
David Morgan 5 months ago
Well...if you ate the paper, technically it WAS edible. Not intentionally so, but still.
GalPalAl 5 months ago
Someone either thought that was funny to prank you, or they genuinely did not know. Had an acquaintance who ate peel and eat shrimp with the shells on. I think he forgot to peel them and tried to play it off like it's a thing. I guess if you like your shrimp crunchy, it isn't dangerous
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
Extra fibres, I guess...? Reminds me of my cousins who were eating out with their parents and grandparents at a Chinese place. Afterwards they compared the fortune cookie slips - and grandpa asked where they got those from. He was still chewing on the cookie AND the extra fibres.
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Rosemary . 5 months ago
My cat Blackjack would go crazy for the black wrappers that hold each Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. He loved to play with them, bat them around for a while, and then lick them. Then once the wax paper was soggy enough, he'd eat the whole wrapper.
#42
Always took things for "granite".
whiterabbit 5 months ago
That scene makes me cry laugh every single time 😂
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 5 months ago
Judge Judy once corrected a defendant who said "granite" instead of "granted."
Ace 5 months ago
The American habit of dropping a middle t or d sound strikes here. It can sound something like "gran-ned' whereas in the UK it's much more "gran-ted".
Sue 5 months ago
Watching British shows lol I hear the Liverpool or other "lower class" accent do the same with button, mitten, kitten, ridden, etc. Then I realized many people in the US do this, but the emphasis isn't so strong. However, now I hear younger people here making that strike stronger. I love to see how language & pronunciation changes over time & over different countries/continents.
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That you do, in fact, need to disassemble your laundry drier and clean the lint out from underneath the drum once per year.
I’m 31 and never knew this, no one ever said anything, never saw anyone do this. Crappiest thing is that my parents *also* learned this the hard way and never bothered to give me a tip when I bought my first drier.
Luckily, the wife and I discovered the lint buildup when changing the rollers. I said to my parents “wow it really builds up in there!” and they were like “oh yea you need to do that like once a year”.
WAAAAAAAT.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 months ago
Disassemble it? I open the door, remove the lint catcher, empty it, and put it back. Is there more to it than that?
Brian Droste 5 months ago
My lint catcher is on the top of my dryer. I just need pull it out and clean it.
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Malor Brycington 5 months ago
lint still gets through and around the lint trap and builds up in the dryer vent. We just did this on the dryer that came with our home (from previous owner), and behind the lint screen was a huge, compacted clump of dryer lint. We also used a leaf blower to blow out the dryer exhaust that leads to outside. That exhaust gets filthy as well and the leaf blower is the perfect fit!
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
My daughter was in a multi person rental house in college. "Dad, for some reason our clothes are not drying well". Not sure who the genius was that positioned the vent 5 feet above the dryer, but that's how long the 'lint log' was.
GalPalAl 5 months ago
Youtube here I come. Never knew that either. Am questioning other appliances like diswasher and fridge for hidden maintenance requirements
Jeff Peiffer 5 months ago
We have a ventless drier. Doesn't even have a lint trap. The recaptured water is used to filter the lint from the air and flushed down the drain. Love it.
QueenKittyCat 5 months ago
My neighbor insists on doing it after every use to prevent buildup and fires. Or maybe our building just has an old model.
seanpar0820 5 months ago (edited)
Clean at least once a year. Lint is extremely flammable and it sits right next to a lot of heat. Disassembling is usually very easy. That's what youtube is for. You can actually make your own firestarters out of lint and a tp tube. Its that flammable!
#44
I owned a car with swivel headlights and it was very nice to have that. Discovered three years in that I had never turned on the swivel feature.
David Morgan 5 months ago
My friend has parents who marvelled at how much better the image on their new 4k TV was - they only ever watched 1k broadcast TV and just convinced themselves it was better. Watching a 4k BluRay blew their minds.
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Travel frequently for work and only just noticed that most laptop bags have a strap to place over a rolling suitcase handle.
David Morgan 5 months ago
To be fair, bags don't usually come with instructions. I've seen people use that strap to attach/hold document folders, water bottles and a coat.
#46
I thought of a second one. I was incredibly sheltered growing up. Anything s*x-related was taboo and not discussed.
I was in middle school when instant messaging really became mainstream. I couldn’t understand why the boy I had a crush on kept laughing at me and telling me not to use the shorthand “c*m” for “come.”
I didn’t find out for a few years.
Related: I genuinely thought a hand job was essentially frantically waving side to side with the palm on the p***s and a blow job was - you guessed it - blowing on a p***s until probably around 8th grade?
*sigh*.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
That is not an embarrassing age to find out that. Contrary to mainstream media, not all 12-15 year olds are talking about s*x, let alone having it.
Nikole 5 months ago
We were talking about it in 3rd grade in 1988 (the students). We wrote notes about it and one got confiscated by the teacher, so I tried to completely change my handwriting. I don’t remember the outcome.
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Stardust she/her 5 months ago
Same, till 8th grade I used to text my friends “im cuming”. I cringe so hard considering the fact that a lot of my friends were older than me at the time
Brain-In-A-Vat 5 months ago
A college friend of mine used to use the word 'minge' when they meant 'whinge' . . .
#47
When I was washing my pets’ water dishes and then dried them, I thought, ‘why tf am I drying the inside when it’s just going to be filled with water?’
I’ve had pets my whole life. I have been doing this s**t for thirty f*****g years. Drying every time. WOW.
Jaya 5 months ago
To be fair, drying isn't just to make things dry, it also makes them cleaner. Your hands for instance are much cleaner after washing and drying them, than after only washing them. I don't remember the numbers, but I was really astonished when I found out how much of a difference drying makes.
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 4 months ago
My dog eats random feces, I don't think drying his dish matters that much.
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Caulk guns. Everyone says that you're supposed to pull it towards you, but I saw a reddit comment saying that they're designed to be pushed away instead. My boss looks at me funny for doing it, but it's exponentially cleaner and tighter!
Edit: quite a few of y'all are mentioning that you're unclear on what you're pushing away. When you caulk you slide the entire gun across the crack that you're sealing, so it's that. You can only ever slide it towards you or away from you (unless you're going sideways, I guess) and most people pull the entire gun and tip towards them whereas sliding it in the other direction works too. A few of y'all sound like you know exactly what you're doing and have added a couple other tips on how to do it cleaner and better, too, so thanks for that.
Ace 5 months ago
Depends on what exactly you mean by 'caulk' since I believe it's used as a generic term in the US. Certainly for silicone-based sealants, among others, that would simply make a mess.
Sue Ellen Jensen 5 months ago
In the US caulk is in a tube that requires a gun to apply. There are also adhesives that come in a caulk-type tube. I've always pulled the gun toward me on my tiling projects, but I've learned not to cut too much off the tip so you apply a smaller bead. You can always add more. I smooth it with my finger. There are people that can "push" it, but I've never acquired that talent.
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#49
When I realized, at 18, that the phrase is “up and at em” not “up and Adam”
I was always wondering who the hell adam was, thought it was a stupid phrase.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
Production assistant: “Up and atom!” McBane: “Up and at them!”
#50
I used to pull my pants down all the way at the urinal.
Boredandsomea 5 months ago
I only do this at crowded urinals to show dominance to the weaker males around me with only their teeny tiny fly open
BookFanatic 5 months ago
I (female) knocked on the men's room door and yelled "bathroom check!" at closing time. Hearing no answer, I popped inside and startled a 30-something man at the urinal with his drawers around his ankles. My BF at the time had to confirm that no, usually grown men do not do this.
Janissary35680 5 months ago
The "Butters" character in South Park is frequently depicted doing this. I've never seen this behavior myself but I've heard of it and always wondered if its a regional/cultural thing or possibly family lore.
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
My Grandson(6) does this despite my SIL and I trying to teach him different. Hope he learns by his teens.
#51
Not that I was doing it wrong, but I never knew the little arrow next to the gas gauge in the car told you what side the gas tank was on. Mind freaking blown when I found out!
Edit: I’m 40.
Brian Droste 5 months ago
I didn't know that either until a while ago. Maybea year and I am in my sixties.
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Saeyoul Akiyune 4 months ago
That's okay. I used to think the signal arrow could read the vehicle's movements and turn on automatically whenever you drove into a turning lane
seanpar0820 5 months ago
Theres also a spot on the little door you open to put gas in that holds the gas cap instead of letting it hang. Most newer cars
BookFanatic 5 months ago
LOL I taught my friend this one because I said "Oh, my new car is left-handed!" meaning, in my weird little world, the gas tank is on the left. She questioned several things about me that day. lol
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
I rarely wondered, nor looked. After being designated driver on a number of occasions with several vehicles it occured to me that cars whose manufacturers come from left driving places (Japanese and, presumably, Brits) usually have the tank on the driver's side. VW, Ford, Audi, Fiat, Mercedes etc: shotgun side. I guess they switch the design for the steering wheel in export cars, but don't bother with rearranging the tanks.
ॐBoyGanesh 5 months ago
This isn’t true for all models of cars.Nissan, Ford, Audi, VW, Mercedes all have models that don’t indicate by the logo. Also, pre-1997, several brands had this universal logo without it being an accurate indicator. This is a situation where the legend influenced the carmakers to conform to the idea.
#52
F**k, after living 5 years with my fiancé, this happens all the time.
But the most embarrassing was when she saw me open a new stick of deodorant. I wrestled that little plastic cover off for a minute or so before she said “why don’t you just twist the stick up and lift it off”
Why is she marrying me lmao.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
I used to used the nail clippers from the next shelf to grab the tab on the lid and pull the lid off.
#53
I didn't realise I had to brush the BACK of my teeth as well as the front (I was a dumb kid - I blame toothpaste adverts) unto I was 15. Had 9 filings and a root canal.
That tired person 5 months ago
Hi. I'm 14. Today I learnt that you have to also clean the back of your teeth. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
Jaya 5 months ago (edited)
Why blame toothpaste adverts? Blame your parents and your dentist/dental hygienist for not teaching you. Kids aren't born with an innate knowledge about teeth brushing.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
Every time the dental van (fee dental visits) came to school I was taught how to brush my teeth, because they apparently weren't clean enough, yet I didn't need any fillings until I was 18. I now wonder if it was because my teeth were a bit yellow, which I've since learned is most likely genetic.
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#54
For 20+ years I’ve been saying “play it by year” instead of “play it by ear”
After a lengthy argument and a quick google search, I was left with my tail between my legs.
#55
Not really doing something but I completely thought that the White House was in Washington THE STATE until I was like 23
It's a hole in my knowledge I can neither explain nor defend, I have since visited and confirmed it's in DC.
DeoManus Argentem 5 months ago
To those confused on Washinton DC's location - it's because at the time it was made the country's capital it was roughly at the geographical center of the country. The state was first suggested to be called, "Columbia", because of the Columbia River, but a congressman suggested "Washinton" to avoid confusion.
Don't listen to me 5 months ago
Us non Americans are always confused about this. What is a DC?
Stardust she/her 5 months ago
Non American here, DC stands for District Columbia and it’s not part of any state of the US
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Pronouncing hybrid as "High Bird". My husband repeated it to me in a Snuffaluffagus voice and I swear I had a Ratatouille food critic flash back to every time in my life I said it wrong. I was 33.
#57
Learned earlier last year “bust a nut” isn’t an expression for when something hits your nuts or you land in a way that crushes them.
#58
Condoning or justifying judgement. If you practice being objective you realise a lot of inner conflict comes from trying to make the world fit into your judgements.
Michael Largey 5 months ago (edited)
Two key questions - (1) Do I have all the information I need to form an opinion? (2) Even if I do, what use is it?
#59
You don't need body spray or even have or try to be the coolest guy in the room to get a date. Sometimes just being a clean looking guy, who walks with his head held high and is confident enough to start a conversation is enough.
SouthernGal 5 months ago
Confidence is very attractive, but hard to fake if you don’t have it. If you don’t, sincerity and honesty can work well too.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 5 months ago
Also be the best guy in the room...if your intended date says no, move along and don't push your luck.
#60
I didn't find out that I was supposed to punch out for lunch until my third job. And even then it was because a coworker mentioned it in passing that they were clocking out for lunch.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
Does that mean they were getting paid for lunch? If so, I'm surprised payroll didn't notice it and say something very quickly.
#61
Realized the multi colored tape measures glued to the door frames of gas stations etc. are for identifying robbers, not for measuring yourself as you walk out. I mean, they can be, but that’s not why they are there. Unless you’re the robber.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
I haven't noticed them in Australia. I am wondering though, do they keep the main doors of gas stations open throughout night shift? Here they ae closed and all payments for petrol are done on the pump or via a window from about 10.30pm-5am.
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Otto Katz 5 months ago
As someone is leaving the gas station, the camera will record the person against the door jam. The height will be recorded.
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I am lactose intolerant. I genuinely did not know this for the first 25+ years of my life. I always had to go to the bathroom after eating something with cheese in it. One day it just clicked: I bought some Lactaid, took it before the next time I ate cheese, and I didn't have to go to the bathroom.
...it was mind blowing. I have no idea how I didn't make the connection for years. So I guess you could say instead of having a "Oh s**t" moment I had a "No s**t" moment.
Edit: Thanks for the Silvers strangers! As expected of reddit, my top comment of all time is about how to avoid pooping.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
I'm curious, because I've heard of a lot of people who are lactose intolerant give up cheese, is there more lactose in cheese in other parts of the world? In Australia, cheese that has been aged, so basically any hard cheese, has no lactose. Soft cheese can also sometime be lactose free, or very little, which you check by looking at the label to see if the sugars are <1g. I'm lactose intolerant and eat cheese all the time!
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 5 months ago
The lactose is in the whey of milk, so most of it gets lost in the cheese making process. I, too, can tolerate quite a bit of cheese, but I've cream or milk make me very poorly.
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Kristiina Männiste 5 months ago
The poster was smarter than me😅 I only found out after I went on my anti carb c*****e and switched milk with plant based substitutes (soy or almond) and suddenly had no stomach issues anymore. Magic!! I used to love milk and would drink large mug fulls of it as a snack too😅
#63
Last month was the first time I discovered lint rollers were peelable. Literally sat there for a minute to take that in.
Edit: I'm 20.
#64
Not using the power level setting in the microwave. I used to have spilled milk or would frequently start, stop, stir and heat the food again before I realized that the power level setting exists just for this reason, thanks to Reddit.
#65
I accidentally logged my tips incorrectly for the first month or so of working at a restaurant. I’m not quite sure how I was doing it, but I ended up not getting taxed on a couple hundred dollars because I never logged them as income.
Edit: this was only on cash tips, and I have now been made aware that I didn’t need to log cash tips in the first place? So I did nothing wrong?
camomooey 5 months ago
What do you mean log them? I was told once that you just had to claim a certain percentage of your basic wage as tips. Is that not true? Sorry, I've never worked a job where I got tips.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
No, the server or their employer are responsible of keeping track of tips received to be reported as income. If tips are pooled and then distributed, then the distribution amount would be the reported income.
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JSD 5 months ago (edited)
I think that's called tax evasion..... Not logging cash tips. Not judging btw!
Michael Largey 5 months ago (edited)
(Former IRS auditor) Tax evasion has to be deliberate and wih full knowledge. A case like this is treated as an innocent record keeping error. (And frankly this case involves so little in taxes that my manager wouldn't let us waste time on it.)
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Kraft mac and cheese. Up until a few months ago I would drain the noodles, add them back to the pot, then add the milk, butter, and cheese packet. It took forever to get all the clumps out.
Then I realized it would be way easier to just add the milk, butter, and cheese to the already hot pan and make a cheese sauce while the noodles are draining. No more clumps.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 months ago
And Americans hate on British food. Macaroni Cheese is SO EASY to make from scratch that I can't understand why Kraft is even a thing.
Ace 5 months ago
ICBW but I think it originated as a cheap but healthy (ish) thing back in the depression era, so it wasn't so much that it was easier but that buying real cheese, milk, butter, pasta was much more expensive.
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 5 months ago
I cut my butter up into small pieces so it would melt easier and then add the milk and then the cheese. But I would slowly pour the cheese powder in slowly or a little bit at a time and mix it in that way so I don't get clumps of cheese in the mix.
Malor Brycington 5 months ago
That's how they tell you to do it on the box (not that anyone reads that thing anyways). And I agree with Harry, nothing like homemade Mac and Cheese!!
Kaedyn Walsh 5 months ago
We mix the powder, milk and butter In a side bowl after putting it in the microwave for a short time to melt the butter and it seems to be much more creamier. I prefer the ready made cheese sause packs tho. Tastes way better than the powdered stuff.
#67
Winding a watch that was battery powered. For like, a year. Ah, f**k. Thanks for making me think of that.
UKGrandad 5 months ago (edited)
It's a watch, not a car that can be push-started. Seriously, though, no amount of jolting will restart a drained watch battery. Besides that, the bezel is attached to a stem which, when the bezel is in the normal position, is not connected to the inner workings so it spins freely if you wind the bezel. It's only when the bezel is pulled out that the teeth on the stem connect with the cogs which turn the hands and date-wheel, and the only thing that connects the workings to the battery is a circuit board. You can turn the bezel all day long and it will have absolutely no effect on the battery.
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The bezel has to be pulled out to change time/date. When they're pushed in they spin freely.
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Playing an N64. Now, it wasn't "years," only about one. I got an N64 for Christmas the year they came out with Super Mario 64.
Unfortunately, my family had splurged to get me the game and the video game system, so I didn't get a new game until my birthday nearly a year later (October birthday, FYI.) Until that time, I played the N64 by gripping the outer prongs of the controller. It wasn't until I saw a diagram of recommended play styles in the instruction booklet for "Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire" that I realized it was much easier to put my left hand on the center prong.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 months ago
I may be in the minority, but I think the N64 controller is one of the worst designed controllers ever.
Ace 5 months ago
I may be in an even smaller minority but I have (had) no idea what an N64 controller looks like and even with the picture I don't understand what the significance of where you hold it might be.
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The only explanation for the N64 controller design is that Nintendo secretly hate children and want them to suffer hand-pain.
Brian Droste 5 months ago
I was an adult when N 64 came out so I much didn't think about the size of the controllers for young kids until now. . They could be hard to use with small hands. So I can see where Fat Harry is coming from. If you ever played and old Atari 2600 game with the joy stick, I think that is worse. Especially when you get older your hand can get cramped up also.
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Pronouncing Chik-Fil-A as Chik-fil-Uh
Never had one near me so mostly just pronounced it in my head that way, so no one corrected me. Once one opened near me I told the boys at work we gotta go try some Chik-Fil-uh!!! They still bust my balls about it.
Rodriquez 2 weeks ago
Yeah the Reddit poster from 7 years ago will appreciate your comment to them
Load More Replies... Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 months ago
We don't pronounce Filet the French way in the UK, so Chick-Fil-A were on a hiding to nothing with that stupid name over here.
Ace 5 months ago (edited)
It had never occurred to me - are you really telling me that it's supposed to be pronounced chick fillay? OK, a real TIL for me here.
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#70
Apparently the red ring around the bologna is *not* supposed to be eaten.
michael Chock 5 months ago
Same with good cheese and summer sausage. My first few meat and cheese plates were not good.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
Depends on the definition of "good". Brie or other mould cheeses: just eat it. Parmiggiano: keep the rind for an umami boost in your stock/broth. Babybel: not really a "good" cheese, and the rind is wax. Toss (or collect for crafts 😁). AFAIK it's mostly gouda and edam type cheeses that have waxy rinds.
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You can put aluminum foil over a baking tray to bake things and the baking tray doesn't get dirty or stained.
Brian Droste 5 months ago
I known this for manynyears. Just to make sure you don't punch any holes in the aluminum foil. Then grease drippings can get underneath.
#72
I've learned that it's more efficient to vacuum *before* dusting.
The vacuum cleaner motor tends to stir up the dust as the machine travels around the house. Better to vacuum first, let the dust settle, then dust the house.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 months ago
What? No. You dust first so that anything displaced is then sucked up by the vacuum.
Ace 5 months ago
That would only work it your 'dusting' is actually using some sort of wet product. Normally the idea is that you use your feather duster (or equivalent) to get all the dust off the raised surfaces so it settle on the floor, where you use the vacuum to clean it up. Trail it behind you if it's that type, over the area that you've just done where there is no dust to be stirred up. If your machine is blowing dust behind you it's faulty - you should look at how to change or clean the filter(s).
For All Pedernity 5 months ago
That's why you don't use a feather duster, but a microfibre cloth.
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#73
I was 30 when I found out that an ‘event calendar’ as I called it, is not a thing and it’s an ‘advent calendar’. I was 32 when I found out advent is not short for adventure...
#74
When I was younger I used to suck on plastic soda bottles, which would work until I had to pull away and sometimes get my lips pulled in by the vacuum which hurt. Just tipping the bottle was revolutionary!
setsuriseikou 5 months ago
In other news, spoons are so much more useful when held with their backs down!
Brian Droste 5 months ago
When you are eating and drinking out of a bottle like that don't put your whole mouth over the opening. When you pull away from the bottle, you create suction and food particles can be su ck into your drink. Just put your mouth/lips over part of the opening. That way you are leaving a airway to prrevent this. I probably learned this in my forties.
#75
My whole life I had been making PB&J using a butter knife for the jam.
My wife saw and said I was doing it the hard way and to use a spoon.
She was right, spoon is much easier. Scoop the jam out, then use the back of the spoon to spread it.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
This is where the cream on first or second on scone comes from. In some places the jam is thicker than the cream or vice versa. You put the one that is thinner on with a knife.
#76
I didn’t know you could take off the caps of those refrigerated coffee creamers... I had been stabbing through the foil with a knife for years until my uncle saw me and asked what the f**k I was doing....... lol
David Morgan 5 months ago
I ALWAYS pierce the foil instead of peel them. If they are at room-temperature, they can spurt when peeled open, but they don't if you just make a small hole (to start with).
The Other Guest 5 months ago
If your *refrigerated* coffee creamers are at room temperature, you've got bigger problems than spurting.
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#77
I recently realized that the arrow to the right of the 'write comment' box on Reddit mobile, lets you skip to the next comment thread.
#78
When I used to check my email, I would go to AltaVista and type "please go to yahoo.com.".
#79
I used to open a banana by holding it in the middle and peeling it down traditionally from the stem after snapping it to the side.
Then I saw a documentary about monkeys. They open them by driving their thumb into the other (flat end) and push in like it's a button. The air bubble pops it out then they peel it back. Bonus - the stem is like a handle to hold it from. Not taking financial investing advice from monkeys, but bananas? They're onto something.
Ace 5 months ago
Naah, tried it - it's been all over the internet for years - it just does not work.You always end up needing to wash your hands afterwards.
Janissary35680 5 months ago (edited)
At some point in the evolutionary history of primates some genius who hated sticky fingers figured out a new way to peel a banana and, as Robert Frost said, "That has made all the difference". (🍌 for scale.)
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.... it changed my life as someone revealed to me how to prevent water splashing on my buttocks while taking a dumb.
The Goo King 5 months ago
Euro style toilet, where the water is much lower? Austrian style toilet, with a poop shelf? A hole in the ground? The standing poop? We need to know!
Winter 5 months ago
Putting a layer of toilet paper over the top of the water, before you sit down to do your business, is supposed to prevent the water splashing up onto your buttocks. If you get splashed, you're obviously not sitting on the toilet seat properly... Laying the extra toilet paper down is a waste of toilet paper, and only contributes towards blocking the sewer! I'm 79 years old, and I have NEVER EVER been splashed whilst taking a dump!
Load More Replies... Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 months ago
Don't use an American toilet. For some reason they have a lake in the bottom that reaches practically up to your a**e.
Anonymouse 5 months ago
put a couple of squares of TP around the hole, poop lands on the TP, flushes right down without marking up the porcelain... putting one on the water prevents the splashes.
#81
You're supposed to hold a wine glass by the stem if it has white wine in it. Keeps it cooler for longer. "Cupping" the wine glass is for when you're having red wine. (If by "easier" we mean, the wine was nicer for longer).
tarryn norwich 5 months ago
And if its a twist cap, you can put a smart water cap on it for even easier drinking!
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All my life I was judgemental of coffee drinkers for being too weak to wake up naturally and too weak to kick their a*******n. But after I had kids and sleep wasn’t always realistic (changing diapers in the middle of the night, etc) I took up the habit. It tastes great and gives you a happy positive outlook on life. It’s a good d**g. The silver lining to abstaining from caffeine all these years is that I saved a TON of money by avoiding Starbucks.
Ace 5 months ago
Just you wait until you get a proper home coffee machine and find out what it should actually taste like.
Aileen Grist 5 months ago
I prefer instant to 'proper' ground coffee. Philistine, I know.
Load More Replies... David Morgan 5 months ago
Coffee tastes OK (at best) and makes your breath stink. It's also a poor stimulant - most of the 'wake-up' effect you get drinking it, is just stopping the withdrawal effect you get because you haven't had any while you sleep. Even English tea has more of an actual stimulant effect than coffee.
Ace 5 months ago
You contradict yourself. If there were indeed a "withdrawal effect" then it would be evidence of the Stimulant effect having worn off. You could have both, or neither, but not one without the other. FWIW the caffeine is a mild stimulant, but you need to be on four or five double-espressos before it would really kick in. And what do you mean by "English" tea? Do you just mean "tea"? In any case tea at normal strength contains between a quarter and a half of the caffeine of a similarly 'normal' strength coffee. https://www.tea-and-coffee.com/blog/how-much-caffeine-in-tea-and-coffee
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Wiping my a*s.
I always thought everyone reached their hand between their legs, but after someone making a joke about wiping their a*s, I asked how they did it. Then for curiosity sake I asked a bunch more people. I'm the only person I know that wipes their a*s from between their legs
EDIT: Seems to be more common than I thought. I always thought everyone did it like me but I guess it's a pretty big split. Everyone I have asked near where I live all wipe from the side or standing up.
Don't listen to me 5 months ago
People stand up to wipe their a**s?? How strange. Maybe these are warm climate people?
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 4 months ago
I just read about this, it's a huge thing! Doesn't it smush the cheeks together?? They say it's for access, but they're effectively shutting off access...?
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How I pronounced ‘th’ as ‘ff’.
#85
I was going to post about using the wrong gears on a bicycle when going uphill, but then I did a quick search about it and I’m even more confused.
David Morgan 5 months ago
Gearing exists to change the level of initial effort required to get the wheel turning. A high gear ratio will mean your legs have to pump faster and the bike will go slower, but it will feel much easier. A low ratio means you pump your legs much less frequently and the bike will go faster, but you'll have to push much harder. The controversy is about trying to use lower gears as much as possible - the extra effort required will build your leg muscles and stamina faster, and is essential if you are racing. If you are just riding for fun, do what is most convenient for you.
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
Also, when pushing into the wind, I use a lower chain ring (front gear). MUCH easier.
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I was taught when I learned to drive to adjust side mirrors so that you can see the side of your car along the edge of the mirror. After almost getting clipped a few times I learned that you actually want to adjust it so that there is a smooth transition of an object from side to rearview with no overlap, and merging got loads easier.
For those wondering, watch another car as you pass/are passed and try to line it up horizontally so that you can see one headlight in the side mirror and the other headlight in your rearview mirror with no overlap. Then adjust the vertical height so it looks balanced between the two mirrors.
(Obviously make sure you don’t run into someone while fiddling with your mirrors, use a little common sense, please.).
#87
Post it notes supposed to have the sticky down the edge not along the top.
David Morgan 5 months ago
Why? What benefit does that have? Most sticky notes are square anyway, not noticeably rectangular. It doesn't much matter what orientation they are in, and you aren't avoiding the sticky edge (as you might have to manage a ring-bound notepad's coils if you are left-handed).
Jaya 5 months ago (edited)
I looked at the original post on Reddit, and apparently OP wasn't talking about how to hold them when you write on it or hang it up somewhere, but how to hold it while you're peeling one off of the pack. In my experience this is true, if hold the sticky part at the side while peeling from top to bottom, it won't curl up as much. Instead of the whole sticky part curling up, only 1 little corner curls up, it really helps.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
I have sticky at top and peel side to side, which I imagine works the same?
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Using duck tape when zip ties are way better and for some nice sturdy ones are around the same price as a roll of duck tape.
The Other Guest 5 months ago
Duct tape. It's duct tape. Unless, of course, you are using the Duck Tape *brand* of duct tape, in which case carry on.
For All Pedernity 5 months ago
'Duck tape' is the original term. 'Duck' from Dutch 'doek', which means cloth.
Load More Replies... David Morgan 5 months ago
TOTALLY dependent on the task. Lots of benefits and negatives for either side.
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 4 months ago
It reads like it's specifically for hostage - taking.
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Stirring sugar into a cold solvent like water or lemon juice? Use a butter knife instead of a spoon. Creates a centrifuge more conducive to dissolving the sugar.
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Jose Ortiz 5 months ago
Not only once but 2 times looked for my phone with my phones flashlight smh
Papa 5 months ago
My wife has walked around the house looking for her phone . . . while talking to someone on it.
Load More Replies... Little Bit 5 months ago
I work for a company that supplies workwear and PPE. It never ceases to amaze me how many fully grown adults don't know their own clothing and shoe size. It's quite a challenge when they're ordering on the phone. If you don't know, how am I supposed to know if I can't see you?
Rika 5 months ago
In their defense, it's near impossible to know your size anymore, there are huge differences between brands. I honestly wouldn't be able to tell you my size for sure. It's EU34 for some brands and EU40 for others. Same with shoes. Doesn't your company have a chart with measurements ? It's the only thing I would trust for workwear/PPE, it might be dangerous to wear stuff that doesn't fit right.
Load More Replies... Jose Ortiz 5 months ago
Not only once but 2 times looked for my phone with my phones flashlight smh
Papa 5 months ago
My wife has walked around the house looking for her phone . . . while talking to someone on it.
Load More Replies... Little Bit 5 months ago
I work for a company that supplies workwear and PPE. It never ceases to amaze me how many fully grown adults don't know their own clothing and shoe size. It's quite a challenge when they're ordering on the phone. If you don't know, how am I supposed to know if I can't see you?
Rika 5 months ago
In their defense, it's near impossible to know your size anymore, there are huge differences between brands. I honestly wouldn't be able to tell you my size for sure. It's EU34 for some brands and EU40 for others. Same with shoes. Doesn't your company have a chart with measurements ? It's the only thing I would trust for workwear/PPE, it might be dangerous to wear stuff that doesn't fit right.
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