“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life

But they can hear footsteps. Talk all you want, but walk gently

i love to fish! my new husband wasn't used to fishing but living on an island at the tiime - well, he was going to learn. and, when he started to talk i told him he would scare the fish so he would shut up. i loved my solitary moments and between work and learning to live with a person it was a hard transition so fishing became a way for me to get a bit of quiet time.

Or was it the river dancing in the boat? 🤷‍♂️

My Dad used that one.

Cause we live in air thus that connection when not thinking about it? edit: or did some cartoon bend our view of reality here as well? 😄

This is incorrect. They normally inflate with water, because that's the medium they live in, but they can also inflate with air. "Puffer, any of about 90 species of fishes of the family Tetraodontidae, noted for their ability when disturbed to inflate themselves so greatly with air or water that they become globular in form. Source: https://www.britannica.com/science/fish-poisoning

I didn't know it, but now that I do, it just makes sense.

They fill up with air when you catch them by fishing.

They will gulp air if they are out of water

My girl likes moving water, but won't drink from those cat fountains. So I keep clean water in a bowl for her, and the cold watwr dribbling out of the bathtub faucet all the time. 99% of the time she's not sleeping, she's playing w the water in the tub. She's weird and almost 18 and the love of my life lol

My cat always drank out of the fishbowl (no actual fish lived in it, just aquatic plants) I thought it was whisker fatigue, and tried several different bowls. No luck. Apparently plant water just tastes better?

Yes this is a thing! Sensory overload I guess? But if the [cat] start do drink to much, check for diabetes.

One of my cats preferred a glass of water to a bowl. I always left both out for her but she really only drank from the glass. And if I didn't give her her own glass she'd try to drink from mine. :)

Cats are naturally drawn to running water, best thing you can do for your kitties is invest in a pet fountain. Removes any whisker related issues, and encourages them to drink more water. Kidney issues are one of the biggest problems for cats, especially as they get older. Also, you have to feed your cat wet food, or fresh meats regularly, not just dry food. Only having dry food can cause crystals to develop in their bladder or urethra which can be deadly, and for male cats this can result in needing to have their penis surgically removed.

This can be a hard thing to learn. 8 sisters and 3 brothers here. I have to keep learning everyday. You figured it out at 50ish l, Awesome keep going. So much to learn

And yet when someone you love says ‘I don’t really want to go to/do [insert someone else’s name]’s thing/request”, it’s the most normal thing in the world to say ‘so don’t, it’s fine to have boundaries’. Like with so many others things, we typically can’t see ourselves as nearly as deserving as our loved ones do and want us to.

Nancy Reagan's d**g campaign would have been more successful if it had been "Just Say No To Most Things".

I am over 70 and they still try to push me. But now i am too old to get forced, no much time left for me. When i say no to anything its like i started the third worldwar. Embarrassing, indignation, rage, how can you. But now it doesnt matter to me, to be left alone or not to be talked to or so, i can stand it and do my own things.

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Finally started doing this in my mid 40s, my life over the last 10 years has improved enormously.

You can easily confirm this: wear a latex glove and put your hand in water (preferably cold). Your hand will feel wet even though there are zero water molecules touching your skin

I think it's much more interesting that our skin has relative temperature tolerance. Try this experiment some time: hold a very warm object that's clearly not too hot to safely hold. Then hold a cold object that's clearly not too cold until your hand starts to feel cold. Grab the warm object again and it will feel scorching hot!

Related - you sometimes lose your sense of touch if temperature equalizes. I'm not sure the right words to explain what I mean, but an example is - if my cat is sleeping by my side / on my lap and I have my hand resting still on my cat for a long time until my hand / her body temperature are the same, it is sort of like I can no longer feel where my hand is. I "know" my hand is resting on my cat but I can no longer "feel" my cat unless I move my fingers through her fur. If you have done this you get what I am saying, if you haven't I probably sound kind of weird. But I think it ties in with the concept that we are sensing differences, not absolute. So equal temp and no movement = no difference to sense.

Another fun (scary) fact about what your body can't do. Your body can't tell if you're breathing normal everyday oxygen, or another gas (besides CO2). Your body knows if you've got too much CO2 in your blood, and if you're breathing too much CO2 you'll feel it, but if you're in a room with only Nitrogen you'll breath it just fine until you fall asleep and die

I know I can't tell the difference between if something is wet or just cold. Usually experience this in the winter time.

I don't have an internal monologue, I have an external dialogue with myself, usually ending with me telling myself to shut up

I bet they sleep well at night!

Make it stop

Isn't internal monologue the same as thinking? You know, the act of considering things, making decisions, playing out different scenarios, visualizing? Maybe I don't understand how they are different.

I have internal condescending lectures.

They all masked up and didn't complain. They did what they needed to. Media blackout was probably for the best

The media blackout was because of WW1, and only 'positive' news was allowed. That didn't include scores of soldiers and civilians dying. Spain was neutral, so there was no censorship on reporting of the pandemic. Incidentally, the Netherlands were neutral as well - and newspapers from 1918 refer to it as the Spanish Influenza.

Found an old letter from that time. The writer starts off by hoping that the recipients are still alive.