50 People Who Learned To Think Twice Before Correcting Someone, As Shared By The ‘People Incorrectly Correcting Other People’ Facebook Page
Everyone likes to feel like they’re an expert in something. Whether that’s science, cooking, politics, parenting, or anything else, really. And though we might have some deeper insights in our chosen field and feel like we can see a broader context than most other people, it’s important to (try and) stay humble.
Because the moment we feel all sure of ourselves when we drop a ‘truth’ bomb on social media, we might come to realize that we’ve totally messed up. Oh God, we had it wrong all along! And now someone’s poking fun at us online for everyone to see.
Welcome to ‘People Incorrectly Correcting Other People,’ a popular Facebook group that shames internet users who spread wildly incorrect facts while trying to prove someone wrong. Scroll down for some major embarrassment, Pandas, and let us know which of these situations really made you feel bad about all of the secondhand awkwardness.
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"Glad to be part of your learning journey today." I have to remember that lol
Lol, yea in most estern countries you can drink and buy alcohol after you're 18, in the US you cán buy a rifle at 18, but God forbid you have a beer before you're 21 lolololol
A whopping 663.9k people follow the ‘People Incorrectly Correcting Other People’ Facebook page. In the last month alone, another 1,890 users joined the group. Created just 2 years ago, the project has kept growing and growing.
After all, the internet’s chock full of totally wrong opinions, as well as entitled and arrogant people who think they’ve got it all figured out (while others are dum-dums). That probably won’t change any time in the future, so the PICOP group will have plenty of material to share with others for years to come.
All members of the group are expected to be kind to one another and avoid harassing or insulting anyone. Otherwise, they’ll be banned.
That means no bullying, no hate speech, and absolutely respecting everyone else’s privacy.
Meanwhile, when it comes to content, Facebook users are asked to avoid reposting pics. Before you go ahead and share something you think might fit the tone of the group, check out what some of the other members have already posted. You might have spotted the same thing that a dozen others have spotted online! And if you want to make it easier for the audience to get what’s going on in your screenshots, you can also add a bit of context.
The simple fact of the matter is that we all make mistakes. Like it or not, that’s just the truth about life: we’re never going to be 100% correct, 100% of the time. And most of us have probably been in situations where we turned out to be flat-out wrong. It’s embarrassing to make a fool of yourself.
That’s why dealing with these feelings in a healthy manner and learning to embrace your mistakes are good skills to have for any human being. Digging in your heels, closing your eyes, and plugging your ears so as not to hear that you’re actually incredibly wrong really isn’t the mature way to go about things.
A while back, Bored Panda had a very good conversation about dealing with any feelings of embarrassment that might arise—whether now or remembering mess-ups in the past—with environmental psychologist and well-being consultant Lee Chambers.
"While embarrassment can be a challenging feeling that is fleeting or overwhelming, being able to find a response that assists rather than a reaction that is unhealthy is a skill to build," he said that we can all develop ways to handle embarrassing situations better. Humor, for instance, is one powerful tool in your arsenal.
So much potential for the Thirteenth Doctor, but it got wasted on trying to make the show relevant and having to wait a full year between series. Hopefully now that RTD is back at the helm the show will become enjoyable again and can't wait to see what's in store for the Fourteenth Doctor.
"If it's something that isn't particularly serious, laughter can be a great response that instantly makes you feel better," he told Bored Panda.
"If the feelings are intense, try taking a few slow, deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth, calming your nervous system and physiological response,” he explained.
I wish, people would get maps and stop telling me 'Belgium" is a city in Germany.
“In a similar way to laughter, smiling can be effective in shifting your state to the positive. There are times when playing down or even ignoring the feelings can be helpful in the moment, taking the edge off, but it is important that you accept them and express them if it's something significant," the psychologist said.
“Because the feelings of embarrassment are generated from a past event, anything that brings you into the present moment can bring relief. Try to avoid saying sorry, as it will keep taking you back to the moment. You can even keep your biggest embarrassing moments top of mind, having reflected and realized that in hindsight, they weren't as big an issue as you felt at the time.”
Have you ever messed up big-time when expressing an opinion or sharing a ‘fact’ online, dear Pandas? How did you feel when you realize you made a huge mistake? Do you ever call out folks who are totally wrong on social media? Share your experiences and opinions with us, we’d love to hear what you think.
I'm sure Mercury the planet would also sink in water, so the statement still stands!
To be fair, if you truly understand spanish, Italian will not leave you totally in the dark and vice versa, but you won't excel in one just by knowing the other...
Errrri dunno, if you're a Spanish native maybe ( and that's a big maybe ) but if Spanish is your 2nd language, and you're not a native Latin languages ( Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian ) speaker, you're probably be completly Lost, yea they sound similar, but they have different vocabuláries, most of it you get by context, and i'm Portuguese.
Load More Replies...I have an American friend who lives over here in the United Kingdom of UK, when he first came over here he certainly spoke a weird language. He is now learning Yorkshire.
To that point yes Portuguese, Spanish and Italian have similarities, however Italian is not remotely as similar às Spanish and Portuguese, a Portuguese person can easely understand a Spanish person, however very few Spaniards can understand talked Portuguese, ( same thing with Brasílian Portuguese and EU Portuguese some Brasílian people don't understand half of what we ( EU PT ) say.
But a lot of Scandinavians understand each other. Danish, norwegian (is that spelled correctly?) and sweedish are 3 different languages, but they come from the same original language.
I don't mean to offend anyone but I feel like there's a pattern when someone uses a Nicki Minaj icon. Whenever I see someone who is using one, I immediately know they are going to post some uneducated and ridiculous sh!t, much like nicki herself does. I'm not saying all of her fans are idiots, but there really seems to be a large percentage.
Not entirely dumb lol. They all speak some form of English. Different dialects. I do understand a lot of these top languages because I’m fluent in Spanish, and they Latin derived. Lol but no not fluently
I had a class of Italian and Spanish students in a summer school, the Spanish could understand the gist of what the Italians were saying, but the Italians couldn't understand the Spanish students at all.
As a Portuguese speaker, yes, we can understand each other, especially Spanish, so she is wrong, but not that much wrong.
Well, actually, it depends. Italian, spainish, and french are indeed different languages, but all have the same latin base. Depending on what dialect is being spoken, some "romance language" speakers find that they can somewhat understand other romance languages
Americans, English and Australian are more like different accents. Italians, French and Spanish are three different Romance languages. They can probably understand SOME of what the others are saying. My language, Swedish, is part of the German language family and I had a much easier time learning English and German, than French. She ought to try to understand German and Flemish. Then she might get a hint about how much the French, Spanish and Italians understand each other.
I speak Dutch, I can understand German and I understand a lot of words in Fries, Swedish and Danish. It's not like you understand everything, but you will know about what the conversation is going.
Load More Replies...I think it would be much like with german and dutch - some things can be figured out but it usually is too different to communicate by just knowing one language
Actually French, Spanish and Itallian has the same origin, so though they are seperate languages speaking one of them would probably mean that you can pick up bits and pieces of what is said in one of the other languages. It won't be perfect, and you would probably miss out on a lot, but it wouldn't be zero either, and if you know one of them it will be much easier to learn the others. So until we got to the last entry, it wasn't really that stupid.
Can't tell you how many times I have to rewind and replay portions of Irish, British, and Australian shows. Not only are the accents thick, they actually have words that differ from American English. It's entertainment and education all-in-one.
Italians, Spaniards AND the French all speak languages based on ancient Roman influence, ergo, "Romance languages". They CAN be understood by each other, IF they're patient. 😉
As a matter of fact, Italians and Spaniards can communicate quite well. They both think the French are putting them on.
Well, being raised French and English, I can definitely tell you I can understand some dialects of Spanish more than others based on context. Took two years of it in university and lived in Mexico City for 3 months, and now years later, whenever I try to speak French my brain does a French/Spanish mix. SO much is practically the same, so much so that I can speak to my Quebec friends in Spanish and they can understand what I'm saying. Wild!
This assumes that the average European is as uneducated as the average American. It's more likely that they do understand one another, because most Europeans are bilingual, if not trilingual. I know that the average Austrian, for instance, has spent plenty of vacation time in Spain and Italy to have a passable knowledge of the languages spoken there. No reason for that not to be true of the French, too.
Well, mutually intelligible languages exist, so the first question is valid.
Well, Germans, Bayern, Austrians and Swiss (? Is that the english word for it) understand each other! ;) (spot the joke)
That is a vile rumour, Bavarians speak entirely un-understandable! :P
Load More Replies...when 13 players out of 22 are from African heritage you can get the joke, but also the fact that 50 players in the World Cup were born in France, and because of the double nationality they chose to represent an other country
Christ on a bike! I've never played Halo but at least I know who Master Chief is. He makes a mean apple pie
Please correct me if i m wrong here... Oceania is the name of continent where Australia and New Zealand belongs to...
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Two thirds of these supposedly stupid comments are jokes. Are we just meant to act like they are genuine comments to feel superior or something?
Ding Ding Ding! You discovered the purpose of most internet "discussions"!
Load More Replies...The real idiot responses are the ones from people taking the most obvious troll bait I’ve seen in a while.
It's so sad. What the dumbing down of our educational system has produced.
Last time I commented on one of these making fun of igorance lists I got in trouble. At first you feel superior and roll your eyes but as you scroll down it get depressing and you, or perhaps just I, begin to feel rather mean and condescending and don't like myself. Next time I hope I'll just pass instead.
Two thirds of these supposedly stupid comments are jokes. Are we just meant to act like they are genuine comments to feel superior or something?
Ding Ding Ding! You discovered the purpose of most internet "discussions"!
Load More Replies...The real idiot responses are the ones from people taking the most obvious troll bait I’ve seen in a while.
It's so sad. What the dumbing down of our educational system has produced.
Last time I commented on one of these making fun of igorance lists I got in trouble. At first you feel superior and roll your eyes but as you scroll down it get depressing and you, or perhaps just I, begin to feel rather mean and condescending and don't like myself. Next time I hope I'll just pass instead.