30 Casual Things That People Learned Embarrassingly Late
We all might have more in common than we think, especially when it comes to getting embarrassed over something we thought we knew (but really didn't). Reddit user LightningCole asked the members of the online community to share some of the things that they learned embarrassingly late. With over 18.6k comments in the thread, we can say for sure that it’s one of those universal secrets that nearly everyone can relate to. What’s obvious to you might not be obvious to us!
Remember to upvote your fave answers as you chuckle your way down this list. After you’re done, let us know in the comments what things you learned embarrassingly late in life, dear Pandas! Did you think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows until you were 30? Maybe you thought that the European Council and the Council of the European Union were one and the same at some point in your life? We can’t wait to read what you have to share.
Bored Panda spoke about embarrassing knowledge blind spots and why they're, well, embarrassing with Vanessa Bohns, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University. Bohns also explained what the healthiest way to react to embarrassment is. Scroll down and have a read.
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That not every woman who's nice to me is interested in me, they're just being friendly. Wished someone made that clearer when I was younger, would've saved me a lot of embarrassment and stupid moments in high school and early college.
When I was 20, I was presented with a really wonderful promotion. It required me to fly to a nearby state for a week of training. I was super ecstatic about the whole thing... until I remembered a friend of mine complaining about her struggles with getting a passport. So, I promptly declined the promotion. My superiors were really stumped as to why I turned down the promotion.
Me: Unfortunately, I don’t have a passport.
Manager: Boringberry... you’ve never flown before, have you?
Me: No. I have not.
Manager: You don’t need a passport to fly within the country.
And then it hit me- my friend was going to Mexico. I was just going to a neighboring state. Once the realization hit, my superiors all erupted in laughter.
The story itself followed me when I went to training. My trainer personally greeted me and asked me if I had any difficulties getting a passport before laughing.
When I was little my Dad told me the big cooling towers that are often found beside electricity generating plants were in fact cloud machines and the prime minister of the day had a switch on his desk to turn the big machine on when it got too hot.
This made complete sense to me as they did produce big clouds of white cumulus-like exhaust when operating.
Fast forward to when I was around 11 years ago and the teacher asks if anyone knows why some days are dry and some days it rains, some days have blue sky and some days have clouds.
Of course at the mention of clouds I knew immediately where clouds come from and stuck my hand up to tell everyone about the prime minister and the cloud machines.
Luckily the teacher picked someone else for the answer and I was most confused to hear someone go on about evaporation and rainfall and so on.
"We spend a lot of time and effort presenting an ideal version of ourselves to other people. When something happens that contrasts with the image we’ve been projecting—when we say or do something that shows we actually aren’t as graceful or as smart as we’d like people to believe—we feel embarrassed," Bohns said.
"Discovering you were wrong about something most everyone else around you has long known to be true is one of those moments. In that moment we learn, 'Wait a minute, maybe I haven’t been presenting the image of being smart or worldly that I thought I was presenting all this time,' which is embarrassing."
That Hawaii was a country before the U.S. annexed it. Unsurprisingly they do not teach us that in high school history class...
And California was part of MEXICO until the US government bought it from Mexico. Also, "America" is actually 2 continents (north america and south america), not a country. "America" as "Americans" call it, is a PART of the continent "North America", and is actually called "The United STATES of America" ie it's referring to a group of 'states' that united, rather than try to declare themselves as individual countries, when it was being invaded by the British (& other countries).
That the world owes you nothing.
You can be a good person and that's fine but it won't lead to you being blessed with nice things; people can use you if you're too nice to them
I grew up thinking that my life was special and that I was destined for greatness but I'm now just another fish in the sea
I have a cousin who quotes Yogi Berra on a fairly regular basis, and it wasn't until last Thanksgiving that I realized he's a real person, and that my cousin hasn't been admiring the words of Yogi Bear all this time.
Bohns pointed out to Bored Panda that embarrassment has its positive sides—it’s not all bad like some of us believe.
“One thing that’s interesting about embarrassment is that, for as much as we might experience it as painful in the moment, it’s actually very socially adaptive. Being embarrassed signals to other people that you care about what they think. And that actually draws people in to you,” she said.
“So blushing, burying your head in your hands, laughing, acknowledging how embarrassing something was, are all totally healthy ways to react,” Bohns explained to us that we shouldn’t feel embarrassed about, well, feeling embarrassed.
Rottweilers are not just fat Dobermans.
That truffles are a mushroom as well as a chocolate. When people talked about sending pigs in the forest to hunt for truffles I thought they’d buried chocolates in there to teach pigs how to dig food up
I was 21
I don't like truffles, but chocolate-hunting with dogs? Sign me up! (Making sure the dogs cannot eat it of course)
Riding a bicycle. I learnt it at 18, my parents believed in an astrologer who told them that I would have a terrible accident when I drive or ride. So I had to learn bicycle secretly from a friend.
“The unhealthy way to react is to pretend you’re not embarrassed, that you didn’t make a mistake, or to get angry. Those things undo the positive effect of embarrassment typically has on other people by conveying insincerity and pushing people away rather than drawing them in,” Bohns said.
Knowledge blind spots are something that we’ll always have. To some extent. We’ll never be able to get rid of all of them but we should do our best to improve ourselves constantly.
However, the problem isn’t so easy because you don’t know what you don’t know or what you’re wrong about. It’s not like we spend every single second of every day analyzing every bit of knowledge in our minds. Nobody’s got that kind of time—we’ve got other things to do!
It's hard to explain this one and I can't google it to find pictures. Everyone has bought a tube of "cream" at some point (antiseptic / steroid / eczema) for example. On some of these "creams", have you noticed that the lid is circular but in the centre of the lid it has a sharp pointy end? Typically, these tubes of "cream" have a seal and I used to remove the lid and break the seal by finding anything sharp and pointy nearby (pen maybe). It took my 23 years to realise that the pointy end in the centre of the lid has a purpose...
Thought an orgasm and an organism were the same thing.
Gave an entire speech to my class at 13 years old, first month at a new school, about how I wanted to be a marine biologist and work with marine orgasms. Everyone was laughing and I didn't know why. The teacher didn't say anything just laughed along as well. A girl I'd just made friends with had to fill me in after class.
Turns out, they are definitely not the same thing.
I was laughed at in class for asking to borrow a rubber (eraser) coz it is another name for a condom.
I only recently found out that ponies are not baby horses, but full-sized ponies.
Some blind spots are related to a lack of education and worldliness and can be corrected by actively seeking out new information and perspectives, bit by bit. Reading new books, watching films, going to lectures, meeting new people—all of these things slowly fill in any gaps in knowledge that we might have. It’s a long and involved process but it might just be the easy part.
Other blind spots that we have are related to our assumptions and preconceptions about the world which might not always be right. However, we’re so emotionally invested in holding on to these ideas that we don’t want to let go. Because it feels like we’re losing a part of ourselves.
I thought the phrase 'mix by hand' meant to literally shove your hands in the batter and mix, not use a spoon or a mixer. I didn't learn the truth until my mother found me wrist-deep in brownie batter.
That Washington D.C wasn't in the state of Washington...
You know when the doctor hits your knee to check your reflexes? I honestly thought you were supposed to kick your leg up high. Like you felt it and you kick. It wasn’t until I was 23 and moved to another country and had to do a physical that the doctor was like what are you doing?!
If we’re truly sincere about wanting to get rid of our blind spots, then we have to put our points of view out there and be prepared to learn that we’re wrong. Over and over again. It’s a painful process (it’s bound to bruise our egos) but it’s the quickest way to learn.
So if you’re prepared to take the temporary hits to your self-esteem, even learning new things embarrassingly late doesn’t have to be embarrassing!
Not me but my husband.
He didn't know that meat is the animals muscles. He thought every animal had a bodypart named "meat".
He had a bit of an emotional crisis when I told him. He is actually a very intelligent man, but this fact had eluded him as his mother had not wanted to upset him as a child.
this is what happens when you prioritise "protecting" you child, rather than 'teaching' them... :o :/
That Houston is not the name of the guy astronauts talk to.
Pickles are pickled cucumbers. Took me over 30 years to figure that one out.
What's even more interesting is that Indian pickle is just spiced cooked sour things (like unripe mango and lemon)
When I was in 4th grade i was in love with Chris brown. He was 16. I told my mom when i was 16 we would start dating.... she proceeded to inform me that when I was 16 he would no longer be 16. That’s when I realized everyone was also getting older, not just me
Martha's Vineyard isn't just some land that rich people went to that was owned by Martha Stewart.
That K9 stands for "canine"... Like K9 unit in police is dog unit.
I thought buffalos were birds, and buffalo wings were from said birds.
Glass objects should not be put on the stove. Guess how I learned that.
I learnt that the hard way by accident. Glass exploded and ended up with food and glass everywhere. Worst thing was we had friends over for dinner. It was a disaster.
Thought guerilla warfare was humans in a war against gorilla's
I thought the 'do not pass' road sign literally meant 'do not die here.' I had to ask my grandpa what would happen if someone got into a car accident and died there.
The expression "You can't have your cake and eat it too" I'm like... wat? of course you can eat your cake if you have it wtf are all these people talking about? took me til my 20s to figure out it was actually meaning you cant both have the cake on the counter and have eaten it.
That I do better on my own. Took three divorces before I got a clue.
Pilot and co-pilot actually has the same hierarchy. I thought that co-pilot is some kind of assistant to the pilot
This isn't true, the co-pilot IE the first officer answers to the captain who is in charge of the flight and legally responsible for it
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I used to think that the job of law enforcement officers was to protect and serve the public. That is not true. Courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States, have ruled that law enforcement officers do not have any obligation to protect or provide aid to anyone. In fact, their only job is to enforce laws - as is indicated by the term “law enforcement” officers.
To Protect and Serve is their motto not the job requirements. It is a common thing for people to confuse the two.
And the poem on the Statue of Liberty isn't an invitation to the world to come on over. It's not a law; it's just a poem.
What sucks is that their motto is what they really should be.
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For those of us who obey the the laws, police do indeed protect us from those who break the law.
@Iammemineshaft It's called doing the right thing. @Lyone Fein, I absolutely agree!
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I'm kinda terrified that people needed till adulthood to figure out some of these...
i am with you on that Leo. Some of these are just too common sense like to not have known for so long.
I think it's not the lack of knowledge itself but the lack of willingness to learn that is shameful. These people learned the truth eventually and it's great!
Sometimes, you don't know what you don't know, so you may have no curiosity.
Curry on... ?
Daria Z no
In italy you say "a caval donato non si guarda in bocca " ..it means "you don't look in the mouth of a given horse" You can say the age (and value of it) counting the teeth, so you don't judge the value of a horse (or anything else) you receive as a gift. The problem is that in Italy Donato is also a name of a person . My father discovered it by his 50.. "i always wondered why this horse was called Donato and what was the meaning of it.. "
'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth' would be the english translation. Meaning pretty much the same.
I had misheard that when I was little and I thought the saying was "you don't lick a gift horse in the mouth" and I really could not fathom why anyone would want to lick ANY horse's mouth let alone one they received as a gift. My family reminds me of this on occasion.
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@GirlFriday: Still good, if overly specific, advice.
Mine was: Marshall Mathers = M.M. -> Similar to M&M (candy) -> Sounds like Eminem
I used to think that the world was in black in white back in the day when I watched black and white tv shows and movies. Yeah my dad had to correct me on that.
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I never knew until a few years ago (I'm currently 77) that black olives and green olives are the same fruit at different stages of ripening.
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Look up Graber Olive Co. in my hometown of Ontario, California. They sell the green/brown olives prior to their pitting and colouring. The olives are grown in Lindsay, California, and the companies in Lindsay, however, de-pit the olives, wash them in a lye solution, which keeps them from collapsing in the jar or can, and then brines the now-black green olives in a salt solution. It is called the California method. -Dr M
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They are not. Green olives are green, calamata olives are the purplish ones and black olives are dyed with octopus ink.
Lillukka79, someone lied to you. Arnold and Gregory are correct. Look it up if you don't believe us. Then go punch whoever lied to you in the face for making you look bad.
Black olives are ripe green olives. Think of green tomatoes and red ones. Both are tomatoes. You can eat tomatoes green or red. Think fried green tomatoes.
My father, who besides being an attentive husband is a brilliant man, nevertheless found out from me in his sixties, after over forty years of marriage, that a skirt and a dress are not the same thing. I take part of the blame, as I had spent my whole life wondering why he interchanged the terms and I never said anything.
Lots of Americans here. Not very relatable
Soooo it turns out that not all animals have genitalia and separate places for excretion and urination. Many have a single combined orifice for all these functions called a cloaca. I learned this the other day at the age of 36. To be fair, none of my friends knew either.
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I have a great oh moment...I'm a girl and I was 16, and I'm at a family event. I'm around my grandmother, my aunt, and my mom when they started mentioning that my 7 year old cousin had wet the bed recently.. And I say, "oh, isn't he a little old for wet dreams?" Totally thought that was a phrase for wetting the bed. Everyone goes really quiet and they stare at me..then kind of start talking again after I have this total look of confusion on my face. I figured out what the term really meant soon after and boy am I embarrassed af...
Bre Amsink Good response!
I cringed so much while reading this...
Some Dutch stores.... I thought V&D and Vroom & Dreesman where two different stores. And only last year I realized about the store C&A - they sell different brands clothing. Canda is one of them. I only realized this year Canda is not Can-da, but C-and-a... Also, Hennes and Mauritz being the same as H&M. I don't trust abbreviations anymore...
Debbie ?
Me age 8, singing along with my mum to Meatloafs bat out of hell, "cilla black found on a bike" my mum laughed hysterically, didn't tell me for another 4 years that it was in fact "silver black phantom bike".
Well, both Cilla Black (RIP) and Meatloaf were good performers...so, 2 out of 3 ain't bad...
I was 25 when I learned that fleas aren’t just cartoon pests. Had a boyfriend over after moving to Seattle (from NW Montana, where we don’t have as many insect problems due to the winters) and he’s told me the cat had fleas. I didn’t believe him, but was embarrassed he thought my cat was dirty, so have him a bath. White short hair cat fur becomes see through when wet.....and that’s when I realized the thousand of black bugs that suddenly became visible weren’t from a cartoon. Burned all my furniture and shaved all my cats, totally traumatized. Likewise, I was 35 when I was talking with a co-worker, looked at something on the ceiling....and discovered cockroaches are also real and not just a made for TV bug... I’m a doctor.
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I love Meatloaf, and always used to listen to and sing along to "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" growing up. I especially liked the Baseball announcer part. I thought the guy was playing baseball and the girl interrupts the game before he reaches home base. Then when I was 45, I was driving to work listening to the song on the radio, and I actually said out loud "He's talking about sex". Lol, I'm embarrassed to say I never clued in before that.
For a long time, I thought bananas and coconuts grow on trees. They don't.
I see coconuts growing in trees all the time, and have a banana tree in my yard, so I'm not sure where you think they grow if not on trees.
You probably think this is a tree: Flower-5f1...eaceb3.jpg
The banana plant is classified as a perennial herb. The coconut plant is classified as an arecaceae. Neither the banana plant or the coconut plant is a tree. You could have quickly and easily found this information by doing a search on the internet. Next time try checking the facts first before posting. Things usually work better that way.
Only according to botanists. And if we accept their definitions for everything, we'd have to refer to tomatoes, peppers and beans as fruits.
They are not clearer definitions, they are just definitions that are different from colloquial use. For example, did you know that botanists consider balsa wood to be hardwood?
What's wrong with some clearer definitions?
If we want to get really technical, tomatoes and peppers are berries, not fruits.
Actually, tomatoes are berries and banana plant is a grass.
K.Kobayashi what
My guess is that many of these things were taught at school and the individual (1) failed the test or (2) forgot. In any case, I'm sure plenty of teachers are rolling over in their graves.
No. Just no. Most of what you learn does not come from books at school. It comes from encountering it multiple times and finding links and patterns. Most tests are passed with partial knowledge (you don't need a 100%) and hopefully the gaps are filled somewhere along the way. These are all examples of people who did not fill in the gaps :) Just never really needed it until they did or found someone looking weirdly at them.
You can't consume fish with dairy products unitl i ate salmon with cream cheese
Religious dietary laws...I still eat it.
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that's really strange, because I've worked in cafes where our most popular sandwhich was a bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese. :o Maybe it was your salmon that was the problem, and not the combination? Either way... food poisoning is awful & I'm so sorry you had to go through that. :(
I think they're saying that they believed "you can't eat fish with dairy", until they actually did eat it.
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It never ceases to amaze me just how bad our educational systems are / how stupid humans can be. Wowsers!!
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How stupid are you?
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“The unhealthy way to react is to pretend you’re not embarrassed, that you didn’t make a mistake, or to get angry. Those things undo the positive effect of embarrassment typically has on other people by conveying insincerity and pushing people away rather than drawing them in,” Bohns said.” The other extreme bugs me too. There’s been this trend of performative self-deprecation in recent years and it drives me nuts because I never asked anyone to insult themselves for not knowing some innocent thing or for not being super productive during lockdown or what have you. I don’t want to deal with someone who can never admit that they’re wrong, but I’m all for a happy medium.
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It's not "Chester Drawers" it's "Chest of Drawers" - 17 "Crock Pot" is so called because it's a pot that holds a crock - 26 The direction North, is not streight up to the sky - 8 It's not called "Morris Code" - 35
I used to think that the job of law enforcement officers was to protect and serve the public. That is not true. Courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States, have ruled that law enforcement officers do not have any obligation to protect or provide aid to anyone. In fact, their only job is to enforce laws - as is indicated by the term “law enforcement” officers.
To Protect and Serve is their motto not the job requirements. It is a common thing for people to confuse the two.
And the poem on the Statue of Liberty isn't an invitation to the world to come on over. It's not a law; it's just a poem.
What sucks is that their motto is what they really should be.
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For those of us who obey the the laws, police do indeed protect us from those who break the law.
@Iammemineshaft It's called doing the right thing. @Lyone Fein, I absolutely agree!
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The police forces as they are now were first put together to control crime riddled, lower income neighborhoods, mostly black or Hispanic, when they started gaining equal rights.
Facebook Group with links to hundreds of news stories about police misconduct. New links added daily. Everyone is welcome to join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1916604375066969/
I'm kinda terrified that people needed till adulthood to figure out some of these...
i am with you on that Leo. Some of these are just too common sense like to not have known for so long.
I think it's not the lack of knowledge itself but the lack of willingness to learn that is shameful. These people learned the truth eventually and it's great!
Sometimes, you don't know what you don't know, so you may have no curiosity.
Curry on... ?
Daria Z no
In italy you say "a caval donato non si guarda in bocca " ..it means "you don't look in the mouth of a given horse" You can say the age (and value of it) counting the teeth, so you don't judge the value of a horse (or anything else) you receive as a gift. The problem is that in Italy Donato is also a name of a person . My father discovered it by his 50.. "i always wondered why this horse was called Donato and what was the meaning of it.. "
'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth' would be the english translation. Meaning pretty much the same.
I had misheard that when I was little and I thought the saying was "you don't lick a gift horse in the mouth" and I really could not fathom why anyone would want to lick ANY horse's mouth let alone one they received as a gift. My family reminds me of this on occasion.
GirlFriday love
@GirlFriday: Still good, if overly specific, advice.
Mine was: Marshall Mathers = M.M. -> Similar to M&M (candy) -> Sounds like Eminem
I used to think that the world was in black in white back in the day when I watched black and white tv shows and movies. Yeah my dad had to correct me on that.
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I never knew until a few years ago (I'm currently 77) that black olives and green olives are the same fruit at different stages of ripening.
Arnold Cohen +
Look up Graber Olive Co. in my hometown of Ontario, California. They sell the green/brown olives prior to their pitting and colouring. The olives are grown in Lindsay, California, and the companies in Lindsay, however, de-pit the olives, wash them in a lye solution, which keeps them from collapsing in the jar or can, and then brines the now-black green olives in a salt solution. It is called the California method. -Dr M
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They are not. Green olives are green, calamata olives are the purplish ones and black olives are dyed with octopus ink.
Lillukka79, someone lied to you. Arnold and Gregory are correct. Look it up if you don't believe us. Then go punch whoever lied to you in the face for making you look bad.
Black olives are ripe green olives. Think of green tomatoes and red ones. Both are tomatoes. You can eat tomatoes green or red. Think fried green tomatoes.
My father, who besides being an attentive husband is a brilliant man, nevertheless found out from me in his sixties, after over forty years of marriage, that a skirt and a dress are not the same thing. I take part of the blame, as I had spent my whole life wondering why he interchanged the terms and I never said anything.
Lots of Americans here. Not very relatable
Soooo it turns out that not all animals have genitalia and separate places for excretion and urination. Many have a single combined orifice for all these functions called a cloaca. I learned this the other day at the age of 36. To be fair, none of my friends knew either.
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I have a great oh moment...I'm a girl and I was 16, and I'm at a family event. I'm around my grandmother, my aunt, and my mom when they started mentioning that my 7 year old cousin had wet the bed recently.. And I say, "oh, isn't he a little old for wet dreams?" Totally thought that was a phrase for wetting the bed. Everyone goes really quiet and they stare at me..then kind of start talking again after I have this total look of confusion on my face. I figured out what the term really meant soon after and boy am I embarrassed af...
Bre Amsink Good response!
I cringed so much while reading this...
Some Dutch stores.... I thought V&D and Vroom & Dreesman where two different stores. And only last year I realized about the store C&A - they sell different brands clothing. Canda is one of them. I only realized this year Canda is not Can-da, but C-and-a... Also, Hennes and Mauritz being the same as H&M. I don't trust abbreviations anymore...
Debbie ?
Me age 8, singing along with my mum to Meatloafs bat out of hell, "cilla black found on a bike" my mum laughed hysterically, didn't tell me for another 4 years that it was in fact "silver black phantom bike".
Well, both Cilla Black (RIP) and Meatloaf were good performers...so, 2 out of 3 ain't bad...
I was 25 when I learned that fleas aren’t just cartoon pests. Had a boyfriend over after moving to Seattle (from NW Montana, where we don’t have as many insect problems due to the winters) and he’s told me the cat had fleas. I didn’t believe him, but was embarrassed he thought my cat was dirty, so have him a bath. White short hair cat fur becomes see through when wet.....and that’s when I realized the thousand of black bugs that suddenly became visible weren’t from a cartoon. Burned all my furniture and shaved all my cats, totally traumatized. Likewise, I was 35 when I was talking with a co-worker, looked at something on the ceiling....and discovered cockroaches are also real and not just a made for TV bug... I’m a doctor.
Jane Smith good
I love Meatloaf, and always used to listen to and sing along to "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" growing up. I especially liked the Baseball announcer part. I thought the guy was playing baseball and the girl interrupts the game before he reaches home base. Then when I was 45, I was driving to work listening to the song on the radio, and I actually said out loud "He's talking about sex". Lol, I'm embarrassed to say I never clued in before that.
For a long time, I thought bananas and coconuts grow on trees. They don't.
I see coconuts growing in trees all the time, and have a banana tree in my yard, so I'm not sure where you think they grow if not on trees.
You probably think this is a tree: Flower-5f1...eaceb3.jpg
The banana plant is classified as a perennial herb. The coconut plant is classified as an arecaceae. Neither the banana plant or the coconut plant is a tree. You could have quickly and easily found this information by doing a search on the internet. Next time try checking the facts first before posting. Things usually work better that way.
Only according to botanists. And if we accept their definitions for everything, we'd have to refer to tomatoes, peppers and beans as fruits.
They are not clearer definitions, they are just definitions that are different from colloquial use. For example, did you know that botanists consider balsa wood to be hardwood?
What's wrong with some clearer definitions?
If we want to get really technical, tomatoes and peppers are berries, not fruits.
Actually, tomatoes are berries and banana plant is a grass.
K.Kobayashi what
My guess is that many of these things were taught at school and the individual (1) failed the test or (2) forgot. In any case, I'm sure plenty of teachers are rolling over in their graves.
No. Just no. Most of what you learn does not come from books at school. It comes from encountering it multiple times and finding links and patterns. Most tests are passed with partial knowledge (you don't need a 100%) and hopefully the gaps are filled somewhere along the way. These are all examples of people who did not fill in the gaps :) Just never really needed it until they did or found someone looking weirdly at them.
You can't consume fish with dairy products unitl i ate salmon with cream cheese
Religious dietary laws...I still eat it.
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that's really strange, because I've worked in cafes where our most popular sandwhich was a bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese. :o Maybe it was your salmon that was the problem, and not the combination? Either way... food poisoning is awful & I'm so sorry you had to go through that. :(
I think they're saying that they believed "you can't eat fish with dairy", until they actually did eat it.
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It never ceases to amaze me just how bad our educational systems are / how stupid humans can be. Wowsers!!
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How stupid are you?
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“The unhealthy way to react is to pretend you’re not embarrassed, that you didn’t make a mistake, or to get angry. Those things undo the positive effect of embarrassment typically has on other people by conveying insincerity and pushing people away rather than drawing them in,” Bohns said.” The other extreme bugs me too. There’s been this trend of performative self-deprecation in recent years and it drives me nuts because I never asked anyone to insult themselves for not knowing some innocent thing or for not being super productive during lockdown or what have you. I don’t want to deal with someone who can never admit that they’re wrong, but I’m all for a happy medium.
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It's not "Chester Drawers" it's "Chest of Drawers" - 17 "Crock Pot" is so called because it's a pot that holds a crock - 26 The direction North, is not streight up to the sky - 8 It's not called "Morris Code" - 35