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“Not My Proudest Moment”: 30 Times People Realized They Were Doing Something The Wrong Way
Many would likely agree that despite how much experience we’ve gathered, there’s always something new to learn. That becomes clear as day at times that make people go, “Is that how I was supposed to use this??”
Whether it’s an object, an application, a language, or something else people might use, they're not immune to doing it wrong, which often calls for an “oh sh… oe” moment. Such moments were once discussed on an ‘Ask Reddit’ thread, started by a netizen who wanted to know what people have been doing wrong for years before learning that theirs wasn’t the right way. Quite a few redditors shared their stories, so if you’re curious to see what they would mess up, scroll down to find their answers on the list below.
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#1
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.
Debbie 9 months ago
I always fill by the spout as well. Works just as good as opening the lid. Ofcourse I open the lid do clean the kettle. My previous kettle's lid was broken in a way that it wouldn't stay closed if you didn't close it the right way, it was a bit tricky to do. So then the behaviour of filling by the spout started,
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#2
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 damn 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.
Angela Corvaia 9 months ago
Ha, our renters did the same thing in the master bathroom (I love dimmers, very moody and I have them everywhere - not ceiling fans); anyway, they had been showering in the moody lighting for months until I showed them the dimmer - so bright! Ha again, they went back to the moody showers.
SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago
I'd probably do this!!! I had a tall heater/fan. Blew air during the summer and hot air during the winter but it didn't have instructions. I phoned the company and after much laughter on both our sides? He gave me instructions and apologised for it not coming with the manual!
#3
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. Damn; that b***h is silver. Still miss my blue microwave sometimes though...
Paul C. 9 months ago
My BIL, who is a right know-it-all , fitted his own kitchen. They complained the Fridge/Freezer was rubbish and after 10 years replaced it. The whole of the back was covered in thick Polystyrene, that he hadn't removed! I nearly choked on my coffee when I heard.
Frank H 9 months ago
LOL - ok, let's estimate the kilowatthours wasted in those 10 yrs. of heating Polystyrene... :-)
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Sergio Bicerra 9 months ago
My dentist bought a new tv a couple of months before covid hit. That mf still has the surrounding plastic and sticker with the features.
Depressy spaghetti 9 months ago
It is sacrilege to remove the sticker with the features /j
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Annie 1973 9 months ago
I'd rather have a blue kitchen appliance than a white, black or stainless steel one.
#4
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.
Janissary35680 9 months ago
Eggplants and other members of the Nightshade family contain histamines. Lots of them.
SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago (edited)
I'm allergic to Capsicum. Bell peppers, Chillis etc. I've gone into Anaphylaxis and had an ambulance called for Epinephrine. Itchy and redness on your chest, face and wheezing definitely is NOT a flavour!!! Neither is scaring other people when you're all "Omg I cwant bweef" because your throat has swollen up and you scare the living wits out of others! I feel so sorry for others who have a rare allergy. It's hard to be believed sometimes.
Julie Blaylock 9 months ago
Took me several years to realize that you can be allergic to bananas and I am.
Philenzortia 9 months ago (edited)
Same thing happened to my best friend but with kiwi. She always thought that kiwi was similar to pineapple and that it leaves an itching feel. Nope, she’s just allergic to them.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
My brothers always had their tongues bleed when trying kiwi fruit
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detective miller's hat 9 months ago
My sister almost died the first time she ate eggplant, which led my mother to become petrified of the rest of us ever eating eggplant in case we had the same reaction. 40 years old and the fear lives on because I have never tried eggplant, and neither have any of my other siblings.
Michelle C 9 months ago
Yup. I found out about similar food allergies as a young adult having experienced similar symptoms… in their case, I hope neither OP nor his or her baby were hospitalized!
Annabel Again 9 months ago
Friends, Fuzzy is also not a flavor! My mouth feels fuzzy or furry kind of like it’s lined with something, including my tongue, when I eat figs. This is also an allergy.
Annabel Again 9 months ago
Also, sometimes things that taste itchy or whatever, also taste delicious, which is why in my experience, it would make sense to keep eating them. Not all allergies or life-threatening thankfully. I guess stuff with minor symptoms just kind of seems like part of the deal like how something that’s really sour makes your face pucker.
#5
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.
SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago
I've always tried to learn the words - "Please" and "Thank you" when I've travelled. Those and learning the local customs. There's a few Polish shops near here so I asked one of the cooks where I worked how to say "Thank you" in Polish. He said, "Oh you're one of those"... Um, nope, I like to be polite and what did you mean by that? 😕 🙁 I mean when someone says "Oh you're one of those"? Exactly what are you trying to say? I learn about languages by asking and Please, Thank You are the two main ways that I learn.
For All Pedernity 9 months ago (edited)
I mixed up 'cheers' and 'hello' in Georgia for a week, got a lot of giggles and weird looks from shop staff and didn't understand why.
#6
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....
Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
At least the Charlies, Juliets, Mikes, Oscars and Victors of this world can say that they are in the phonetic alphabet
Panda McPandaface 9 months ago
I had a dog named Whiskey if that helps...
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Robert Trebor 9 months ago
I wish I could still sit like that kid on the left. It hurts now to think of doing it.
SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago
My name is a pain in the posterior!!! 😄 I always have to spell it out on the phone! I'm so used to doing so that I automatically do it even if they haven't asked! 😄
#7
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.
Ben Taylor 9 months ago
I hate to say it, but I did the same thing. Would sit on the floor right in front of my TV to play. Went to get up one day and the cord came out of the controller, and I thought I broke the thing!!
Jaya 9 months ago
I think it's quite normal to not realize that something with a cord is actually wireless but with a charging cord. Why would you even expect that it could be wireless? Although I do think you should read the manual first, but there are so many people who don't and I think many of them could make the same mistake of expecting it to be wired instead of wireless.
Greyling Streets 9 months ago
But they watch Netflix, there’s no commercials.
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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.
EDIT: Thank you all for the upvotes, the silver and the gold. For those of you who suffer from the same affliction and want to make a change or two I highly recommend daily meditation and reading the stoics and/or checking out The School of Life .com (a brilliant "how to" guide for living a better life).
Papa 9 months ago
My mother was the most selfish and self-centered person I ever met. It wasn't vindictive; she just didn't consider other people's feelings, and I don't think it ever occurred to her that she should. It took me longer than it should have to realize that, while not to that extent, I have some of those same tendencies. I like to think I've made progress in overcoming them.
Jac Carr 9 months ago
You weren't a narcissist. It takes more than being an a*****e to be a narc plus narcs don't think they have a problem. The fact you recognised that you did means you're not one
AsylumWalker 9 months ago
Narcissists absolutely can still recognise theres a problem and work on themselves
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#9
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.....
Russell Kaiser 1 month ago
I used to work from home doing technical support on the weekends taking inbound calls when they had "call tones" where the caller would hear music you chose instead of ringing when calling you. I had forgotten I had applied Lady Gaga's "Telephone" to my cell phone so anyone who called for technical support on the weekends was hearing "Stop calling, stop calling, I don't wanna think anymore!"
#10
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.
Sky Render 9 months ago
Ran into that with corn a while back. Never liked it, but it finally clicked that I have tolerance issues with corn that get worse the more sedentary my lifestyle becomes. That was a fun couple of months getting back to a level of fitness where corn didn't knock me into a near-comalike state!
Lee Gilliland 9 months ago
And seeing as corn is in about everything these days, you had no choice.
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I'm lactose intolerant and didn't know until I was in my early 20s either. I just used to be on the toilet all the time after having cheese or milk. If you ever want a cheap smelly flight somewhere? Give me a brick of cheese and strap yourself to my back and I'll fart us there!!! 😄
Gadaffi Duck 9 months ago
Allergic to dairy since birth, was virtually unheard of in the 80s. Didn't know until I was 30. Suddenly made a lot of sense. Still can't give up cheese tho, some things are worth the struggle.
Kate 9 months ago
Imagine being born in the late 50's! Fortunately the Dr. recommended goat milk. Now I enjoy plant milk.
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ADJ 9 months ago
I was lactose tolerant, all right, until I was not. Apparently some of us lose this ability at around 40... This one piece of cheesecake made me rethink my life choices.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago (edited)
I on the other hand only became lactose intolerant when I was mid 20s. Two of my siblings were lactose intolerant until they were about 3.
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Regina Holt 9 months ago
Luckily (at least for me) I had a friend who was lactose intolertant. So I knew about the problem. So when I somehow became lactose intolerant (after getting gall bladder removed, which I now wonder if it was necessary) I knew to take Lactaid. I never leave home without it, just in case someone offers me cheese.
#11
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!
Paul C. 9 months ago
Not quite the same but... My mate and I played for a Sunday side that won a Large County Cup Final (football/soccer). A few months later I was in his flat and noticed the plastic medal case sitting on his mantlepiece. Asked him about it and he said what a disappointing "medal" it was for a big final. He looked a tad shocked when I flipped it open to show him the gleaming silver and gold inscribed medal inside!
#12
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.
George Costanza 9 months ago
Can you not read? Like, you bought that bottle of fabric softener multiple times over 8 years and never once read the bottle??
Tammy Hornback 9 months ago
If you gave it some thought, you would realize that this person telling this story will never see your comment, so you are uselessly being mean.
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago
If ever in doubt? Ask if you can. Not everyone knows every exact thing so a little bit of courtesy and helpfulness goes a long way 🙂
#13
When I was a kid and was acting up, my dad would always threaten to leave me at this mean old lady’s house. Her name was Helen Handbasket. Fast forward about 28 years later and it clicks out of nowhere while I was on a customer call at work.
Customer: This whole network is going to hell in a handbasket.
Me: HA! I’m an idiot.
Customer: Did you figure it out?
Me: OH! No. Not yet.
Tom Brincefield 9 months ago
I always wondered who Richard Stands was, and why we were pledging allegiance to his republic when we did the Pledge of Allegiance in grade school.
#14
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.
geezeronthehill 9 months ago
Incense is okay if you don't mind the smoke, but I've sure had it with patchouli.
Melli Peep 9 months ago
I love patchouli! That's what my car smells like.
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Russell Rieckenberg 9 months ago
I thought for sure when I read "lighting the incense wrong" they were lighting it from the bottom.
SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago
I'm on number 8 and I'm so glad that I'm not the only so called "dumb" person out there!!! 😄
#15
My mom has been pronouncing Massachusetts "Massa Two Shits" for years and no one corrected her because they thought she just had strong feelings about Massachusetts.
Jeff White 9 months ago
I usually go with "Massive Two Sh*ts" but whatever works for you is good.
Sky Render 9 months ago
Reminds me of a story my mom told me about how my grandparents once met a couple who pronounced Toyota as "two yachter".
#16
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.”.
Lily bloom 9 months ago
I dont think id use a community cup in the bathroom even with my own family even if its not used for dental appliances
Dragons Exist 9 months ago
Same, me and my brother shared a bathroom and we had separate cups
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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.
Regina Holt 9 months ago
I only learned of this on BP. Living alone there is no one there to tell you that you are an idiot.
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
I'd say that's a benefit I enjoy too but my pet rats are amazingly good at giving me the side-eye.
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#18
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...
#19
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.
Michelle C 9 months ago
To be fair, the employee did give OP a little magic in his or her life!
Mike Esposito 9 months ago
I worked there for years. It was called fairy dust and it was more than just garlic salt. They may have changed it since the 80's and 90's though.
#20
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.
Jeff White 9 months ago
My name IS Jeffrey and the Driver License Bureau spelled it Jeffery. I made them change it. Twice. They misspelled it twice.
Robert T 9 months ago
I worked with a grown adult that couldn't handle the other spelling, Geoffrey, which normally gets shortened to Geoff. He kept calling the guy Goff. And before you say he might not have English as his first language, he was Welsh, but English was his first language. He just wasn't the sharpest tool in the box!
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 9 months ago
I'm a Michael. The number of times people write it down as Micheal.... * sheesh*
Featherytoad 9 months ago
I always have to stop and think about this when I write your name.
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Zoe Vokes 9 months ago
I’m glad I’m not in America where they have Zoey, Zooey, etc. as alternative spellings of Zoe. I used to get annoyed in school if teachers put the umlaut in the wrong place, but failing to spell a three letter name would be very annoying. My name is Zöe on my birth certificate.
Herringbone 9 months ago
So your birth certificate is wrong? The usual spelling is Zoë. The diacritic is not an umlaut but a dieresis, a mark placed over the second of two consecutive vowels to show that they are pronounced separately (eg, Chloë, Noël, naïve, coöp).
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Tom Brincefield 9 months ago
My grandma and everyone else in the family spelled her name Mable. When she died at 86, we were all surprised to discover it was spelled Mabel on her birth certificate.
Tim Douglass 9 months ago
It's surprisingly common for birth certificates to get a name spelled wrong. The paperwork is (or at least used to be) often filled out by a nurse or aid in the hospital when a baby is born, so when the mom says "His name is Jeffrey" the nurse just spells it as they know and suddenly it's "Geoffrey". And how many parents look closely at their kids birth certificate when it comes in the mail? I double-checked all of my kid's because our last name is often misspelled, but in the early daze of parenting an infant "Mike" could have come out as "Abcde" and I probably wouldn't have noticed.
Tammy Kirks 9 months ago
My mom put an "e" on the end of her first name when she was in grade school and has spelled it that way ever since. Her birth certificate does not include that extra letter
David Jeffery 9 months ago
My last name is Jeffery and the amount of times it's spelled incorrectly is mind numbing
#21
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.
Sergio Bicerra 9 months ago
Some weeks ago went with some coworkers to have a picnic for lunch at a near park, I took my Uno cards. After lunch we wanted to play but a new coworker was reluctant about it. She told us she never plays cause she's colorblind and has problems with the color blue. I told her to just watch the cards that have a square on top, those are the blue ones. She got pretty dumbfounded and her eyes watered a little: for years she's been just watching her family/friends play and never took part of it. Now she can play with us.
Lee Gilliland 9 months ago
We had to leave the decaf on a certain hob at work because of a colorblind co-worker.
Grm Moore 9 months ago
I figured out son had red/green colour issues when he was 2. He always knew then. Purples as blue, browns and yellows/green. Not red totally, but the shades like mustard brown, olive green etc...like bleaching the red out of colours.
Debbie 9 months ago
My son has unconfirmed colourblindness, so when I am looking at new games I take that into consideration. I pass on games where you have to act fast based on attributes like colours or have to collect colours (and there are no symbols to identify those).
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#22
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 s****r 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 h**h 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.
Heir of Durin 9 months ago
This is so sad. How embarrassing to have to figure this out on your own. ☹️
Bettye McKee 9 months ago
It's equally sad that h!gh [school] and crus@de must be censored.
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Patsy Robins 9 months ago
It’s 40 years since I was learning how to use a tampon with an applicator, but the box definitely had instructions back then!
Limey 9 months ago
Crusade. Heaven knows why either of them were censored. And what is the first word that was censored?
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Featherytoad 9 months ago
When I first got my period, I thought I had to wear a pad everyday for the rest of my life. My mom couldn't figure out where all the pads were going and she asked me if I was wearing a pad even when not on my period. I was so embarrassed and just told her no, and I didn't know where they were all going.
K Barnes 9 months ago
In my case my mom refused to buy them so I only had the ones my friends would pass onto me, no box or pamphlet.
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detective miller's hat 9 months ago
Soon we're just going to have all the words censored. Bloody ridiculous.
Jaya 9 months ago
In my country tampons have a little instructions leaflet inside, do they not have that everywhere?
jonesnori 9 months ago
All the ones I've ever purchased came with instructions, yeah. U.S.
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roddy 9 months ago
She was totally right about the applicators, though. So unnecessary. They're the equivalent of the pink glove. Except that people are so used to seeing them they don't recognize the problem.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I never even saw a tampon with an applicator until I went to Canada. They aren't on most brands of tampons in Australia, though my mum said they were in the 70s.
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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.
Matt Durbin 9 months ago
Jimi Hendrix played his guitar with the whole guitar upside-down. Sometimes with his tongue, or behind his back. The point is, if you can make music with the mouthpiece backward, you're still way ahead of a lot of people who'd love to be able to play an instrument but just can't for whatever reason.
#24
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.
Michelle C 9 months ago
Technically, it is edible, but is eating the paper worth the odd taste and digestive issues that may follow such an experience?
The Scout 9 months ago
Technically, everything is edible. Some things only once, though...
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Erla Zwingle 9 months ago
Excuse me, but what sort of person would tell a child the paper is edible? A really horrible person. Why? For what reason or purpose would a person tell this to a child? (On the other hand, a decade eating them doesn't speak well for OP's mental capacities either....).
Lee Gilliland 9 months ago
They're folded parchment paper, which is flood safe and actually goid for you if you need roughage.
#25
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”.
Regina Holt 9 months ago
I once had a long "discussion" with a friend about the different pronunciations for "pull" and "pool". I still don't know the difference. I'm hearing impaired, so maybe that is the problem. So I totally understand OP's issue;
Ellen Felder geb Treml 9 months ago
we say "elefant in china shop", that cannot be mistaken :-D
SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago
I'm slightly deaf so I often mishear things. Usually no big deal. I just need you to spell the word out to me 🙂
#26
I used to pull my pants down all the way at the urinal.
Schmebulock 9 months ago
I recently saw an adult male do this in a busy bathroom where people were waiting in line. I had to hold in the laughing until I walked out.
Charles Kormos 9 months ago
At home, yes. You never know the initial direction and I'm not changing these pants.
Joshua David 9 months ago
Once i walked into the bathroom in 1st grade and ill never forget seeing what you just described you did. It affected me so much that at 46 I can easily recall the horror.
Mark McCawley 9 months ago
Went to a school with a kid named Eric that did this. Bare a*s pants at the ankles while using the urinals.
#27
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.
Edit: thank you for my first silver! I'm glad I can teach the world about opening new deodorant sticks more easily.
Edit 2: and thank you for my first gold! What a great day!
Annabel Again 9 months ago
Looks like a push-up pop, but more of a flattened oval shape instead of round. Has a twister at the bottom to make the insides a.k.a. and the deodorant go up while the outside stays where it is just like on the ice cream push pops.
Bettye McKee 9 months ago
This happens more than people realize. However, ignorance is not knowing something they have never been told.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I can't even picture what that type of deodorant looks like, I have no idea what this means
ManuelQue 9 months ago
A common name for the style is "stick deodorant". The woman in the photo is using it but you can only see the side. It's roughly 3 inches wide and made of hard plastic. The deodorant stick itself is made of a slightly firm substance. The bottom of the plastic covering is turned with one's hand to move the deodorant above the plastic. Sorry for the long and possibly useless post.
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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.
Nikole 9 months ago
My mom tells this story of when I was learning how to brush my teeth… I was brushing them horizontally so she said, “Now, brush up and down”, and I started jumping.
Load More Replies... Tom Brincefield 9 months ago
I knew this, and I've had 6 root canals, need another one, and don't want to think about how many fillings I have had.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
This is why dentists where I live encourage parents to brush their kids teeth until they are at least 8, so they are able to learn to do it properly before being relied on to do it themselves.
Evan Connolly 2 months ago
That's terrible! You only get one set of teeth after your baby teeth fall out.
Annabel Again 9 months ago
A lot of people don’t seem to know you have to brush your tongue too. Sorry that happened to you OP
#29
Always took things for "granite".
Bettye McKee 9 months ago
All of these mispronunciations occur because no one bothers to correct the speaker.
Ryan Mercer 9 months ago (edited)
Yeah, someone could have nipped this in the butt years ago. Ah well, I could caroless.
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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.
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
I bought a new, larger suitcase for my latest month-long train adventure. The duffle bag which had fit so well on my old rollie just didn't like this new one (I'd been securing it with a device that went around the bag, but the bag kept trying to escape). Went to buy a new bag and got one with a slot strap on the back and it is amazing.
#31
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...
René Sauer 9 months ago
Do people not read the package or manual when they buy stuff? Assuming they didn´t buy it used?
#32
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.
Josephine Blogs 9 months ago
In the UK chinese takeaway comes in plastic containers that we reuse to freeze our leftovers (not chinese food though, there's never leftovers). 😋
les 9 months ago
and we always go to the chinese with the good tubs, even if the other has better food. one of my local chinese swapped to different tubs and everybody complained til they changed back
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 9 months ago
I dont fold it out because I rarely finish it all so i use the containing as a leftover bin
#33
Over the years I had several girlfriends and from time to time they’d vent their frustrations or come to me when they were upset. I often half listened before beginning my efforts to badger them with the obvious solution to the problem. It took too long a time for me to realize they were more than capable of solving their own problems are were looking for a boyfriend, not a life coach.
Papa 9 months ago
It may not be a popular opinion, but this is an example of how men and women's brains work different. If you're presenting a man with a problem, his first instinct is to help solve it, so it's difficult for us to comprehend that women just want someone to listen. I can't speak for all men, but I don't tend to vent if I've had a bad day because I just want to forget it ever happened. Talking about it is like pouring salt in the wound. To be clear, I'm not saying one is better or worse, they're just different.
setsuriseikou 9 months ago
I'm a woman, and I'm only one woman, but for me it has always been the norm to help solve the problem I am told about, and I tend to keep my problems to myself unless I actually need help solving it. My Mom also prefers to not talk about bad things more than she absolutely has to. And I still have to remind myself it's not always advice my SO expects from me when he's venting about his stupid customers.
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When I was a junior in college I wrote a paper that alluded to the Underground Railroad. My room mate did a quick read through for me and said “this is great, except it seems like you think that the Underground Railroad was literally underground”.
I truly believed there were a set of tunnels that made up the Underground Railroad. Didn’t learn elsewise til I was 21. Thanks public school education.
Papa 9 months ago
The Underground Railroad refers to the route (probably routes) escaped slaves took to get to Canada in the US prior to the Civil War. Typically there would be people along the route to help them, and this knowledge was passed around.
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#35
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.
#36
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 poo-filled onesie over his head and inevitably give our now super duper poo 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 poo in hair incidents had I known that then.
Patsy Robins 9 months ago
I point this out to all new parents when I’m teaching them how to dress their baby! Mostly because I’d been a midwife for about 10 years, AND had six babies in my close family before I learned it!
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Thank you, Patsy Robins. I only learned about this many years after the knowledge was applicable. I do wonder why the makers of these garments don't put a little diagram on the packaging to explain - I mean, how are you supposed to know unless someone tells you?
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I'm guessing there are different types of onsies. The ones my mum used for my baby siblings had press-studs (think other places call them poppers?) down the front like buttons on a shirt, and also along the bottom seam from foot, under the bum, to other foot. I can't imagine thinking they could only be pulled up.
OneHappyPuppy 9 months ago
Pampers have only recently introduced the no blow out diapers and I'm absolutely in love with the Greek slogan they used for them - you see, the greek word for waterfall is katarakti - (where cataract originated from) and the slogan was prevents kakarakti - prevents poo waterfalls
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 9 months ago
Really...? I don't have kids, have never been around kids, never babysat, and I knew that. Just seems like common sense?
#37
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.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 9 months ago
2 seconds behind was what I was taught. 'Only a fool breaks the 2 second rule'
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I was told you should be able to see the back tyres of the car in front, touching the road. This would be a different distance depending on your height, so seems flawed.
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#38
So... I was fortunate enough to buy my own home due to unfortunate circumstances. I moved in and the thermostat thing was set to about 70 degrees (F). As time went on, I couldn't figure out why there was no visible way for me to change the temperature. My electric bill would be through the roof every month. The thermostat is well above my eye level and I lived alone for quite some time, though family and friends did visit regularly.
After several months of leaving windows opened or closed to adapt to the change in weather, I finally asked my niece (I think?) to check the thermostat for a way to change the temperature. She looked around for a bit and saw that there was a tab I was supposed to pull to reveal all of the buttons and settings of the goddamned thermostat.
"Oh s**t."
So glad I posted this late enough for it to go mostly unnoticed. I'm an idiot.
EDIT: So it's been months, not years. Still. Damn it.
#39
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.
Kabuki Kitsune 9 months ago
To be perfectly fair, not every car has this feature, so it's something that could easily be missed.
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
That's good if you have people in your life who like to put bombs on their friends' ignition circuits.
#40
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.
Robert T 9 months ago (edited)
Not that far fetched. Some airports do have pipelines to the refineries. Manchester Airport has one and they are planning to also supply Hydrogen through it.
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
The fuel supply for the Austin-Bergstrom Airport is brought by trucks, but plans are afoot to build a pipeline to a location near my house (not too close), where the trucks would go to avoid the nasty ant irrational traffic around the airport.
Load More Replies... Dragons Exist 9 months ago
I thought the same thing till I was 9 and saw a gas station being refilled
#41
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.
Kira Okah 9 months ago
Everyone has songs they mondegreen. Song I love I do it to a lot even though I know the lyrics now, because my album didn't have the lyrics in it and it's not in a language I speak (song is Canção do Povo from Grandia 2, singer doesn't know Portuguese so there is a heavy accent on the lyrics, beautiful song).
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I have auditory processing issues, so I can't even tell what a lot of lyrics could be. Like it's just noise, not words. It gets really frustrating! It took me way too long to find out that the reason the song Zombie by the Cranberries is called Zombie is that's what is being sung in the chorus!
#42
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.
Lost Panda 9 months ago
When I was a child, I thought it was to measure flood water height... Not a proud moment...
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
Or the amount of gas which escaped from the underground pipeline.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 9 months ago
Do petrol (gas) stations in the US close the storefront at night? In Australia, most will only serve from an external window at night, to cut down risk of being robbed.
Jaya 9 months ago
Gas stations have colored tape measure? To measure robbers? I am flabbergasted.
Bored Seagull 9 months ago
Some do, sometimes they're also used in other shops. They're intended to allow the employees to easily determine the approximate height of a robber or shop lifter exiting through the door - the colors correspond to different height ranges.
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Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I don't think I've seen it in Australia either. Then again, we also don't have automatic petrol nozzles like the US does either.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 9 months ago
Do we have these in the UK and I’ve just been ridiculously unobservant or is this country specific?
#43
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.
#44
When I was a kid I loved drinking coffee but didn't know how to make it. My mom taught me but the coffee ratio she told me to use was like 1tbsp per 1 pot of coffee as opposed to the actual ratio 1tbsp:1cup of water. Fast forward about 13 years to a couple months ago and I was reading the back of my folgers coffee thing and there was a little diagram showing how much to actually use. I then realized my mom had told me the wrong amount so I a)wouldn't drink all her coffee, and b)wasn't super hyped up going into school.
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
controlling your caffeine intake. Smart mom didn't send a bomb to school.
#45
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 9 months ago
To be fair, I wouldn't know this if I wasn't expressly taught. I didn't have clock in/out systems at my first few jobs. It' only my last job that had electronic ones, and we had to learn to change which 'room' we were in, so if we were doing admin, on the floor, at lunch etc.
#46
Former school nurse here. The number of h**h school boys who don't know what circumcision is is amazingly h**h. 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.
Jac Carr 9 months ago
I have no idea why Americans think circumcision is normal. It's a completely unnecessary procedure they're choosing to perform on babies; that's sick
Zoe Vokes 9 months ago
I think it’s because the father had their foreskin removed and wants their boy to look the same as them.
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Jeremy Klaxon 9 months ago
Next year articles here will be like: * **** *** **** * *** **** ** *** ******
Panda McPandaface 9 months ago
I don't agree with circumcision, but I think 'molested' is the wrong word. 'Mutilated' maybe?
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Oh - not me (it was though my first year in my profession) but I see it ALL the time - people who don't know you need to cut off the little thread that keeps the vent in your skirts/suit jackets/winter coats closed. First day of intern season I want to run around with a little pair of scissors helping people out with their brand new suits :).
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I had a 10 year old show me there is a piece on my sewing machine that can cut the thread so I don't have to get scissors, when I took it in to work so they could sew something. I've had the machine for about 10 years, after inheriting it from my grandma. She showed me how to use it before she moved into a nursing home, but I don't think she mentioned that, so I wonder if she knew.
wowbagger 9 months ago
When tailored clothing is made, they often tack the vents and pockets closed with basting stitches so that they don't fold or wrinkle while they're being shipped to the store. I've known people who would complain about the "fake" pockets on their suit jackets until I showed them they just needed to snip the basting stitches to open the pocket.
Jaya 9 months ago
Is it something you can explain through text? I'm dying to know what they're talking about, but I don't know if it's one of those things you have to show instead of explain?
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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.
Sky Render 9 months ago
Still good to have some room, that said. Tight shoes are not comfortable!
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
But I'm 75, and my feet, until recently, are still apparently growing. Size 12 EE at 20, size 16 EEEE now.
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
Don't bother mentioning Marfan's. I may have a very slight case. No heart or other internal complications.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 9 months ago (edited)
Thing that I discovered with shoes is knowing your size in multiple measurements. Might be UK thing, but sometimes shops have different sizes on shoes to others - like a UK 6 is typically EU 39, but I know one shop has UK 6 as EU 39.5, which meant that they fell off, because person was an EU 39. I check both sizes on shoes.
Deta Rossiter 9 months ago
tight shoes give great Ingrown Toenails. I know, i have had both removed, and one i had done twice as the doc removed the whole nail, instead of snipping off the one side...
#49
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
Edit to say I’m a woman, people always think I’m a guy by my comments 🤷🏼♀️.
Regina Holt 9 months ago
I will tell you this, when I buy items like salad dressings, and other products that have a seal, I just puncture them also. Some of them are just about impossible to peel off.
#50
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.
camomooey 9 months ago
I did the same thing the first time I tried a tampon. Fortunately I figured it out right away. The instructions in the package were actually clear but I didn't read them closely enough lol.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I did the same, and complained to my mum about it after and she explained. I still didn't try again for a few months (the only reason I had used one in the first place was a mandatory swim test before outdoor ed classes).
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Pretty Pink Sky Photography 9 months ago
I love that your father was a great father for you in other ways
Blue Bunny of Happiness 9 months ago
This is actually the basis for a tampon advert in the UK at the moment, so it seems to be a common issue!
#51
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.
#52
Winding a watch that was battery powered. For like, a year. Ah, f**k. Thanks for making me think of that.
Bored Seagull 9 months ago
The crown (the little wheel on the side) is usually used to both wind the clock and to set the time. That's why even battery powered analog watches have them.
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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.
The Scout 9 months ago
While this is common, it depends on brand and make. Most cars have this feature, but I am now at my third car without.
Lost Panda 9 months ago
Really? I've seen it in every car I've ever driven (US and Japan)
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SirWriteALot 9 months ago
Yeah, it's only about 5 years that I can say that I know this "trick" :-) (I'm 50)
#54
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.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
Depends on the type of tongs. If you have only used that type I can see how you could miss this, but if you have used the ones with the metal band around them that slides to open/close I think it's more obvious. So you would know to look for a way to open them on the other type.
#55
I lived in a house for 6 years with a bathroom with no “shelf” or cupboard to put toiletries into. I was very disappointed and ended up using a window sill that was WAY too small to fit everything.
Anyway, one day we had a friend over and he asked why we don’t have anything in our bathroom cupboard. I was confused so he showed me.
It turns out that the mirror I had been using for 6 years has a hidden compartment behind it. It was a mirrored door to a mounted cupboard on the wall. I was astonished and IMMEDIATELY moved all my stuff from the window into the new space.
My friend was baffled that I had never figured out there was a space behind the mirror. There was an obvious gap between it and the wall that I SOMEHOW failed to notice.
Deta Rossiter 9 months ago
yet friend was not asked about snooping in the medicine cupboard...
Data1001 9 months ago
How could you not know that? I don't think I've ever been in a home that doesn't have a bathroom cabinet behind a mirror. Maybe the OP's *parents* didn't realize that, either?
Jaya 9 months ago
None of the houses I've lived in have had this. We just had separate mirrors and cabinets.
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As a boy, I had an unconventional method for masturbating. It would require a diagram to get across all its subtleties, but lets just say that it required two hands, was not intuitive, and simulated no known sex act—it was suboptimal. After a year or so of convoluted self-abuse, one of the older kids made the international jerkoff hand gesture towards me.
My jaw dropped.
I instantly knew that I had been doing it wrong all that time. It was so simple, so obvious, way quieter, and way more effective. I tried it that night and never looked back. That dude changed my life. Thank you, Chris Eastman.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 9 months ago
Way quieter??? We definitely need the illustrated explanation of this method!
#57
From as young as I knew the word "backpack" until about maybe the fifth grade, I called them "pack packs".
#58
I just realized I've been pronouncing sherbet like it has two "R's" in it. Found out when I asked my wife why she was saying it weird. It still sounds stupid without two R's.
Also, told a bunch of our friends and they agree it should be sherbert.
Kira Okah 9 months ago
Another dialectal thing. In English, both sherbet and sherbert are correct.
camomooey 9 months ago
I don't think that's correct. But yeah, I've heard a lot of people pronounce it sherbert.
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Herringbone 9 months ago
The contents of a Sherbet Dip Dab are not sorbet.
Load More Replies... #59
I have a tendency to think I know all about something but end up being completely wrong. Like the word “carafe.” I thought it was pronounced like “care-uh-fay,” and would use that word often at my old job. Corporate came in once to visit and I walked them through my department, all the while telling that our new “care-uh-fays” have been so popular and selling like crazy.
Also the word “segue.” I thought it was the best word ever, like I was such a grown-up for knowing it. But I spelled it “segway,” and I used it in all my essays - my AP tests, finals, my college essay. I mean, I was accepted, so it all worked out.
SirWriteALot 9 months ago
Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. (HIMYM, "chameleon")
roddy 9 months ago
Egypt is the one I remember my parents having a giggle at. But I was very young and had never heard it spoken.
Load More Replies... Robert Trebor 9 months ago
Some of mine: Penelope (Penn eh lowp), chimera (CH mera, detritus (Det rih tus), Bros. (Bros) (abbrev.)
Auntriarch 9 months ago
You don't want to know how 7 year old me pronounced titled
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Therese Clarke 9 months ago
I never learned phonetics, having taught myself to read by whole word before preschool. I frequently have this problem and prefer to read some books as audiobooks as it is more likely I have heard a word but not seen it written. Once I saw "laparoscopic cholecystectomy" in an article and had no idea how to pronounce it. I still remember the day I heard it at work (I was in health insurance) and immediately matched them up!
#60
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.
Gamblor 9 months ago
They turn the direction you turn the wheel up to 20 degrees or so. My wife's Volvo has them and they are kinda cool.
Load More Replies... Lost Panda 9 months ago
Strange... I don't have an option in my wife's car... it's always on unless stopped or reversing.
#61
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.
#62
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.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 9 months ago
Now that takes me back to the mid '60s, lol
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#63
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.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 9 months ago
I've always wiped from the front, reaching between my legs, and I wipe back to front. I'm female and have never had an infection or anything. You stop the 'poop wipe' before you get near your urethra FFS. Then use clean paper to wipe the urine.
Bartlet for world domination 9 months ago
Let me get this clear: you put your hand between your legs before wiping the urine?
Load More Replies... Deta Rossiter 9 months ago
like scrunching or folding. always split. like the cheeks.. I am going home now
Strack Attack 2 months ago
As in down the side of the hip, and into the hole.
Load More Replies... Wood Carver 9 months ago
I watched an episode of QI where they said this was a thing and that when asked sit or stand? Most people from both groups have no idea that the other group exists. As with all facts on QI they may or may not be true and may not be the same answer next year.
Load More Replies... #64
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.
#65
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.
#66
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...
#67
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.
#68
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.
#69
One of my Arabic neighbors asked my mom's boyfriend-at-the-time, "Hey Bob, which way is north?" So Bob pointed.
He responded, "Oh no! I've been praying in the wrong direction for five years!".
SirWriteALot 9 months ago (edited)
Don't they teach the "your watch is also a compass" thing anymore? Point hour-hand to sun, half the distance to 12 is south. EDIT: it's south. not north :-)
Regina Holt 9 months ago
The sun moves across the sky, it is not always in the same spot. This method does not seem very valid.
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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.
SirWriteALot 9 months ago
"changing the rollers" ... what kind of a drier are we talking about? Is this another US/EU thing? My drier has a huge drum and a little basket in front of it that needs to be removed and de-linted every 2-3 cycles.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 9 months ago (edited)
This is in addition to the little tray. On most dryers the front can easily be removed, thus revealing all of the lint that doesn't get caught by the little screen. Doing it yearly seems excessive, but it's worth doing if you never have. As far as changing the rollers, I suspect they were repairing the machine. The rollers help support the drum while it tumbles and over time they get worn out. Servicing a washer and dryer is relatively easy and requires few tools. There are loads of YouTube tutorials.
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Ria C. 9 months ago
In the US yes we have the lint trap but dryers also have vents. Personally we take a special tool that looks like a giant baby bottle brush and it's hooked up to a shop-vac and power drill to help with rotating said brush and it loosens and sucks out the extra lint in the vents. Oh and your screen needs to be cleaned after every use helps the clothes dry better and doesn't use as much energy.
Jaya 9 months ago
Why do people never read manuals? Sure, you probably already know how a dryer works, but a different brand might work slightly different, so just RTFM before your first use.
Wendy Miller 9 months ago
Sometimes there is no manual to read. When we bought our house, both washer and dryer were included. The manuals, not so much. Of course, in today's world, you can look up things online.
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Not really exactly what you're looking for but a few months ago I figured out Childish Gambino and Donald Glover are the same person. Definitely an oh s**t moment considering I'm a fan of both Donald and Childish Gambino for awhile before that.
#72
You know how people say you're supposed to hold chopsticks like you hold a pen? Well, when I was like 7 years old and went back to Taiwan with my family, I was thoroughly mocked by my dad's family for holding my chopsticks wrong. A very confused extra chibi version of me was like, "but I hold it like my pencil like I'm supposed to." On that day, I learned that I also apparently had never held a pen/pencil correctly either.(normal: hold pen between 2nd and 3rd digits; me: holds pen between 3rd and 4th digits)
Edit: changed fingers to digits because holy semantics. Also - for those of you feel that this resonates, the name for holding a pen/pencil this way is called the quadrupod grasp! My parents had let me write and hold my chopsticks this way because they were like, 'the darned child can feed herself so whatevs.' After the family started making fun of me, my dad tried to "correct" it - which just resulted in me holding my chopsticks the way they wanted me to during banquets/meals with family friends and I would do whatever I want at home. I still write with a quadrupod grasp, but I alternate the way I use my chopsticks now depending on which way helps me pick up the food better.
#73
My name is kasen, and when ever someone said “case in point” I was like Oh cool I got a point what does it mean.
#74
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.
#75
I thought of a second one. I was incredibly sheltered growing up. Anything sex-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 “cum” 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 penis and a blow job was - you guessed it - blowing on a penis until probably around 8th grade?
*sigh*.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 9 months ago
When my little sister got her first email account (In our schools we got them about 3rd grade) she'd email me and use "cum" as shorthand... I remember telling her not to use it and having to veeeery awkwardly say "Just don't" when she asked why
Blue Bunny of Happiness 9 months ago
Was this the hand job technique the other poster was using?
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I remember watching a show (don't remember which one) where a runaway girl becomes a prostitute and her first job she was asked for a blow job and she just blew on it. The client had to explain that's not what it is.
#76
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.
#77
I think im living wrong and dont know how to fix it.
#78
I always put my insoles in with the gel side facing up. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me how people liked them. Then I happened to see someone do it correctly one day. Felt like the world’s biggest dumbass.
#79
I ate mangoes with the skin on for a while before I learned you're supposed to peel them.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 9 months ago
Probably got extra vitamins and certainly extra fibre that way!
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
There is no 'meant to' when it comes to eating most fruit, regardless of what most people do. For example there are people who eat kiwi skin and mango makes more sense to me than that (I don't eat either fruit at all). Lots of people don't like the skin on apples and peel them and apart from less fibre there is nothing wrong with that.
#80
My father would cook grilled cheese sandwiches for breakfast when I was growing up. He’d burn those suckers a good 75% of the time. When he’d drop the crispy, black sando in front of me, he’d always say, “Cleans your teeth.”
I was 22 when a roommate saw me burn a GCS. I wasn’t concerned and explained it cleans you teeth.
With immediate disbelief, he accused me of lying. Ratatouille style, I was transported to back being a child. A time when I believed my dad might not lie to me nearly first thing every morning.
I later confronted my father. He got a kick out of it.
#81
I used to lace the speed hooks on my boots with two hands until I saw my linesman friend [speed hook his boots](https://youtu.be/1QwXnmu7wI0) like this. I was shook.
#82
Opening milk bottles. They all have that flap of plastic that you can grip to peel the cover off. I've ignored that for however long they've been doing them. It took my mum coming over to visit from overseas, watching me open a new bottle and ask me why I'm not using the flap for a grip. I actually asked what she meant and she showed me. I felt like I was 5 and learning how to subtract triple digit numbers all over again.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I'm confused and not sure which type of milk bottle they mean. Is it just the ones with a round top and a seal underneath? So they just didn't know there was a reason for the longer bit on one edge?
#83
Not so much something I was doing but something that I thought members of the opposite sex did. I though women put pads on their body like a band aid and just kinda trapped the period inside of them. Girlfriend had a lot of fun making fun of me over that. I am a 21 year old male, for context.
Sky Render 9 months ago
Oh god that would be nasty. Nope nope nope. No matter how annoying the bloody discharge is, it's even worse stuck inside instead!
CF 9 months ago
Yea, so gross! I can't imagine storing a waste material inside my body until there is a sufficient amount to justify stopping to release it. /j 😂
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Grew up thinking that the toilet seat was supposed to be up when you poop and down when you pee. Have no idea where I got this from but it made for a very interesting conversation with my friends later in life.
#85
As a kid I never knew that saving in video games were a thing, whenever I looked at the menu screen I just didn't think much of it and just ignored it. After a few years maybe when I was about 11 years old, I started watching gaming videos on YouTube and saw that you could save your progress. Little old me was absolutely mind blown that Pokemon wasn't supposed to be played in less than a day and that I could actually save my progress.
#86
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.
Edit: Bet you thought you were real original coming up with that username joke, huh? Bet you thought id never heard it before, huh?... Well whose not smart nooooooooooow!?!?!?! ... still me? ok yeah ill go home sorry.
SirWriteALot 9 months ago
Everyone learns differently but you actually have to learn how to learn. I was a good student and picked up stuff really fast. Until stuff got more difficult and I was not able to "pick it up" by just reading or listening so I had my lear-learning a little late and probably never really learned learning properly.
Tommy DePaul 1 month ago
We had a semester of English in high school called College Prep dedicated to teaching study tips and techniques as well as prep for the SATs.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 9 months ago
If you look at the grey text to bottom left under the post it has the OP’s user name. In this case, anon. Presumably on the thread that BP took this from there were comments about it that OP was responding to. If you click on the user name bit, it will take you to the original post.
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#87
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?
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
Shouldn't have to, but you do have to. And tips shouldn't be instead of a proper salary (celery).
Regina Holt 9 months ago
If my service was exceptional, I give 2 tips. One on the credit card or cash on the table. Then I give the server extra money that she can just pocket and not claim for tax purposes. One year on christmas eve, I gave a waitress an extra $20 and told her to stick it in her bra and just don't consider it a tip, just a little something extra.
#88
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.
#89
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.
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
I cheat and buy the deluxe, with the squeezy cheezy sauce, Sometimes I add grated cheddar.
T Barth 9 months ago
Add one slice of american cheese to the sauce before adding the pasta and your life will change forever
Shaggy 9 months ago
Velvita and an extra packet of the cheese powder... Use noodles for something later.
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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.
SirWriteALot 9 months ago
I'm outside the US but I've come across this name often ... however, my brain always goes "chick-a-fil" for whatever reason.
#91
Apparently the red ring around the bologna is *not* supposed to be eaten.
#92
Not entirely doing it wrong but did it worst. I HATED getting into the shower turning in the water and then splashed with cold water till it turns to a more tolerable temp. I ended up just standing in the corner in the cold waiting for the water to warm up. Until I came by a comment on Reddit to just turn on the shower before getting in and wait for it to warm up. And ever since then I have been doing that since!
Deborah 9 months ago
I've read this before and never realized that people could be that dumb. Of course you wait until the water is the right temperature!
SirWriteALot 9 months ago
when you squeeze against the cold tiles and glass but STILL get sprayed with one or two jets of cold water
#93
I’ve been saying “hold the fork down.” I just found out last week it’s “hold the fort down.” I’m in my 20s and have been saying fork for years. I just wonder why nobody ever corrected me haha.
#94
I took my then girlfriend to a fancy baja bucket joint in San Diego, and we each ordered a variety bucket full of shrimp, lobster, carne asada, chicken, etc.
Trying to be suave and playful, I went to feed her a single shrimp tail from my bucket.
She giggled and I put the shrimp in her mouth but held the tail... because nobody eats that.
And she bit down, I pulled the tail away. And she chewed... then stopped... then chewed once more and stopped, and she stared at me with a, "...da fuq you doing?" look on her face.
This is when I learned about "peeling" shrimp.
#95
One day I was with my friends and we were talking about almonds but when I said the word they all looked at me funny and apparently I say it wrong?
They say it to where it almost sounds like they say owl. So "awl-mund" but I say it like the name Al. So I say it "Al-mund" with a more pronounced "a".
They thought this was hilarious, especially since I was with my twin sister and she doesn't say it like me.
Edit: they say it like "all-mund".
Kira Okah 9 months ago (edited)
And in my dialect, it sounds like arl-mund. Dialects are fun and interesting.
Therese Clarke 9 months ago
I grew up in almond country in CA and the 'l' was never pronounced
#96
I used to brush first, then floss. Then my friend told me after you floss, your teeth gaps are still dirty and you should brush after. Now I floss, then brush.
#97
I'd been keying 1-3-0 on the microwave for years before I realised I only needed to type 9-0.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
My new microwave doesn't let you type in numbers, just press + and it goes up by 10 seconds for first 2 minutes, then by 30 seconds after that. It's quite annoying!
SirWriteALot 9 months ago
but then you have to do math ... so 30% typing increase vs doing "one minute is 60 and half a minute is 30 and 60 and 30 is 90"
#98
Well, to start off I'm male who grew up with my grandma and mom. So growing up I had very few male influences and I'm 34 now so internet sucked.
Anyway, when I was 12 my mom decided to move us in with her boyfriend. The first night in our new place I walked out the shower with my towel on. My step-dad says "what are you doing, you're not a girl". I looked confused and said "I know, why?" he then said "guys don't wear their towels like that!". I then realized, I had always wore my towel up to my chest, since that's all I saw growing up, not realizing it was so they would cover their boobs. I was so embarrassed.
So yea, long story short, I wore my towel like a female until I was 12.
Bartlet for world domination 9 months ago
This post is 6 years old so the sucky internet was 1997.
#99
Brake jobs are expensive, so I got a friend of a friend to show me how to change the shoes.
He didn't explain much, just focused on getting the job (that he didn't want to do) done, so I just watched intently.
When the brakes needed doing again a year or so later, I made a decision that would cause me no small amount of frustration for years to come: I removed the entire caliper.
Now, the brake line would still be attached, so I would work the old shoes out and curse and cry until the new ones were in place - all while hunched over in the wheel well with the caliper tethered to the car with a very short 'rope'.
Well, finally, my wife needed the brakes done on her new car, and I just couldn't get the new shoes into place, "JFC! I'm doing something wrong, I know I'm doing something wrong, I've always known I'm doing something wrong" and off to YouTube I went.
f**k. me. running.
The caliper comes apart for two lousy bolts, the part you need to work on can be brought over to the bench, and the shoes just slip into place.
Dave In MD 9 months ago
I've been working on cars for decades and have no idea what you mean. I think you need to do a little more research.
#100
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.
#101
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.
#102
When I used to check my email, I would go to AltaVista and type "please go to yahoo.com.".
#103
"Fifthteen" ended up on a worksheet I made for Korean school children while I was teaching public school English there... Two years before I noticed the mistake :S.
Jac Carr 9 months ago
I'm English but live in the Mediterranean and accidentally started a huge argument with two colleagues who insisted that forty was spelled fourty. Also another one where our Sales & Marketing Manager used the word "till" as an abbreviation for until - she would not have it that it should have been 'til or just use until and that till was a cash register
T'Mar of Vulcan 9 months ago
I'm an English teacher and considered the "English expert" at my school. I spelled "hygiene" wrong for about three years before a CHILD told me! (I swapped the I and E.)
#104
I say the word “buried” as “buh-read” not “berry-ied”. Found out at my grandmothers wake when I said “at least she’s buh-read next to granddad.” My family f*****g lost it and it gave everyone a much needed laugh. I just felt silly.
Edit: I don’t want to disappoint anyone but it was buh-reed. I’m Australian so pronouncing buried with a heavy buh sound like I did/do is kind of left field and ridiculous (according to my family anyway haha).
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
But this person said it differently to their whole family, which is weird. Also, I don't know any other Aussies that say it that way (maybe Queenslanders?).
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How I pronounced ‘th’ as ‘ff’.
Regina Holt 9 months ago
I'm hearing impaired, so those are difficult for me to distinguish. I have to see their mouth to see which sound they are trying to make.
T'Mar of Vulcan 9 months ago
Lots of Afrikaans people do that when speaking English. "I'm going to throw you wiff a rock."
#106
Apparently I’ve been using a can opener wrong for 10 years, who knew you weren’t supposed to cut through the side.
Data1001 9 months ago
Actually, a lot of people recommend this now, even though it's not exactly how can openers were designed to work. The idea is that you can use the lid as a cover if you cut through the side of the can. I think it's a dumb idea, but apparently a lot of people don't agree with me, lol.
#107
This is perfect for the TIFU guy that didn’t know about incognito mode.
Kira Okah 9 months ago
Didn't google get into a pile of trouble for tracking and scraping data from incognito mode even though they promised that they didn't?
Jaya 9 months ago (edited)
When was this? For as long as I can remember incognito mode has nothing to do with what the provider knows about you and saves about you, but only about the information not being visible in your own browser so that people in your house who use the same computer can't see it. I feel like it's been that way for decades.
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When I have been separating the trash into whites and colors for 8 years just for Pam to tell me we don't recycle. Wtf.
#109
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.
What do you think ?
Panda McPandaface 9 months ago
Reassuring isn't it that we all have our 'DOH' moments? As a keen DIYer I see so much badly botched stuff because people didn't know how to use something correctly - then I do something really dumb and get reminded that it can happen to the best of us.
Sky Render 9 months ago
My wife didn't know until her 20s that Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic for the order of the colors is the rainbow. In fact, somehow nobody had ever taught her that there was an order to the colors! That was embarrassing for her, but I refuse to tease her about it. I mean, she knew the word "genuflect" ages before I did, and I'm an avid reader! I just see it as one of those little gaps in experience that helps make each of us unique.
Jaya 9 months ago
I like the word genuflect. But the only reason I know this word is because it's in one of the songs of the original Aladdin movie, which I listened to a million times as a kid 😁
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SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago (edited)
I could be called "Stupid" sometimes. I was seriously ill with Covid and also had head injuries. So I've cognitive issues. I don't recognise long numbers or other things such as a combination of numbers and letters. At first? I had a hard time food shopping because I couldn't recognise the packet or whatever. It'd be right in front of me but it would not go through into my brain. I'm a lot better now though and if I need help? I just ask. Gosh bless Deliveroo! But please don't judge others if they need a bit of extra time and space in the shops or on the street. You never know what could happen to yourself such as an accident, god forbid. Absolutely God Forbid. One day you might end up needing help yourself.
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
It's nice to know I'm not actually the most inept person on the planet.
Dave In MD 9 months ago
When I was young I would say War War II when talking about World War II.
Captive 9 months ago
Reminds me when I was young and my ex Corinna introduced herself to my little cousin. From that day on he insisted her name was Gorilla
Jaya 9 months ago
Lol. When I was a young kid, I met my new neighbour, and the next time I saw her she said "I'm Sissi". I didn't know that name, so I thought it meant 'little sis', so I figured she must be the sister of the other lady. It took me months to find out there was only 1 old lady living there and not 2.
Load More Replies... boredhousekitty 9 months ago
Ternyata bule dan penutur asli bahasa Inggris juga bisa buta literasi, ya. Alat kan pasti ada manualnya. Aku lho, tinggal di desa pelosok di Pulau Jawa, selalu memastikan baca manual secara menyeluruh sebelum pakai alat. Eh, orang-orang Indo sini selalu 'ndoro-ndoro'ke bule, koyo sik pinter dhewe. Padahal akeh sik o'on juga. Tepok jidat.
Bettye McKee 9 months ago
In first grade, I learned that wrench the dishes was wrong. I learned that it was rinse the dishes and never pronounced it wrong again.
Panda McPandaface 9 months ago
Reassuring isn't it that we all have our 'DOH' moments? As a keen DIYer I see so much badly botched stuff because people didn't know how to use something correctly - then I do something really dumb and get reminded that it can happen to the best of us.
Sky Render 9 months ago
My wife didn't know until her 20s that Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic for the order of the colors is the rainbow. In fact, somehow nobody had ever taught her that there was an order to the colors! That was embarrassing for her, but I refuse to tease her about it. I mean, she knew the word "genuflect" ages before I did, and I'm an avid reader! I just see it as one of those little gaps in experience that helps make each of us unique.
Jaya 9 months ago
I like the word genuflect. But the only reason I know this word is because it's in one of the songs of the original Aladdin movie, which I listened to a million times as a kid 😁
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago (edited)
I could be called "Stupid" sometimes. I was seriously ill with Covid and also had head injuries. So I've cognitive issues. I don't recognise long numbers or other things such as a combination of numbers and letters. At first? I had a hard time food shopping because I couldn't recognise the packet or whatever. It'd be right in front of me but it would not go through into my brain. I'm a lot better now though and if I need help? I just ask. Gosh bless Deliveroo! But please don't judge others if they need a bit of extra time and space in the shops or on the street. You never know what could happen to yourself such as an accident, god forbid. Absolutely God Forbid. One day you might end up needing help yourself.
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
It's nice to know I'm not actually the most inept person on the planet.
Dave In MD 9 months ago
When I was young I would say War War II when talking about World War II.
Captive 9 months ago
Reminds me when I was young and my ex Corinna introduced herself to my little cousin. From that day on he insisted her name was Gorilla
Jaya 9 months ago
Lol. When I was a young kid, I met my new neighbour, and the next time I saw her she said "I'm Sissi". I didn't know that name, so I thought it meant 'little sis', so I figured she must be the sister of the other lady. It took me months to find out there was only 1 old lady living there and not 2.
Load More Replies... boredhousekitty 9 months ago
Ternyata bule dan penutur asli bahasa Inggris juga bisa buta literasi, ya. Alat kan pasti ada manualnya. Aku lho, tinggal di desa pelosok di Pulau Jawa, selalu memastikan baca manual secara menyeluruh sebelum pakai alat. Eh, orang-orang Indo sini selalu 'ndoro-ndoro'ke bule, koyo sik pinter dhewe. Padahal akeh sik o'on juga. Tepok jidat.
Bettye McKee 9 months ago
In first grade, I learned that wrench the dishes was wrong. I learned that it was rinse the dishes and never pronounced it wrong again.
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