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Most of us have heard the phrase, ‘There is no question that is a silly question’. And while that’s usually true, there are times when you can’t help but wonder if some questions are a little, well, ridiculous. For instance, when Reddit user BlueCaracal posed the question, "What’s something so obvious you couldn’t believe you had to explain it to another adult?" the internet responded in full force, sharing stories that ranged from amusingly clueless to downright shocking. Keep scrolling, Pandas, and brace yourselves—these questions might seem surprisingly obvious, but they’re definitely worth a look.
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#1
When COVID first hit the US and there were no real treatments for it or vaccines or anything, I caught it and got lung clots and had to spend a week in the hospital. Numerous people on the floor I was on died. The guy in the bed next to me had it and they had him under an oxygen tent. He fought with every single person that came in to check on him, refusing to believe that he had COVID. He thought literally everybody was lying to him about what was wrong with him.
He wound up dying about the fourth day I was there. To this day I hear people make comments that it doesn't exist or never did or whatever dumb thing they have to say about it. I have to turn around and walk away from them or ignore them on whatever platform I'm on to avoid smacking them up beside the head.
Dusty's mom 1 year ago
Husband had Covid twice. This was after receiving the original Pfizer inoculations. We caught new strains before we could be inoculated; they weren't even available in our area. Husband's boss was a scoffer and the office took no precautions. Believe you me, we stay on top of ALL vaccines now. I still mask in public, being a senior citizen. Both of us have Long Covid repercussions. It's a serious disease and morphs rapidly! Do not take Covid for granted!
Dusty's mom 1 year ago
I caught the second wave of Covid. As I said, we couldn't even get the new vaccines in time. Pretty sure Hubby brought it from his office, as I masked and sanitized in public. I despise anti-vaxxers. Total idiots.
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Charlotte Sandoval 1 year ago
I caught it at my Dr's at my 6 week postnatal appointment. ICU for 3 days, heavily intubated, because I was still weak from birth and postpartum. I had to be resuscitated. Lost my milk supply, which was devastatingwhen i got to fi ally hold my baby again and she wanted to nurse. Had to be on oxygen at home for weeks. My family was anti vax before that, but it changed them. People can change when faced with reality. They don't always, but don't lose faith in humanity. Many do learn
pineapple87 1 year ago
Exactly. People forget that alpha was actually very serious, especially because of the lack of available treatment. Everyone thinks it's nothing because they caught delta or omicron and only had mild symptoms. When I caught covid at the end of 2022, I had people congratulating me for getting time off work. It was the sickest I've been since having pneumonia 10 years earlier, and definitely no joke. It was about two months before I started to actually be back to normal.
pineapple87 1 year ago
P.S. I was double-vaxxed when I caught it, don't even want to imagine what it would have been like had I not been.
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Apachebathmat 1 year ago
As an undertaker I hear covid theories all the time “ it was just a cover up to scare us” or it was a plot to kill off all the venerable to ease pressure on medical services along with other utter guff, I watched hundreds of deceased be collected from hospitals and put straight into a coffin that was immediately sealed, no family visits and not even dressed in their own clothes, covid is real and it does kill, don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
I can vividly going to walk in the cemetery here and not only was the crematorium going EVERY TIME we were there (when previously I'd never seen it actually fired up) but there were two big refrigerated trailers chugging away outside the building. Couldn't believe it. And people claim it's not real AND nobody dies from it.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
A couple we know. The husband was in ICU with a trache for 30 days, 60 days to get home again. Sister died, so far as I know brother became VERY near sighted after infection, but is now on SSD. Ripped that genetic family hard. Lost much of his weight. Asked his wife, who I saw at the grocery store, if she was going to get vaxxed prior to his return home after hospital stint...."no".
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Alexia 1 year ago (edited)
There was a guy who used to post 3-4 times per day on social media, mocking the whole anti-covid efforts, claiming the virus didn't exist and always pointing out how smart he was for not believing the "official lies". Until one day when he was rushed to the ICU and died a few days later - of Covid.
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
Ugh. I still have anxiety around people. I find myself still holding my breath near people. My dear partner has been in the medical field for 8+ years now, in the administrative end, but he's very often working directly with patients. 2020, covid inevitably hit the facility he was at. He had to take care of people because so many nurses were out sick themselves. He had to move deceased people. When I hear people denying it or claiming it's not real it makes my blood boil. My most beloved has trauma for life and SO many poor people have lost their lives, covid was such a nightmare for so many 💔
Mike m 1 year ago
I don't get it. Why go to the hospital if you're just going to deny or not believe the staff. The "right" turned it into the next Leprosy for no reason whatsoever other than politics.
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Carla Phillips 1 year ago
In the same sentence, I had a friend tell me covid was the biggest hoax ever and that his grandmother died from it. I didn't even have a response. The entirety of the globe can't even agree on the smallest of things, but they all came together to create the biggest prank ever. Come on, people
Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year ago (edited)
Wife is immune compromised, caught it on the second wave when people weren't getting their second dose and refused to wear a mask. Now, she has the long covid, she couldn't work anymore and is on disability. She's extremely intelligent and it hurts to see her everyday in bed too tired to do anything. We kayak, swim and bike on her good days to try to get better but nothing is working. Doctors try to help but long covid is still a mystery. Our daughter is about to start college and we can't afford it anymore. If my wife weren't vaccinated she would be dead by now. Thanks, science deniers for ruining our life!
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#2
I talked about this before and will until the end of days because this man deserves to be shamed.
A 23 year-old man, who had the right to vote, who had a driving license, who had a job, and could get married and start a family...
THOUGHT PEOPLE WERE HANGING THE MOON IN THE SKY.
Like, the moon, Earth's natural satellite, was being hung on the sky like... a painting on a wall?
I'm still reeling over that one. This man had gone to school, had a formal education and was actually going to college. He *learned* about that in primary school!
And the kicker? I was the one to explain it to him, because I was his girlfriend at the time.
And let me tell you, things unraveled real fast when I started paying attention and saw through the smokescreen.
Dude was willfully ignorant, and bone-dead stupid on top of it. He was really, really good at hiding it.
I dropped him like the mess he was and dived into more and more books to compensate the loss of brain matter I suffered from going out with him.
Nikole 1 year ago
This would make me feel as though I were going crazy, as stupidity usually does.
LavenderHippoInAJar 1 year ago
In middle school I had a dance teacher who was adamant that the moon didn't have gravity. I told this to my therapist at the time (who had a PhD) and she agreed with my dance teacher! She said she thought that the astronauts wore WEIGHTED BOOTS to make up for the fact that there wasn't gravity.
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Colby DeYoung 1 year ago
You know, I used to hear things like this and think, there's no way. But then you live life and meet these smooth brains for real. They are out there clogging up traffic, having tons of smooth brain kids, voting, it's infuriating.
J L 1 year ago
This is why that movies "Idiocracy" is coming true. Coz dumb idiots like this keep reproducing.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Reminds me of those flat earther videos that are always filmed in some dude's car because his family can't stand the BS anymore.
George D 1 year ago
Last sentence cracks me up. Indeed, hang around with stupid people and you're immediately falling behind.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
My stepfather is a major trumptard and the only thing he watches on TV is fox or newsmax. If I hear that BS for more than 10 seconds I can feel my braincells fighting for their lives.
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David 1 year ago
Hanging the moon up at night PROVES the earth is flat. It takes a really tall ladder to do this. If the earth were globe shaped, the ladder would be difficult to balance. But because the earth is flat, it's a lot easier to set up the ladder in a stable way when hanging the moon and taking it down in the morning. /J
Lorraine R 7 months ago
Your info is way out of date -- for a while now, they've been using a very very high crane that folds up neatly. Here's one of the prototypes: https://wjla.com/resources/media/3058a845-9f1f-4912-b1eb-b846af0923f8-nationalcathedralcranecollapseowlywncathedral_606.jpg?1436758499773
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Shari Davenport 1 year ago
One of the least impressive things about people who are either willfully or totally socially ignorant is how many of them have "College Degrees." It can be totally meaningless in the grand scheme of things, and if their personality is so completely dead they can't even hold a decent conversation on a generally regular subject. The last thing I need to know about someone is when they start listing off all their educational credentials, complete with the alphabet soup of labels, as if that will make up for their complete lack of basic social skills.
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Highball Drink 1 year ago
How long did it take for you to figure this out. You should have on the first date, not doing so makes me think you are as smart as he was.
#3
I had to explain to my mom that my daughter was growing in my uterus and not my stomach so the hot sauce on my burrito wasn’t going to cause her skin burns. I also explained if she were growing in my stomach, my stomach would certainly cause way worse burns than hot sauce.
It was then that I understood why the school nurse had to explain to me in 5th grade why I kept bleeding through my pants every month at school, and not my mom.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Yes...but...there are those out there who would not allow a school nurse to explain what menstrual cycle is....scary part? THEY vote.
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Nannychachi 1 year ago
When I was pregnant with my first baby, my MIL told me that I shouldn't go swimming because I could drown the baby. Me, "Well, it's living in fluid right now and doesn't breathe so...." She had 5 children herself.
Kari Panda 1 year ago
And this is why I hate my mother‘s "I raised a child myself, you need to listen to me and my generation as a whole!" argument. In most cases, her 'knowledge' is horribly outdated, but she refuses to believe me. And when I send her links where actual science states what I told her, she complains about how not everything needs to be regulated by a doctor. Having had a child yourself does NOT automatically mean that you are - or even ever were - fit to raise a child. /rant
Full of Giggles 1 year ago
Were you adopted? Like, how does someone who’s been pregnant not know this?
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Because even maternal health nurses/midwives often used euphemisms in the past
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Catpawsarethebest 1 year ago
Like when my mom said they made my sons navel look pretty at the hospital. Apparently, she thought my Sister navel was horrible and was angry with the doctors for giving her an ugly navel... And I said "mom, they dont MAKE the navel. They cut the navel string and we wait for it to fall off..."... !
Antihaarbalsnoepje 1 year ago (edited)
Is that true? I always assumed that the doctor assisting the birth at least had some influence on the final shape of the navel, i.e. the exact place where they cut the string. Well… I’m never too old to learn something new 🙂
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Lee Banks 1 year ago
My aunt Edna was inconsolable during the last few months of her pregnancy. Tears all day and night. She thought the baby would just explode out of her stomach, and if no one was there to sew her back up, she'd die. This was 1950.
Charlotte 1 year ago
My aunt asked if the doctor would see her up after they cut her open to get the baby out. Doctor had to explain the baby would get out the same way it got in. She had no idea. 1940s
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Whether it’s at a party, at work, or during a casual conversation, we’ve all encountered situations where someone asks something that makes you want to pause and question the state of human knowledge.
Here’s the thing: asking questions isn’t bad—part and parcel of development and learning. None of us are born with all the knowledge in the world, and curiosity is an essential part of our lives. There are times, however, that people ask questions that seem to defy basic logic or common knowledge.
#4
I worked tech support for an internet provider a few years back.
A woman calls in, complaining her wifi isn’t working.
Go through the normal troubleshooting questions, what’s your device, how are you connected, and finally “what can you see on your screen?”
Crazy woman (CW): it’s black
Me: how do you mean? Are you getting errors?
CW: the whole screen is black.
Me: have you turned the laptop on?
CW: I can’t.
Me: …. Why not?
CW: I’ve lost the charging cable
Me: ok…uh, do you have another device I can help you connect with? Maybe a tablet or your phone?
CW: no, you need to get the laptop reconnected.
Me: …can you go and buy another charging cable?
CW: no, you need to send me one.
Me: we don’t supply them…also we didn’t supply you with your laptop, we just provide internet
CW: yes, and now you’re not providing me internet, so you need to fix it
40 mins this went on, as my team around me stared in incoherent disbelief that this woman couldn’t understand why her internet provider couldn’t connect wifi to a computer with now power.
I remember hanging up the phone and putting myself on break. My manager looked at me and told me to take a walk, while barely hiding her unrestrained giggles.
Andy Cran 1 year ago
know someone who was getting free use of a nextdoor neighbour's WiFi (all agreed and known) then said they didn't need it anymore as they now had access to a family member's netflix acc who lived miles away,I tried to explain that's not how it works but they wouldn't have it
Thanos'Fingers 1 year ago
Did the neighbor tell you the wifi theft was "all agreed and known", or did the Netflix genius tell you that? WiFi thieves suck hard sticks
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Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
Perhaps you should ask your boss for a raise. I would think hazard pay should be in order for your having to put your mental health at risk t deal with such customers.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Generally speaking, having seen how much dumb there is in the world, I think all tech support professionals should be automatic candidates for Sainthood. And I'm not even Catholic.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
I quit corporate IT work (and IT in general) after being held back at work for 4 hours after my day finished because a VP in a different city could not comprehend that I could not get her computer working over the phone while her entire city was experiencing a blackout.
Shari Davenport 1 year ago
In a semi-related note, I used to work in Customer Service for a cable company that was undergoing explosive growth in the late 80s. I live in the Midwest, where we had a very minor earthquake, still a fairly obvious tremor one afternoon, which caught us all unawares! No damage to speak of, but it sure got our attention! All of a sudden, the phones started ringing off the hooks, and I thought perhaps it might have shook something loose, cutting service in a newly built up area. But NOOOO - we were all stunned when we started getting calls from customers wanting to know "if that was the cable?" 🙄 I got a sudden inspiration, and told one clueless man that, "Yes sir! That's our new feature! It's called ........." and named off a feature being widely (but facetiously) discussed for movie theaters to make people FEEL the rumblings of explosions and bombings and earthquakes and such. I can't recall exactly the name of it - it's been a long time! But he was certainly impressed with it!
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JustABored1 1 year ago
I would have told her to turn off her TV, and call the cable company because she wasn't getting cable anymore. Maybe she would have caught the connection?!
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
You'll be surprised how many people,. specially young people who don't know what WiFi really is. There logic is WiFi= internet. They don't grasp that you can be connected to WiFi but if that access point has no connection to internet then you can't access internet.
Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
An oldie but a goodie. Way back when, when we used to call them "slave" terminals, somebody wanted to know why theirs wasn't working during a power failure.
Chris Landrum 1 year ago
I had a vp at a major car insure believe "the cloud" was in the sky. I just let that go by
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
I explain to elderly customers that your photos are in the cloud, the ghost copy shows on your phone, but doesn't exist.
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#5
I was picking up Italian Liras one time (1999 - pre Euros) from a bank in Tennessee. The teller brought me the envelope. When I opened it to count the money, she looked at me with total surprise and asked, “Do other countries have different money?” A bank teller. 🤦🏽♀️
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
You're missing the most important part of this statement; "a bank in Tennessee." 'Nuff Said.
Catlady6000 1 year ago
Tennessee native. Can concur. It was most likely a small town bank
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Julie S 1 year ago
I read recently about an Aussie telling an American about their money (Australian Dollars) and the American told them it's illegal to print your own money!
María Hermida 1 year ago (edited)
Years ago, I went to the bank to change Irish pounds into pesetas, and the bank teller told me those notes weren't real. I laughed and called her imbecile, so she called another teller, who went on to look for the exchange rate... Sterling pounds into pesetas. Her reasoning was that "pounds are pounds". Fine for me. The rate was significantly higher for sterling pounds than for Irish pounds, so I received more money than I expected. How do these people manage to reach adulthood?
S. K. 1 year ago
Only in the U.S.A.... they don't learn about other countries and so many of them don't have passports. Add on to that a sub-par education system and you end up with this kind of stupidity.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
Most Americans don't have passports because they don't need one to travel. Start in San Francisco and drive 2000 miles to the and you don't make it to Indiana. Start in Lisbon, Portugal and drive that far, you've crossed 4 nations and are in a 5th. All of them speaking different languages. So yeah, Americans mostly don't have passports and don't speak other languages. We don't need to in order to travel long distance and see some of the most beautiful places on the planet.
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Avoidance_Panda 1 year ago
I've had a guy trying to pay a £54 item with $100 bill, then act confused when A: I couldn't take it then B: asked for £46 in change like it was a 1:1 conversation... I just wondered off mid explanation, I could see the lights were on but no ones home
#6
That her power was shut off because she didn't pay her electric bill for three straight months, and the letters on neon yellow paper from the power company were sent to warn her of this happening.
She thought she was legally entitled to free electricity because "it's a requirement for human survival."
Edit to add: She wasn't in need. She worked a very well-paying job, and she enjoyed shopping for expensive things. This was *not* one of those situations where she needed assistance or mercy. She needed a foot lodged firmly in the backside, and the power company put on its boots.
Display_Name 1 year ago
I had a roommate come in and yell at me because I bought me a $45 used tv “but couldn’t pay the power bill”. I told her I did pay the power bill but due to the storm there is a power outage. She said I was lying. I casually mentioned how odd it is that no one in the area had power so I guess no one paid their bill. (Btw, that was my first and only purchase because I WANTED it).
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
I wish electricity wasn't so expensive, as someone who survived extreme poverty. One of three daughters of a single mom. We had power off for months regularly. We could find candles at the local thrift store for as cheap as .10¢. Being truly poor and without means is one thing, but, like ???? why lol
nm (he/him) 1 year ago
A wick made by little cotton, a small plate, any kind of vegetable oil and voilà! You have a cheap lamp.
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April Pickett 1 year ago
Did she pay her bill for the months prior to the three months she decided electricity was free?
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Guessing it was her first apartment and she moved in three and a half months ago.
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Roni Stone 1 year ago
Oh, the number of times I've had to decide which bill to pay this month and which could wait, I at least knew they were actually due.
Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
Had a coworker whose husband complained she was no good with money so he was taking over management. Within two months, phone, electricity, water turned off. Why? "Those bills were too high so I wasn't going to pay them." Doesn't work like that, buddy.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Everybody who was born before houses were wired for electricity is dead. Coincidence?
You might find yourself sitting in a meeting when someone asks if the office will be open on Christmas Day—despite it being a national holiday. Or you may even be engaging in a conversation with one of your friends who, out of nowhere, asks whether brown cows give brown milk. You cannot help but blink at these questions, wondering what planet you are on.
But before we jump to conclusions, it is worth analyzing what makes such questions possible in the first place. There are situations where people are just credulous or ignorant about certain things. It could be, somehow, they never got the opportunity to know it, or perhaps they’ve been given wrong information.
#7
(from a vet tech)
1) That the ticks on a male dog were actually nipples...and that male dogs have nipples...just like every other mammal.
2) That a rabbit that clearly has visible testicles was a male.
3) That you cannot feed an animal that is strictly a carnivore (a ferret, fyi) a "vegan" diet (that thing so SO sick when it came in).
4) That yes, when you have two animals (same species) of opposite genders in the house and they aren't spayed/neutered...they will breed. Even if they're mother/son, brother/sister, different ages, different sizes, different breeds, etc. You'd be shocked at how many people "didn't think this would happen". O_o Like...do you understand biology at all?
Excited Panda 1 year ago
It's not polite to refer to the mentally challenged as "animals".
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Andy Cran 1 year ago
the vegan one always gets me, that's imposing a personal dietary preference on an animal by an animal lover and not the natural choice/diet of said animal...it's cruelty in my book
M B 1 year ago (edited)
It also gets me when people think animals can't be "cruel and sadistic" (not the human form of course...animals' instinct isnt comparable). There's a stupid saying in dutch "mensdom en dierenrijk"... wish I could transform them in a mouse and let our cats have a go at them.. Edit: and no they don't eat them...once the mice don't move, they get bored with them. I always try to rescue their "toys"..but more often than not were late
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I read one from someone on another app that said she didn't think her unspayed indoor/outdoor cat would attract males because the cat was ugly and had a nasty personality.
Jay Scales 1 year ago
That made me laugh out loud :D Males cats on the hunt are known to be very fussy :D :D
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
A couple of years ago I had a woman telling me that it was perfectly safe to let her in-season boxer off the leash to run around in the woodland where there might be unfettered dogs because - and I quote her exactly - 'she's a pedigree so she can only get pregnant by another pedigree boxer'. The panic on her face when I finished telling her how mixed-breeds are made was a joy to see.
Marina Nygard 1 year ago
I had a neighbor who wouldn't neuter her female French bulldog because it would be 'cruel' to subject her to unnecessary surgery and it might be painful. She also let the dog roam around and pee in hallways and public areas of our apartment building... Then she was absolutely SHOCKED when the dog turned out to be pregnant! She had no idea that could happen.
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Skogsrået 1 year ago (edited)
Lmao, reminds me of when i found a kitten on the streets and announced it on fb looking for the owner. A young girl was looking for her FEMALE kitten but the cat i found was MALE. Turns out it was the girls cat but sence the seller told her it was female she actually belived them and when she came to pick the cat up i had to show her that her FEMALE cat actually had a huge set of balls. Still don't understand how anyone could miss that, makes me giggle a little thinking about it. Oh, this happend in Sweden.
WindySwede 1 year ago
or get an partner that is vegan, or heck even yourself.. but just not a carnivorous animal 🙃
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Happy Onion 1 year ago
Omg, all of these happen SO often! People are so busy using their phones for stupid s**t they don't actually use it for useful information.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I was at a vet's when someone queried an issue on the underside of their dog...it was their navel.
#8
We cannot hold period blood in
Janelle Collard 1 year ago
I used to wish it would all come out in 1 day + be done with it!
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ScarletRos 1 year ago
A (male) friend at school (about 15) thought girls had to stand over buckets like cows being milked.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Maybe if you just cut the guy and ask him to hold in the blood...
Lee Banks 1 year ago
Humans are among six known varieties of mammals that menstruate. Everybody else just has it reabsorbed. I feel cheated.
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
Yes, it's one of the many design faults I have a problem with. If there really is a Pearly Gates, I'd never get past it as I'd be busy trying to find somewhere to deposit my massive design failures binder to the being laying claim to the title of "Master Architect".
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James Peek 1 year ago
I consider myself lucky to have grown up with a twin sister. If it wasn't for her I'd be just as naive (stupid).
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Stardust she/her 1 year ago
I did try to see if it’s possible to hold it for a few minutes but it hurt way more than the cramps
Liz Butt 1 year ago
As an older person, we never had sex education in schools. I had to learn everything by asking my school mates. I didn't know what a period was until I got it. My mother never told me anything about periods or anything about sex at all. I knew nothing about that side of things.
#9
Africa is a continent and not a country
Nikole 1 year ago
Later covered by Weezer, featuring Weird Al in the video. Molto bello!
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Captain Kyra 1 year ago
It is also possible that South Africa (country) further confuses people
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Someone I knew told me he met someone from Africa. "Which country?" "Africa!" "No, which COUNTRY?" "AFRICA!"
HT-ZX 1 year ago
Years ago, I was in USA, and a guy asked me where is Brazil (I am Brazilian) located in? In Africa? Dude, I am American... South American... Brazil is in America continent...
Marina Nygard 1 year ago
My SIL lives in New Mexico. She regularly has to explain (very carefully and in first-grade English) to Americans who do not live in New Mexico that she does indeed live in the USA, not in Mexico.
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
I don't know if this is the same person or different people. I seen this one here quite a few times. If this is different people, there are a lot of misinformed people about the continent of Africa.
Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
So are Europe and Asia btw and "America" is technically a huge double-continent, not just one country.
Marina Nygard 1 year ago
America is a continent, in 3 parts (North, Central and South) and it is also a country, the United States of America, or 'America' for short. You know, like we say 'Mexico' when we talk about the United States of Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos).
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Other times, it could be possible they are nervous or distracted, leading them to ask something they’d usually know the answer to. We’ve all had those moments when we asked something we later realized was a bit silly. Let’s say you finally get to see your sports idol, and out of excitement, you ask rather silly questions like, “Do you like sports?”
#10
I had to explain to a friend of mine who had grown up with me that no you cannot vote for Trump in the Australian election. He is not a candidate for anything here.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Are you saying that a Trump supporter just happened to be an asinine fool?
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
I've volunteered at the last couple of federal elections here in Oz. the number of Trump flags and maga hats I've seen has disappointed me greatly in my fellow aussies.
Tamra 1 year ago
Seriously? I never realized there could be Trump supporters in other countries. That's... bizarre. It's odd enough people in my own country like the fool, but in other countries? Bizarre.
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Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Ii live in Canada and we get those ads on how to mail in your vote for Trump, but of course you must be a US citizen, I am sure they get a lot of dud votes.
Pollywog 1 year ago
Dud candidate = dud votes!! 😄 I do find it interesting Trump is always accusing the Democrats of voter fraud and his campaign is trying to get Canadians to vote for him.
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Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
Why would anyone want that piece of s**t anywhere near their country? I want him out of mine.
mikejaz2 1 year ago
You lucky Aussies! If you like, we can send him AND Rupert Morloch to you in a package deal...
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
Yeah, nah - we sent Murdoch to you guys for a reason and it's cool, you can keep trump
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#11
I hope this isn't too racy for this sub...
I had to explain to a grown (college-educated!) adult that no, a**l sex does not "cause" AIDS. That no, if both parties are HIV-negative, they cannot "create" AIDS by engaging in this activity. NO, Daniel, that's not how viruses work!
Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
@SDLT010 Sometimes women have trouble "self-lubricating" despite their best efforts. You still gonna go in raw and dusty like a common Ben Shapiro? Not that any woman would ever let you come close (pun very much intended).
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Back around 1990 when I was going through sex ed, it was confused and convoluted. Imagine the confusion of COVID in 2020 but spread over an entire decade. Us Gen-Xers got rocked before.
Full of Giggles 1 year ago
I’ve had the same conversation with my trans and homophobic grandmother. She rolled her eyes and called me an idiot because I clearly didn’t know what I was talking about.
nm (he/him) 1 year ago
Christian mode on: So, it is not the punishment of god for the sodomites? Christian mode off.
Panda Pandemic 1 year ago
I thought you can spread aids by having unprotected sex with someone who has it??? Am I going crazy? I'm not understanding why this person is saying no, you can't get aids from having aņâľ sex. But you can, correct?
35 cabbages in a trenchcoat 1 year ago
The CAUSE of HIV is not aņâľ sex though. If two people without HIV have sex (yes, even godless aņâľ lol) it does not just erupt spontaneously. That's what this is about.
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Why a room below sea level on a cruise ship would not have a balcony
SnootWaggling Fox 1 year ago
Kinda like the idea of an enclosed balcony below sea level
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Justin Tyme 1 year ago
They should design a cruise ship with rooms that have an indoor balcony.
What’s more interesting is how many people are afraid to ask questions because they don’t want to appear stupid. The fear of looking foolish in front of others can stop us from seeking out the knowledge we need. In a way, this fear can be more damaging than asking an ‘obvious’ question. It hinders us from learning, growing, and understanding the world better.
#13
That the aztecs and incans are not interchangeable, they were in completely different parts of the americas, and that neither of them built the nazca lines. but especially not the aztecs, who were not in f*****g peru
this person kept trying to tell me it was "up to interpretation" like no its not!!! its geography
Janelle Collard 1 year ago
Sometimes it's just better to say, "Ok, I have to go now" rather than continue conversations with the terminally stupid.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
Or "who's the archaeologist here, me? Yeah? STFU, then."
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Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
This is a less known info. I would not discredit anyone who is unaware of this. If he INSISTS this (ie they are interchangeable), then yes, he deserved the discredit.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Aztec, Inca, Mayan, Toltec… I don’t have much of a clue when they were or where they were. But I know I don’t know, and I don’t need to know, so I know it’s no big deal.
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StPaul9 1 year ago
That terrible moment when Indiana Jones says he learnt Quecha from a guy in Pancho Villa's army.
Andy Cran 1 year ago (edited)
a "same difference" attitude, come across a lot of that where I live unfortunately 😞,one does ones best to educate its often a losing battle 😏😞...I often wonder if it's the salt air corroding brains or something (for clarity I live in coastal town)
Pollywog 1 year ago
People have the same attitude where I live and I'm hundreds of miles from the coast! 😞
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EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
😁 my favourite response. They always go for that one
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"Alternate facts"? For them of course. I have thoroughly hated that phrase since it was first invented. It's absolutely senseless - a fact is a fact is a fact. If it is NOT a fact, then it's a lie. Period. It's not only geography, it's also history, which too many people are losing sight of.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
It should be hated. It was a direct admission that they were knowingly deliberately lying.
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zovjraar me 1 year ago
i'm terrible at remembering the differences between the Inca, Maya, and Aztec. but at least i know they're all different. i really don't know if that's much better, tbh.
35 cabbages in a trenchcoat 1 year ago
It definitely is! You are considerate enough to remember that they are different. Respecting the individuality matters.
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#14
Volunteered in a charity shop. Lady came to the counter with a top and asked if I could look in the back for one of the same colour but a larger size. Tried to explain we don't do that because we're a charity shop. She insisted that other shops, like H&M, have done that for her. Wouldn't take no for an answer.
Eventually I just went in the back for a few minutes, made a cup of tea for a co-worker, and came out saying we don't have any. She got mad at that too.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
In any business where one comes in contact with the huge variety that is the human race, one learns that many humans do not have fully functioning brains. And many of them become bosses and congress people.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
Had someone in a charity shop once asked me what a bowl was useful for. Not in the sense that she was looking for creative ideas. She didn’t know what it was or what to use it for, and she was pissed about that for some reason
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Just to ask? Was it a "normal" shaped bowl or did it have like grooves in it for maybe a spoon or something? Only asking as I saw one once and it was actually a very old medical bowl from the Victorian age!
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Sarah Léon 1 year ago
How many time, when I were in garage sales, people asked me if I had this or that in another color or size ! I don't even know how they manage to live their life !
Rob Williams 1 year ago
Yes, I can confirm this! I volunteered at a Shelter shop and you would be asked that at least once a week. It’s shocking how many people don’t know how charity shops work.
#15
When I was 19, I explained to a middle-aged woman that Jesus was not blonde haired, blue eyed, spoke English and from America.
SmooshyFries 1 year ago
Well as a little girl, I believed God wore Levi jeans, flip flops, had shoulder length dark shaggy hair and wore an orange Coors Beer t-shirt. Nooo idea where I came up with that
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I prefer the Kevin Smith version from Dogma. AKA Alanis Morrissette.
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Gwyn 1 year ago (edited)
Well now some people think the messiah is a certain former president with orange hair so it's not getting any better, really
Rosie 1 year ago
I just can't even begin to understand why Christians support this man. He's broken the majority of their commandments.
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Reed Eculus 1 year ago
Jesus is certainly not white. My uncle saw an ad that said, "Need help? Call Jesus". He did, and a Hispanic guy showed up to mow his lawn.
Marina Nygard 1 year ago
One of the maintenance guys at an apartment building I once lived in was named Jesus. I can still remember the shocked look on one woman's face when the manager told her he'd send Jesus to fix her leaky faucet!
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Kevin Smith's documentary "Dogma" proves that God is actually Alanis Morrisette.
Andy Cran 1 year ago
"jesus the greatest American to ever live" yep I've seen that said before ,I sometimes find myself questioning my sanity
UKGrandad 1 year ago
In the late 1990s or early 2000s a magazine in the US ran a poll to find the greatest ever American. Jesus came in at no.1. Even funnier was that Professor Stephen Hawking got the no.5 spot. Must have been his accent 😂
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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
It floors me that people still argue whether Jesus was black or white when it's neither. He was Middle Eastern/Jewish.
Consider a situation where you’re new at a job, and during the orientation, the presenter talks about “the cloud.” You know you came across the phrase some weeks ago, but you can’t place what it implies.
Everyone around you seems to know, so you hesitate to ask for clarification. Now since you were afraid to ask, it could potentially lead to bigger misunderstandings later on.
#16
When I worked at a doctors clinic, I had a lady on the phone wanting to book an appointment to have her flu shot. She specifically asked it to be a telephone appointment.
I could not believe that I had to explain to her that we cannot inject her through the phone.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
You have to buy the IV attachment for your phone first. Plugs into your charger port. You can download the vaccines via the app
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CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I had to explain to a medical receptionist the other day that no, my appointment to take a tissue sample would not be over the phone!
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Oh hell they need to fire that idiot or do some serious training. I've been a medical scheduler for 25 years and never run into anybody that stupid in any department that I've talked to.
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This is right along the lines of my desperate desire to punch people through a computer monitor during my help desk years.
#17
That the earth was bigger than the moon. Long story short- this was the beginning of the end of our marriage. He and I had an argument in front of the kids the entire five hour drive. He was telling the kids how stupid I was to correct daddy.
Omfg
Barry Fruitman 1 year ago
Even if he was right he shouldn't call you stupid in front of the kids (or at all).
Nikole 1 year ago
How was this a five hour argument?? Ah, the arrogance of stupidity and sexism.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
Hopefully this was long before the internet and phones that let you check for answers in seconds. The only way to prove you were right back then would be get an encyclopaedia or science book. 🤞🏼
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I hope, for the sake of your children, that his stupidity isn't genetic.
Marina Nygard 1 year ago
... kids usually inherit their mother's intelligence, thank God!
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the width of the moon is approximately the same width as Australia (Australia being slightly bigger I believe)
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
At the next pit stop when it was his turn in the bathroom I would have gotten the kids in the car and left him behind.
Terri Johnson 1 year ago
Too bad they reproduced. The human species is starting to make 'Idiocracy' look like non-fiction instead of comedy.
Mike m 1 year ago
I'm no spaceologist but i think if the moon was bigger, then earth would have ended up as the moon.
35 cabbages in a trenchcoat 1 year ago
Lol that's actually a great way to put this!
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I had to explain to 2 teenage girls (15 and 16) that the reason the candle went out was because they put the glass lid back on it's jar. 1 of them said that fire can only be put out with water. I explained that fire needs oxygen and putting the lid back on it cut the supply. When they didnt understand after explaining a few times I had to explain it to them like toddlers. "Fire is hungry, so it eats the air. When all the air is gone, it goes to sleep. Bye bye fire." The double "ohhhh" was too much.
P.S. The look on their mama's face was so funny. She turned to me, threw her hands up, and said "I've failed." In the most defeated tone. That poor woman.
Edit: I would like to point out that we did, in fact, have a serious talk to these girls about proper fire safety, and when to NOT use water on an open fire.
Robin Roper 1 year ago
Two sheltered teens ask me in front of their mother if they could get HIV from a toilet seat. I explained to them that yes, it was possible but the following would have to happen: 1. a person with HIV would have to leave body fluid (blood, semen, blood, a**l fluid, or breast milk) on a toilet seat. Then, they with an open wound on their buttocks, or lady parts would have to, use the toilet in such a way that the still wet body fluid would come into contact with the open wound. I pointed out that if the open wound was on the buttock this wouldn't be difficult but if the open wound were on their lady parts, flexibility and dexterity would be required. I then asked them, if they entered a stall and saw wet body fluid on the seat, would they still use that toilet including straddling the seat so that their lady parts were touching or would they go to a different toilet. They said, they would not use that toilet. I could tell the mom was paying attention as well - she had no idea.
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
I like to thank people who give other people a learning experience, so, thank you!
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35 cabbages in a trenchcoat 1 year ago
They spit em out! But jokes aside, maybe they thought they were trick candles or something?
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nm (he/him) 1 year ago
It is a tetrahedron the last decades: Oxygen, heat, fuel and the chemical reaction.
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Jan Crump 1 year ago
My 16 year old granddaughter once put food in the oven on a plastic tray. Didn't know it would melt. She also baked a frozen pie, but took it out of the pie pan first and when she checked on it and it was flat and twice as big around, she didn't understand why! I've been teaching her how to cook and bake ever since and she has vastly improved!
35 cabbages in a trenchcoat 1 year ago (edited)
Everyone has to learn! I'm glad that it clicked for them and that the mom recognized the need more education. Hope they're doing better. And boyyyy I'm glad they didn't encounter a grease fire. ALSO, fund schools and advocate for good curriculums!!
Laura Gillette 1 year ago
This isn't quite AS bad, but in high school, I walked into the kitchen to find my sister and her friends (she's my twin sister, so they're my age) making cookies. They had made the cookie dough. They had scooped spoonfuls of cookie dough onto the cookie sheet. I walked in just in time to see them put the cookie sheet in the oven... THEN turn the oven on. I told them: "You have to pre-heat the oven. It needs to be 350°F BEFORE you put them in." Very similar "ohhhh" moment from them as in this story.🤣 I felt that telling them the amount of dough they had put on the sheet for each cookie was so big they would all spread into each other as they baked would have been too harsh, so I just let them figure that one out for themselves.
Cora Van der Gaag 1 year ago
Most people learn by their mistakes. Usually if you try a task for the first time that others have been performing for a long time, you don’t think things thru. You start thinking if something goes wrong, then you will ask yourself where did I go wrong. If you have an inquiring mind you will able to get the right reason. Or you can ask someone expierenced. That is the best learning expierence.
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In reality, making requests, even the simplest ones, should be allowed and even encouraged. It’s easy to forget that at some point, everyone was ignorant of something.
The person who doesn’t know what the cloud is might be an expert in a completely different field, with knowledge you don’t possess. We all have gaps in our understanding, and the only way to fill them is by asking questions.
#19
That dogs are artificially bred, and that there aren't wild golden retrievers, wild chihuahuas, and wild Maltese just running about that we're catching to make into pets.
Skye Ragsdale 1 year ago
But wouldn't that be hilarious. I'm picturing a pack of wild chihuahuas bounding madly through the desert 😆
Dogcat vet (retired) 1 year ago
https://youtu.be/n3EdhGjd8E0 : wild chihuahuas terrorizing Arizona town
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
David Attenborough voice: "In the days before the first British and Spanish settlers arrived in the New World, massive herds of wild chihuahuas--sometimes numbering in the millions--roamed the plains of the American southwest. It is said by the Arapaho that a man could stand from sunrise until sunset without ever seeing the end of the herd as these majestic creatures passed by."
Soy 1 year ago (edited)
That's only half false. When the Spanish came to Chihuahua, they disrupted the existing way of life and the Chihuahuas became feral. They were re-domesticated later.
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Duncan McCann 1 year ago
Herds of Afghan Hounds sweeping majestically over the plains on their migration to the groomers.
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
Lol this one is kinda funny because I'm imagining a pack of Retrievers in the wild lol
Liz Butt 1 year ago
Nah, they would have died out. They are all brainless and goofy but so cute.
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tresgatos72 1 year ago
*singing in Mick Jagger voice* "You can't always get a Chihuahua, you can't always get a Chihuahua, you if you try sometimes, you might find you get Bichon Frisé!" 😆
Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
All domestic dogs come from Canis Lupis. All. They all can breed with each other. That’s why dogs like foxes or Vulpes not Canis can’t breed with domestic dogs no matter what anyone has said. Same for bobcats and domestic cats. Bobcats are one of four Lynx species. No bobcat has had litters with domestic Cats that have a different singular lineage.
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
They don't usually interbreed, but https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dogxim-first-dog-fox-hybrid
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Noyfb noyfb 1 year ago (edited)
At a popular gas station and grocery store in our village in New Mexico (USA state), a gang of chihuahuas owned by neighbors of the gas station were allowed to run loose and sometimes roved around the station’s parking lot, harassing customers as a loud, aggressive pack of little 10-pound doggies. It was kind of laughable and kind of alarming because those little buggers snarled and bared their teeth at humans they didn’t like.
Liz Butt 1 year ago
They are really vicious little critters. I am more afraid of those little buggers than big dogs.
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That you can still get pregnant with the woman on top 🤦🏻♀️ "gravity doesn't work like that!"
Andy Cran 1 year ago
and brown babies do not come from having anàl.....yep seriously I kid you not
Nea 1 year ago
I am brown and this is what I am gonna tell all my folks now.
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DramaDoc 1 year ago
Knew a girl who *swore* you couldn't get pregnant on *your* birthday because "that's the day you were born."
Judy Reynolds 1 year ago
Or the woman getting her third abortion saying that if she used birth control, she would no longer be a virgin.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
But I thought swimming up exhausted the little swimmers and made them give up!
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
I feel like this has to do with those...I don't know how to describe it but those things you heard as a teen from other teens that clearly didn't know.
Florence O'Grady 1 year ago
I think it is a nice idea. Unfortunately, a sperm swimming for its egg, is stronger than gravity.
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
So, does that mean if a woman + her partner have sexual relations in Outer Space, she CAN get pregnant? Huh! Who knew?
Raven DeathShade 1 year ago
My fiancé and I have accepted that our first baby is gonna probably be an oopsie and that is planned XD.
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My husband had to explain to a co-worker that she couldn’t take a train from the U.S. to Europe. She insisted she had to because she didn’t like flying.
linda harbin 1 year ago
Had a client (I was a travel agent) ask me if it was cheaper to fly or drive to Hawaii. “No m’am, I’m quite certain there is no bridge. “
S Bow 1 year ago
Wasn't there an actual US senator who asked this? IIRC the same one who thought animal husbandry was marrying animals fgs
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago (edited)
I think she should drive to Europe. When she gets to the pier in New York, she should just drive right in and keep on going. 🙄
Socks Thecate 1 year ago
When I first moved to the USA from the UK, I ended up in Missouri. Nice lady asked how long it took us to drive from England. I said, "No, England, not New England". She rolled her eyes and said "Yeah, I heard that. After all you have a British accent. So, how long was the drive?"
Kathrin Pukowsky 1 year ago
Years ago I asked GoogleMaps for a land route from Japan to Germany just for fun. It absolutely delivered when it suggested crossing the sea to China on a jetski! 🤣
Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
When I arrived in the USA from Australia in the early '70s, someone asked if I had come by train, and also commented on how well I spoke English !!
As a matter of fact, these are some of the most successful people in the world; they got to where they are today because they did not care how crazy the questions they posed were. It is the quest for answers—for more information, more detail—that fosters purpose and new ideas.
#22
That no matter how much you might want to put a camo pattern on your walls, you (not the paint) have to determine what that pattern looks like and you will also have to purchase multiple cans of paint tinted differently because "camo" doesn't come out of a can that way.
Andy Cran 1 year ago
nor does checkered or tartan (plaid for you US folks I believe) paint along with left-handed screwdrivers and be wary of being sent for a long weight (wait) and never I repeat never go looking for the golden rivet on a ship
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
Neck tourniquet is what new hospital staff are sent to find
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Nikole 1 year ago
You wouldn’t be able to see camo-painted walls anyway, so the point is moot.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
You can blame this belief on Bugs Bunny or Tom and Jerry, who used to pull sh*t like this all the time. Of course, if you're getting your home improvement advice from an 80 year old cartoon, you kind of deserve what you get.
Leading_Gold 1 year ago
Wallpaper exists. Tbf, i haven't read the comments yet to see if this was already suggested
Jaya 1 year ago
Fun fact: snow camo exists, and it's white with grey shapes.
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YakFactory 1 year ago
Have you heard of tartan sheep? No need to dye and weave the wool. (Just joking.https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scottish-farmer-pranks-tourists-tartan-sheep-irn-bru-283057
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Camo pattern on the walls, eh? Well, minus points for brains, sure, but extra super bonus points for taste!
#23
I had to explain to a restaurant worker that eggs are not dairy. Chickens do not have mammary glands. Someone who is allergic to dairy can eat eggs and chicken. Mayonnaise, containing eggs and oil, is therefore not dairy.
She was looking at me like I was the stupid one, the whole time.
Trish Sullivan 1 year ago
I think a lot of people think eggs are dairy, because that's where you find them in the store.
Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago
Only in America I think. In the UK eggs are hardly ever by the milk because we don’t chill them.
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Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Oh yeah, then why is eggs in the dairy section at the store, huh? Betcha didn't think of that, didja?
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
As more and more people are either going Vegan and/or developing food sensitivities, a lot of packaging--at least in the US--carries the warning "This product does not contain eggs or dairy", so I can at least maybe understand how someone could be confused. Of course, "eggs or dairy" would seem to imply that they are two separate things, but that may be too much nuance for a lot of people.
Mark C 1 year ago
Actually, " eggs OR dairy" doesn't SEEM to imply, or imply, anything. The word OR makes a clear distinction between one thing and another. Eggs are NOT dairy. But you're right, too much nuance, OR(😜), their lack of reading comprehension, is to blame.
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Power puff scientist 1 year ago
that might be true but many people also dont know the difference between fruit and vegetables. the amount of times people argued with me about that because they cant accept the difference...
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
To be fair, many things in the vegetable section are fruits and many in the fruit section aren't. *looking at you tomato and cucumber*
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That each country does not, in fact, have its own sun.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Oh yeah? Well how come some countries are hotter and some are colder then, huh? Betcha didn't think of that, didja?
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Good question for a flat earther to answer. If the earth were really flat daylight would happen at the same time in all countries and the temperature would be the same everywhere. And where does the wind go after it blows over the edge?
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Even if a question seems silly at first, it’s better to ask and learn than to remain ignorant. Life is full of mysteries, big and small, and the only way to solve them is by staying curious and never being afraid to ask.
#25
I was amazed in my old workplace how many young adults, like early 20s or so, couldn't tell the time from the wall clock.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Well it's all roundsy with multiple sticks pointing in multiple directions an' numbers an' stuff...
Happy Onion 1 year ago
Yes! Had one girl with the audicity to say, "I blame the schools". I asked how old she was. She was 23. I said, "You've been out of school for 5 years. You've had lots of opportunity. I blame you." Cue shocked Pikachu face.
tresgatos72 1 year ago
My current 6th and 7th grade students can't, either. They also can't read cursive and many can't tie their own shoes. *facepalm* 🙄
Captain Kyra 1 year ago
The wall clock being analog? I read the analog clocks at work for the young adults frequently. I offer to teach them, no one has taken me up on it yet.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
The clock is supposed to tell time, but it doesn't say a word no matter how many times I ask
#26
North is not whichever way you’re facing!
Anthorn 1 year ago
unfortunately your compass did not survive the journey south from the top of the tree.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I had a very intelligent person tell me the end star on the big dipper handle is the north star. He didn't believe that the 2 end bucket stars point to true north.
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 1 year ago
Nope. North is in north direction... You'd 've got lost in the desert and missed Marco Polo's caravane!
#27
I work in travel. I've had to explain time zones more than you'd believe. So, if you leave Sydney at 2pm and fly ~14 hours, crossing the international dateline, you arrive in LA at noon - about 2 hours "before you left." I've watched this emoji 🤯 happen in real time.
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
Time zones go East to West, so flying West to East is almost like going back in time. Except it isn't, because of all the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. That one got away from me...
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Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
I had to explain to sometime that this does not equate to time travel, it’s just a different part of the world having the sun in a different position in relation to where you were. They were adamant that someone should have flown back and warned people about 911 before it happened 😓😓
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
I was once lucky enough to fly on Concorde from London to New York. Arriving two and a half hours (time wise) before we took off was pretty cool! And it cut out jet lag too!
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Here's something almost everyone should try right now. 1. Look at your clock. 2. Ask Google what time it is in Newfoundland.
Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago
At 3:35 pm, I asked my Alexa this very question. She said it is 6:05 pm.
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Waitaminute... it's not the same time at the same time everywhere?
Highball Drink 1 year ago
I traveled a lot and even then, it is confusing and many who "work in travel" don't really understand, don't ask them to explain, yet they live it every day.
distant_echo 1 year ago
This happened when I flew from one time zone to another during daylight savings time. I had no idea what the hell time it was.
Roni Stone 1 year ago
If one remembers that calendar/clock time is a human construct, it makes it more understandable.
#28
That you have to have a printer to print things at home. Tech support, and I wish I was lying.
Verena 1 year ago
In the early days of laptops, about 25 years ago, there were actually ones with a printer built in. You had to feed them one page at a time.
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Lew k 1 year ago
I used to do tech support and I have hated printers ever since. No one will call a printer manufacturer for support. They call whatever number they get ahold of first and throw a fit that you won't setup their printer. I've worked for and 3 ISPs, router manufacturer, and a college never for any company that makes or sells printers and I swear I've fielded more calls for printers than any other unsupported product. To be fair they have gotten better. Setting up printers used to be a nightmare but I still hate them at a fundamental level.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Hey dummy look in the owners manual for the printer and call them.
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BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Well. I had a job where we could connect to the office printer via VPN from home. So I could print things to our office even when at a client site, or working from home. This was helpful for getting contracts printed.
So the next time someone asks you a question that makes you do a double take, just like the ones in this list, remember that we’re all just trying to figure things out. Embrace the moment, share your knowledge, and maybe even learn something new yourself.
#29
People on the internet can and will lie to you
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Baloney! I recently received a very good offer from an actual Nigerian prince, so there!
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
If anyone's interested, I have a bridge for sale. It's in sydney, and has fantastic harbour views.
Mark C 1 year ago
How much are you asking for it ? Maybe we can make a deal.... AND, can you have it delivered to me if I pay a little extra? 🤪
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Wait, what about all those emails about my car's extended warranty?
Mark C 1 year ago
It was George Washington bud... Smh, Abraham Lincoln 🤦......😜
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That New Zealand, the country we were both born, raised and living in, is not in Europe. Edit to answer most of your questions: her reasoning is that when she fills out forms and has to tick a box for her ethnicity, she ticks "New Zealand European". She thought that option was there because we are European and therefore in Europe. I had to explain to her that just means SHE is of European decent. That her ancestors lived in Europe. I also had to explain that not every New Zealander ticks that box. That there are other ethnicities here too.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Here in the States we have a lot of people thinking they're Europeans because they have European surnames. Had a gent tell me, "I'm a proud Viking and the seas flows through my veins." Yeah, pal, you're a chubby warehouse worker who would get seasick if required to stand on the bus. Prolly cut yourself with your own sword, too.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
I've always been puzzled by Americans (a small minority who do it, but a number, nonetheless), who declare, 'I'm Irish!', or 'I'm Polish! ', 'I'm Italian!' or whatever. When they've never been to that country, don't speak the language, and neither has/does anyone they're related to, and their link with the country is one or two people who emigrated to the US back in about 1906.
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Verena 1 year ago
I am fascinated by the fact that nations consisting up to 99,9% of descendants of immigrants, are hating immigrants. To the natives, the ancestors of today's population were illegal immigrants as well, and even worse than immigrants nowadays.
UKGrandad 1 year ago
It's as though the immigrants arrived, looked around, said 'this is ours now' and raised the drawbridge.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
I have ancestors from 17 different countries on three continents (but mostly English, Dutch, German and French). I just tell people I'm South African. "White" if they ask. I'm, NOT English or Dutch or German or French or Belgian or Danish or Norwegian or Scottish or Italian or Portuguese or Angolan or Indian. Just a boring white mutt from Mzansi.
Lena Flising 1 year ago
European here, born, raised and living in Sweden. I don't think I've ticked any boxes like that on forms here. Maybe a box for Swedish citizen and town of birth, but seldom if ever about descent.
Miracle Max 1 year ago
So New Zealand has some stupid forms "New Zealand European" should be "New Zealand Caucasian" if they are looking to classify people by their ethnic heritage.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
No, Caucasian is a remnant of an old racist classification system. It's even less accurate than European.
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In regards to the North and South poles, neither is "the one that is always hot."
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
So someone can be flat earther dumb without being a flat earther.
Lesbitarian Lady 1 year ago
If the earth were really flat, cats would have knocked everything off of it by now
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Obviously, because one of them is always facing the sun.
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Bewitched One 1 year ago
One thing I’m curious about flat earthers is… how do they explain the temperature differences that occur north and south of the equator. Since the earth would be flat, shouldn’t every where be around the same temperature?
Diane DesAutels 1 year ago
Well, not being a flat earther, I don't know how they conceive of the movement of the sun, but some parts of Earth surely have to be further away from it? After all, they don't think the earth is a Dyson sphere with a dimmer switch!
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago
But the North Pole is melting. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-06-07/the-arctic-is-set-to-completely-melt-for-the-first-time-within-two-decades.html
Nancy Parker 1 year ago
No, but an exoplanet tipped on its side, or tidelocked, can have a hot pole and a cold pole.
35 cabbages in a trenchcoat 1 year ago
Spend the night in a desert! Absolutely brutal. Sand is a garbage insulator.
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That women do not all have their period at the beginning of the month all around the world at the same time.
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
That would make things much easier to schedule around
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Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
I work in women’s health - I’ve had more than a few women label their periods “irregular” because they don’t come off the same date every month
Amy S 1 year ago
Whrn I was growing up I was told that periods are once a month, I told my mum that's its not fair that I got 13 in a year, and she had to explain they're actually every 28 days on average, which means 13 a year is average. I was 17 and had sex education at school but still didn't know that.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Reminds me of the "Married With Children" episode where they all went camping and all the women had their period at the same time
#33
A girl was staying with my family and had brought her dog. The dog got hurt at one point (freak accident) that required surgery on a back leg and the "Cone of Shame" to be worn.
At one point, she started cutting off a bit of the cone.
Me: Careful, cut too much, and he'll be able to reach his stitches.
Her: That's alright. He'll be able to keep them clean.
I had to explain to her, very slowly, that the purpose of the cone was to keep him from licking the stitches and pulling them out. She honestly thought the cone was just an aesthetic thing.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
Bad doggy, you were hit by a car, shame on you ! Now you will wear the "Cone of Shame".
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Dogcat vet (retired) 1 year ago
Actually when my dog had knee surgery I put pajamas on him so he didn't need a cone. They had duckies on them.
winterwidow87 1 year ago
Thank you for the cute image. I hope your dog is ok.
Load More Replies... Happy Onion 1 year ago
Also happens extremely often. Then people are pissed when they have to either pay for the repair and/or the new cone.smh
Lena Flising 1 year ago
The dog's mouth is pretty far from clean. His saliva might infect the wound, and make the healing process long and expensive, or even kill the dog.
#34
I had to explain to a doctor's receptionist from Michigan once that Canada was not located somewhere mysteriously "across the ocean?", but rather across the border... from Michigan. My mom and I spent the car ride home in stunned silence.
- 1 year ago
If you stand on the shore of one of the Great Lakes, it *could* look like the ocean...
Jeff White 1 year ago
If you stand in Detroit, Canada looks like it just across the river. Because it is (just across the River).
Load More Replies... DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
Googles Michigan....but that's on the border with Canada...how did they not know...did they think the lake was an ocean?
Ashlie Ann 1 year ago
You'd be surprised at how many Americans are ignorant in regards to Canada. Infact, some people believe that Canadians live in igloos all year round.
Kevin Hickey 1 year ago
Wait until they find out that Windsor, ON is actually south of Detroit, MI.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Sometimes I wonder how we Americans even locate all those nations we drop bombs on. Or maybe it really is just random...
- 1 year ago
Maps. Secret maps. Pilots are given special glasses to see them.
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Diane Sansalone 1 year ago
My mom call AAA from London, Ontario, she had to convince them she was in Canada, not London, England. The call center was based in in Michigan where she is from.
Lena Flising 1 year ago
For us here in Europe, Canada is located "across the ocean", but it's not that mysterious.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Yeah, the Ambassador bridge, Blue Water bridge, and the one in the Soo, go WAY across the ocean. And don't get me started on the Windsor tunnel.
#35
That driving north meant the whole trip was uphill.
I laughed at her until I realised she meant it, ended up laughing at myself cos there’s no way I was going to explain it to her.
Andy Cran 1 year ago
yep heard this one many times...it's the conflating and confusing of up and north
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I had a conversation with somebody who told me the Nile was the only river that flowed uphill. It took me a long time to realize what he meant.
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Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
I dunno - I live in Boston, so headed north we reach the White Mountains. That's uphill for me!
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
And pity the poor history teachers who have to explain, year after year, why Upper Egypt appearing below Lower Egypt on the map is not a mistake.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I'm in Australia, and yeah walking north is a real slog, especially since we have to do it upside down too
Flopsy 1 year ago
My mom (she even has a PhD) once noted that it’s weird some rivers flow north. 😂
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
The Willamette River in Oregon is one of those weird ones.
Load More Replies... DramaDoc 1 year ago
Treebeard: "I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill."
Load More Replies... Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Heard someone from Newcastle (a northern British city) say that when the sea levels rose, everyone would be moving north from the south. Honestly thought the country would fill up like a glass!
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 1 year ago
I grew up in a suburb of a small town, my house being uphill from downtown. As a kid I was convinced we drove south when going into town, driving downhill, only to realize as a teenager that it was actually to the north of us.
#36
That raw meat juices, especially that of chicken, should in no way come in contact with other foods.
I learned this in 8th grade home ec, so I was 13 years old.
I had to explain to a 40-year old that no, you can't put grilled chicken back on an unwashed cutting board that still has raw chicken juices.
Nikole 1 year ago
And then there’s my dad, who was/is a firm believer that “whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”, despite the numerous, numerous examples he’s been presented with.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Whatever does not kill you usually leaves one much weaker, burned out, and exhausted. Most of the idiot bully tough guys I knew in high school have died before the age of 60. I was always the cautious one who looked at the consequences before I did something risky. I hope to outlive all my bullies.
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Kalikima 1 year ago
My step-dad put cooked chicken on the same plate he had the raw chicken on when he was BBQing last year.. gave my son explosive diarrhea..
Nikole 1 year ago
As you might have guessed, my dad was TERRIBLE with raw chicken safety when I was younger. Of course though, we (my mom, my brother, and I) were just “overreacting”.
Load More Replies... Dogcat vet (retired) 1 year ago
CDC also recommends that you don't wash raw chicken as it can spread bacteria.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
My wife asked why she shouldn't eat the chicken, after I witnessed my SIL leave chicken breasts in a bowl, on a counter, on a 90 degree day(no ac) for 3 hours. "Just don't, I'll explain later". She found out later whoever had it had violent gastric distress. Plus side, SIL is MUCH better at food handling now.
Highball Drink 1 year ago
They are by far not the only ones who don't understand. Be kind, explain.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago (edited)
Also? Store raw meat - chicken or red meat etc on the lower bottom shelf in your fridge. Keep cooked meat etc on the upper shelves away from the raw. Always wash your hands as soon as you've handled raw meat of any type.
#37
New England isn't part of Europe (to three different people). Get your s**t together, Arizona public school system.
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
They don't know that Hampshire is in Europe (but do know that England is in Europe).
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Alex Pope 7 months ago
No not all Americans. U must have met one that misunderstood
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Two Cat Studio 1 year ago
And here in Georgia (USA) there are people who believe that New Mexico is part of Mexico ... thanks to the quality of the Georgia (USA) Public School System/GA Board of Education! I say Georgia (USA) because there may be people reading this that believe there isn't a state in the USA called Georgia OR they don't know that there is a country called ... GASP ... Georgia!
Verena 1 year ago
Well, a very dear relative from Australia is convinced that the UK does not belong to Europe. However, even some people from the UK are of the same opinion.
Vir 1 year ago
May be instead of geographically they are referring to no longer belonging to the EU?
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Don't listen to me 1 year ago
I'm from UK. We often hear that US tourists in Europe say with amazement Oh Paris, but that's in Texas. They have no idea that many European names are duplicated in US. Actually many local names of small English towns too, not just the famous ones.
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Jim Robertson 1 year ago
I was asked why England had so many places named after American towns, shouldn't we have found proper names.
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
We did an entire unit in middle school on the period studying the Viking invasions of Vermont, and another 2 weeks covering the sacking of Montpelier.
#38
Orange juice from concentrate doesn't come from a place called "concentrate".
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
This made me laugh, I'm gonna use that next time. I only want juice that comes from Concentrate. lol
taarna23 1 year ago
It's not proper juice unless it comes from the Concentrate region of France.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
So THAT'S why I get a headache from drinking it. I thought I needed to focus really hard to drink it.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Great, I bet next you're going to try to tell my that my Frozen Pizza has nothing to do with Elsa of Arendale.
Rebecca Surette 1 year ago
And I just read, in the past two days, a post explaining to a person that "FL oz" means "fluid ounces," NOT Florida ounces. The OP was looking for a way to convert Florida ounces into regular ounces.
#39
Used to work at a daycare. One day a little mouse entered the premises and caused an uproar until we caught and released it in the playground.
After the whole ordeal, one of my colleagues (who was the dumbest person I've ever met) said: "let's hope it didn't lay eggs anywhere!"
I was too stunned to speak and just stared at her, while my room leader/friend said, in the most done-with-this-s**t way: "Mice don't lay eggs, ." and walked off.
EDIT: I love how so many people in these replies are trying to find a different interpretation of what she must have meant, or say that she must have been joking :D but no, unfortunately I have to tell you she was 100% of the opinion that mice lay eggs because she even doubled down about it later.
Cat Palmer 1 year ago
Google Lens says European wood mouse, for what little that's worth. Very cute, whatever it is.
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Amelia Jade 1 year ago
My uncle thought this. They found and trapped a mouse in their house. Got rid of it and then he says, "What if it laid eggs?!" He was searching the basement for the next and possible eggs.
Weasel Wise 1 year ago
Let's hope it DID lay eggs somewhere cuz you've discovered some new, craaaaazy species!
BrunoVI 1 year ago
Fun fact: people "following the science" once believed that mice hatched from wheat. Experiments seemed to solidly confirm this. Moral lesson: you can't follow the science before science has had a chance to science.
Marianne 1 year ago
Yes, and butterflies hatch from butter. (That's what people used to believe and why they're called like that.)
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#40
A friend asked me how the sun knows the clocks have changed when we have daylight savings.
Xenia Harley 1 year ago
To all those different countries with their own sun. LOL
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Hmmm hmmmm 1 year ago
Well which sun( since each country has it's own ) , Britain sends a custard cream enscribed with the new time, New Zealand just sends a map without them on it , and Canada just apologises for it on a note
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
The sun doesn't know, you silly person- we reset it too, at night when it's cool!
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Where I live, the sun's high noon in the summer is close to 1:50 pm. The sun is very confused.
#41
My bosses wife was learning how to use a computer. She typed in the numbers 1 to 9 and then asked how you typed in a number 10.
We were very diplomatic.
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
I actually heard a Public Service Announcement, many years ago, that 9-1-1 should always be pronounced as 9-1-1. Never should it be referred to as 9-11. Reason being that, in stressful situations, people have actually looked for an, "11," button when calling for emergency assistance.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
My first though was how did she think you write 10 with pen and paper, but that's when things got scary and I realized she doesn't even understand the most basic 2nd grade math. People love to b***h about "new math" but a main purpose of it is to teach basic concepts such as 143 being 1 hundred, 4 tens, and 3 ones.
weatherwitch 1 year ago
That's understandable really to me. All the other numbers are there, you're learning how to use a new technology, it's easy to not understand or get confused.
maureen mcmahon 1 year ago
hopefully as diplomatic as people would be in telling you that bosses is the plural of boss, not the possessive. The word you need here is boss's.
MacintoshID 1 year ago
Oh the years of working IT and the stories we have to tell. It was amazing how some of those federal employees actually got to work each day without having a vehicle accident.
#42
That you cannot give your child a “smaller amount” of medicine that is only to be given to an adult. Boy that was a stressful night of very close observation and many calls to the nurse/poison control line.
Ruth Fichter 1 year ago
Today, reading labels on medicine bottles is a real challenge, mostly requiring the use of a microscope since a magnifying glass is no longer enough.
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Julie Love 1 year ago
Worse is "we're out of liquid kid Tylenol, have leftover infant drops. Must be weaker, so give more than the 5ml we'd give if it were kid's liquid." Infant drops are concentrated since it's hard to get more than 1 ml into a baby, so the toddler gets a potentially lethal overdose. ALWAYS think/talk about meds in mg!
Bell-icose 1 year ago
Paradoxically, sometimes children require more medicine even though their bodies are smaller. Always speak to a doctor or pharmacist. Never assume.
Rose the Cook 1 year ago (edited)
A variation of this was a woman who never gave the proper dose to her child because, "When she was a baby Doctor X said only half that amount." She wondered why the child always had sore throats and wouldn't hear of it that an overweight 5 year old needed a higher dose than a baby.
David 1 year ago
I guess they mean a chemical that is never given to a child? If it is the same chemical, for example Diphenhydramine HCl (aka Benadryl) then you absolutely can as long as you are careful with the math. And for both kids and pets, dosage is often further adjusted by weight. Example: "Benadryl is an antihistamine medication that treats allergic reactions, hives, and allergy symptoms. The recommended dose for adults and children 12 and over is 25 to 50 milligrams every four to six hours as needed. Children 6 to 11 should take 12.5 to 25 milligrams every four to six hours as needed."
LilliVB 1 year ago
If you have half a brain, you don't need to. The leaflet inside the box states if the medicament can be given to children (usually under12, but also under other ages) and in which dosage. If you don't know, just read.
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
God bless the 111 NHS helpline in the UK. It's a freephone number, won't cost you and you can get advice on anything such as this and any, all other medical things. If you're worried? Call them.
#43
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Italy is not a town in France. Same guy. My sister dated him for far too long.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Someone I respect asked me if I visited the nation's capitol often, since I live in Washington state. I was gentle. Someone I cherish deeply, who is by no means unintelligent, asked me whether Milan is the capitol of Italy. I was kind.
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
The Milan one isn't *too* bad. They got a city in the right country, which is honestly not bad considering many people's knowledge of geography.
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Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Was that before or after Abe said "don't believe everything you read on the Internet?"
Lena Flising 1 year ago
Denmark is not part of Sweden (nor the other way around). Sweden and Switzerland are different countries, with different languages and cultures. One is in the EU, the other is not.
Catharina Geerts 11 months ago
But Abraham Lincoln *was* assasinated, it's in the history books
Lesbitarian Lady 1 year ago
How about alzheimer is not oldtimer, and they weren't kidding around
#44
I had to explain to someone you can't buy like two pounds of lunch meat and eat it for a month. The concept of things spoiling was new to him. To be fair, we were both college students and he was living alone for the first time.
I used to work at a coffee shop and had to explain what filling something halfway meant to a woman I was training. She didn't understand the concept of half.
Vicky Phenny 1 year ago
I'm so bothered by the fact the story is about lunch meat but the image is hamburger.
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
Hamburger prior to the burger stage, aka minced meat (most likely beef but hard to tell from a stock photo).
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Acruss 1 year ago
A lot of people, especially from USA have either no idea that you can buy more and freeze it, or they simply don't care. Either way they are the reason USA throws away so much food.
Load More Replies... Acruss 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah, that's what I am doing. love it when someone wants to point out how someone's idea is dumb, and it turns out they have no idea what they're talking about.
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I know somebody who's exactly the opposite. There's not a thing in the house with a best by or expiration date later than today. Even worse, if that date is 4 days after garbage pickup it's probably going away on garbage day.
Don't listen to me 1 year ago
Well better than the OPs example of using month old raw meat. If you've never been taught how to tell the signs of going off in the wide range of foods that we eat it might be better to to be cautious.
Load More Replies... Catharina Geerts 11 months ago
Just can't imagine not knowing these things. Even as a student, did he never see things spoiling at their parents home? And the concept of half, I learned about that in the primary school (and knew of it even earlier, because of sharing with younger siblings)
Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
I'll have my coffee filled half way please .... only the Left half !
Jennifer Brown 1 year ago
I get the thing about the lunchmeat/hamburger....it's a real shame that so many boys/men in our society aren't made to be more self reliant in the kitchen. There should be a class on things like grocery shopping and managing food. Realistically.
#45
I had to explain to a 22 year old friend of mine when I was 18 what ovulation was. We’re both women, she had no idea.
taarna23 1 year ago
Yes way. Reproductive education in many places is either lacking or non-existent.
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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
My son is coming to an age where he is increasingly uncomfortable talking about these things. I know I shouldn‘t laugh, but it is a bit funny. I don‘t worry though. He is 9 and should know everything by now. Plus: they have sex ed this year. I can‘t wait. Lol
Load More Replies... Agent Smith 1 year ago
I knew a Vietnamese post graduate student who already had a four year old boy. I looked surprised and she said she was married at 18 and did not realise how babies were conceived. Her wedding night was her first sex experience and she fell pregnant. Parental and cultural failings that are unforgivable.
Lena Flising 1 year ago
I learned that in fifth grade, if not evey sooner. I knew what happened when first menstruation started. My mom wasn't home, so my poor paternal grandmother had to help me (she didn't have any daughters). She did a splendid job, though.
CrazyAuntiePanda 1 year ago
As a first year college student, I had to explain to the entire dorm floor that "no, just because you french kissed a guy, you are not pregnant."
Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago
Maybe she just didn't know the word for it. The word for being sad for no reason is 'Lypophrania'. Lots of words to be learnt
weatherwitch 1 year ago
That's so damn sad. Kids are able to access horrendous porn and terrible attitudes yet Aren't taught sex Ed which is absolutely vital. Because we moved so much in the 70s and 80s when I was at school I only got extremely basic sex Ed. Until I was 19 I had no idea where exactly a tampon would go. I knew Something was down there but not where. Also I'm Asexual so no interest in body exploration. I hope sex Ed has greatly improved but now there's porn everywhere which gives unrealistic body shapes, behaviours and explanations. What a world 😞
#46
I had to explain to a fully grown adult that yes...your car's keyless entry remote does indeed have a battery in it just like a TV remote and yes the button stopped working because the battery is dead and you need to replace it. I also had to tell him that if you're going to buy huge bags of dry dog food and keep it in your garage which you leave open most of the time...you might want to actually close the bag and maybe even put the closed bag in a container with a lid instead of letting it sit completely open and then always wondering why the dog food is full of bugs, spoils fast and attracts rats and raccoons.
I wish I could say he was a super brilliant engineer or something but yeah...no.
Taibhse Sealgair 1 year ago
Fun fact, my wife's car has push button start that requires the working key fob be in the car. If the battery dies, you're supposed to push the button WITH the key fob. YMMV.
René Sauer 1 year ago
there is so much unnecessary electronic in today´s cars. What happened to just sticking the key into a ignition and then turning it?
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Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Wait until the locksmith they call to get them into the car when it has a dead battery tells them that the fob has an actual door key in it.
Ray Perkins 1 year ago
Maybe recent ones do; mine certainly doesn't. A fob to unlock, and a key for ignition.
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Corinna Weisz 1 year ago
For my last cars were '81, '84 and '96 I've got a brand new one since last week. I was always proud of doing many things by myself, but after having three cars and none of them working properly, I got too anxious. I love cars, don't get me wrong, but I also need at least one car operating as it should, so I won't come late for work. Husband decided on a brandnew. Now, if I don't have the fob (which actually contains a hidden mechanic key), I can open, drive and close with my smartphone. Gosh, that's how a timetraveller from 1900 to 2100 feels 🤣🤣🤣
J R Talbert 1 year ago
I work at a big box hardware store. I've had to explain more than once that solar lights have batteries too!
Jay Scales 1 year ago
SO MANY people here (UK) don't know this. When the battery is done they throw the lights out & buy new ones.
Load More Replies... Dogcat vet (retired) 1 year ago
Had to explain to a client once that having dog food in a trash can for over a year in the garage was not a good thing to feed his dog.
Marina Nygard 1 year ago
My 2023 model car has a keyless key fob that cannot be opened. Apparently because most car owners can't figure out how to open one and change the battery without ruining it. I will have to take my fob to the dealer when the battery dies, I guess?
Tim Callahan 1 year ago
Back when it was common to have a remote built into a key, some cars did recharge the remote via the ignition.
#47
I had to explain to someone that New Mexico is in fact part of the United States, not a part of Mexico. I assume they failed Geography.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
My wife grew up in NM. She is white, non-Hispanic and no Spanish heritage. She has been told, on separate occasions, that she doesn’t look Mexican and that her English is very good.
Teachzebra 1 year ago (edited)
I lived in New Mexico in the 90s. New Mexico magazine was a very popular publication, and every month had a small section called “one of our 50 is missing”. It was about stories like this of people not understanding that we were part of the United States. One of my favorites was all the people who couldn’t get tickets to the Olympics in 1996 since they had to go through the international channels to get tickets for events. 🙄
Terri Robinson 1 year ago
I was waiting for this one; my MIL was aging and had a friend that lived in New Mexico. One day she asked us if calling New Mexico was an international call; we had to explain to her that New Mexico was in the US and Mexico was a country. She was on our phone plan and was worried we were racking up charges. We told her she was okay and to keep calling her friend, all was good.
#48
Incremental tax brackets. a dude at my work thought he was going to make less money if he got a raise
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
This one is actually a bit complicated. There are benefits to which a person may be entitled, so long as they make under a certain amount. I know somebody who receives a full subsidy for their insurance plan because they make a certain income. If they get a raise, they will make an extra $30/month, but end up paying an extra $700/month for their insurance premium. Because in the US, many of these benefits are actually regulated in the tax code (due to legislative rules), they are effectively extra taxes on top of your normal tax owed. The problem is hard cut offs for these benefits. Rather than gradual reductions.
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René Sauer 1 year ago
Well, it actually happened to me. After a raise I suddenly had about 80€ less on my paycheck (after taxes and everything).
Robert T 1 year ago
Not soley due to incremental tax brackets it didn't. It may be that you were underpaying tax and at the next reassesment they upped the amount being taken to cover back taxes. In the UK you can lose certain benefits when you cross a threshold and actually end up worse off, but not on normal Income Tax and National Insurance unless you stray into the very top tax bracket whereby they cut your tax free allowance.
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Lizz 1 year ago
In Belgium, this can happen.... I have a co-worker that makes more money bruto than me but has less netto. Also due to tax brackets. And if you know that I 'm in a 45% bracket and he's in a 50% bracket ( the highest one ) then you know how high our tax pressure is. Yes.... getting a raise here means 2-3 years of "O sh!t, how am I going to pay the bills".
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
If true, I'm guessing that it's probably due to tax deductions that you have and co-worker doesn't, not tax brackets. Tax brackets work the same in Belgium as elsewhere, so the reason is in laws about taxable income, not the brackets.
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Cogworth Needlebottm 1 year ago
Being from Canada this is sort of true. Worked at a mill where a lot of overtime was available. Overtime pay was taxed at the next tax bracket. when you did you taxes you would get a big return because all that overtime pay taxed at the higher rate would be recalculated at your current rate. However, you needed to be careful with the amount of overtime you accepted. If you did to much your actual annual income would move into the next tax bracket and no big return for you.
Roni Stone 1 year ago
I actually believed this until I figures out what the incremental tax brackets were and how hey worked.
Roni Stone 1 year ago
You know, I could have proofread that before hitting post. Sorry, Pandas.
Load More Replies... JB 1 year ago (edited)
Want to understand tax brackets? Picture a container filling up and overflowing into the one adjacent until it's full and overflows into the next.
The Other Guest 1 year ago
Wait, I thought that was trickle-down economics...
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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
The only people who believe this are those who've never made it into a higher tax bracket.
Krzysztof Flisikowski 8 months ago (edited)
Well it all depend on tax deduction. In Finland tax is calculated how much you earn annualy. so if you will get raise and this raise will get you out of your tax bracket then tax will go higher. and after raise if you will not change your tax card accordingly you will get like penalty tax to pay which is super high.
#49
When you save a file on Windows, the save window actually lets you save the file into a particular folder. You don't have to go into your recent items to find it and then move it to where you want it to be saved. This person had been working an office job at a computer for more than 5 years at that point
Skye Ragsdale 1 year ago
I hear younger generations are struggling with this because so much of what they do is on their phones, so they didn't get any formal computer education like so many millennials did
Jonas Fisher 1 year ago
Teacher here. I can verify this. There is a longstanding belief that "young people understand computers." I think this stems from Gen X growing up as personal computers grew up (in complexity), and had to explain computers to their boomer parents. The younger gens grew up with dumbed-down apps on phones and tablets, and really just know how to click things in programs that have been streamlined. I once got into an argument with a student who swore up and down that his Dell laptop running windows didn't have any files. Like....no file system at all.
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Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
I learned computer stuff bit by bit, piece by piece, so to speak. I began working on a computer at job many years ago, and this was before internet use was common. I did clerical work at a retail chain, sending emails, processing payroll, making work schedules, etc. I built on skills I learned as I went along. Eventually, I taught my dad how to use a computer when he was nearly 80. He did quite well, although he mainly sent emails and saved information that was sent to him via email. My mom was a different story - she wanted nothing to do with computers.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Wait, you can actually save files ON the computer? I thought you had to print them out, put them into an actual manila file folder, and then stick them in a drawer. This is going to save me so much space!
Robert T 1 year ago
You do when Office decided that it is going to save it somewhere else than where you opened it from and then did Save As to save a copy. It seems to be a random decision as to whether it will be alongside the original or in My Documents, or occasionally in the last used folder for some other document.
Chris Lee 1 year ago
It's not random. It places it in a folder based on an algorithm that predicts how important the file is, when you're going to need it next and how quickly you'll need to retrieve it. e.g cat_picture.jpg -> pictures Proof of Company Insurance after flood WAS in /company docs, but system moved it to /C/system/users/user_not_existing/roaming/other_system/office/word/.....
Load More Replies... Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Unless you have office 365, then it's a mystery. Where did it, go...........
Reed Eculus 1 year ago
I've used computers since the 90's and I'm still learning things that I had no idea about.
Chris Landrum 1 year ago
while many kids have used a computer , many have not worked on a computer
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
This was taught to me in school between 1st and 5th grade but then I was assigned the shittiest & glitchiest computer of the lot so I never managed to get to the point I could save anything
#50
Whales don’t lay eggs.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
As one tour guide said on a whale-watching trip: they are not fish, they never have been fish, and they never will be fish.
Brian Droste 1 year ago (edited)
Never thought about that, but they would have to since there young need to suckle to get there milk.
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Mark Trombley 1 year ago
What would a whale make its nest out of? Maybe old shipwrecks I guess.
#51
That bocconcini, Parmesan and feta are dairy cheeses. I used to work in a pizzeria and had to explain to this vegan couple on multiple occasions that these cheeses all were made from dairy.
It got to the point I had to grab the original containers and read the ingredients on the third try to get it to sink in.
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
If you chose to live vegan, of all things, I would expect you to have educated yourself suffienctly what that means. And some food basics.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
After telling them once, if they insisted, I would just give it to them. It is up to them to know what is vegan and what is not. And I hope they like marshmallows and jello, hahaha
Load More Replies... Sara Frazer 1 year ago
Whoa, I love cheese A LOT, but I've never heard of "bocconcini", what is it??!
Astar_ALT 1 year ago
Little balls of mozzarella cheese, usually sold in bring where I live
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Unless pizza has some meat on it there's no point. Gimme my pepperoni, sausage a d onion or meat lovers. Those are our favorites, sometimes BBQ chicken, spinach and onions.
#52
Where pineapples come from.
That orcas and narwhals are real animals.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Pineapples grow under the sea, though some are spoiled by sponge infestations. Narwhals are what you get when you crossbreed orcas with unicorns. Learn some science!
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
Does anyone know what the offspring of a Wookie + a Sasquatch are called?
Load More Replies... DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
I imagine pineapples would seem strange for anyone who isn't actively around pineapple plants, like here in the tropics.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I honestly thought they grew on trees till I went to Hawaii when I was 18. lol
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Raphapablap 1 year ago
The amount of times I've seen this thing about people not knowing narwhals are real is astounding.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Narwhals are just underwater fast-attack unicorns.
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CD King 1 year ago
I have to admit I was pretty blown away when I found out how pineapples grow
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Same here. When I visited Hawai'i I was surprised to discover that pineapples grew on bushes. I had always sort of assumed they grew on trees similar to coconuts or bananas, but since I grew up in the northeast I'd never seen a tropical fruit tree (or bush).
Load More Replies... Myoviridae 1 year ago
Pineapples growing underground is a joke that people in Hawaii tell tourists.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
My SIL thought Narwhals were imaginary. :) She's otherwise incredibly intelligent so we like to tease her about it.
April Pickett 1 year ago
Honestly, I never thought about where pineapples grew or how they grew. I had to look it up online. I was surprised that that big plant only grew one pineapple. I found this out just a couple of years ago. (I'm in my 70s.)
Jeff White 1 year ago
To be fair, the first time I saw where pineapples came from, I didn't believe it either.
#53
Her child (my child's half sibling) could not have inherited a trait from my child, because that trait was inherited from me.
"But they're brothers!!"
SnootWaggling Fox 1 year ago (edited)
Probably a typo, but elude is to evade whereas allude is to hint at. Edit: changed "type" to "typo". See how easy they are to make!
Load More Replies... Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
So OP ( the mom) have distinct trait like a widow's peak, her son had the trait, and the stepmom thought her son would also have this trait from the father.
#54
That the sun was a star.
“No it isn’t, it’s a Sun. I learned that when I was like 6.”
S Bow 1 year ago
Isn't that the truth, amply demonstrated by this pathetic list.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Let's hope they don't and get somebody that teaches them properly
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When i was in culinary school i had someone ask me if their water was boiling. It was bubbling. I said yes.
arthbach 1 year ago
'Bubbling' doesn't equal 'boiling'. Water can start bubbling at around 70C. Boiling is 30 degrees higher at 100C. There's a big difference in temperature between a lttle light bubbling and a rolling boil.
Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
Thank you! There's a hell of a difference between a low simmer and a rolling boil but the water is bubbling in both.
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Daniel Heys 1 year ago
My friend asked if the water was boiling once too😭 and i sarcastically said is it bubbling. She had never used a kettle before.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
I often joke that my wife struggles to boil water unless I leave her detailed written instructions. But she is aware of this and would not consider culinary school as a viable career path.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
"Perhaps a career as chef is not for you. Perhaps dishwasher is more your speed."
#56
The difference between Chinese and Japanese people.
- 1 year ago
Years ago, a woman working on a children's book asked me for a boy's name that could be both Chinese and Japanese. Couldn't get through to her that "not the same". She finally suggested "Kenny". Since the story took place in North America, I told her it was fine.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago (edited)
Boy's name that could be both Chinese and Japanese: Dai, Gen, Jin, and Kai. Now you know.
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catastrophegirl 1 year ago
back in the 90's in my high school (advanced placement, so supposedly smart kids) world history class, while studying the sino-japanese war/ the roles of china and japan during wwii, one of my classmates said "isn't japan a part of china?"
Florence O'Grady 1 year ago
Didn't the people who are now considered to be Japanese, immigrate to Japan from China and East Asia, a few thousand years ago, minimum?
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
There are 3 distinct people genetics~ migrations, the original people, thought to be from the original migration of all people, then the people migrating from the north, then the people migrating from the south, with possibly several distinct migrations. China is now(today) both north and south, so the original migrants came from what is now China, but was not China 200 years ago or more and the original People in China don't exist anymore because of conflict and being pushed out by the Chin, then the Manchu. So Japan has a unique genetic heritage
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#57
A small pizza is not the same size as a large pizza even though they have the same amount of "slices".......
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I always have my pizza cut into four slices because I don't think could eat six.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I cut mine into four because I'm lazy and hungry and not going to do any more cutting
Load More Replies... Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
My pedantic pet hate: when you ask staff how big their pizza is and they answer with a number of slices. Dude, I can cut a bedsheet into 8 slices but it will be remarkably different to if I cut a handkerchief into 8 slices. Just use your hands to show me if numbers are too hard.
Dariusz M. D. 1 year ago
The same number of slices not amount of slices! These must be end times. The signs are here.
#58
My mother once had to explain, to a fellow teacher, that humans only have one appendix.
linda harbin 1 year ago
Oh yes, right. Thanks. I had forgotten that part.
Load More Replies... catastrophegirl 1 year ago
eh, ish? there is one of the organ called appendix that is prone to infection/rupture. but i learned the hard way (in the hospital) that there are epiploic appendices (singular would be epiploic appendix) along your digestive tract. one of mine suffered spontaneous torsion and sent me to the ER with extreme pain for a couple of weeks. so while there are multiple things in the human body named "appendix" you only have one of the well known organ. i'm going to accept that the above teacher meant the well known one. because i expect only doctors and people who have experienced epiploic appendagitis have heard of the other ones.
Nancy Braithwaite 1 year ago
well.... sometimes we are weird and have extra bits.. I have a friend with 3 kidneys (naturally occuring) and I have two spleens (one is tiny)... so maybe.. just maybe .. there might be someone out there with two appendix's (personally.. I hated mine with a vengeance so would certainly not like a second go at that hell.
Scotira 1 year ago (edited)
Jup those extra bits or fused bits or not in the right position bits are "fun" when you are getting a CT scan or (in my case) making the scan 😅 the not in the right position bits are the worst. When the doctor calles to rip into you, bc "you flipped the images before sending them" and me trying to explain that the patient in fact has a complete situs inversus (aka everything is on the other side than usually) 🙈👀. I just bet an MRI of your spleens would be really cool. (On a side note it is appendixes or appendices 😅)
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Wolf princess quinn 1 year ago
But if you look real close you can still see we came with a glossary as well
#59
That the moon wasn’t self illuminating from within.
Nikole 1 year ago
Duh. It appears bright because it’s reflecting the electric lights from earth.
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
You joke, but when the moon is fairly new or old you can see the earthlight on the moon. Meaning the dark area of the moon isn't fully dark and you can still pick up some of the shapes on it. 🌒
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Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
It is 100% made of cheese though. Wallace and Gromit wouldn't lie to me.
Dogcat vet (retired) 1 year ago
So does that mean an eclipse happens when you need to change the batteries?
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Don't lie. NASA changes the batteries all the time. That's what they're for!
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
The moon does emit electromagnetic waves of its own but they’re infrared radiations which the human eye wasn’t designed to detect
#60
That an item damaged in a car crash did not qualify as a manufacture defect covered under warranty. The store refund policy was 90 days, and she had a receipt over a year old.
Stacy Jones 1 year ago
OMG, that reminds me of the time a guy wanted to exchange a 6-pk of beer he had purchased 5 hours earlier because "It’s hot." I told him alcohol legally can't be returned; "But it's hot." I told him beer becomes skunked if it goes from cold to hot, so I couldn't let him return it; "But it's hot." I told him it was cold when he purchased it, and it was his actions that had caused it to be hot; "Are you stupid? It's hot, I'm not drinking hot beer!" *headdesk*
#61
That cold sores are herpes.
I’ve also had to explain repeatedly that mice are not baby rats. Like…a lot.
iseefractals 1 year ago
67% of people, worldwide, under the age of 50 have some form of herpes, and herpes is FOREVER.
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Sand Ers 1 year ago
So, Herpes. Also, it’s possible to get either one at either end.
Load More Replies... Weasel Wise 1 year ago
BP can find an accurate picture of mouth herp but gives us raw ground beef instead of lunch meat?
Marykay Klim 1 year ago
Herpes Simplex 1 can cause cold sores. So if you have open cold sores, I wouldn't be kissin' folks any where.
#62
How to make ramen.
The directions are on the packet. I pointed that out, their response was "i thought it was too simple to have directions on it".
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
When your pack of ramen isn't the simplest thing in the kitchen...
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
Why do we call it, "Ramen Noodles," when the word ramen actually means noodles?
Load More Replies... April Pickett 1 year ago
EVERYTHING has directions on it these days. It makes me wonder what some people have done. I especially like the "Caution: food will be hot."
iseefractals 1 year ago
Open packet of dry, fill pot with wet, make wet hot, put dry in hot wet, put wet hot wet in the stupid hole.
Catharina Geerts 1 month ago
Well I would need to know how long it has to cook. And the expiration date
Unemployed Panda 1 year ago
I’ve even seen individually-wrapped toothpicks with instructions: “Insert into tooth space”
S Bow 1 year ago
Along side the fast food sandwich wrapper that says do not eat wrapper. We're de-evolving rapidly
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Blood is red and not green
Weasel Wise 1 year ago
Who's gonna tell the millions of years of Horseshoe Crabs that their blood is actually red?
Catharina Geerts 1 month ago
How did they come up with green? I could understand if they thought it was blue, as the veins right below your skin show that colour, but green?
Two Cat Studio 1 year ago
Or that blood is blue until it hits air. Or that oxygenated blood is red & the oxygen-depleted is blue.
#64
I had to explain to my two coworkers that it wasn't some magic fairy that was throwing away their coffee cups. They were joking around one day that their (old) coffee cups always disappeared by the next day and I had to tell them it was me and that I had to start doing it because they kept getting left in the way and being knocked over. I was off for a few days and came back and there were cups everywhere.
Alyce 1 year ago
I can - "I don't get paid enough for that" is an endemic attitude
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Shark Lady 1 year ago
This could be my neighbour, we both smoke (yes I know it's an awful habit) outside, I put my cigarette ends in a sealed ashtray and empty it when it's full. My neighbour drops hers on the ground and is always amazed when they disappear overnight. It's me, I pick them all up because it's nasty to leave them all over the place.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
There is an episode of "Reba" where Van is staying at a condo complex in Denver while playing Arena Football. When Cheyanne comes to visit, he tells her there is a magic table outside of his apartment door--if you leave an empty can out there overnight, it will disappear by morning.
Dee Rutherford 1 year ago
I’d just dump them out and pitch them in the garbage. If they are still there, unwashed, then they are garbage.
Hey! 1 year ago
A place where I worked at explained to everyone that the janitors would not pick up cups at the desks but would start the washing machine every night. Some never got their cups washed. I washed mine by hand and returned it to my desk because some people would still take it even though my name was on it.
#65
It was at work. I had to explain that if they didn't do their job me or the next shift had to.
Weasel Wise 1 year ago
I had to explain to a coworker that he had to clean the huge mess he left on the back counter, he can't just clock out. He attempted to say he didn't make that mess, which I shot down with "we're the only two people in this department". He said that it'll be gone by tomorrow, to which I explained "cuz night shift cleans up after you! Now shut up and clean your mess!" Instead, he started crying and then left.
What do you think ?
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
We were watching a NASCAR race once when an accident occurred on track. My mom commented that they wouldn't have wrecks if they stopped driving so fast.
Noproblem 1 year ago
I had a coworker who had to be reminded numerous times how to spell our manager’s name. Our manager’s name was Tim.
Sam Lombardo 1 year ago
We had to tell our history teacher in 6th grade, that the statue of liberty was a gift from the French. A HISTORY TEACHER!
Marnie 1 year ago
At the elementary level, they don't become teachers because they are knowledgeable, but because they got a degree in education. I've found most K-12 teachers to have very little intellectual curiosity and don't care that they know very little. (One of the reasons kids are strongly encouraged to read fiction and are unconsciously discouraged from reading non-fiction, unless it's a textbook.) It's terrifying. I have a sister who was a teacher for a while. Academically she was very gifted. She is a good person. But she had the intellectual curiosity of a knat. I read one of her college-assigned books for fun, and she just could not understand why I did that, even when I explained.
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IamMe 1 year ago
In fifth grade, we moved to West Virginia, because my dad was building a dam there. I had to explain to my new teacher, that my previous home of "Ver-mont", was nowhere near "Californy". She was convinced it was, because I "talked like people from T.V." The quotation marks, are all as said, by the teacher.
Amelia Jade 1 year ago
My cousin's husband thought if you went over the international date line while in a plane that it would change from day to night like a switch had been flipped.
frederick clause 1 year ago
The number of people that slip through the cracks in the education system is staggering. It's almost as though the powers that be don't think an education is important.
Don Adams 1 year ago
Worked as office manager for a nationwide relocation services company. Had a coordinator that constantly would ask what state Washington DC was in. Could not accept it was a district (hence the D) and not part of a state. Also requested a replacement Desk calculator, fooled with it all day, then complained it was not working right, that the numbers would not change. I peeled the label off the display....
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
I get the impression that a lot of these people are ignorant rather than stupid. Ignorant is better than stupid because you can cure ignorance.
B Jones 1 year ago
Some of it is also willful ignorance. People will form an opinion with no facts or on what someone else told them once, and believe that as the truth forever no matter what evidence is later presented. A complete unwillingness to learn or change even if otherwise they are intelligent. If you challenge someone's opinion they will cling tighter to it.
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Damned_Cat 1 year ago
We were watching a NASCAR race once when an accident occurred on track. My mom commented that they wouldn't have wrecks if they stopped driving so fast.
Noproblem 1 year ago
I had a coworker who had to be reminded numerous times how to spell our manager’s name. Our manager’s name was Tim.
Sam Lombardo 1 year ago
We had to tell our history teacher in 6th grade, that the statue of liberty was a gift from the French. A HISTORY TEACHER!
Marnie 1 year ago
At the elementary level, they don't become teachers because they are knowledgeable, but because they got a degree in education. I've found most K-12 teachers to have very little intellectual curiosity and don't care that they know very little. (One of the reasons kids are strongly encouraged to read fiction and are unconsciously discouraged from reading non-fiction, unless it's a textbook.) It's terrifying. I have a sister who was a teacher for a while. Academically she was very gifted. She is a good person. But she had the intellectual curiosity of a knat. I read one of her college-assigned books for fun, and she just could not understand why I did that, even when I explained.
Load More Replies... IamMe 1 year ago
In fifth grade, we moved to West Virginia, because my dad was building a dam there. I had to explain to my new teacher, that my previous home of "Ver-mont", was nowhere near "Californy". She was convinced it was, because I "talked like people from T.V." The quotation marks, are all as said, by the teacher.
Amelia Jade 1 year ago
My cousin's husband thought if you went over the international date line while in a plane that it would change from day to night like a switch had been flipped.
frederick clause 1 year ago
The number of people that slip through the cracks in the education system is staggering. It's almost as though the powers that be don't think an education is important.
Don Adams 1 year ago
Worked as office manager for a nationwide relocation services company. Had a coordinator that constantly would ask what state Washington DC was in. Could not accept it was a district (hence the D) and not part of a state. Also requested a replacement Desk calculator, fooled with it all day, then complained it was not working right, that the numbers would not change. I peeled the label off the display....
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
I get the impression that a lot of these people are ignorant rather than stupid. Ignorant is better than stupid because you can cure ignorance.
B Jones 1 year ago
Some of it is also willful ignorance. People will form an opinion with no facts or on what someone else told them once, and believe that as the truth forever no matter what evidence is later presented. A complete unwillingness to learn or change even if otherwise they are intelligent. If you challenge someone's opinion they will cling tighter to it.
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