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Common sense might need a bit of a rebrand. Because, as it turns out, it isn’t all that common after all.
One Redditor proved this by asking others to share the funniest “how did they not know that?” moments they’ve come across. And judging by the replies, even the best of us can be stumped by the most obvious things.
From realizing that vacuum bags don’t last forever to finding out Liechtenstein is an actual country, here are some of the most entertaining stories people shared.
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#1
I grew up in Alaska but I went to fifth grade in Las Vegas. My first day they had me introduce myself to the class and to tell them some interesting things about Alaska. I mentioned it was the largest state and everyone started arguing with me. I looked at the map of the US on the wall and instantly understood why they were confused. Alaska was shrunk down in a little box in the corner. I laughed and said, "Did you think it was an island, too?" Crickets. Pretty sure they thought it was an island. I showed them there were 5 longitudinal lines across AK and only 3 across Texas. Also showed them on the map where it said it was attached to Canada.
Our education system sucks.
AnnaB 2 months ago
The dumber they are, the easier they are to manipulate.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago
And yet, 90% of the developed world outside of the US knows exactly where Alaska is. Strange, that.
Yrral Spavit 2 months ago
Stopped for gas in northern BC and saw a guy looking confused at a map. Went over to help him out. He was driving from the states up to Alaska. Seemed pretty crestfallen when I told him he had at least two more days of Canada to drive through
Geoffrey Scott 2 months ago
I'm not sure that I agree with that, but our lack of curiosity and refusal to accept facts is troubling.
Bryan Wright 1 month ago
Lucky for you the human Walnut, with added worm, isn't your education secretary.
TCW Sam Vimes 2 months ago
Your government wants only ppl with money to be able to get an education. They keep you stupid on purpose
Robert Trebor 2 months ago
One of the maps on BP recently had Alaska attached to Baja California and Hawaii inside Mexico.
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#2
That women can’t hold their period blood. I’ve seen so many people who were so surprised when they learned that you can’t hold the blood that comes out.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
Too bad most of the U.S. Congress believes stuff like this.
Rosecrucian Roeth 2 months ago
I think the US Congress will believe anything as long as it's not the truth!
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Philly Bob 1 month ago
Maybe try using one of those "miracle pads" the tangerine terror used for his ear that got "blown off!" it seemed to have stopped his blood flow and healed his ear to brand new in about 24 hours! How do women not know of this miracle of modern science! /s (just to be sure)
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Westerly 2 months ago
true, and also about having a man explain the if it was really r**e you can't get pregnant because the body 'has a way of knowing these things' such awesome scientific knowledge from the esteemed powerful American politician's born in 1935 ish
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Ginger ninja 1 week ago
Oh no, people (mainly men) believe it in the uk too (probably everywhere else too but I cant speak with certainty)
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🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 2 months ago
I'm still surprised that we can't hold it in. It seems like extraordinarily bad design. Maybe it's because I'm autistic with an interest in good design and a recurring urge to write "Letters to the Times" type complaints to the so-called master architect.
AlithenewMC 2 months ago
I don't understand the thought process. If they cut their arm open, can they hold the blood in? Like why does anyone think you can stop blood from bleeding?
Anthony Elmore 2 months ago
Well maybe if you kept better track of your uterine lining you wouldn't be losing it all the time! /s
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I can't help but wonder what they think pads and tampons are for, then. Do they... do they think girls like to just sometimes have a lazy day put that in there so they don't have to worry about it?
Binky Melnik 1 week ago
The number of men who believe tampons are secksually gratifying is jaw-dropping. If they were, who’d need a man? Just buy a case of Tampax and you’re good to go, AND you don’t hafta listen to dull and stupid 🐎💩 come out of a moron while you get your rocks off!
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Saeyoul Akiyune 1 month ago
I have trained mine (slightly) for a few hours, if I'm lucky, to hold until I can't do it anymore. It's really bad, however, if I'm really stressed, pissed, or if I suddenly move after so long of not moving from place to place (standing drive-thru for 6-7 hours.)
#3
People not knowing that "The Onion" is a satirical news source.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
"I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up." - Lily Tomlin
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WubiDubi 2 months ago
The Onion is irrelevant in 2025. Half the stuff on there has been out-Onioned by the Orange t**t.
Joe Publique 2 months ago
Many people don't realise that maintaining a balanced diet of news is just as crucial for their well-being as eating a balanced diet of food.
Science Nerd 2 months ago (edited)
From Senator John Kennedy (LA) - I believe that we are going to have to get some new conspiracy theories. All the old ones turned out to be true.
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Tenille Nowak 1 month ago
Had a student in my English 101 class in college cite The Onion as a legit source and couldn’t understand why it wasn’t acceptable.
Hidden Panda 1 month ago
That's not an US issue. In the Netherlands (you know, that city in the country of Europe 🙄) we have some satire news sites too. Hilarious to read the comments on their "news".
Emilu 2 months ago (edited)
... is it only not worth it because you've never heard of it? Not meaning to cast aspersions but that's what it sounds like you're saying.
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#4
You need to clean out the lint trap in a dryer. I frequently come across people in their 30s that can’t figure out why their clothes take so long to dry...
Philly Bob 1 month ago
Serious fire hazard! I clean mine out after every use and vacuum out the works at least once a week. Heated lint sometimes loves to go poof and you end up not just drying yor clothes but drying your whole house so that some brave people with flashing lights and sirens have to come an wet it all over again.
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Uncle Panda 2 months ago
I clean the lint trap every time because that's what the manual said. I feel a bit of a fool knowing you can skip that for a long time, but I'm still going to clean it before every use.
Ginger ninja 1 week ago
Dont ever skip it, continue cleaning it out every single time!
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Multa Nocte 2 months ago
Many years ago I remember someone in an outdoors group I was associated with reminding us that a good way to start camp fires was to bring some wads of lint we could take from our dryers as we cleaned them.
WindySwede 2 months ago
Though the not-so-good-part about that is plastic fibers?
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Geoffrey Scott 2 months ago
Daughter, in her rented house during college, was complaining one day about "the dryer sucks". Whoever routed the vent hose had it vertical for 4' before the thru wall fitting. Pulled a 4' 'lint log'. "It works better now Dad, thanks". The mind reels how a landlord, responsible for the well being of inexperienced tenants, could allow this, and sleep at night.
Rick Murray 2 months ago
I just did this at work when some of the management were complaining about how long it was taking the dryer to do anything. So I go over, open the door, pull this thing out, open it up, pull out a fluffy pillow of fuzz...and they're looking at me like I've just performed some sort of magic. These are people that get paid several times what I'm paid... 🤦
Sarah Matsoukis 2 months ago
My dryer will tell me if it gets too full and refuses to work until emptied
#5
It makes sense that he doesn't know this, cuz I'm his first serious relationship, he has only brothers/has never lived with a woman before me and just... wouldn't know this. But my boyfriend was doing our laundry recently and he noted "some of your bras are soft, and some of them have this hard outer rim." I said yes, that's called an underwire. And he just repeated it sounding like a baby learning a new word "...underwire." It was extremely cute.
LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
If he didn't get a pat on the head he won't have felt like he accomplished anything.
Jay Cee 1 month ago
He's doing THEIR washing and you think the best comment you can make would be snarky?
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Karen Lyon 1 month ago
I am glad she understood that he wouldn't know it, especially since he didn't have sisters!
Mario Clouâtre 1 month ago (edited)
In my times we had the Sears catalogue to learn things like that. 😊
Damned_Cat 2 months ago
LOL! My ex had the same experience. He thought I was going to be mad because he "lost" the hard part of one of my bras and was thinking about taking the washing machine apart to find it.
patricia patricia 1 month ago
That's not "basic s**t". Why should he know that? Besides, many women never wear bras with underwire. Perhaps you were born knowing everything, but the rest of us, mere mortals, learn new stuff every day.
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Suzanne Hudson 1 month ago
Why would this conversation come up between a mom and son?
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Svenne O'Lotta 2 months ago
Yes that's what it says in the text. Right there in the beginning
Load More Replies... angelmomoffour62 2 months ago
The word sounded cool to him, repeating it so he wouldn't forget it.
Rick Murray 2 months ago
My mother was quite forthright about her hatred of the medieval t*****e device that was the underwire bra. But, then, the last time she wore one she set fire to it in protest (the '60s, before my time). How do I know all of this being her son? When I was a child I had a tendency to wander off (I still do, but since I'm an adult I can look out for myself) and so I'd be standing there awkwardly in the M&S lingerie aisle as she was looking for exactly the right size, style, shade, colour, and... 🙄
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My husband was away working for about 2months... I usually don't stay at ours if he's away, but I happen to this time. I know I'm a big splasher when I wash my face... (I don't use a towel and don't towel dry my face), the counter is usually drenched, as is a third of my shirt after I wash my face. After 3-4days, I notice water stains on the mirror aren't leaving and I was so confused as I'd never seen them before. I left them there a bit longer to see if they'd "disappear" but they didn't...
Turns out my SO had been wiping these water stains I leave for the last 6-7years... and I'd grown up with a housekeeper who would wipe/clean this stuff, so I was completely oblivious. I assumed mirrors were kinda self-cleaning by being coated with something that would make water drip off and not "stain"?
Anyways, I messaged my SO and thanked him for doing this all this time and not complaining, and apologised for making a mess and having not noticed this. He found it hilarious I thought mirrors were self cleaning.
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
Reminds me of the English Duke who got very upset when his toothbrush wasn't foaming properly. Turns out his valet wasn't with him and he had never put the toothpaste on and he wasn't aware toothbrushs didn't self-charge.
Karen Lyon 1 month ago
That reminds me of the young lady who was a friend of my first roommate. We had all moved into what was then the sorority/fraternity housing at my university. We were talking about how different it was to be on our own, and she casually mentioned that she had to learn how to make her bed. "The maid always did it." Hon, as the oldest of five, I WAS the maid! Bless her little heart, LOL.
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patricia patricia 1 month ago
I think the problem here is lack of proper upbringing and lack of a minimum number of functional neurones.
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KnightOwl86 2 months ago
This person would drive me crazy. I hate when people flood the bathroom and think its fine to just leave it like that. My sister does this every time she washes her hands and I've slipped and fell way too many times because of it, but if i mention it she gets annoyed. It's extremely selfish and dangerous, incredibly entitled behaviour.
Sarah 2 months ago (edited)
Not as bad as Mariah Carey telling an interviewer Americans don’t pay for electricity https://youtu.be/RL6zoDy7mG8?si=ah3cFZbMbqsYPN7n
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
I’m so confused as to why someone would wash their face like that? Every morning and every evening your clothes are soaking wet?
K Barnes 2 months ago
I assume it's because that's how they do it on tv commercials? I thought that was how you were supposed to when I was a younger teen because that was how people on tv washed their face. My mom told me to use a d**n washcloth.
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#7
Unfortunately, I was the dumb one here. From the US, visiting a friend in France. She'd told me that stores close on Sunday. I thought I understood--yeah, so the department stores and stuff are closed, but of course necessities like groceries and pharmacies are open.
I needed to get something at the pharmacy, and asked if we could stop by one. She reminded me it was Sunday, and the pharmacy was closed. Cue bluescreen in my brain. But, they're pharmacies. Surely not /everything/ is closed. "No hun," she says, "it's Sunday. Stores are closed on Sunday." You could practically hear my brain doing a dial tone as I tried to process this very simple idea.
Eliza 2 months ago (edited)
My husband and I honeymoonee in France and didn't realize how serious they were about closing on Sundays. We ended up fasting for about 30 hours because we didn't know you couldn't buy groceries or go to restaurants and didn't plan ahead to stock up on food. We thought we'd picnic but nope, all 5 food stores in the town were closed. Fine, go out for lunch. Nope, restaurants all closed. Gas station will have snacks. Nope, closed too. We spent the evening talking about how hungry we were like we were on Survivor.
Don't listen to me 2 months ago
Unusual for restaurants to close at weekends! Normally monday shut instead.
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Robert T 2 months ago
In the UK we have some pharmacies that don't open at all at weekends. We have others that are open 7 days a week for reasonably long hours. However there is a system whereby there is at least one duty pharmacist, so one pharmacy will be open. Search "out of hours pharmacy".
Mary Peace 1 month ago
Absolutely. So if you have a medical emergency, you can still get medicines.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago
There's always a pharmacy open somewhere. Not everything else, outside of large towns.
Verena 2 months ago
Germany: All shops are closed on Sundays and public holidays, besides flower shops, bakeries and gas stations. Restaurants open. I live in the Netherlands, in a tourist region at the coast, so most shops are open 7 days from 8 to 20/21. When visiting home, I always need to remember to go shopping on saturday instead of sunday on the way home
Sue User 2 months ago
Was sick once and couldnt get to the shops. Sunday, when i was better, went to Schipol to shop at Albert Hein, because it was open 7 days week.
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Dusty's mom 2 months ago
As a child in the USA, back in the 1960s, all stores stayed open late Saturday night, then shut like tombs Sundays. If we needed stuff, we had to plan ahead. We were used to it. I do remember a pharmacist getting my grandmother medications on a Sunday, but he immediately delivered them to her home and went to his home. Grandma was embarrassed at causing him to miss out on his Sunday off. But he thought nothing of it. It was the neighborly thing to do.
Sarah Matsoukis 2 months ago
My German mind was blown when I was able to buy groceries for a few hours on Sundays in England
Rick Murray 2 months ago
There is a "Pharmacie de garde" that is open when the other ones are closed. They're not necessarily close, and you will pay quite a surcharge for the privilege (usually +€5 day, +€8 night). https://pharmacie-de-garde.ameli.fr/ (but it won't list ones open at night "for security reasons", you should consult the list shown at your local pharmacy or go to a gendarmerie with your prescription; though if you get your prescription from a hospital and they can't fill it for you there, they'll usually be able to tell you where to go)
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Mike F 2 months ago
Not everywhere in the US. Please don't generalize. Many stores were open Sundays, particularly food stores/supermarkets since some factory workers had to work on Saturday. Even the neighborhood hardware on the corner was open with abbreviated hours. Some places had "Blue laws" that forced Sunday closures, but it was certainly not a universal thing.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 2 months ago
When I was growing up in the UK (back in the 80s), it was like everything shut down just after 5pm except the off licence, places like Little Chef, and some of the larger supermarkets. But, then, just a little after midnight all the TV channels turned off too. You'd usually get either a testcard, or pages from teletext set to calming music.
Lorraine R 2 weeks ago
TV stations where we lived (Maryland and Virginia) would go off the air after the late night variety show (e.g. Carson, Cavett, etc.) or movie, then run the National Anthem and put up color bars or a test pattern. The last gasp of the Blue Laws was to prohibit sale of alcohol on Sunday, so liquor stores had to close, and grocery stores that sold beer and wine had to put rolling metal screens around those sections.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
Got caught on that one last time I was in Toronto, and that's where I got my first degree!
#8
My aunt once argued with me that H2O was was not two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, but a word on its own—maybe spelled Aitchtwooh? I was never clear on that. “It’s just another word for water it doesn’t stand for anything.” I was 13. I still get mad remembering it.
LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
It's Dihydrogen Monoxide and is dangerous when consumed in large quantities. Let us never forget Jennifer Strange and the bizarre "Hold your wee for a Wii" contest that sadly cost her her life.
Yrral Spavit 2 months ago (edited)
Also, every person who has been exposed has died or will eventually die.
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Rick Murray 2 months ago
Water, or Dihydrogen Monoxide, is highly corrosive and we need it to survive so it's a good thing our humble little death world is covered in the stuff *and* it regularly falls out of the sky.
Kim Kermes 2 months ago
My aunts went to school over 100 years ago and knew this. Including the youngest who had to quit school after 8th grade because their father became disabled.
Saltypepper 1 month ago
𝐻𝑜𝑤???? 𝐷𝑖𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟,𝑖 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 3,𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑒.
fortis etfelix 1 month ago
Yes, yes, that ever pesky 27th letter of the alphabet, 2. It is hard to believe, isn't it?
#9
I had to explain to a 30 year old man who has lived with women for years and dated plenty that tampon sizes have nothing to do with how small a person is.
He genuinely thought tampons came in different sizes due to women having different sizes vaginas depending on how tall and big they were. So many wrong assumptions it still confounds me. I had to explain both that vaginas dont work like that, and that tampon sizes are due to how much they can absorb. His mind was blown.
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
It may astonish you, but I didn't know this until I was 40 and I'm FEMALE.
SourQueen 2 months ago
Don't feel bad. My mother's lady friend was talking about her UTI, and it led to a discussion about the female anatomy. She was 64 years old when she learned we do not pee out of the same hole we bleed from.
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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 2 months ago
And in the USA, male lawmakers are passing laws on female issues.
LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
"Aunt Flo is visiting, and she's a little heavier this time." "Is that because your..." "NO IT IS NOT!"
Dusty's mom 2 months ago
Always used pads. Mom didn't know how to insert one so I used pads all the time. Too embarrassed to ask my few friends. No information available to young girls unless provided by our elders (1960s). Women knew little about their anatomy in those days. I was surprised how my much younger cousins knew so much more. The 1980s were radically different.
DeoManus Argentem 2 months ago
Probably a stupid question, but at least I'm trying to understand - why not always go for max absorbency? Comfort or cost, or something else?
Broad Panda 2 months ago
Sometimes you don't bleed heavily, so don't need it. And it is not comfy pulling out a dry tampon.
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Mari 2 months ago
My husband doesn't understand the different sizes, with wings or without wings, day or night products, ect... If he goes to the store I have to send him a picture of the exact product that I want.
Ol' Stevie 2 months ago
It's almost as if that when you need someone else to get you a specific thing, you have to let them know what that specific thing is...
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 2 months ago
When I was a young teen, my friend's mom wouldn't let her use tampons because she thought it would ruin her virginity. She insisted that only married women used tampons.
#10
There was a trend thing going around the internet some time ago about asking men where a period pad goes/what it sticks to.
My husband, who I’d been living with for five years and who grew up with two sisters, said we must stick it right to our vulvas. This is also what my dad and both my siblings’ partners said SMH. It just never occurred to them that it sticks to our underwear!
Yrral Spavit 2 months ago
They will eventually have prostate and or bladder issues. They'll figure it out.
weatherwitch 1 month ago
It's bad enough getting a stray hair caught, sticking the entire pad to everything would be insane 🤦🏻♀️😂😂😂
angelmomoffour62 2 months ago
They might of thought that time of the month we didn't wear underwear.
Crissy Newbury 1 month ago
When I was younger, pads didn’t have sticky on them. You pinned them to your knickers.
#11
Having lunch outside with a group of colleagues, all professionals with minimum of a masters, and several were shocked to hear that there are different kinds of clouds and that they have names, ie cirrus, nimbus, etc. I was gobsmacked, as I learned all that in maybe 6th grade.
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
I'm only going to assume that the poster is in the USA because I also learned this in elementary school (back in the dark ages of the early 1970s). Our educational system is just getting worse and worse.
Michael Reid 2 months ago
There are people in other countries who don't know everything as well
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Stardust she/her 2 months ago
Huh? I remember learning about this in first grade and would annoy everyone around me by pointing and naming each cloud. Though unless the colleagues were into meteorology, this knowledge is not that important
Mike F 2 months ago
Thank you! I spent 3 years of HS doing computery sciency stuff and needed to learn binary, octal, and hexidecimal math but would never expect someone, even now, to know that since it hasn't been relevant in many years.
Load More Replies... Puck 2 months ago
I (dutch) never learned this in school and as a teacher i know it's also not in the curriculum now.
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
That's really surprising. What IS the curriculum in Dutch schools? My son is 44 and childless so I have no real knowledge as to what schools are teaching children, but I keep reading that American students are falling woefully behind the rest of the world in maths and science, which is where you would, of coarse, learn about the different types of clouds.
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Shelli Aderman 2 months ago
I totally learned this in 4th grade science class! But then again, I grew up in the Pacific North West, and we all had to learn that a Cumulo-Nimbus cloud meant rain! 🤣
Martha Giles 1 week ago
My granny was born in 1894. She could generally tell the weather by looking at the clouds (horsetail clouds mean rain, etc.). I guess in those days in the country, that was all you had. Mom said she'd look at the sky and say, "Them's twister clouds."
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
I knew this, mostly from watching US tv series where kids did science fairs. We didn't learn it in school in Australia in the 90s. In fact, we didn't learn a lot of science at all. It wasn't a separate subject, what we learned related to other subjects. I was really excited when we got to do a few hours of experiments when a group from a local high school came when I was in grade 6.
fortis etfelix 1 month ago
THIS is why the country is in the shape it is now. When I was in elementary school, 60s-70s era , my next-door neighbor, and not even the brightest bulb on the tree, had two dogs, Nimbus and Cumulus.
#12
I was watching a sunset at the beach with a friend when she asked me why the ocean doesn't extinguish the sun when the sun goes under the water. She was young, but an adult. Had a short conversation about the sun, the earth, and the rotation of the earth.
Emilu 2 months ago
I know, right? Or why those people that do those "around the world" trips don't just fall off at some point?
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Billo66 2 months ago
The statue of liberty re-lights it with her torch when it comes out of the harbor.
Mary Peace 1 month ago
But I live in the UK, we don't have a statue with a torch, what do we do?
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Dragons Exist 1 month ago
Flat Earthers believe that the Sun & Moon circle above the flat Earth, so this girl was somehow even dumber than Flerfers
Load More Replies... weatherwitch 1 month ago
I mean it's a great question from a child but an adult is somewhat scary 😮
fortis etfelix 1 month ago
Well, as I've often heard, "the flat-earthers are all around the globe!" ;-)
#13
My mom thought Liechtenstein was a fictional country in A Knight’s Tale.
Bisha Moten 2 months ago
To be fair to everyone involved, not only does it sound like it is, up until 2011, if you had some serious disposable income, you could rent the entire country for $70,000 per night.
Julie S 2 months ago
Are you saying you can't anymore? I was going to do that for my next birthday.
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Karen Bryan 1 month ago
Liechtenenstein is real. Luxembourg is real. "Lichtenberg" is not (see the musical "Call Me Madam").
#14
My friend and I went grocery shopping, she bought like 5 milks, she saw my questioning face and she said they drank a lot of milk so I shrugged it off. A week or so later she tells me all of the milk has spoiled. Took a while to figure out what went wrong, and when we finally did, I couldn't believe it. She didn't know there was fresh milk that needs to be refrigerated, and shelf-stable that does not. She of course bought the fresh milk, not knowing any better, and put it in the pantry. Apparently her mom only ever bought shelf-stable milk and she had no idea that any other kind even existed. We were in our early twenties and she had a pretty sheltered life so it wasn't THAT surprising, but I teased her about it for years.
Multa Nocte 2 months ago
I have now lived in France for 4 years and I noticed the other day on BP that there was a photo of milk in a dairy case in an American store and I was surprised at my own reaction of "Why would they put it in the cold section?" How quickly some of us forget.
Rick Murray 2 months ago
? Doesn't your local U/Leclerc/Carrefour/Intermarché have fresh milk? It's usually hidden by the butter along with the gloopy stuff like crème liquid. I buy about five or six organic semi-skimmed (demi-écrémé) each week. I drink/consume a lot of 🥛🐄!
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Starbug 2 months ago
Yes UHT milk, comes in a carton and you can store it in a cupboard or pantry for months, only needs refrigeration after it's opened. I buy it in bulk once a month
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Feel the Pain 2 months ago
I can honestly say I have never heard of this before.... Canadian here...
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
Well, you guys have milk in a bag! (My Mom and oldest brother are Canadian and I love your country).
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Maren Villadsen 2 months ago
Shelf-stable milk is not ieven a thing in Denmark. It sound grose tbh.
Nicole Weymann 2 months ago
I think they mean pasteurised milk or UHT milk.
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Robert T 2 months ago
Interesting, but slightly unrelated, point, is that lactose-free milk has a much longer shelf-life than ordinary milk. It still needs to be refrigerated, but it typically has an expiry date of 5-6 weeks on it. It also comes in UHT form (shelf-stable) and this can have expiry dates of a year on it!
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
That's one thing I love about lactose free milk. The lower fat ones last longer than full cream too in my experience.
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 2 months ago
Wasn't the milk in a cooler/refrigerator when it was purchased. That should have been a big hint.
Crissy Newbury 4 weeks ago
I expect a lot of people would have a conniption fit if they knew cows had to have a baby in order to produce BREAST milk for human consumption.
#15
Reverse situation here. My husband is Swedish and we met on holidays in a third country. The first time he visited me in Australia he was cooking dinner for us and was rattling through the utensils draw for ages before he asked me “where is your potato stick?”
I was laughing hysterically, what the hell is a potato stick?!”
Turns out it’s just a skewer but it’s a common utensil over there- as soon as he got home he sent me a potato stick and it’s still a huge joke in our house now.
highwaycrossingfrog 2 months ago
A skewer is better because it can penetrate to the centre of the potato which will be the last to cook through. Forks will only tell you if the outer part is cooked (I'm British btw)
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Bob Jones 2 months ago (edited)
Had a similar experience with a Swedish visitor who said he couldnt eat cheese because he couldnt find the cheese slicer. He had to find a picture on the net to show me this contraption that apparently all houses in Sweden have. I had to explain to him that in Australian we just use a knife, which was a complete shock to him
Verena 2 months ago
The Dutch have the same tool, without that a Dutch home is not a Dutch home
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Yrral Spavit 2 months ago
Made me think back were we had a couple of 2m long poles in the rescue truck. They were meant for putting stop/signs on. If anyone asked we told them they were howrya sticks and that when we got to the accident scene we would poke people with them and ask "how are you"? :p
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weatherwitch 1 month ago
I've never heard of a potato stick and a swift Google brought up potato sticks, the crisps 🤦🏻♀️😂😂
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
After reading the comments I googled, "potato stick" and what came back were images of the edible kind. I've always just used a fork but I'll try a skewer next time, which makes sense because it would penetrate the potato more deeply. And that just sounds SO wrong.
Grumpy old man 2 months ago
Get your mind out of the gutter, Iggy Pop. Penetration, Fun House, the Stooges 1973
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#16
I grew up near the beach, my bf grew up near freshwater lakes. Very early on I took him to my hometown. We went in the ocean. He said, it’s salty! He knew intellectually that the ocean is salty but hadn’t really experienced it much and the extreme saltiness surprised him.
BC_Animus 2 months ago
Mind, blown. The ocean is just ready to eat fish soup!
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Bisha Moten 2 months ago
This is a quite common thing you see with people who have never really been near an ocean. The overall salinity of the water is a serious surprise, and can be downright funny to see the face on people as they go all raisin face the moment they get a bit of water in their mouth.
DrBronxx 2 months ago (edited)
Yeah, it's not just salty - it's as salty as you can possibly imagine.
#17
My friend and I (both 30 at the time) were decorating for a party. I was blowing up balloons. She asked me why they weren't floating up to the ceiling. I was like what do you mean? She genuinely thought all balloons should behave like helium balloons. I had to explain the difference to her.
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
Last time I bought balloons for a party we had so many they wouldn't fit into the car unless we put the roof down. In October.
Crystalwitch60 2 months ago
No idea why you got a down vote lol have an extra upvote from me
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David Morgan 2 months ago
I suppose you could get the impression (from media of all kinds) that balloons always float. They always do in cartoons, in pictures etc. Onlt in boring reality do they depend on having a lighter-than-air gas.
#18
For years, my husband told me I must have some sort of dental problem because I had excessively bad breath. I went to the dentist regularly and nothing was wrong, and nobody else in my life seemed to notice. But I stressed out about it, kept mints on hand, was very careful with dental hygiene, etc.
Then one day he remarked on how it was really only bad in the morning. I drilled down into that for a bit, and found out that he'd never heard of morning breath. He had no idea that bad breath in the morning was normal, or that he had it too.
So now I've got a lifelong complex about my breath because my first husband never paid attention to a mouthwash commercial.
David Morgan 2 months ago
So can some kinds of medication, notably anti-histamines.
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I had one of those. I grew up in a medium-sized city (~35,000 people) that was also a major travel/shipping hub. I spent 18 years thinking that *all gas stations* were open 24hrs. I went to college in a small town and was like....WTH? How is everything closed? What if you run out of gas after 8pm? Where do you buy cigarettes at 2am?
People were like...you don't. You have to wait til morning.
I'm still shocked by it TBH!
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
Small towns and rural areas are weird. Better hope your car never breaks down in a place like that.
Geoffrey Scott 2 months ago
I wouldn't say 'weird'. They may not get enough business overnight to justify the expense (our town is 2500 in the zip code, and we DO have a 24/7 mfg plant, with one C-store open 24/7). Or, this area is VERY religious so on Sunday the grocery is closed, mind you not out of any concern for staff, but for 'a day of rest'.
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Crystalwitch60 2 months ago
How I grew up in uk lol shops closed on a Sunday , fuel stations closed at ten pm (1965 to 1980;) in a very rural area , still do now , but we do have 24/7 fuel stations like 35 miles away 😂closest proper town to me , rest are 7-11 mostly in the smaller tiny town 5 miles away
KatWitch57 1 month ago
Don't forget we had half-day closing, and all the shops shut at 5.50.
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Artful Penguin 1 month ago
I live in a small town. Everything closes at 7pm except the one fast food place that is open until 8pm...
M. Evripidou 1 month ago
where i;m from, gas stations have cash machines so that you can pump your own gas if its closed
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
I drove my sister up to one of the few mountains in my state in Australia that gets snow. All the way up, signs kept telling us to hire snow chains, but every single petrol station was closed! It was probably 9pm or later. I knew that many petrol stations closed at night, but was amazed that they were the only places to hire chains. Thankfully it wasn't actually snowing, even at the place she had a chalet booking there was very little snow on the ground.
7kcvpcjz2j 1 month ago
🤦♀️🤦🤦♂️ Then you’ll be shocked to learn that if you pay with your debit/credit card, you can still get gas at stations that are closed
Marie BellaDonna 1 month ago (edited)
I live in a small town. The only things open 24hrs are one gas station, the Waffle House, and, usually-but NOT always-the McDonald's. And the gas station doesn't sell any lunch meat, or any dairy besides milk (and sometimes they're out of even that). I'm not even sure if they sell bread. They do sell a few canned good type foods. But if you need eggs or bologna or anything other than basic gas station snacks or canned spaghetti after the Walmart closes at 11pm, you're screwed until it opens back up at 6am.
Arenite 1 month ago
Was just made to move to a small, rural area, from New York City. Practically everything closes at 8 pm, every day. I’m a serious night owl, get up ~4 or 5 in the afternoon and going to bed ~5 or 6 am. This place is horrible! Also, you need a car (have yet to see a bus), and can’t walk anywhere because there are NO SIDEWALKS! City Mouse hates this place, please let me go home!
Brian Droste 2 months ago
I live in a very small town with a population of less then 2000. We have two gas stations. One is open 24 hrs a day. 7 days a week.
#20
My dad has a PhD and genius level IQ. He once took his car to the mechanic because the windshield wiper fluid wasn't working. The mechanic checked and told him it was because the windshield wiper fluid was out and needed to be replaced.
Emilu 2 months ago
Different sorts of smarts. My dad was like that. Very academically/work smart but as soon as he wasn't at work it was almost like his brain switched off 😂
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Shark Lady 2 months ago
My sister is scarily intelligent but has zero commonsense, this is the sort of thing she would do.
Justanotherpanda 2 months ago
The fact one has a PhD doesn't automatically make them an automechanic, that's a wholly different education.
Rick Murray 2 months ago
I'm a nerd. I have programmed things since the 6502 back in the '80s. And not so long ago I was swearing and getting annoyed at my printer refusing to start up. Well, the problem with using a notebook PC and having a mini-UPS on the broadband is you may well not realise when there's a power cut if you somehow fail to notice that the lights have gone off. Yeah... maybe that's why the printer wasn't ready to say hello. 🤦 We can all make daft mistakes from time to time.
Tucker Cahooter 2 months ago
Mechanic should have taken the opportunity to sell the guy some blinker fluid too
Philly Bob 1 month ago
And switch out the summer air in the tires and put the winter air in.
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My uncle had a PhD in education. Back in the 1970s he insisted that pizzas were not "real" food - only snacks. He came from a rural Germanic community in the U.S. I had to point out: bread, tomatoes, onions, meat, cheese, herbs. He still thought it wasn't "nourishing".
Max Fox 1 month ago
Since he wasn't a nutrition scientist, he was basing this on what was a common attitude in the society in which he was growing up. People of all intelligences and educations generally don't question concepts they grow up with, unless these are specifically challenged or they are part of the person's job or hobbies.
Load More Replies... Max Fox 1 month ago
I'm supposed to believe that this guy's father went for years without ever running out of wiper fluid? Seems suspicious to me. Unless somebody else would fill it up, in which case, a PhD has nothing to do with lack of experience in car maintenance. A person who didn't finish high school, but had never had to refill the wiper fluid would make the same mistake.
#21
Not me, but on this past season of worst cooks in America, the chef, Carla, had to explain how to use a can opener. You could see her die a bit inside before she did.
Ace 2 months ago
Nearly all canned goods these days don't need one, so that;s actually quite reasonable. I must use one once or twice a year at the most.
Data1001 2 months ago
Curious what country you live in. Because in the USA, I find that no more than about 60% of canned goods have a built-in opener.
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I'm in the US, and many of the canned foods I buy don't have pull-tab openers. I have an electric can opener and an old manual can opener. I found it amusing when I heard a story on the radio about stocking and emergency kit, and making sure the youngsters knew how to use a manual can opener.
Robert T 2 months ago
Depends on the can opener. I had to show my mum how to use mine, as it is different to what she'd used for decades before. Mine splits the entire lid off the top of the can leaving no sharp edges. The type she'd use made a hole in the lid with rough edges. It takes a few goes to get it in the right place to work.
HeavyMetalHeart 2 months ago
I could barely remember how to use one last time I had to. I rarely see a tin without a ring pull.
Melissa Harris 2 months ago
A good can opener is worth it's weight in gold. Don't buy a cheap one, invest in a good quality one that's comfortable to use and will last. Not all work the sameway either so not being able to figure out a new one while under a lot of pressure isn't so strange, especially if you're used to an electric one.
Rick Murray 2 months ago (edited)
I have a fancy over-designed German one that I got from Lidl that cuts the f****e holding the lid on along the middle. The only time I ever need to use it is my guilty pleasure Fray Bentos chicken pies. Everything else has a pull-tab. I also have a manual one for backup, but being a leftie it's a pain to use. [edit: fûcks sake, you're censoring "flânge"? should I say "protruded rim" instead? oh, look, "rim" isn't censored! 🤦]
Lori Gibbs 1 month ago
I still have my dads p38 can opener from ww2. You can still get them at sporting goods stores in the camping area
#22
Not practical at all but I’m pretty goth and like spooky stuff/folklore… my boyfriend is just a normal sports guy lol
When I was first meeting his cousin I asked what he told her about me… and he says “I told her you were a 1000 year old vampire and to bring onions to ward you off”
… nah, babe that’s garlic 😂 gotta get that man up on his folklore lol.
Khavrinen 2 months ago
Garlic is to ward off vampires. Onions are what you wear on your belt ( as was the style at the time ).
Melissa Harris 2 months ago (edited)
It's the flowers too, not the edible bulb part. Vampires are allergic to the pollen from the allium family, so onion flowers would also work.😋
Sam Trudeau 2 months ago
Garlic breath is a vampire detector. People don't comment on it unless they are a vampire.
Colleen Glim 2 months ago
Not your business to judge. As long as your bits are covered, I don’t care
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A friend recently drove a kid home after practice, and she didnt know her address. 9th grader, she'd lived there for a few years, and knew how to get home on the bus, but didn't know what her friggin address was!?
Panda On My Balcony 2 months ago
I drove my daughter's friend home and she didn't know her own address. We spent 25 minutes driving around the area until I insisted she call her mom and get the address. She was almost 18 and had lived there for three years.
Kalevra 1 month ago
9th graders are 14 - 15 yo typically. how the f**k is the onus on the parents at that age? You are assuming the parents didnt try when it could be the s**t kids fault for simply not caring enough.
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Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
This is a case of poor parenting, all children should know their address early in elementary school if not before.
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
This is not abnormal. Our school district enacted a law where kids didn't graduate from third grade until they knew their address, phone number, dad's phone and mom's phone.
Jane Doe-Doe 2 months ago
I am gobsmacked, HOW can you NOT know your address? All my children and grandchildren knew from an early age their address, it’s just mind blowing
Charlotte Ingle 2 months ago
I guess if no one sends letters anymore, they never have to write it?
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UnicornSnotRules 2 months ago
I work with middle schoolers, and I'm finding that this is becoming more and more common. You would think that by 6th grade that they would've learned their address, but no, sadly it's just another example of something else that's just slipping through the educational cracks.
Zach Taylor 2 months ago
It is the parent/guardian of the child that should teach this.
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Agfox 2 months ago
Similar to one I read somewhere - a young guy had recently obtained his drivers licence, so the next time the family was going to see his grandmother his dad told him he could drive. He said that his first thought was "WTF does grandma live"
Graham Berry 1 month ago
This isn't unusual. It's like knowing your own phone number. You don't use it yourself so you don't get the opportunity to memorize it. This changes as you get older and need to provide information like this to employers and the like.
Jan Rosier 2 months ago
Come on, this cannot be serious. my parents tought me our address when I started preschool, at 5 yo or so.
Jay Cee 1 month ago
There are reports from both the US and the UK of 5 years olds going to school in diapers because they haven't been taught how to go to the toilet! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3dykw576yo
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Working for a finance company and a customer asked me "why am I being charged interest on my loan?"
I remember 90% of our lunch time chatter was how much people need to learn financial literacy in school lol.
Colleen Glim 2 months ago
We’re. Teaching them calculus and they can’t count change. This has been a pet peeve of mine for years
Michael Largey 2 months ago
I don't think you could produce a single one of my Calculus students who couldn't count change. They're not the ones who are the problem.
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Shelli Aderman 2 months ago
School days are long, teachers are underpaid, there aren’t enough resources to go around, it’s hard!
J C 2 months ago
Yes, but financial literacy should be a priority over other certain things. Its a life skill and no matter what you end up doing in life, it is essential. It is actually a requirement for graduation in my state now.
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geezeronthehill 1 week ago
When you take out a loan you're renting money. The interest is rent payments.
KatSaidWhat 1 month ago
I have an A level in Accounting. Did not learn APR until I slid into heavy debt.
Fellfromthemoon 2 months ago (edited)
Good math is the basics , one must have a strong understanding of quantities to achieve financial literacy. But one cannot expect the school to teach everything, includink how to eat with a spoon, how to put on your socks, and so on.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
It's part of the curriculum in Victorian (Australia) schools. Year 9/10 it's a compulsory maths unit, in year 11/12 it's part of the general/further maths class, I'm not sure about methods/specialists ones as I wasn't good enough at maths to get to that level.
weatherwitch 1 month ago
But surely this is part of Getting that loan, the person explaining what the interest rate is 🤦🏻♀️
#25
One of my male friends was around 30 and didn't know how to crack an egg. He went through at least 6 eggs and didn't stop to look it up online.
Ellinor she/they/elle 2 months ago (edited)
That's just plain incompetence from the parents or whoever was in charge of educating him.
Dusty's mom 2 months ago
Probably figured he'd find a lovely little tradwife.
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Michael Largey 2 months ago
Cracking an egg is easy. Getting the contents to where they're supposed to go is the trick.
Bisha Moten 2 months ago
And not getting that one bit of shell in the egg is even harder.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
I didn't know how to use a pressure cooker (the one you put on the stove) as my mother would never let me use it for fear I'd blow up the kitchen. I wish she were still here to see how fantastic my Instant Pot is!
Rick Murray 2 months ago (edited)
It doesn't help that eggs can be extremely variable in their behaviour. Cheap eggs can nearly be c*****d by poking them with a finger, while the ones I usually buy (grain fed free range hens) need a hefty bonk on the side of a frying pan or something similar. Of course, if you're used to smacking the solid eggs and you try they with a soft one, it's quite a mess. Oh, and with the hard eggs, cracking it is only half the battle. The other half is getting the thing to split to get the insides out, without ending up with shell bits all over the place. [edit: seriously? we can't talk about eggs being crâcked? SMDH]
Emilu 1 month ago (edited)
Stop saying them naughty words, Rick 🤣🤣 Seriously though, I'm surprised 'bonk' wasn't censored as well. (Edit: To stop grammar people coming at me, yes, the use of 'them' rather than 'those' was intentional. 🙄)
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
You guys do realize most people until very recently learned by doing, yes? The internet proper is only 35-37 years old, yes?
Jay Cee 1 month ago
Perhaps his mother was traumatised by the Easter Bunny and had a violent reaction to eggs . . .
Load More Replies... LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
To be fair, videos online these days show parents on TikTok cracking eggs on their kids' heads as a "prank", so maybe he couldn't do it without a kid present.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
This is one of the things I am happy for my students to practice at my after school care. So many parents don't want them to make a mess (even if they do have time to cook with them) that they don't let them try. I make sure they crack it into a separate bowl, so if any shell goes in it's easier to get out. They love it, and I've seen some of them become really confident in a fairly short amount of time.
Maggie Fulton 1 month ago
I had a 30-year-old nephew who tried to boil an egg in a cup in the microwave. He kept taking it out and putting it back in because it “ didn’t look done.” He did that until the egg blew up and left egg shrapnel everywhere, including the ceiling.
#26
I had a friend in college who was very smart but sometimes had hilariously stereotypical blonde moments. One time we were talking and the subject of how many weeks are in a year came up and when I said 52 she was amazed I just knew that off the top of my head. I was like, “yeah? Everyone knows that?” And she refused to believe me. She went around the whole dorm and asked everybody if they knew how many weeks there where in the year and was astounded that every single person knew.
csaclint 2 months ago
yeah, on the upside having someone use it gives you an opportunity to virtue signal. Which as we all know is the secret to life.
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Stardust she/her 2 months ago
Not related but for years the fact that 365 days does not have exactly 52 weeks has bothered me along with the fact that none of the months (except February sometimes) have days divisible by 7 and also the fact that 365 is not divisible by 12 so everything ends up becoming a decimal. I’m sure there’s a good reason for all this but it still frustrates me
Tropical Tarot 2 months ago (edited)
The Earth rotates at 365.25 days in a year. The moon is full about 13 times during a year. Us silly humans are trying to make everything nice and neat.
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Graham Berry 1 month ago
This is not common knowledge . I don't think I or anyone I know has been in a situation where this information is needed. I can't imagine why this person bothered to look up such a trivial fact let alone memorize it to use it later. This is post sounds made up.
Pursuing Peonies 3 weeks ago
While not trivial, it's also definitely not something most people just auto know (unless they do a lot of accounting)
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 2 months ago
You wanna REALLY blow her mind? Tell her if she always knows where north is, she will rarely get 'lost'. Taught my SIL that...at 60 yrs old.
Shelli Aderman 2 months ago
Oh honey, I can have a compass with me, and pointing due North. I’LL STILL GET LOST! 🤣
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I was cooking with a friend (making pasta), we were in college, when she asked, How do you know when the water's boiling? She has three (3) kids now.
LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
By listening. Most people will hear "AAAAAAAAAHHH! I'M BOILING TO DEATH!"
Chewie Baron 2 months ago
That’s only if you have fresh pasta. If you use dried pasta, they’re in a coma and won’t speak.
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Nancy Parker 1 month ago
Curiously, my older daughter and I agree that you can tell when the bath water begins to run hot. The pitch of the sound changes. Second daughter hadn't noticed this.
#28
When the horrific airplane disaster in India happened a few months ago, my best friend and I were talking about it. She kept saying "the Airbus", eventually I corrected her and said that it was a Boeing plane. She looks at me like I'm stupid and says "yeah I know, it's a Boeing Airbus".
I had to explain that Boeing and Airbus are companies that make planes.
She thought an Airbus was just another name for a plane, because it's basically a bus in the sky.
I got a good laugh out of that
What's worse is her daughter's father, works for Boeing.
Sam Trudeau 2 months ago
Well, to be fair, Sharpie is the term for marker, Kleenex for tissues, Band-Aid for bandages, etc
Tom Brincefield 1 month ago
See are all brand names and they don't want you using them like that.
Load More Replies... Arenite 1 month ago
I doubt he’s still working there. Is it even a functioning company anymore?
Gregg Levine 1 month ago
Yes. They are making better planes even as we speak. And they provide tours of their bird builder line. BTW: The engines are ordered by the company who is buying the big bird.
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Peter Bear 2 months ago
To be fair, in German the word is 'Flugzeug' which basically means 'fly-go'. So this is a quite reasonable mistake.
Hugo 2 months ago
No, Flugzeug means flight-device or similar (Zeug has many meanings, depending on the context, but bus is not one of them).
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#29
I once made out with a girl, nothing else. The next day she called me, crying asking if she could be pregnant. We were both 22.
Tropical Tarot 2 months ago
At a boarding school, run by priests, in the 1920s, in Canada. Not to mention the fact that she was literally ripped from her culture to get the Indian out of her. No, that's not a good upbringing for anyone.
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 2 months ago
I read of a fundamentalist young couple who could not have a child. Turns out they thought that sleeping together in the same bed was all they had to do. Had no idea about s*x.
Charlotte Ingle 2 months ago
Guessing at least one of them was homosexual or nature would have helped things along - as it does with other mammals
Load More Replies... Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
My oldest brother told me that our mom thought that she was pregnant after she kissed his father: she was born in 1923, was attending an Indian school in British Columbia that was run by the Jesuits, they kept the boys and girls separated by a fence, which is what they kissed through. She was 16 and of coarse the Jesuits weren't teaching s*x ed.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
Some of these entries are making me despair about education systems, and the future of the human species.
Ace 2 months ago
Just using a term like "made out" means that it's no surprise that she didn't know the details. Yeah, s*x-ed is important.
Pursuing Peonies 3 weeks ago
Lots of different types of kissing, but making out has never referred to anything other than lots and lots of kissing (cause it's a lot easier to say and lots and lots of kissing) Make Out Point is not the old name of several places for 0 reason.
Load More Replies... Tropical Tarot 2 months ago
No it wasn't her prudish parents sending her to a Catholic boarding school. It was the Canadian government ripping Indian families apart and sending their children away to a boarding school to make them into nice little white people. I use the term indian because there were traditionally called Indian schools I didn't want to confuse the matter any further..
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When we moved into a new house, my husband thought we weren’t getting mail because the red flag on the mailbox was never flipped up.
Apparently he’s gone his whole life living somewhere where the mailbox was either just a slot on the front door or a communal/grouped mailbox (idk what they’re called) without any flags.
Anyway, had to tell him that’s not what the flag is for and we’re supposed to flip the red flag up to let usps know that we have outgoing mail. .
Remi (He/Him) 2 months ago
I've never heard of something like this. If you want to mail something, take it to the mail box or post office.
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago (edited)
No, she's describing rural mail route rules. If you're in a sparsely populated area, USPS delivers in a specially designed car with a right-sighted driver's wheel so they can put the mail in the mailbox easier.
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Billo66 2 months ago
Yes in the US our postman will deliver and take any outgoing mail. On rural routes we have a little flag we raise on the box to let them know we have outgoing, just in case we didn't have incoming mail that day, because ordinarily they wouldn't stop.
BossyCloud 1 month ago
I'm in rural Canada and the mailman raises the flag when he delivers mail
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DrBronxx 2 months ago
Never knew this. I've seen them on American films and TV shows, but never had any idea what the red flags were for. Never really thought about it.
Nicole Weymann 2 months ago
I did think about it, but came to the same wrong conclusion as OP's husband: the mailman switches the flag to show he was there and you have mail.
Load More Replies... Crescent 3 2 months ago
This is not uncommon. My wife grew up in a very urban area and had either a mail slot or a box attached to her house her entire life. I, on the other hand, grew up in a more rural area and we had streetside mailboxes with the flag. When we moved into our first house in the suburbs, I had to explain to her that the flag was to notify the letter carrier that there was outgoing mail in the box. You don't know what you've never experienced.
Rick Murray 2 months ago
There's no flag on French letterboxes, so in order to tell if I have mail, I attached two switches to the door/flap and wired them to an ESP32 microcontroller (I recycled an old ESP32-Cam board as I had one spare). A little bit of coding later and I have something I can access from a browser to tell me exactly when the letterbox was opened and closed, and it records to NVRAM so will retain the information after a powercut. I modified it recently so it also blinks a little red light so I can see when I come home if there's something in there, plus a little button to clear the blink state once I have retrieved my whatever. esp32lette...bbdb39.jpg 
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
Can't reply to Crystalwitch but not ALL American households have these types of mailboxes: some houses have mailboxes mounted at the front doors, some have mail slots IN the front doors, some people are so rural that they pick up their mail from the post office, some people with boxes at their houses but want to play it safe will rent a P.O. Box from the post office (and have to pick up their mail), there are mail boxes that you can rent from the UPS Store, etc. It all depends mostly as to where you live and there are numerous ways as to how we can receive our mail. Me? Most of my mail arrives electronically, but at my house I have a mailbox at the end of my driveway, mounted on a post, for my contracted mail carrier (not a true USPS mail carrier but someone hired by my local post office to deliver the mail) to deliver the few pieces of snail mail that I still receive.
camomooey 2 months ago
Same here. When I married and moved out in the country, my husband at the time had to teach me how to use the mailbox at the end of our driveway. When I was growing up, our mail was delivered to the post office and we had to go pick it up every day, and just drop outgoing mail into the slot at the PO.
#31
Mid-twenty year old friend didn't know you have to change the bag in a vacuum every once in a while.
Bob Jones 2 months ago
Having owned both I have to disagree. You just throw out the bag and put in a new one. Bag less you have to scrape out all the gunk...and replace the filter
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Uncle Panda 2 months ago
I opened a 'broken' pencil sharpener to find that the shavings were packed in so hard they were close to particle board. I dug them out with a fork, among other tools.
Yrral Spavit 2 months ago
Was helping woman move once and asked to use her vacuum. She said it in the closet but she had to get a new one as it did not work very well. Bag was full and the hose mostly clogged. She was not aware you had to/could clean them.
J C 2 months ago
again, this is probably because they have experience with a vacuum that does not use a bag.
Bisha Moten 2 months ago
If the friend grew up with a bagless vacuum cleaner, this one is a fair mistake to make.
Joe Publique 2 months ago
Understandable. It's been more than 20 years since I owned a vacuum cleaner with a bag.
#32
"You mean a wooly mammoth isn't a dinosaur?" Said by a friend, who has an MD, is complete seriousness. I couldn't talk for a second.
angelmomoffour62 2 months ago
But he has a MD for humans not wooly mammoths or dinosaurs. Give the guy a break.
J C 2 months ago
Yes, but you have to know a lot about biology to get an MD and somewhere must have been taught the difference between a mammal and a reptile.
Load More Replies... LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
"Open the door, get on the floor, everyone walk the mammoth..." Doesn't fit the rhyme scheme so that's how you know.
Russell Bowman 2 months ago
woolly mammoths roamed the Earth at the same time of the building the pyramids of Giza, and for some time thereafter
Nancy Parker 1 month ago
"Dinosaur" = "extinct animal". Hmmm. Has she heard of dodos? Thylacines?
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
Ben Carson, a gifted neurosurgeon, opined that the pyramids in Egypt were used to store grain.
#33
I was at a gym, and one of the treadmills wasn't working, so I told the person there that the middle treadmill wasn't working. She looked at me and said "What's a treadmill?" I could not believe it.
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
You are insane. Deranged. Judgmental, argumentative, ignorant. Have you been in every gym in the world to make such a determination about the receptionists? Ex-gym instructor. Ex-riding instructor. Ex-hospitality expert. Ex-what else am I forgetting?
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When my first niece was born my wasband and I first visited when she was home from the hospital and sleeping in her mother's arms.
He looked at his brother and asked in all seriousness, "how old will she be when her eyes open?"
He was 35.
The Other Guest 2 months ago
Since a lot of folks are asking: Yes, "wasband" refers to an ex-husband. According to en-acedemic.com, the earliest known citation of the word was in the "San Francisco Chronicle" on March 12, 1990. Source: https://new_words.en-academic.com/3008/wasband
Eliza 2 months ago
I was assuming it was just a typo and she meant husband, but your take makes sense
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Rebecca Pickens 2 months ago
One of my husbands co worker asked him when our new baby girls eyes would open and my husband replied, “Good God Russ, she isn’t a puppy!” He was in his late twenties… we still laugh about it.
devin ferguson 2 months ago
Well actually human babies can be born with thier eyes closed, if they are premature. My daughter was born at just over 24 weeks (into the pregnancy) and did not open her eyes for a while. I want to say a couple weeks, maybe longer. I can't remember for sure. So yeah, maybe it was a premature birth. Maybe it was not....
#35
When I watch the actual criminal investigation shows on the CI channel:
The suspects who betray themselves in the interrogation room when they think they are alone and there is no camera and microphone.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
Never say a single word except, “I want a lawyer,” unless your lawyer is right next to you.
Joe Publique 2 months ago
^^Solid advice, and perhaps counter-intuitively, ESPECIALLY if you are innocent.
Load More Replies... Emilu 2 months ago (edited)
I have many stories about people self-incriminating. As hilarious as some of them are, I kind of also feel sorry for them in that the people who are guilty of doing this are generally lower on the IQ scale and don't genuinely realise that even if you stuffed up, you're still entitled to a lawyer. (Edit: Can't spell)
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
I remember watching one of those and one of the cops thought the innocent woman was actually innocent because when left alone, she didn't act smug or whatever, she called out for God to help her.
Jay Scales 2 months ago
I remember that one. She asked for help to be able to explain the situation clearly to the police.
Load More Replies... Martha Giles 1 week ago
I worked in a police station as a civilian clerk. Most crooks are not criminal masterminds. I 100% believe this.
#36
I have an ex who hadn't heard of gooseberries so i had to explain they were real fruit that exist 😆 and then about a month later we had the same conversation about rosehips, and then later again about wild cherries. american guy dating a european had a lot of surprise cultural differences.
Agfox 2 months ago
Well, I'd never heard of huckleberries until a few months ago & I'm in my 70's
fortis etfelix 1 month ago
I'm laughing so hard. Years back in Greensboro, NC some ladies got together and opened a small ladies clothing shop. For whatever reason they name it, "Dingleberries" - the radio stations caught wind (no pun intended) and had a field day. I'm not sure if they just closed down or renamed the shop. RESEARCH your names, folks. That was an expensive error for them. (icky-poopoo)
Load More Replies... Spencers slave no more 2 months ago
Gooseberries are delicious and I've just planted out mine so they'll be ready for Christmas this summer.
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
Gooseberry crumble is one of the finest foods on this earth.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
They don’t sound like they would be real, with those names. I didn’t know there was a berry called “saskatoon” until I was in my 50s.
Bored Trash Panda 2 weeks ago
Wait, who was who in this? Did the European not know or the American?
Pursuing Peonies 3 weeks ago
For anyone who's never heard of huckleberries, there's also 2 types. Garden huckleberries are common in the south related to tomatoes, huckleberries are a northern plant related to blueberries. Then there's salmonberries, cloud berries, pawpaws, ect ect. Now I'm wondering if aronia berries are similar to blueberries and huckleberries. Or whatever that common berry squash is over in the UK.
#37
Fairly early in dating my now husband, he had to go on a long international trip to visit family. He had seen me shave my legs shortly before he left and when he came back, more than two months later, he asked why my legs were so hairy already because I had shaved recently in his mind. I was only at about 2 weeks of not shaving length.
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
According to my friends I am SOOOOO lucky because I've never had to shave my legs...it's genetics (I'm Black/First Nations: we don't get hairy legs, I guess?)
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
No one *has* to shave their legs and for most of human history no one did. Everyone coped just fine.
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Melissa Harris 2 months ago
So the OPs husband doesn't have facial hair? Most men are pretty familiar with the mechanics of shaving and regrowth.
KatSaidWhat 1 month ago
I stopped shaving my legs during covid. And have hardly done so since then. Then again, I am pretty much asexual not needed to please others with my shiny legs. For that I have primark tights.
Ace 2 months ago (edited)
1. Hairy legs feel horrible (my own, I mean). 2. It's always shorts season.
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Some people don't know that they can actually manage their own retirement fund. They often see it as a bonus they get once they retire, rather than a huge life-changing investment.
Vince-Ingram-TVNZ TVNZ 1 month ago
Most people I know started planning for retirement once they started working. If you don't have one then that is on you.
Load More Replies... Verena 2 months ago
It depends on your social system. The part I get from my years in Germany is as it is. In the Netherlands, too.
Charlotte Ingle 2 months ago
Similar for the Canada Pension Plan - what we get is based on a set formula derived from our contributions. We don't get to influence the investment.
Load More Replies... Marie BellaDonna 1 month ago (edited)
I'm not any good with numbers (like I'm terrible, and it gives me horrible anxiety, because of ADHD and dyscalculia), and I don't know a thing about investments. So yeah, I let my 401k company handle it. I'm just glad I HAVE a 401k.
Dave Hunt 1 month ago
I'm in the UK and it doesn't work like that _ There is a State (national) pension that everyone gets, then there may be an occupational pension ( eg I get Teachers Pension) or people set up their own pension scheme in addition to the state pension - through an investment or whatever...
Geoffrey Scott 2 months ago
In 2008, I called up T Rowe Price and asked if they had 'like a CD bond' to protect my principle. "No but what we CAN do, is put your principle into low risk investments, and put future contributions in the targeted investments". .."Yup, that'll work".
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago (edited)
Worse, they let others manage the investments. Then they complain about all those greedy companies that only consider profits. Companies that they, through their pension fund, have invested in, because they make the most money. They are complaining precisely about themselves, as owners of these companies, without ever understanding it.
#39
My ex didn't know that the eggs we eat aren't fertilized. I'm vegetarian and he thought it was weird that I eat eggs but not chicken. Once I told him eggs are basically chicken periods he never looked at eggs the same way again lol.
Kim Kermes 2 months ago
They're not. They're eggs, ova. Periods are the temporary lining of the uterus in mammals to support an implanted fertilized ovum, which is released when no blastocyst exists. Along with all the delightful sice effects so many of us enjoy.
Shelli Aderman 2 months ago
Some ova do end up in the shedded lining, instead of dissolving in the fallopian tubes.
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Feathered Dinosaur 1 month ago
If you buy organic eggs in Germany there's a good chance they're fertilized, because they keep a rooster around. They still don't hatch, even after a few weeks (eggs in Germany aren't refrigerated) because they're not kept warm enough for the embryo to develop
fortis etfelix 1 month ago
I am in the USA and I eat free-range eggs. They're just as likely to be fertilized as not. And, there's always that chance they've been sitting around a few extra days...and, unfortunately, that has happened as well. I usually can't eat eggs for a few days after that too.....uggggg
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
If you keep chickens with no rooster, you will still get eggs. You only need a rooster if you want more chickens.
Gracie Mae 1 month ago
After 15 yrs of being a chicken tender (yep--I said it!), it still amazes me the amount of people that don't know this. But then again, I realize not everyone is a farmer.
Load More Replies... Roxy222uk 2 months ago
They are not fücking periods, this makes me so angry. Does the OP think that chicken hens shed their womb once a month? Or that they have a womb at all?? Chicken hens have been selectively bred over thousands of years to lay eggs all year round, rather than just in the ideal season for raising chicks. They’re going to do it whether the eggs get eaten or not, and whether they are fertilised or not. It has absolutely nothing to do with menstruation, ffs.
Pursuing Peonies 3 weeks ago
It's more a comparison to help people understand than a 1:1 truth sort of thing.
Load More Replies... Bryan Wright 1 month ago
? What a weird thing to call an egg. The clue is in the name.....egg.
Martha Giles 1 week ago
It depends on who you buy from. One organic chicken farm I bought from apparently let roosters roam among the free range hens, because our eggs sometimes had red spots in them (it's the heart of an embryo shortly after fertilizing).
KatSaidWhat 1 month ago
My cousin boldly convincing young me that I was eating chicken foetuses.
Ace 2 months ago
Why would you make such a comparison, were you just deliberately trying to gross him out?
Pursuing Peonies 3 weeks ago
Vegetarian and vegan aren't the same thing. Pescaterian (eats fish) and ovoterian (eats eggs) are types of vegetarians, as well as animal byproducts (milk, eggs) is fine but not meat at all as well as meat but only very rarely. And fertilized eggs are a thing and many people eat them, usually unknowingly.
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I had a friend who didn’t know how to grate cheese. And a friend’s girlfriend asked how to cook a hot dog. I don’t know how you become an adult and not know these things.
Emilu 2 months ago
... what? Grated cheese comes in a bag at the supermarket. You don't even *have* to grate it if you don't want to. (More expensive, sure, but not the point here).
Michael Largey 2 months ago
Take away all that cheese in bags. Make America Grate Again.
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Trophy Husband 2 months ago
There are 500 ways to cook a hotdog... And I'm not going to shame any of them. But I will say that there just isn't one answer to that.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
I don't like hotdogs so I don't know how to cook them exactly. I remember seeing my dad cook them in boiling water, or using some contraption but that's all I know. There are a few things I have cooked/prepared for kids at work that I don't eat so don't really know how to do it properly. I just take a guess and hope for the best. I don't like sausages so don't cook them for myself. First time I did it for work, I probably way over cooked them, because I didn't know how to tell they were done and I didn't want to give anyone food poisoning.
Bryan Wright 1 month ago
Isn't the Great Orange Buffoon ( Trump) turning America into one big cheese shredding nation? Make America Grate Again.
Pharmtechgurl 1 month ago
If you're grating a block of cheese, you're getting cheese. If you're using shredded cheese, you're getting additives that keep it from clumping. NOT the same.
#41
In 12th grade, a classmate asked what a "verb" is. And after we explained it to him, he asked how he is supposed to identify them in the text.
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
I still find myself singing the songs from Schoolhouse Rock to remember what a conjunction is, for example.
Maggie Fulton 1 month ago
I had a woman in Advanced Comp in college ask what a noun was! When we all turned to stare at her, she explained that she was from California…
Rick Murray 2 months ago
I still have difficulty with this, because at my school they had trendy names - there were "doing words" and "describing words" and "naming words". So, remind me, which one is an adverb? [sigh]
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago (edited)
Yeah, my current partner has this same problem. At 59. She is not even slightly stupid, just didn't get grammar at school.
Stardust she/her 2 months ago
My dad who studied in an English medium school still has no idea what an adjective even is. I guess it’s not that important in his day to day life if he doesn’t need to know what it is but come on
Pursuing Peonies 3 weeks ago
I mean, if he uses adjectives then he knows what they are even if he doesn't know the term for them. I wonder if schoolhouse rock just really stuck for a lot of us, though (or we're grammar nerds lol)
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#42
My coworkers think that birth control is still effective 5 years after you stop taking it/remove it, so I need to take mine out now unless I want to be an “old” mom.
I just turned 20.
Bryan Wright 1 month ago
It would appear some specimens of the human race are actually devolving before our very peepers.
Debby Keir 2 months ago
There have been a few (very few) cases of infertility after taking birth control, so perhaps they're thinking of these publicised cases (usually depo provera)
Tropical Tarot 2 months ago
There are some long-term implants. I had a Norplant in the late 90s. It was good for 5 years.
Marie BellaDonna 1 month ago
I had Mirena, and same. But those are effective for 5 years from the time they're *inserted*. Not from when they're removed. With Mirena, you're basically fertile as soon as it's removed. Not sure about depo or Norplant, but I know the effects don't last for 5 years after they're out.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 1 month ago
Never had a girlfriend who obsessively checks the time before taking the pill to make sure they are within the window so no 'surprise' babies happen? That's the reason I knew my best friend was having s*x and on birth control at 17 way before she told me about it.
Billo66 2 months ago
Consider this though. I had my Daughter when I waqs 22. She is wonderful. I don't and have never felt the need to spank as violence as a corrective measure makes no sense. She graduated top of her class, perfect attendance, and now is a nurse. Actually, my Pulmonologists nurse, I have COPD. Now, I decided to have 2 more children a bit later in life. A boy 13 and a girl 11. I must say, I felt fine in my forties but now I'm 59 and the stamina is much different than 29. Their Mom is not in the picture, her choice. She injects herself with stuff and I don't. I don't drink either. Maybe my strength is low because I have been fighting cancer for 10 years, idk. But have kids sooner rather than later so you have the energy to be positively engaged in their life. When you're old and sick, it's a bit harder.
Rick Murray 2 months ago
Never had kids, but at 51 I certainly feel less active/solid than I did in my 20s. There's a ditch between two fields here and a quarter century ago I'd have just jumped across. These days I walk the length of the field to the crossing, then back again. I'm just not going to be jumping it any more.
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Back in ye olde days I had a roommate who didn't know she had to plug the phone line into the computer to get the internet.
LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
To paraphrase a famous Edgar Allen Poe story: "It's the screeching of that hideous dial-tone!"
Joe Publique 2 months ago
File Size: 50mb, Download Time: 46Hrs, Complete: 99.9%.....Brother picks up the phone in the other room........
Rick Murray 2 months ago
Burr-bloop-blee-blee-twangy-choink-blee-bloo... [if you did it often enough, you could tell your connection speed from the noises it was making]
#44
"Ok...what exactly is a *browser*?"
-An actual ticket I received.
Edit: I work in IT and a browser is a web browser in this context.
Rick Murray 2 months ago
Once upon a time "that little blue 'e' thing" was the internet to many people. These days, I recently blew somebody's might by using Chrome on a phone to go to a website. They had an app for Insta, an app for Facebook, an app for Twitter, and so on. They were gobsmacked that I could go and look at stuff without an app.
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G A 2 months ago
You'd be surprised how many adults have next to no computer experience yet use them at work all day. They are taught what happens when they press certain buttons but beyond that, are all at sea. I work in a large government department that is entirely computer based. I am not in IT, just did some training over the years a lot of people are very phobic about using them.
Rick Murray 2 months ago
One of the managers at work searches the name of the company to find the company website. The company website that is exactly the thing she looks for only with no spaces and a ".fr" at the end. The company website that she goes to so often that it pops up as a suggestion that she ignores. 🤦
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Crissy Newbury 1 month ago
My husband asked me the other day what’s a browser? He’s a corporate insurance broker with 45 years experience.
KatSaidWhat 1 month ago
Poor people who can't afford the clothes they are looking at in shops.
#45
My husband didn't know how to make a s'more. He grew up in the country in Indiana and had never made one until his late 20s. He asked how to do it and I thought he was joking until I turned around and saw him. He took the marshmallow out of the bag, assembled the s'more, and crammed it between the two tongs of the roasting fork. He couldn't understand how to not catch the graham crackers on fire.
Ace 2 months ago
Billions of people around the world do not even know what a smore is, let alone how to make one. Myself included. I know they're something to do with marshmallows and campfires but no more than that.
Brandi Delph 2 months ago (edited)
But someone from the Midwestern United States to be unfamiliar with the process is a bit weird. BTW, process is "stack chocolate on graham cracker, roast marshmallow on stick over fire, add to stack, add another grahm cracker on to and press lightly"
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
I know what a s'more is and how to make them, but I despise them. It's the texture. I have autism and texture in food is critical to me.
Rick Murray 2 months ago
Have an upvote to balance out that downvote because I totally get the food texture thing. It's part of why I have lots of different pasta shapes in jars, and despise having sauce on the pasta. pasta_2025...693390.jpg 
Zach Taylor 2 months ago
Yes, and I can't stand them. I do not care for marshmallow.
Load More Replies... Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
Not everyone went camping and not everyone were in Boy Scouts/Girls Scouts, which is where the bulk of us learned how to make s'mores. That's like people who assume everyone is one Instagram or TikTok.
Jane Doe-Doe 2 months ago
Yup, didn’t know what a s’more was until a few years ago ( in my 60’s now) I think it’s definitely an American thing
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
For those not in the know, a S'more is a toasted marshmallow on top of a square of milk chocolate on top of a graham cracker. They're delicious.
highwaycrossingfrog 2 months ago
Yeah you're going to have to explain graham crackers as well, they are also an American only thing. Like I've heard of one, obviously it's some kind of cracker, but no real idea what it tastes like/texture, or equates to in my country (UK)
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fortis etfelix 1 month ago
I've lived in the USA all my life and I'm getting senior discount coffees offered to me. I have never made a smore or lots of other junk food. I don't like marshmallows. What's the deal of not knowing how to make a smore?
Adam Zad 2 months ago
You cannot make a proper s'more with an open flame. It requires glowing embers to properly toast the marshmallow to a nice, even, golden brown. If it catches fire, throw it away, it's ruined.
Dragons Exist 1 month ago
I purposely try to light my entire marshmallow on fire
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My bfs a literal genius but has zero skincare experience. I bought him cleanser, serums and a moisturizer and right after he finished putting it on he asked me if he rinses it off now lololol.
Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭 2 months ago (edited)
Yeah, that is a waste of money. The cleanser dries the skin out and the moisturizer tries to take that effect off. The skin of a healthy person can take care of itself, no need to dump a lot of chemicals on it. Also, all that anti ageing stuff is just a scam, nothing you can buy on the counter is strong enough to penetrate your skin layers deep enough to have any effect apart from shrinking your funds. Use some fat cream after you wash your face with some neutral soap and that is enough. Use sunscreen too Edit. I would really like to know what was worth downvoting in my comment. Did i offend somebody working for the cosmetic industry?🤣
Michael Reid 2 months ago (edited)
Ageing of the cells is primarily caused by exposure to oxygen, different people are more or less sensitive to it and obviously lifestyle affects it as well but ultimately no cream or lotion will make as much long term difference on your skin as it does on your wallet.
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Ellinor she/they/elle 2 months ago
A lot of these posts just highlight the poor education people got from their parents/caretakers and their school system.
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
Exactly! And the end poll sucked: simple oversight? Just funny accidents?
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Joe Publique 2 months ago
It's worth remembering that "common sense" is rarely common, and it’s not always sense.
LovesBerk 1 month ago (edited)
Again as I said in a couple of these, not everyone knows how to do everything. These are all learned. Don't assume people are stupid just because they don't know everything you know and to belittle them for not knowing. Just tell them. Then they'll know. Mind you I do blame the poor educational system for some of these questions. Like the question about how many weeks in a year.
Lauren Caswell 2 months ago (edited)
It feels ridiculously on the nose, but in my first year of flatting (moving out with roommates for uni/college), I walked into the kitchen one morning to find my flatmate trying to unjam her stuck toast from the toaster with a solid metal butter knife. And the elements were on. I shrieked because I didn't expect to see that, luckily she dropped the knife safely and I ran to turn off the power (Edit for rude confused people: many countries have power switches on every socket/outlet). She honestly just didn't know (like some of you guys and how different countries may work differently to yours. Mike F didn't get to that chapter in college 😊) 🤷♀️
Melissa Harris 2 months ago
I've caught my elderly MIL doing stuff like that but it's because she's in her 80s and her mind is starting to go off.
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Emilu 2 months ago
Why cull six posts? Either cull a heap (like those 80+ ones to 40-something) or don’t bother 🤷🏻♀️
Cla Ida 1 week ago
I got one: when I first started dating my boyfriend, I started to feel an itchy sensation in my head, and had to shamefully tell him I got lice, so that he'd get treated too. His reply was: "oh, so that's why my head's been itchy! -I apologized- ...for the past few months!" Turned out he's very sheltered but for some reason neither him nor his mother thought that jeez, maybe a constant itchy sensation isn't normal. I was annoyed but helped him comb his hair with anti-lice product, as he'd never done so before. Then I did the same for myself, and told him he had to wash his bedsheets, coat, judogi, etc. I spent $$ at the laundry mat, but he has a washing machine so I trusted him with his share. Well, he "didn't believe" it was necessary, so he didn't wash the judogi and got us a second round of lice. My hair's 1m long, thick, wavy, treatment was long and expensive, I ended up getting a flat iron and grilling all the lice. 100% efficient and quick.
Martha Giles 1 week ago
I feel bad for these people rather than thinking there's something wrong with them. Somebody did not educate them properly. Teach your kids to cook and manage a bank account! Sheesh.
Max Fox 1 month ago
As I wrote above - people with PhDs make these lists a lot, not because they are worse than average at basic living. In fact that are above average. But intellectually, they are in top 1%, so being in the top 30% in things like taking care of their house seems a lot more of a discrepancy than for a person who is top 30% in both. Partly they're to blame as well, since they often assume that they will be able to use reason to figure out things that require experience and education. So your PhD in microbiology won't teach you that you should tighten the bolts on your wheel in a star pattern, or remind you that you should turn off the water main when fixing your faucet. It won't teach you how to fry an egg, what the numbers on a toaster mean, or how to program your air conditioner. They have generally forgotten that at one point they knew nothing about the topic on which they wrote their PhD thesis.
Wolfwarlord 1 month ago (edited)
This is why I dislike the phrase 'common sense' as it implies common experience. There is no such thing as common experience. Just because you have experienced something a hundred times doesn't mean the person next to you has ever experienced it before. And for those who want to say "aren't they curious or want to learn?" Both of those are learned skills, quite a few people are taught to not question things by c**p parents who don't want to deal with the why stage of child development. They always deflect or ignore instead of encouraging them by giving answers or teaching to seek the answers. Every one of these falls into either category and no one would know any of it if they were not taught it at some point in their own development. Always approach a chance to share knowledge with awareness that you yourself may be in a similar situation later, where you may not know something someone else considered 'common sense' and realize they can view you the same way you view these entries.
Ellinor she/they/elle 2 months ago
A lot of these posts just highlight the poor education people got from their parents/caretakers and their school system.
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
Exactly! And the end poll sucked: simple oversight? Just funny accidents?
Load More Replies... Joe Publique 2 months ago
It's worth remembering that "common sense" is rarely common, and it’s not always sense.
LovesBerk 1 month ago (edited)
Again as I said in a couple of these, not everyone knows how to do everything. These are all learned. Don't assume people are stupid just because they don't know everything you know and to belittle them for not knowing. Just tell them. Then they'll know. Mind you I do blame the poor educational system for some of these questions. Like the question about how many weeks in a year.
Lauren Caswell 2 months ago (edited)
It feels ridiculously on the nose, but in my first year of flatting (moving out with roommates for uni/college), I walked into the kitchen one morning to find my flatmate trying to unjam her stuck toast from the toaster with a solid metal butter knife. And the elements were on. I shrieked because I didn't expect to see that, luckily she dropped the knife safely and I ran to turn off the power (Edit for rude confused people: many countries have power switches on every socket/outlet). She honestly just didn't know (like some of you guys and how different countries may work differently to yours. Mike F didn't get to that chapter in college 😊) 🤷♀️
Melissa Harris 2 months ago
I've caught my elderly MIL doing stuff like that but it's because she's in her 80s and her mind is starting to go off.
Load More Replies... Emilu 2 months ago
Why cull six posts? Either cull a heap (like those 80+ ones to 40-something) or don’t bother 🤷🏻♀️
Cla Ida 1 week ago
I got one: when I first started dating my boyfriend, I started to feel an itchy sensation in my head, and had to shamefully tell him I got lice, so that he'd get treated too. His reply was: "oh, so that's why my head's been itchy! -I apologized- ...for the past few months!" Turned out he's very sheltered but for some reason neither him nor his mother thought that jeez, maybe a constant itchy sensation isn't normal. I was annoyed but helped him comb his hair with anti-lice product, as he'd never done so before. Then I did the same for myself, and told him he had to wash his bedsheets, coat, judogi, etc. I spent $$ at the laundry mat, but he has a washing machine so I trusted him with his share. Well, he "didn't believe" it was necessary, so he didn't wash the judogi and got us a second round of lice. My hair's 1m long, thick, wavy, treatment was long and expensive, I ended up getting a flat iron and grilling all the lice. 100% efficient and quick.
Martha Giles 1 week ago
I feel bad for these people rather than thinking there's something wrong with them. Somebody did not educate them properly. Teach your kids to cook and manage a bank account! Sheesh.
Max Fox 1 month ago
As I wrote above - people with PhDs make these lists a lot, not because they are worse than average at basic living. In fact that are above average. But intellectually, they are in top 1%, so being in the top 30% in things like taking care of their house seems a lot more of a discrepancy than for a person who is top 30% in both. Partly they're to blame as well, since they often assume that they will be able to use reason to figure out things that require experience and education. So your PhD in microbiology won't teach you that you should tighten the bolts on your wheel in a star pattern, or remind you that you should turn off the water main when fixing your faucet. It won't teach you how to fry an egg, what the numbers on a toaster mean, or how to program your air conditioner. They have generally forgotten that at one point they knew nothing about the topic on which they wrote their PhD thesis.
Wolfwarlord 1 month ago (edited)
This is why I dislike the phrase 'common sense' as it implies common experience. There is no such thing as common experience. Just because you have experienced something a hundred times doesn't mean the person next to you has ever experienced it before. And for those who want to say "aren't they curious or want to learn?" Both of those are learned skills, quite a few people are taught to not question things by c**p parents who don't want to deal with the why stage of child development. They always deflect or ignore instead of encouraging them by giving answers or teaching to seek the answers. Every one of these falls into either category and no one would know any of it if they were not taught it at some point in their own development. Always approach a chance to share knowledge with awareness that you yourself may be in a similar situation later, where you may not know something someone else considered 'common sense' and realize they can view you the same way you view these entries.
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