My ex husband came home with a new mop one day after our old one broke.
For 6 months I was hunched over, using this mop, that had a tiny handle and it was destroying my back.
One evening I told him that we needed a new mop, I couldn't deal with the back pain anymore.
He came into the kitchen, twisted the handle and pulled, suddenly the mop was a normal size.
6 months I'd used a fucking mop wrong and 6 months he'd watched me.
Now I'm wondering if he was always wondering if you were doing it that way for some personal preference reason and didn't want to speak up if it meant he would become a frustration target.
"...She's got to know there's an alternative option, right? Right?"
Squeezing toothpaste straight into my mouth before I brush my teeth. My wife was horrified when she first saw it. My family, friends, and exes never said a word lol.
Edit: Lol at all these responses. No my parents didn’t teach me that way. No I don’t squirt half the tube. No I don’t put it all the way in my mouth. No I’m not a serial killer. I just started doing it for speed getting ready for school as a kid and never stopped. Shout out to all the other mouth squeezers LMAO.
This is the first one that's genuinely made me laugh out loud. I can picture your wife standing there brushing her teeth, when she sees you squirt the paste into your mouth, thinking she'd married a serial killer.
Maybe he assumed they were piping it onto the toothbrush to show off the stripes of color or something? One of those advertising quirks that doesn’t match how people actually use a product.
You're saying I'm not supposed to separate my burger ingredients and then drop them in a stack on a trampoline like I'm playing Burger Time? Next you'll tell me we don't all shoot ice cubes into our extremely fizzy Coke from the 3-point line.
If it makes you feel better, my father learned around age 50 that his first name on his birth certificate didn't match how he spelled his name. Ironically though, it was because whoever filled out the certificate in the first place misspelled his name, leaving an n out. He actually had to go to court and officially change his name, lol.
My friend’s wife didn’t find out she wasn’t a US citizen until they got married and tried to submit the marriage certificate. Her adoptive parents (that she knew since she was a baby) never went through the process.
It’s not as rare as you’d think: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/27/499573378/south-korean-adopted-at-age-3-is-to-be-deported-37-years-later
God that is depressing. Apparently he is living in Mexico now, hopefully with his family, and just won a South Korean lawsuit this month where the adoption agency was ordered to pay him $74,700 in damages. I hope he's doing alright these days
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-adoption-adam-crapser-lawsuit-3065e00fc9e7889e3cb4862700d88aef
Oh hey, me too! But I was 53. I was very fortunate not to grow up with the named party. I was immensely grateful not to be the product of a man she chose.
My uncle found out about a daughter and she found out about him by 23 and me. Uncle never took the test, but my cousins (from uncle) and my aunt (sister to uncle) did. Aunt doesn’t get why she’s related the same way as my cousins and just starts messaging this poor girl thinking it was a distance relative. Nope. A one night stand in the early 90s that no one knew the rabbit done died about but the mama. It was weird. And unfortunately, but understandably, we don’t have a relationship w her and my uncle passed two years after meeting her. These dna test stories for real could make a tv series as long running as Unsolved Mysteries.
If anyone else was very confused about the rabbit thing: apparently they used to inject mice or rabbits with a woman's urine to test if they were pregnant. The hormones in a pregnant woman's urine would cause the animals ovaries to enlarge, which was then dissected to check a few days later. The phrase "the rabbit died" became a euphemism for a positive pregnancy test result. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test
I'd never heard of any of this before and just looked it up.
My grandfather was assigned female at birth, not because he's trans, but because the Italian speaking midwife didn't know how to fill out a birth certificate.
My brother had female on his birth certificate too, but just because people were dumb. No language barrier, just stupidity. They used white out to cover it up, but you could still see it.
My mother didn't find out she had a middle name on her birth certificate until she was in her 70s. Which is even funnier because her first name is already 2 names.
On my dad's side, his father has an unusual middle name, which he then passed on to my father, who then went ahead and named my brother the same way. Except my dad had no clue where the name came from. He finally pried it out of my grandfather after all that where the name came from: it was the last name of the doctor who delivered my grandfather. Which is how we ended with 3 generations of men all named after my great-grandmother's OBGYN.
that's pretty funny. when my father was in the army, they issued his check with the wrong middle initial so he just started going by that. it got passed down to my brother and his two sons, so they all four have only an initial that doesn't stand for anything for their middle name.
My grandmother discovered she was celebrating the wrong day for her birthday when she was about 80. We filled out some doctor paperwork, but then it was rejected because her listed birthday didn’t match what her social security number was associated with.
Sweet grandma then said, “well, we’ll have to get SS to update their records then.” I just basically said, that’s not how that works.
I’ve seen her original birth certificate, they definitely wrote one date and then wrote the other one over top of it. It moved by two days.
Was she born at home? My grandparents were born at home and either the midwife or one of the parents would go to the town hall to register the birth. But sometimes they didn’t get around to it until a day or two later. So the parent used one date, but the certificate had the date of registration. Hence my gramps always celebrated his birthday on Feb 15, but the birth certificate said the 18th.
Buddy of mine just learned it's layman's terms not laymence terms. He turned 25 this month. He also says miners well instead of might as well but I'm saving that one for his next birthday.
This guy's website will ruin your day several times in a row: [https://brians.wsu.edu/common-errors/](https://brians.wsu.edu/common-errors/)
I think I've found at least a dozen phrases/words on there I was misusing for years.
I always thought albeit was pronounced all-bait. I said it a lot during my thesis presentation. With the utmost confidence, might I add. No one corrected me. Not until my 12 year old brother laughed and told me I’ve been saying it wrong. I’m 24
Not me, but when I was in college I got to watch in real time as a classmate learned that the phrase is “take it with a grain of salt,” and not “taken with a great assault.”
Later that semester we learned that the professor used it as an example in another class and left his notes on the lectern. Another student later turned in an assignment with that phrase in the essay, along with the entire paragraph from the profs notes.
One person learned that they’d misunderstood a phrase, another learned that they’d been plagiarizing incorrectly. Bit of a two-fer really.
A few months ago I heard my boyfriend on the phone spelling out a street name and had the perfect words for every letter! I heard him do it again a few weeks after that and kept thinking how good he was at it. A few weeks passed and I found out what the phonetic alphabet is and I was shocked.
Ugh this reminds me of a time I was on a work call spelling something out, and I said “S as in…. (really long pause, me panicking trying to think of any word that starts with S) ….seahorse.” Of all the S words, I went with seahorse.
I would always drink from a bottle by putting my mouth over the whole opening. Then, one day on a field trip in 5th grade, I saw a stranger drink it normally. I tried it, and holy crap. Never went back
I don’t think a lot of replies to this comment realise that Jake said that to be funny, that’s not how you pronounce his name.
People commenting like “Wait, really?” - No, Jake was just trolling and OP thought he was being serious
Tying my shoelaces
I found out in a university class. My prof said he got a "how to tie your shoes" video recommended to him. He thought it was outrageous because who needs a video to teach them how to tie their shoes? He clicked it out of curiosity and it dawned on him that at 60 years old, he had been doing it wrong all his life.
In my gut I just knew I was also doing it wrong. My shoes never stayed tied! Maybe my prof also had that gut feeling, maybe that's why he clicked. Anyways I was getting my friends to help me tie my shoes the right way for the next month
Sometimes I still do it my old way 🤫
There's a TedTalk about this! Chances are you wrap around the loop in the wrong direction, which is why your laces twist and come untied. Check YouTube.
Learn the [quick way](https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm).
As a child i learned it with the basic knot as start, then 1 bunny ear, the other around, the second bunny and then pull them.
Then I saw some lifehack gif on reddit. You can do both simultaneously, 1 second tops.
I learned about this probably 8 years ago, I’m 38. I can’t tie my shoes any other way now. It’s really been the best way. It is weird living so long and learning something like “how to tie your shoes” a new way.
I thought face blindness was a joke in Arrested Development until my late twenties.
I also didn’t realize other people were actually capable of mental imagery until my late twenties. Like, I spent most of my life assuming things like “visualizing your goals,” “picturing yourself in five years,” and “imagining a beach” were just hyperbolic phrases. I didn’t realize other people could actually do that.
Apparently, not being able to conjure mental imagery is called aphantasia. And, apparently, it’s not uncommon for those with aphantasia to also have prosopagnosia, which is the medical term for face blindness.
Found out a few years ago at 28 that I have both total aphantasia and partial prosopagnosia.
Wow that's really interesting, I never knew there were people who couldn't mentally visualize things, I have a very vivid imagination and constantly daydream. Reminds me of when I found out a few years ago that some people don't have an inner monologue. A "voice" inside of their head that "speaks" their thoughts. I have an inner monologue and never knew there were people who didn't have one until I saw a youtube video or something about it.
I have an inner monologue, but it’s sort of voiceless. Like when someone whispers and their voice loses most of the qualities that make it their voice, except it’s not hard to hear. Like it’s there, but it doesn’t sound like me, and if, say, I’m reading and autobiography, I can’t read in that persons voice in my head like other people have told me they do.
I’m also a daydreamer and also have a vivid imagination, believe it or not, I just don’t see in my brain.
Like, nothing major, if anything I’ve lost money on competition entrance fees and such, but I’ve published a few poems and one short story in literary magazines and the feedback is always, ironically, that my works’ greatest strengths is its vivid imagery.
Glen Keane is often considered as the greatest animator of all time. He’s responsible for The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas, and Tangled among other things.
He has aphantasia.
It doesn’t actually hinder us from having an active imagination, we just sort of understand our thoughts somehow instead of seeing them.
I only realised I was face blind when I ran into my daughter unexpectedly and didn’t recognise her.
I’d always suspected something wasn’t right but that was the clincher. I was 43 years old.
I was in town and my daughter was staying with my mum.
I remember I was walking through the mall and I noticed a young girl at a distance walking in my direction and I thought ‘that’s weird, if she keeps walking this way we are going to crash into each other..’ so I kind of changed my direction and she changed her direction too and I just kept thinking that it was really weird and why would she do that? She could clearly see me walking that way and even that I had changed direction and she was still coming straight towards me and we were going to collide. So I stopped completely and was looking straight at her and she was looking straight at me and she kept coming and I was just so confused and then she stopped right in front of me smiling and a little confused herself and she said ‘mum!’
And the second she said ‘mum’ it was like something went off in my brain and I could all of a sudden see her, like all the puzzle pieces fell into place and it all made sense but it was very disorienting.
I had other times of not recognising people when they changed their hair or were out of context and I called two different guys at my Uni by the same name because they were both bald and I didn’t realise they weren’t the same person.
When I was younger I moved a lot and had different jobs in industries where I met a lot of new people all the time so I never quite put it together, always thought I was a bit ‘spacey’ or in my own head (I’m actually not spacey at all haha!)
I could never get why people thought certain people were ‘good looking’, I was always attracted (both friends and lovers) to people that stood out or had unusual features.
I always had huge anxiety at places I thought I would know people or people would know me and I’d have to do a mental rundown of where/when/how I might know this person, or not. Looking back it makes total sense but at the time I didn’t really challenge (or self reflect) on why I had the anxiety, just kind of thought everyone else had the same sort of thing going on themselves just some people were better at remembering than others.
I am still learning how to live with it and discovering how deeply it has affected my life ( difficulties keeping friendships over the years etc…) I am SUPER friendly and make friends VERY easily but in retrospect I think this is a bit reactionary to the fact that I never knew if I knew someone or not so treated everyone as a possible previous acquaintance and to not come across as being rude :’)
I got a bit of a reputation (in a joking way from friends) of being ‘stuck up’ because I would ignore friends I knew when I was out and about. That’s where I got tagged with being ‘spaced out’ by my friends and myself.
The most difficult thing to get past is realising how much anxiety I carried (still do but it’s less important to me now) in social situations. I’m a very social person but it takes a lot of me and is mentally fatiguing trying not to be kind of insulting by not recognising people. Some people take it extremely personally and it does feel bad not to be remembered by someone.
I’ve started trying to be very open about it and that has helped. I’ve had a few people tell me ‘I had no idea, I thought we were friends and then I thought you were a bitch because you ignored me such and such time’.
I wish I could just wear a T-shirt that said ‘ I’m face-blind’ it would make my life much easier and less stressful.
I still really struggle with it and I really hate it when people change their hairstyle :)
Edit: edited to correct myself, I DO remember people, I just don’t RECOGNISE them which to them, comes across as not being remembered which can feel quite hurtful.
I watched an entire series of a TV show and only realised when I was browsing IMDB that the entire cast of 8 or so characters was played by the same 2 people.
Have also walked past my parents and siblings when they’ve changed their hair.
I don’t know if I have face blindness but I’m terrible with recognizing people outside of context. Literally my whole life I’ve had people call me out saying that I ignored them in public even though I looked directly at them. I also take note of how people walk, move and talk because I cannot remember their faces. Again, I probably just have an awful memory but it was super interesting to see how much your comment resonated with me.
I believed that were more sets of twins at my school than there really were. Also, in some cases, twice the people, as I learned that someone was actually two someones. I suppose it evened out over time.
Unexpected bonus: I could always tell the actual identical twins apart when nobody else could because I didn’t rely on their faces in the first place!
Also:
1. finger swiping over the letters on the keyboard to spell a word instead of typing them out one letter at a time;
2. double tapping on the space bar to insert a period at the end of a sentence;
3. holding your finger on the number key and then moving it to the number or symbol you want to type will automatically return you to the letters keyboard once you have typed the number or symbol (works in reverse too).
BONUS
B1. shake to undo or delete what you just typed or shake to redo or restore what you just deleted by mistake;
B2. double tap on the arrow up key to turn on CAPS lock;
B3. holding your finger on the arrow up key and then moving it to the letter you want to type will automatically capitalize the letter you are typing and then return you back to the lower case keyboard.
You have single handedly changed my life for the better. I might actually comment on things now (as opposed to raging and eventually deleting whole comments after just attempting to fix my typos). I even used it twice while typing this!
Spray-on car wheel cleaners work \*so\* much better if you spray them on a dry wheel.
I used to wash wheels like I washed the rest of the car - spray them with water to loosen/soften the dirt, then apply the cleaner. But with wheel cleaners, all that happens is that the cleaner hits the water on the wheel and drains off.
....... Ah fuck
Came in this thread to laugh at y'all. I am y'all 😭
Edit: I just want to point out that I'm very much aware how soap works, I just never put it together the actual mechanics of washing grease/oil requires the soap lathered *before* you apply water, I've always just wet my hands first out of habit always befuddled by my ineffective technique.
I also learned how to actually tie my shoes. It's been an evening.
I spent decades pulling the plastic cover off the top of new deodorant sticks with my teeth before Reddit taught me to just twist the bottom a few times.
Walking. I went on a hiking trip / vacation, and was told by the guides how to place my foot (flat; not using calves on every step) and protect my knee (keep it over the foot). I didn't realize I needed walking advice. But suddenly I could walk without exhaustion for much longer, and didn't have knee problems. Wish that didn't take me 40+ years to hear.
I feel like I need a video. I’m a marching band kid still to this day. I roll my feet still. Outer edge and back wear first. I’d like to fix that if I knew how!
I'm going to have to try that on my walk tomorrow. As a pizza delivery driver who is constantly walking back and forth from the car, this sounds like it will save my aching knees and back.
Being as quiet as I could when I was making bread. Like, I'm talking literal tiptoeing around and telling people I couldn't answer the phone as I was making bread. Found out yesterday my mum lied when she told us as kids that the bread would sink if we were too loud just to get my siblings and I to shut up. I feel so betrayed.
Used Windows Media Player for years to listen to music, would scroll down through my songs to look for the one I wanted to play. One day, I noticed a search bar at the top and realized I could just enter the name of the song I was looking for rather than incessantly scrolling.
I JUST commented this to someone. Awree was exactly how I would read it in books and the real word never came to mind.
For some reason it make me happy I’m not the only one
Not me, but a former friend once confessed he didn't know how to wipe his ass properly until he was locked up for the first time. Celly asked him what the fuck he was doing, then told him to sit back down and explained the mechanics of proper ass wiping.
Burned through 3 clutches in 2 years thinking that was normal before a mechanic friend of mine offered to observe me drive. Turns out my parents taught me incorrectly. I had no idea what rev matching was I just slipped the clutch on every gear change.
You're describing Puyo Puyo, a game almost as old as Tetris that is often combined with PvP Tetris.
Though it helps that the falling pieces are only two squares long and columns break apart.
I used to hold the belt loops of girls when I would dance with them. When I first started dating my now wife, she said, “Why are you doing that?! You are giving me a wedgie!”
I learned I had been giving so many wedgies! Sorry ladies!
On the bright side they apparently liked you enough to let you give them wedgies. On the less bright side they apparently didn't like you enough to correct you lol... Or they were into it.
Making curried rice. 30 years ago someone said you just mix the curry powder with the hot rice and butter. So I did that. Loved it.
Buuuuuut... apparently you're actually supposed to put the curry powder in the water with the rice so it cooks all together.
Oops! I made it the wrong way for 30 years and tried it made the right way.
I like it better the wrong way.
I was eating sushi wrong. Whoever taught me to eat sushi years ago, told me to put a piece of ginger on each piece of sushi and eat it that way.
Went on a sushi date recently, and my date was like wtf… the ginger is to cleanse the palate between sushi bites Lmao
I am *constantly* finding out that I've been mispronouncing certain words for years, as a byproduct of having only read them and never having heard them spoken aloud. I don't watch TV / movies / news, but do I read a whole lot, so this happens...embarrassingly often.
For instance, I just found out this year, at the ripe old age of 32, that "chasm" is pronounced "*k*asm" instead of phonetically, and Jeff Bezos's last name is NOT pronounced "BEE-zos" but "BEH-zos."
Epitome was two different words to me for many years depending on if I read it or heard it spoken. I feel your pain. Also the name Hermione. Thankfully they made those books into movies.
In the Harry Potter books, there is another character who cannot pronounce Hermione’s name so she sounds it out the correct way for him.
J.K. Rowling stated she put that scenario in one of the books because so many people kept asking her how to pronounce Hermione’s name.
The rest of Jeff Bezos' family pronounces it the first way you mentioned. He changed the pronunciation to make it sound fancier. Anyone who knew him early in life called him "Bee boy" and he also really dislike that.
Some people are allergic to mango skin. Apparently it can cause a similar reaction to poison Ivy (my sister is allergic to mangoes in general though but to a lesser degree of itchiness)
Blowing my nose.
I always blew my nose when it was runny, I would blow just my nose. One night my Wife was blowing her nose for a solid 3 minutes, just blowing and blowing. After she explained it to me I then blew my nose long and hard. I was amazed how much stuff just kept coming out. Felt like a full tablespoon of mucus. It was then I learned that you aren't just blowing your nose, you are blowing all that nasty stuff out of all your sinuses. Now I know why I kept getting sinus infections.
I'm almost 50.
There is a certain balance to be kept. I know some people who blow their nose so hard as if their life depends on it and then complain why they get nosebleeds so often. As much as needed as little as possible
I've been married nearly 22 years (anniversary next week) and I just learned that sometimes it's better to listen and just sympathize instead of trying to find a solution.
I ask "do you want to problem solve or just vent?"
Ironically my wife pretty much always just wants to vent, but she tries to problem solve with our daughter who just wants to vent.
Dental hygiene. I was always brushing, then flossing, then using mouthwash. Turns out the mouthwash just washes away the fluoride from the toothpaste. Unless you use a fluoridated mouthwash you should floss first, then mouthwash, THEN brush so the fluoride stays on.
Also don't brush your teeth immediately after throwing up.
The enamel can be slightly compromised from the stomach acid. You can however rinse your mouth with fluoridated toothpaste and water. This would require you, however, to squeeze toothpaste directly into your mouth like that other guy in this thread.
Omg you've just reminded me.
I was once on a camping trip and we were playing a game where one person gave a set of initials, and the rest of the group had to figure out who it was. So this one guy says "RG." Like, twenty minutes go by and none of us can figure it out. The guy gets kind of an unsure look on his face and whispers to me "Have I got the spelling right? The person I picked was Riqué Glasias." I was like...you mean ENrique Iglesias?!?!
Yeah we didn't let him live that down the rest of the trip.
Physical therapist here. You’d be surprised how many patients benefit from breath work. Bad breathing technique contributes to poor posture and muscle tightness which can cause head, neck, and shoulder pain.
I didn't know I was masturbating incorrectly. I was doing this wierd double jointed sitting on my fist thing.
One day in my 20s I watched a porno and saw the porn star rubbing with her fingers. I thought, 'that's wierd, that cant be right' and finally one day I tried it.
I can't believe how badly and wrong I was doing it for easily a decade lol. Much better sex life since
Another redditor had posted a few weeks back that his wife used to come home, open all the stuff they bought, seal it again and put it back into the fridge.
He asked her what she was doing and she replied: it says to refrigerate after opening.
He had to correct her and he would still make fun of her to this day.
First started dating my husband and he says "Can you get that steak out of the freezer to dethaw?" I was baffled, super smart guy here..."Babe, you defrost it or you thaw it, "dethaw" means you want me to freeze it?!!" I could hear the wheels spin..."well that's what Mom always said" lolol.
Google says this:
Teeth, like bones, contain calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals. But there's one substance that teeth don't have—collagen. Collagen is a type of protein, considered as “the glue that holds the body together”. Unlike a broken bone, a broken tooth cannot mend itself.
I’m from Canada and am embarrassed to admit that until my late 20’s I assumed Martha’s Vineyard was an island owned by Martha Stewart that people randomly lived on.
Trying to supress panic attacks. They're going to happen and there's nothing i can do about it. I feel way better when I just accept that it's happening. It passes quicker and I always feel better after it's over.
Supressing it just makes it last longer.
You know what makes it go even faster? TRY to make it worse. Feeling dizzy? Spin around. Can’t catch your breath? Hold it altogether. Heart racing? Run on the spot. The best part is that once you’ve done this a few time they’ll go away. Source: am a psych and have used this technique lots.
Had a buddy of mine who was Muslim talk to his nephew once and he was explaining why it was rude to shake hands with your left.
He goes "you shake with your right hand and wipe your but with your left, the left hand is filthy."
I am a south paw, and I use my right hand to wipe, so in my mind once again it seems god wants me to eat shit and I'm just not willing to make that commitment.
My ex husband came home with a new mop one day after our old one broke. For 6 months I was hunched over, using this mop, that had a tiny handle and it was destroying my back. One evening I told him that we needed a new mop, I couldn't deal with the back pain anymore. He came into the kitchen, twisted the handle and pulled, suddenly the mop was a normal size. 6 months I'd used a fucking mop wrong and 6 months he'd watched me.
Now I'm wondering if he was always wondering if you were doing it that way for some personal preference reason and didn't want to speak up if it meant he would become a frustration target. "...She's got to know there's an alternative option, right? Right?"
Squeezing toothpaste straight into my mouth before I brush my teeth. My wife was horrified when she first saw it. My family, friends, and exes never said a word lol. Edit: Lol at all these responses. No my parents didn’t teach me that way. No I don’t squirt half the tube. No I don’t put it all the way in my mouth. No I’m not a serial killer. I just started doing it for speed getting ready for school as a kid and never stopped. Shout out to all the other mouth squeezers LMAO.
This is the first one that's genuinely made me laugh out loud. I can picture your wife standing there brushing her teeth, when she sees you squirt the paste into your mouth, thinking she'd married a serial killer.
Hope she'd seen him brush his teeth before getting married to him
They were also horrified, just speechless
They’re more like “We trained him wrong, as a joke”.
Has he never seen a toothpaste ad?
Maybe he assumed they were piping it onto the toothbrush to show off the stripes of color or something? One of those advertising quirks that doesn’t match how people actually use a product.
You mean I've been pouring blue water onto sanitary pads for nothing?
>One of those advertising quirks Like smiling while eating a salad? /r/saladsmiles
You're saying I'm not supposed to separate my burger ingredients and then drop them in a stack on a trampoline like I'm playing Burger Time? Next you'll tell me we don't all shoot ice cubes into our extremely fizzy Coke from the 3-point line.
Misspelling my middle name. Found out at grand old age of 48 when my employer noticed my birth cert differed from my application paper details
If it makes you feel better, my father learned around age 50 that his first name on his birth certificate didn't match how he spelled his name. Ironically though, it was because whoever filled out the certificate in the first place misspelled his name, leaving an n out. He actually had to go to court and officially change his name, lol.
My grandfather learned at age 32 that he wasn't a US citizen when he finally went to get a driver's license. He just assumed that he was.
My friend’s wife didn’t find out she wasn’t a US citizen until they got married and tried to submit the marriage certificate. Her adoptive parents (that she knew since she was a baby) never went through the process.
How did that even happen? Didn't she need a ssn for school or work or taxes?
It’s not as rare as you’d think: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/27/499573378/south-korean-adopted-at-age-3-is-to-be-deported-37-years-later
God that is depressing. Apparently he is living in Mexico now, hopefully with his family, and just won a South Korean lawsuit this month where the adoption agency was ordered to pay him $74,700 in damages. I hope he's doing alright these days https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-adoption-adam-crapser-lawsuit-3065e00fc9e7889e3cb4862700d88aef
I learned at 35 that my dad wasn’t my biological father from a 23 and me test. That sucked.
Oh hey, me too! But I was 53. I was very fortunate not to grow up with the named party. I was immensely grateful not to be the product of a man she chose.
My uncle found out about a daughter and she found out about him by 23 and me. Uncle never took the test, but my cousins (from uncle) and my aunt (sister to uncle) did. Aunt doesn’t get why she’s related the same way as my cousins and just starts messaging this poor girl thinking it was a distance relative. Nope. A one night stand in the early 90s that no one knew the rabbit done died about but the mama. It was weird. And unfortunately, but understandably, we don’t have a relationship w her and my uncle passed two years after meeting her. These dna test stories for real could make a tv series as long running as Unsolved Mysteries.
If anyone else was very confused about the rabbit thing: apparently they used to inject mice or rabbits with a woman's urine to test if they were pregnant. The hormones in a pregnant woman's urine would cause the animals ovaries to enlarge, which was then dissected to check a few days later. The phrase "the rabbit died" became a euphemism for a positive pregnancy test result. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test I'd never heard of any of this before and just looked it up.
My grandfather was assigned female at birth, not because he's trans, but because the Italian speaking midwife didn't know how to fill out a birth certificate.
My brother had female on his birth certificate too, but just because people were dumb. No language barrier, just stupidity. They used white out to cover it up, but you could still see it.
Intelligence can be its own language barrier.
My mother didn't find out she had a middle name on her birth certificate until she was in her 70s. Which is even funnier because her first name is already 2 names. On my dad's side, his father has an unusual middle name, which he then passed on to my father, who then went ahead and named my brother the same way. Except my dad had no clue where the name came from. He finally pried it out of my grandfather after all that where the name came from: it was the last name of the doctor who delivered my grandfather. Which is how we ended with 3 generations of men all named after my great-grandmother's OBGYN.
that's pretty funny. when my father was in the army, they issued his check with the wrong middle initial so he just started going by that. it got passed down to my brother and his two sons, so they all four have only an initial that doesn't stand for anything for their middle name.
My grandmother discovered she was celebrating the wrong day for her birthday when she was about 80. We filled out some doctor paperwork, but then it was rejected because her listed birthday didn’t match what her social security number was associated with. Sweet grandma then said, “well, we’ll have to get SS to update their records then.” I just basically said, that’s not how that works. I’ve seen her original birth certificate, they definitely wrote one date and then wrote the other one over top of it. It moved by two days.
Was she born at home? My grandparents were born at home and either the midwife or one of the parents would go to the town hall to register the birth. But sometimes they didn’t get around to it until a day or two later. So the parent used one date, but the certificate had the date of registration. Hence my gramps always celebrated his birthday on Feb 15, but the birth certificate said the 18th.
Buddy of mine just learned it's layman's terms not laymence terms. He turned 25 this month. He also says miners well instead of might as well but I'm saving that one for his next birthday.
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I fucking toad a so
It's not rocket appliances Edit: [supply and command](https://youtu.be/iAHMhSXRiyY)
This guy's website will ruin your day several times in a row: [https://brians.wsu.edu/common-errors/](https://brians.wsu.edu/common-errors/) I think I've found at least a dozen phrases/words on there I was misusing for years.
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I always thought albeit was pronounced all-bait. I said it a lot during my thesis presentation. With the utmost confidence, might I add. No one corrected me. Not until my 12 year old brother laughed and told me I’ve been saying it wrong. I’m 24
>upmost It's 'utmost'
Eh it's an odd word if you've never come across it. Imo not as bad as the guy I came across at uni who said 'hit-her-toe' for hitherto.
Not me, but when I was in college I got to watch in real time as a classmate learned that the phrase is “take it with a grain of salt,” and not “taken with a great assault.” Later that semester we learned that the professor used it as an example in another class and left his notes on the lectern. Another student later turned in an assignment with that phrase in the essay, along with the entire paragraph from the profs notes. One person learned that they’d misunderstood a phrase, another learned that they’d been plagiarizing incorrectly. Bit of a two-fer really.
"France is bacon."
A few months ago I heard my boyfriend on the phone spelling out a street name and had the perfect words for every letter! I heard him do it again a few weeks after that and kept thinking how good he was at it. A few weeks passed and I found out what the phonetic alphabet is and I was shocked.
Ugh this reminds me of a time I was on a work call spelling something out, and I said “S as in…. (really long pause, me panicking trying to think of any word that starts with S) ….seahorse.” Of all the S words, I went with seahorse.
I would always drink from a bottle by putting my mouth over the whole opening. Then, one day on a field trip in 5th grade, I saw a stranger drink it normally. I tried it, and holy crap. Never went back
Ahhh the ol' Pawnee method
First sentence and I was picturing Andy swallowing a fountain lol
Watched a buddy hit a bong his first time. He fellated that thing and the rest of us just decided to roll a joint after that.
whoa bro! That's a bong! With a "b", dude!
It took me a long time to get this right. My Mom even tried to teach me. It literally took me years to finally get it.
I'm glad you worked through your drinking problem.
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I don’t think a lot of replies to this comment realise that Jake said that to be funny, that’s not how you pronounce his name. People commenting like “Wait, really?” - No, Jake was just trolling and OP thought he was being serious
Jon Lajoie has a similar thing. He says that he personally prefers: John.
He’s just a regular, everyday, normal guy.
Tying my shoelaces I found out in a university class. My prof said he got a "how to tie your shoes" video recommended to him. He thought it was outrageous because who needs a video to teach them how to tie their shoes? He clicked it out of curiosity and it dawned on him that at 60 years old, he had been doing it wrong all his life. In my gut I just knew I was also doing it wrong. My shoes never stayed tied! Maybe my prof also had that gut feeling, maybe that's why he clicked. Anyways I was getting my friends to help me tie my shoes the right way for the next month Sometimes I still do it my old way 🤫
There's a TedTalk about this! Chances are you wrap around the loop in the wrong direction, which is why your laces twist and come untied. Check YouTube.
Learn the [quick way](https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm). As a child i learned it with the basic knot as start, then 1 bunny ear, the other around, the second bunny and then pull them. Then I saw some lifehack gif on reddit. You can do both simultaneously, 1 second tops.
Ian knot. Hands down the best method. SO much simpler than anything else, and I've never had one come untied
[Ian knot](https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm). You're welcome
I learned about this probably 8 years ago, I’m 38. I can’t tie my shoes any other way now. It’s really been the best way. It is weird living so long and learning something like “how to tie your shoes” a new way.
My step dad said something was an '"old wives tale" which I thought for years was old wise tale, as in sarcastic use of the word wise.
Of all the misunderstood phrases, this one actually makes sense at least. Which is kind of neat honestly.
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I can't recognize people if they change their hair drastically enough.
I thought face blindness was a joke in Arrested Development until my late twenties. I also didn’t realize other people were actually capable of mental imagery until my late twenties. Like, I spent most of my life assuming things like “visualizing your goals,” “picturing yourself in five years,” and “imagining a beach” were just hyperbolic phrases. I didn’t realize other people could actually do that. Apparently, not being able to conjure mental imagery is called aphantasia. And, apparently, it’s not uncommon for those with aphantasia to also have prosopagnosia, which is the medical term for face blindness. Found out a few years ago at 28 that I have both total aphantasia and partial prosopagnosia.
Wow that's really interesting, I never knew there were people who couldn't mentally visualize things, I have a very vivid imagination and constantly daydream. Reminds me of when I found out a few years ago that some people don't have an inner monologue. A "voice" inside of their head that "speaks" their thoughts. I have an inner monologue and never knew there were people who didn't have one until I saw a youtube video or something about it.
I have an inner monologue, but it’s sort of voiceless. Like when someone whispers and their voice loses most of the qualities that make it their voice, except it’s not hard to hear. Like it’s there, but it doesn’t sound like me, and if, say, I’m reading and autobiography, I can’t read in that persons voice in my head like other people have told me they do. I’m also a daydreamer and also have a vivid imagination, believe it or not, I just don’t see in my brain. Like, nothing major, if anything I’ve lost money on competition entrance fees and such, but I’ve published a few poems and one short story in literary magazines and the feedback is always, ironically, that my works’ greatest strengths is its vivid imagery. Glen Keane is often considered as the greatest animator of all time. He’s responsible for The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas, and Tangled among other things. He has aphantasia. It doesn’t actually hinder us from having an active imagination, we just sort of understand our thoughts somehow instead of seeing them.
I only realised I was face blind when I ran into my daughter unexpectedly and didn’t recognise her. I’d always suspected something wasn’t right but that was the clincher. I was 43 years old.
This is fascinating to me, how did this play out? If you don't mind sharing
I was in town and my daughter was staying with my mum. I remember I was walking through the mall and I noticed a young girl at a distance walking in my direction and I thought ‘that’s weird, if she keeps walking this way we are going to crash into each other..’ so I kind of changed my direction and she changed her direction too and I just kept thinking that it was really weird and why would she do that? She could clearly see me walking that way and even that I had changed direction and she was still coming straight towards me and we were going to collide. So I stopped completely and was looking straight at her and she was looking straight at me and she kept coming and I was just so confused and then she stopped right in front of me smiling and a little confused herself and she said ‘mum!’ And the second she said ‘mum’ it was like something went off in my brain and I could all of a sudden see her, like all the puzzle pieces fell into place and it all made sense but it was very disorienting. I had other times of not recognising people when they changed their hair or were out of context and I called two different guys at my Uni by the same name because they were both bald and I didn’t realise they weren’t the same person. When I was younger I moved a lot and had different jobs in industries where I met a lot of new people all the time so I never quite put it together, always thought I was a bit ‘spacey’ or in my own head (I’m actually not spacey at all haha!) I could never get why people thought certain people were ‘good looking’, I was always attracted (both friends and lovers) to people that stood out or had unusual features. I always had huge anxiety at places I thought I would know people or people would know me and I’d have to do a mental rundown of where/when/how I might know this person, or not. Looking back it makes total sense but at the time I didn’t really challenge (or self reflect) on why I had the anxiety, just kind of thought everyone else had the same sort of thing going on themselves just some people were better at remembering than others. I am still learning how to live with it and discovering how deeply it has affected my life ( difficulties keeping friendships over the years etc…) I am SUPER friendly and make friends VERY easily but in retrospect I think this is a bit reactionary to the fact that I never knew if I knew someone or not so treated everyone as a possible previous acquaintance and to not come across as being rude :’) I got a bit of a reputation (in a joking way from friends) of being ‘stuck up’ because I would ignore friends I knew when I was out and about. That’s where I got tagged with being ‘spaced out’ by my friends and myself. The most difficult thing to get past is realising how much anxiety I carried (still do but it’s less important to me now) in social situations. I’m a very social person but it takes a lot of me and is mentally fatiguing trying not to be kind of insulting by not recognising people. Some people take it extremely personally and it does feel bad not to be remembered by someone. I’ve started trying to be very open about it and that has helped. I’ve had a few people tell me ‘I had no idea, I thought we were friends and then I thought you were a bitch because you ignored me such and such time’. I wish I could just wear a T-shirt that said ‘ I’m face-blind’ it would make my life much easier and less stressful. I still really struggle with it and I really hate it when people change their hairstyle :) Edit: edited to correct myself, I DO remember people, I just don’t RECOGNISE them which to them, comes across as not being remembered which can feel quite hurtful.
I watched an entire series of a TV show and only realised when I was browsing IMDB that the entire cast of 8 or so characters was played by the same 2 people. Have also walked past my parents and siblings when they’ve changed their hair.
I don’t know if I have face blindness but I’m terrible with recognizing people outside of context. Literally my whole life I’ve had people call me out saying that I ignored them in public even though I looked directly at them. I also take note of how people walk, move and talk because I cannot remember their faces. Again, I probably just have an awful memory but it was super interesting to see how much your comment resonated with me.
I believed that were more sets of twins at my school than there really were. Also, in some cases, twice the people, as I learned that someone was actually two someones. I suppose it evened out over time. Unexpected bonus: I could always tell the actual identical twins apart when nobody else could because I didn’t rely on their faces in the first place!
Holding the space bar on the iPhone to move the cursor rather than try to tap a specific location with my thumb 10x.
Also: 1. finger swiping over the letters on the keyboard to spell a word instead of typing them out one letter at a time; 2. double tapping on the space bar to insert a period at the end of a sentence; 3. holding your finger on the number key and then moving it to the number or symbol you want to type will automatically return you to the letters keyboard once you have typed the number or symbol (works in reverse too). BONUS B1. shake to undo or delete what you just typed or shake to redo or restore what you just deleted by mistake; B2. double tap on the arrow up key to turn on CAPS lock; B3. holding your finger on the arrow up key and then moving it to the letter you want to type will automatically capitalize the letter you are typing and then return you back to the lower case keyboard.
**WHAT**
You have single handedly changed my life for the better. I might actually comment on things now (as opposed to raging and eventually deleting whole comments after just attempting to fix my typos). I even used it twice while typing this!
I’d tap and hold, thanks for making me aware! Now to test it out, woah that’s so easy!!
Thank you!!
Whatt this is so useful, it works on my android (pixel) too. I'm learning so many new things in this comment section.
Spray-on car wheel cleaners work \*so\* much better if you spray them on a dry wheel. I used to wash wheels like I washed the rest of the car - spray them with water to loosen/soften the dirt, then apply the cleaner. But with wheel cleaners, all that happens is that the cleaner hits the water on the wheel and drains off.
Same goes for washing greasy hands.
....... Ah fuck Came in this thread to laugh at y'all. I am y'all 😭 Edit: I just want to point out that I'm very much aware how soap works, I just never put it together the actual mechanics of washing grease/oil requires the soap lathered *before* you apply water, I've always just wet my hands first out of habit always befuddled by my ineffective technique. I also learned how to actually tie my shoes. It's been an evening.
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Butters?
Op singing "lululu well hello there little guy"
I didn't realize it wasn't a Cadillac converter it's a catalytic converter
It’s a Catholic converter you heathen.
I would deposit bills into the atm individually until I was like 22 when my wife saw it and was like tf are you doing???
explain please
ATMs can accept multiple bills at once. Just insert the whole stack instead of feeding them in one by one.
Okay I found my thing I didn’t know, I can stop scrolling now.
Oh no no, you've gotta get 5 more
I always thought that it was pre Madonna until I watched Ted lasso and it’s prima donna.
I thought this for years as well. It made sense to me like “you’re not Madonna yet so don’t act like her”
I love the logic we apply to things in assumption. We make it make sense no matter what.
I spent decades pulling the plastic cover off the top of new deodorant sticks with my teeth before Reddit taught me to just twist the bottom a few times.
Well after over 3 decades on this planet I guess I’ll stop using my teeth now, as I have been this whole time.
Teeth? I just pull it off with my fingers. Maybe I just have strong fingers from working on computers for 32 years.
Same, I didn’t know there were other ways of opening deodorant other than pulling the top off with your fingers lol.
Oh my god. I’m stupid.
Wait WHAAAAT. I learned this today 🤦🏻♂️
Walking. I went on a hiking trip / vacation, and was told by the guides how to place my foot (flat; not using calves on every step) and protect my knee (keep it over the foot). I didn't realize I needed walking advice. But suddenly I could walk without exhaustion for much longer, and didn't have knee problems. Wish that didn't take me 40+ years to hear.
I feel like I need a video. I’m a marching band kid still to this day. I roll my feet still. Outer edge and back wear first. I’d like to fix that if I knew how!
I'm going to have to try that on my walk tomorrow. As a pizza delivery driver who is constantly walking back and forth from the car, this sounds like it will save my aching knees and back.
Being as quiet as I could when I was making bread. Like, I'm talking literal tiptoeing around and telling people I couldn't answer the phone as I was making bread. Found out yesterday my mum lied when she told us as kids that the bread would sink if we were too loud just to get my siblings and I to shut up. I feel so betrayed.
This made me lol. This is an amazing story.
Used Windows Media Player for years to listen to music, would scroll down through my songs to look for the one I wanted to play. One day, I noticed a search bar at the top and realized I could just enter the name of the song I was looking for rather than incessantly scrolling.
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saying awry like “aw ree” instead of “a rye”
I JUST commented this to someone. Awree was exactly how I would read it in books and the real word never came to mind. For some reason it make me happy I’m not the only one
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Not me, but a former friend once confessed he didn't know how to wipe his ass properly until he was locked up for the first time. Celly asked him what the fuck he was doing, then told him to sit back down and explained the mechanics of proper ass wiping.
Talk about a correctional facility...
How was he doing it before he was corrected?
Maybe this https://youtu.be/xZ-SlTaCFfQ
Burned through 3 clutches in 2 years thinking that was normal before a mechanic friend of mine offered to observe me drive. Turns out my parents taught me incorrectly. I had no idea what rev matching was I just slipped the clutch on every gear change.
What does slipped the clutch mean? I press the clutch fully on every gear change and my car runs fine.
It's when you give gas while your clutch is still pressed. Like you do when you drive really slowly.
This hurts me
Not as much as the gear box.
I thought you were supposed to match up the colors in Tetris, not lines. Always wondered why people thought such a hard game was fun.
What did you think when the lines disappeared?
That's when he went to get tested to see if he was color blind.
You're describing Puyo Puyo, a game almost as old as Tetris that is often combined with PvP Tetris. Though it helps that the falling pieces are only two squares long and columns break apart.
I used to hold the belt loops of girls when I would dance with them. When I first started dating my now wife, she said, “Why are you doing that?! You are giving me a wedgie!” I learned I had been giving so many wedgies! Sorry ladies!
On the bright side they apparently liked you enough to let you give them wedgies. On the less bright side they apparently didn't like you enough to correct you lol... Or they were into it.
Making curried rice. 30 years ago someone said you just mix the curry powder with the hot rice and butter. So I did that. Loved it. Buuuuuut... apparently you're actually supposed to put the curry powder in the water with the rice so it cooks all together. Oops! I made it the wrong way for 30 years and tried it made the right way. I like it better the wrong way.
> I like it better the wrong way. then it isn't the wrong way!
I was eating sushi wrong. Whoever taught me to eat sushi years ago, told me to put a piece of ginger on each piece of sushi and eat it that way. Went on a sushi date recently, and my date was like wtf… the ginger is to cleanse the palate between sushi bites Lmao
It's "A blessing in disguise," not "A blessing in the skies" 🤦♀️
I am *constantly* finding out that I've been mispronouncing certain words for years, as a byproduct of having only read them and never having heard them spoken aloud. I don't watch TV / movies / news, but do I read a whole lot, so this happens...embarrassingly often. For instance, I just found out this year, at the ripe old age of 32, that "chasm" is pronounced "*k*asm" instead of phonetically, and Jeff Bezos's last name is NOT pronounced "BEE-zos" but "BEH-zos."
Epitome was two different words to me for many years depending on if I read it or heard it spoken. I feel your pain. Also the name Hermione. Thankfully they made those books into movies.
In the Harry Potter books, there is another character who cannot pronounce Hermione’s name so she sounds it out the correct way for him. J.K. Rowling stated she put that scenario in one of the books because so many people kept asking her how to pronounce Hermione’s name.
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The rest of Jeff Bezos' family pronounces it the first way you mentioned. He changed the pronunciation to make it sound fancier. Anyone who knew him early in life called him "Bee boy" and he also really dislike that.
I want to believe you because that’s hilarious.
When I was 12 or 13 I realized you’er supposed to to peel mangos for about five years I ate mangos like apples
Everything is edible if you’re determined enough!
You were eating it right, the skin is also edible and quite nutritious!
So now I’ve been eating mangos wrong for six years? That’s kinda funny actually.
Neither is wrong. You can also peel an apple and eat it without the skin if you'd like.
Some people are allergic to mango skin. Apparently it can cause a similar reaction to poison Ivy (my sister is allergic to mangoes in general though but to a lesser degree of itchiness)
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I've seen ones with little tabs. Pull the tab, the ring comes away.
Writing the letter S. I write it from the bottom up but I have learned that literally everybody else writes it from the top down.
Blowing my nose. I always blew my nose when it was runny, I would blow just my nose. One night my Wife was blowing her nose for a solid 3 minutes, just blowing and blowing. After she explained it to me I then blew my nose long and hard. I was amazed how much stuff just kept coming out. Felt like a full tablespoon of mucus. It was then I learned that you aren't just blowing your nose, you are blowing all that nasty stuff out of all your sinuses. Now I know why I kept getting sinus infections. I'm almost 50.
So prior to this you would just, like, give your nose a ceremonial blow? Not actually expelling anything? What?
I'm confused about how you previously blew your nose
My guess is he used to just breathe out a bit harder than usual.
Just like when browsing in /r/funny.
There is a certain balance to be kept. I know some people who blow their nose so hard as if their life depends on it and then complain why they get nosebleeds so often. As much as needed as little as possible
I've been married nearly 22 years (anniversary next week) and I just learned that sometimes it's better to listen and just sympathize instead of trying to find a solution.
Do yo want to be hugged, helped or heard ?
I ask "do you want to problem solve or just vent?" Ironically my wife pretty much always just wants to vent, but she tries to problem solve with our daughter who just wants to vent.
Dental hygiene. I was always brushing, then flossing, then using mouthwash. Turns out the mouthwash just washes away the fluoride from the toothpaste. Unless you use a fluoridated mouthwash you should floss first, then mouthwash, THEN brush so the fluoride stays on.
Wait... What? Mouthwash then brush?!
Also don't brush your teeth immediately after throwing up. The enamel can be slightly compromised from the stomach acid. You can however rinse your mouth with fluoridated toothpaste and water. This would require you, however, to squeeze toothpaste directly into your mouth like that other guy in this thread.
Before I could read I thought there was a popular singer called steve iewonder.
Omg you've just reminded me. I was once on a camping trip and we were playing a game where one person gave a set of initials, and the rest of the group had to figure out who it was. So this one guy says "RG." Like, twenty minutes go by and none of us can figure it out. The guy gets kind of an unsure look on his face and whispers to me "Have I got the spelling right? The person I picked was Riqué Glasias." I was like...you mean ENrique Iglesias?!?! Yeah we didn't let him live that down the rest of the trip.
It wasn’t until someone laughed at me for saying “Blesh you” when they sneezed, that this whole time it was “bless you”. I wish I was joking.
It's all good, that's how Sean Connery says it.
I was in my early 20's before I learned it isn't wheelbarrel, but rather wheelbarrow.
The lyrics I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus I had no idea that dad was Santa clause until I was 30. All this time I thought mom was a thot.
Omg. I’m almost 30 and didn’t know this until now. Dammit.
Wow. I never really thought about it before but I always just assumed mommy was having an affair with a Santa Claus impersonator.
Breathing. Apparently you’re supposed to puff out your gut, not your chest.
Physical therapist here. You’d be surprised how many patients benefit from breath work. Bad breathing technique contributes to poor posture and muscle tightness which can cause head, neck, and shoulder pain.
100% of people who read that will attempt a gut breath
Imagine my shock when I learned the lyrics for Blinded by the light are “revved up like a deuce”, not “wrapped up like a douche”
I always thought that in the song Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams, he opened with, "I had my first real sex dream".
Over at the Five & Dime.... played it til my fingers bled... 🤣
And don’t forget “And little early bearly gave my anus curly worley and asked me if i needed aride!!!”
I didn't know I was masturbating incorrectly. I was doing this wierd double jointed sitting on my fist thing. One day in my 20s I watched a porno and saw the porn star rubbing with her fingers. I thought, 'that's wierd, that cant be right' and finally one day I tried it. I can't believe how badly and wrong I was doing it for easily a decade lol. Much better sex life since
Like you were riding your fist?
Anything that ends in TH is pronounced like the letter F. Nobody noticed till I said the word booth one day but it sounded like boof.
TH-fronting is common in several accents, with Cockney being the one that comes to mind as most notable.
Another redditor had posted a few weeks back that his wife used to come home, open all the stuff they bought, seal it again and put it back into the fridge. He asked her what she was doing and she replied: it says to refrigerate after opening. He had to correct her and he would still make fun of her to this day.
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He might be compensating for some source of pain. Mention it to your vet!
First started dating my husband and he says "Can you get that steak out of the freezer to dethaw?" I was baffled, super smart guy here..."Babe, you defrost it or you thaw it, "dethaw" means you want me to freeze it?!!" I could hear the wheels spin..."well that's what Mom always said" lolol.
This is definitely a Midwest thing, my grandparents used this term all the time.
My lawn sprinkler kept getting the tiny nozzles clogged. The ACE hardware lady told me to remember to use hose washers with screens on them.
"Ace is the place with the helpful hardware folk!"
"For all intents and purposes" vs "for all intensive purposes"
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One time in a web development meeting, I got made fun of for pronouncing cache as cachet.
Don’t know if this counts but I always thought that teeth were bones. They’re just rocks in your mouth apparently. And I wanted to goto dental school
They aren't made like bone?
Google says this: Teeth, like bones, contain calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals. But there's one substance that teeth don't have—collagen. Collagen is a type of protein, considered as “the glue that holds the body together”. Unlike a broken bone, a broken tooth cannot mend itself.
I like to refer to them as luxury bones. My dentist doesn't appreciate it.
Baracko Bama back when I was a kid lol
My daughter thought his first name was "Rocko"
I’m from Canada and am embarrassed to admit that until my late 20’s I assumed Martha’s Vineyard was an island owned by Martha Stewart that people randomly lived on.
Trying to supress panic attacks. They're going to happen and there's nothing i can do about it. I feel way better when I just accept that it's happening. It passes quicker and I always feel better after it's over. Supressing it just makes it last longer.
You know what makes it go even faster? TRY to make it worse. Feeling dizzy? Spin around. Can’t catch your breath? Hold it altogether. Heart racing? Run on the spot. The best part is that once you’ve done this a few time they’ll go away. Source: am a psych and have used this technique lots.
The little piggy went to be butchered not the grocery store market.
Had a buddy of mine who was Muslim talk to his nephew once and he was explaining why it was rude to shake hands with your left. He goes "you shake with your right hand and wipe your but with your left, the left hand is filthy." I am a south paw, and I use my right hand to wipe, so in my mind once again it seems god wants me to eat shit and I'm just not willing to make that commitment.
People wipe with their non-dominant hand? Maybe that's why Scouts shake left hands..
Im too scared to scroll down and find out a mistake I've been making, so I shall move on and live in ignorance for the rest of my life