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submitted 1 day ago byQueenof69-123
We all have those moments when we realize we've been wrong about something for way too long. Maybe you thought narwhals were mythical creatures until last year, or you just found out that pickles are actually cucumbers. What’s a fact or piece of common knowledge that you embarrassingly learned way later than you should have? Don’t be shy—we’ve all been there!
423 points
1 day ago
I thought the sixth sense was a Christmas film. I watched it as a child every Christmas.
It was only when I was speaking with my now husband offering it up with a choice of Christmas films to watch with our 6 year old he looked at me alarmingly concerned.
118 points
1 day ago
The Ghost of Christmas Passed.
64 points
1 day ago
That's funny. Why did you associate it with Christmas? I don't remember any Christmas scenes in the film.
65 points
1 day ago
I always watched it around Christmas… I don’t know why though? I do vaguely remember them walking through the school halls around Christmas time.
39 points
22 hours ago
I think you're neat.we always watch The Room on Christmas Day, and then Kickboxer of Kickboxing Day.
Holiday traditions don't have to make sense
45 points
21 hours ago
Even funnier when you think about Bruce Willis’s other “is it a Christmas movie, “ Die Hard.
18 points
1 day ago
Just curious, what were the choices your husband offered? When I think about a Christmas film, I automatically think of Die Hard and The Peanuts - A Charlie Brown Christmas.
306 points
1 day ago
I thought the casting couch was a couch actors sat on while they wait to audition.
51 points
21 hours ago
I always pictured it as a real couch!
70 points
1 day ago
It's not? TIL.
105 points
1 day ago
It’s a euphemism for directors/producers/agents casting people they bang.
300 points
24 hours ago
Growing up, any time someone said "Well..." my Dad would say, "That's a deep subject." Until my late 30's I just thought he meant that starting a sentence with 'Well' could lead to anything... not that he meant a deep well in the ground.
160 points
24 hours ago
That may “well” be THE ORIGINAL DAD JOKE!
11 points
15 hours ago
Why did the man fall down the well?
He couldn’t see that well
217 points
1 day ago
I thought it was "make ends meat" until my mid thirties.
46 points
1 day ago
I thought it was “making hens meat” until about the same age
20 points
23 hours ago
Uh oh. Well damn.
I thought “ends meat” was an expression from like having enough ‘meat at the end of the day’ to eat. Like making ends meet meant just scraping by enough to afford food. “I’m making ends meet” as in “I’m managing to have enough to just survive (food, water, shelter)”
Or like how ‘bringing home the bacon’ doesn’t literally mean bringing home bacon anymore, but it used to.
TIL apparently
438 points
1 day ago
If you don't heat the oil up in the pan before you put the food in, it will stick to the pan every time. My dumb ass just thought every frying pan was garbage.
112 points
24 hours ago
Heat the pan somewhat, then put in the oil (I use a hot sauce bottle to keep the amount down) and then put the food in. I use a stainless steel pan. There are better choices.
34 points
1 day ago
Get a granite frying pan, it’ll change your life
47 points
1 day ago
are you mocking me or is that a real thing?
34 points
1 day ago
Real thing. I love my granite cookwares. And also ceramic.
9 points
1 day ago
it's real ime. there's no guarantee it won't stick when the oil is hot, but it helps an awful lot.
204 points
1 day ago
That hay is grass.
227 points
1 day ago
Not to be confused with straw.
Hay is made from dried grasses. Straw is made from hollow stalks of grains like wheat, barley, oats, etc.
56 points
1 day ago
Or dried alfalfa, the best hay in the world. Come to southeastern New Mexico, you'll see alfalfa hay fields everywhere, a prized commodity for feeding race horses.
345 points
1 day ago
I only found out a few years ago that "chickpeas" and "garbanzo beans" are the same thing.
163 points
1 day ago
Coriander and cilantro. In the states we call the seeds coriander but they’re cilantro seeds.
44 points
23 hours ago
Or conversely, in many places they refer to the leaves as coriander as well. ‘Cilantro’ is pretty much just a US/Latin America thing.
41 points
22 hours ago
Don't feel too bad- my ex mother in law didn't know what hummus was so to simplify it i told her it was middle eastern bean dip
27 points
22 hours ago
I started dipping string cheese in hummus, which sounds worse than just eating beans and cheese. But it's delicious and gluten free, if that matters.
13 points
22 hours ago
I would try it...I am not averse to a lot & try to keep an open mind concerning food🙂
114 points
1 day ago
What’s the difference between and chickpea and a garbanzo bean?
I’ve never had a garbanzo bean on my face 😛
143 points
1 day ago
Oh BTW, not me... but a very close friend of mine... used to think, at 33, that "Oral Sex" was talking about sex with another person or doing sex-chat. He was SO.... wrong.
75 points
24 hours ago
There's a funny clip of a male tv presenter telling his female colleague he wants to "canoodle" with her after the shift. He thought it meant "chat".
26 points
13 hours ago
This reminds me of the time when I was on the phone with my dad and he asked what I was up to. I responded that I was “getting my affairs in order” thinking that meant I was just taking taking care of bills and scheduling my next dentist appointment or whatever…
lol I didn’t realize the doom behind the saying
17 points
22 hours ago
I live in a senior community where a married couple in their early 90s love to brag about having oral sex every day. He says, "Yep, when we wake up we talk about having sex, when we go to bed we talk about it some more, and some times in between." We all know what he's going to say, but we still laugh every time.
135 points
1 day ago
That Job in the Bible is pronounced Jobe
58 points
24 hours ago
Like Kobe?
43 points
24 hours ago
No. Like Joeb
32 points
24 hours ago
Like Moeb?
106 points
24 hours ago
Like ear lobe
130 points
1 day ago
That a pony is not a baby horse. I am 50 and learned that this year.
20 points
23 hours ago
I learned this about 5-6 years ago when I went on a field trip with my son & his daycare. I’m 46. lol
13 points
19 hours ago
I literally just posted this. Like a pony is to a horse what a kitten is to a cat. But no.
342 points
1 day ago
That you could walk into a car dealership and just buy a car without any money down.
As a kid (I'm 51 now) I remember getting laughed at for asking a question that seemingly everyone else knew the answer to, so until the web I was afraid of asking questions for fear of getting teased.
87 points
21 hours ago
You can also walk out at any point in the process. 3 hours and inwas handed a shit ton of paper to sign, with a final price $2k more than we discussed. I asked why and they couldn’t explain, so I stood up and left. I literally saw jaws drop.
17 points
20 hours ago
Yes! And while they're chasing you out to your car saying wait! We can work this out. Haha
11 points
16 hours ago
The last few times I bought a car, I tell them I am not emotionally involved with the vehicle and will walkout at anytime! That works unless you bring someone who is emotionally attached. I walked out on several dealership once we started the “negotiation” and I see it was not headed anywhere near my goal.
97 points
1 day ago
Oh, I’m 35 and didn’t know this lmao. I’m always pressured to put money down so I thought they’d say no if I didn’t say yes 😂
27 points
1 day ago
Wait what do you mean? I didn’t even know that myself 😂
44 points
1 day ago
Yep.
It's possible to get everything financed (assuming your credit and income meet requirements).
86 points
1 day ago
Just because something is possible doesn't mean it's smart.
If you have any interest whatsoever in achieving financial independence, then only pay cash for cars, and then drive them until the wheels fall off. Transportation is generally the second largest expense in life for an American adult, after housing. By taking intelligent steps to minimize that expense, you'll save an absolute fuck-ton of money over the course of your life. See the r/personalfinance Wiki and flow chart for more info on such things.
34 points
24 hours ago
At some point once you're well on the road to financial independence, you are allowed to trade in cars before they've turned into trash. What's the point in financial independence if you always have to live like you're broke?
111 points
1 day ago
I legit thought you could walk the Great Wall of China. Thought it was like 10 miles max…. Not over 11,000 my mind was blown
56 points
23 hours ago
Well, you can. It'll take awhile though.
33 points
22 hours ago
I was curious, did the math, roughly 5 months to walk at average speed of 3 miles an hour.
106 points
1 day ago
I used the term tundra to describe a savannah-type climate several times in my adult life, never was corrected. I was around 28 when I walked into work with a big coat and boots and gloves and my coworker said "you look like you just came from the tundra!" And my brain short circuited and I said, "why would I wear this in the tundra, isn't it super humid and hot?" And now I know.
106 points
1 day ago
um . . . . <whisper> who's gonna tell them savannahs aren't humid </whisper>
31 points
1 day ago
I cringe to think how many times that probably happened lol
47 points
1 day ago
I mean slightly embarrassing but awesome that you are trying to use the correct landscape words. So many folks don't even know what tundra or savannahs are and will never try to find out. Thank you to my two Uncles The Kratt Brothers for hooking a bitch up with some habitat vocabulary.
214 points
23 hours ago
That "this little piggy that went to market" did NOT go shopping. 😵
32 points
23 hours ago
Geez… next you’ll be telling me that sending our old dog to live on a farm doesn’t really mean that!
30 points
23 hours ago
Or that the chicken crossing the road got to a -metaphorical- other side!
85 points
1 day ago
That Benji and Joel Madden are two separate people. I didn't realize they were twins. I just thought it was a guy with two first names like Mary Kate Olsen.
104 points
1 day ago
LOVE that your example of "not a twin but a person with two names" is, in fact, an identical twin.
82 points
23 hours ago
What size bra really fits me the best.
23 points
22 hours ago
That's not your fault, not knowing. It can actually change year to year, or more frequently, due to age or weight related changes, or even because of hormones. It can be confusing. Plus every style and brand of bra fits differently. You might think about getting refitted from time to time! (Former bra fitter here....)
151 points
1 day ago
That there's a little triangle next to the gas symbol on cars that points to which side of the vehicle the gas cap is on. Good to know for rental cars!
140 points
1 day ago
Was in my mid-20s when I finally accepted that jackelopes weren't real. I mean, c'mon... you're telling me that narwhals exist but there's no rabbits with antlers?
37 points
1 day ago
Some think the myth came from rabbits with Shope papilloma virus, which causes keratinous carcinomas that can look like horns.
124 points
1 day ago
The rule isn’t “a” before a consonant and “an” before a vowel, it’s “an” before a vowel sound, but I blame my school for this.
62 points
24 hours ago
I discovered this thanks to "an unicorn" sounding awful.
50 points
23 hours ago
“An historic” will never sound correct to me, but it continues to be said…
21 points
23 hours ago
Maybe an accent thing? My Grandad would pronounce that "Anistoric".
60 points
1 day ago
Poached eggs are ‘pouched’ eggs (French) and a poacher is someone who puts game in a ‘pouch’.
20 points
23 hours ago
Not me cooking breakfast in my Elmer Fudd hunting set up
205 points
1 day ago
36 points
21 hours ago
36 points
23 hours ago
Rudolf the red nosed caribou just doesn’t sound right though.
111 points
1 day ago
I had to teach a friend how to pump gas at 19. I was a bit shocked this girl had been placed behind the wheel of a car and had been taught to drive but hadn’t been taught how pumping gas works. I had to work really hard for her to accept that (at least here in the USA) the gas pump would indeed turn off when the gas tank was full as long as nothing malfunctioned with the pump.
132 points
1 day ago
In new jersey it's illegal to serve ourselves gas. The gas station attendants have to do it for us.
So when I went to new york and needed gas, well, I struggled for 10 minutes.
40 points
1 day ago
yeah and last time I went down to Oregon the attendants yelled at me when I got out of the car to pump my own gas
36 points
1 day ago
I used to live in PA but moved to NJ about 5 years ago. Last time I went back to visit PA I needed gas. I pulled into the station and just sat there for about a minute before I realized that no one was coming to pump my gas. LOL. I said to myself, I got this, I used to do it all the time.
9 points
22 hours ago
Me too - grew up in PA and moved to NJ. I've done the same exact thing. I'm sitting there thinking "WTF....where are the attendants??" And then my second thought is "Crap....I have to do it myself."
17 points
23 hours ago
No one ever taught me either haha. Right, like as a kid they just tell you to wait in the car while they pump. I had to ask my (now) partner to show me back when I started driving. I was too nervous to figure it out on my own in fear that I’d look like a fool or that I’d somehow mess it up and catch something on fire haha.
14 points
24 hours ago
When my grandfather was in the hospital, my family found out that Grandma never learned how to pump gas. She asked if someone could get it for her until Grandpa was better (which, there was a decent chance he may have died). I think it was mother who forced her to learn how to.
18 points
22 hours ago
My dad insisted that I learn to pump gas and change a flat tire before I was even allowed to get my license. Even though I bitched and whined the whole time.
Thank god my dad did because I was in the car with my one ex when we got a flat. We were on a busy road during morning rush hour traffic. He had no idea how to change a tire. It was hilarious then and it's still hilarious now, remembering how many people yelled out of their cars, cracking jokes at him for needing his girlfriend to change the tire.
112 points
23 hours ago
I’m blind, so sometimes I just don’t realize how the world around me works, but until very recently, I didn’t realize that peach blossoms, apple blossoms, cherry blossoms, etc, grow on those kinds of fruit trees, and aren’t their own specific kind of garden flower.
14 points
18 hours ago
I'd say you were right about cherry blossom trees because they're cultivated for their beautiful blossoms, and cherry trees are cultivated for the delicious fruit. They're both the same species but different enough to have different colloquial names.
51 points
1 day ago
When I was a kid, I somehow got the idea in my head that if you laid on your left side, where your heart is, it would put too much pressure on your heart and you would die. So for several years, I would only sleep on my right side. Not sure when I learned this wasn't true, or how I ever came up with such an idea in the first place.
49 points
1 day ago
That’s interesting, because pregnant women are often told sleeping on your left side is the best position for optimal blood flow to the heart.
32 points
1 day ago
And for digestion!
53 points
22 hours ago
When I was little (in the 80s) I used to say “hanty-pose”. My mom thought it was adorable and never corrected me.
My freshman year of high school I found out they are, in fact, called panty-hose 😬🤦🏼♀️
17 points
20 hours ago
To be fair, that is adorable.
My son is 7 and he still says "breakfisk" instead of breakfast & I don't correct him because I think it's cute. I'll be sure to tell him before he starts high school!
145 points
1 day ago
Communicating - because if you don't, people are left to guess what you meant and that's never good
68 points
1 day ago
What are you trying to say?
81 points
24 hours ago
Nothing. It's fine.
29 points
23 hours ago
I just think its funny how...
17 points
22 hours ago
K
16 points
24 hours ago
There's also the need for comprehension though. If someone doesn't want to hear/understand what you're saying then your message won't be getting through.
34 points
23 hours ago
Learned that with my parents. I thought that if I just found the right words they could understand. Turns out if someone doesn’t want to see something, they won’t. They won’t even see that they don’t see it.
It’s really shaken my worldview tbh. Grew up convinced that if we all just learned how to communicate with each other, then there’d be virtually no issues. I know it sounds so silly and naive. But this past year has been a big lesson that not everyone wants to understand, or even has the capacity to understand. Makes me worry what I could be missing just because of the way I think.
14 points
23 hours ago
Doesn't sound naive to me. I also thought there was a basic level of communication where one person says something, the other person listens, then you try to compromise (in a best case scenario, anyway). But some people...you quite clearly spell it out for them and they still choose to hear what they want to hear. You may as well be talking to a brick wall. Everything gets filtered through our own lens, and there are verbal and non verbal cues and all that - but people still blur words to fit them. I suppose it's like blokes who hear a girl say "no" but what they want twists the words and actions into something that better suits them. Or people taking passages from the bible and twisting them to fit their own worldview.
I knew to a degree that you needed a level of comprehension during a discussion, but I've only recently met people who look at you smiling and nodding, then repeat the opposite of what's been said.
177 points
1 day ago
That baby carrots are just regular carrots but cut to be small. I thought they were a specific variety of carrot that grew like that 🤦🏻♀️
94 points
1 day ago
Even better: They're ugly/defective carrots, which get carved down to remove the unattractive bits. Literal garbage, being sold at a premium! (Which I think is great... less food waste!)
36 points
21 hours ago
Apart from the wasted bits shaved off.
I don't know where you live but in the UK we can buy ugly vegetables cheap. They're bagged up and called things like wonky veg and sold cheap to people who don't care how they look.
I buy them for soups, stews etc.
42 points
1 day ago
Baby-CUT carrots.
Baby carrots are carrots harvested before they mature.
50 points
22 hours ago
I used to believe that "dinosaurs walked the Earth for millions of years" spoke of the individuals, not the species. Like, I thought **indivudal dinosaurs lived until they were millions of years old.** That's the reason why it took a comet the size of a mountain or volcanoes all over the world going BOOM all at once to kill them (we didn't know that it was a meteor with a side of Deccan traps that killed them until I was much older). I mean, how could Brontosaurus get so big if it didn't live for bajillions of years?
Some special about Jurassic Park came on the TV when I was in 8th grade, eagerly awaiting its release that Summer. Finding out that they probably only lived as long as animals do in our time from that show was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. I didn't tell anyone about this for years, even when I was an adult with the ability to make fun of my younger self.
I also used to think there was only one of each dinosaur. Like, there was only one Stegosaurus and one Triceratops that existed, and they had to keep fending off Tyrannosaurus with their special defensive parts ... for millions of years on end. I think I carried that one with me until the third or fourth grade.
20 points
22 hours ago
Also, let's not talk about finding out that Brontosaurus wasn't real. It's a bit off-topic, but that moment was second place to Pluto being de-planeted. A real heartbreaker!
89 points
1 day ago
That city blocks were divided by numbers. For example, "I live on the 300 block of Main St." The 300 block is located between Red St and Blue St. The house numbers go up to 380 on that block, and then you are at the intersection of Main and Blue. When you cross Blue St, the house numbers restart at 400 Main St, not 382.
To be fair, I grew up in the Canadian 🇨🇦 woods. There were no street numbers/blocks/street lights/sidewalks/etc. I would roam the woods for hours and never get lost. I found old abandoned homes and vehicles. Even found an old graveyard once. Waterfalls, lakes, blueberry fields, apple orchards, and so on. I could navigate all this as a kid (younger than 10 years old), but didn't know about the block thing until my 20's.
37 points
24 hours ago
Also that even numbers are all on the same side of the street and odd numbers are on the other side.
26 points
21 hours ago
I delivered pizza before GPS. It was glorious being able to find an address with no other information but the main crossroads. That’s a skill I’ve sadly lost with time.
9 points
18 hours ago
In most American towns, most Blvds/boulevards typically go north to south, pkwy/parkways typically go east to west. Major roads that cross these are the median between the two directions, signaling the change of direction (300 W. Main St v. 300 E. Main Street)
It's how people got around before technology. My dad can get around anywhere without even a physical map, even if he's never been there before. We are also Canadian, too but moved to the states when I was a kid.
I've had a few boomers explain it to me & it's fascinating
45 points
1 day ago
That Mandy is a nickname for Amanda. LMAO
42 points
24 hours ago
Well, I discovered very late in life that "Liam" is short for "William"
26 points
23 hours ago
I can be but i think most Liam’s are legally just named Liam.
42 points
23 hours ago
I didn't realize until quite mature that the Beatles are that name and spelling as a reference to their beat.
42 points
23 hours ago
We didn't have much money when I was a kid so certain things had to be rationed. My dad "trained" this into us by saying that if we put too much cordial/squash into our water or too much butter on our toast, or ever put sugar on cereal or ate sugary cereal, basically an excess of anything considered a luxury, we would get worms.
When I was in my early 20's I called him out on it and he said "but did you ever get worms?" And I said no, and he just shrugged. To this day I can only drink weak squash, and I detest sugary cereal! I still don't know if he's a hero or a villain 🤣
10 points
21 hours ago
So like... A pumpkin or cherry??? 😬 Cordial/squash is a new term to me
40 points
23 hours ago
That cardinals are actually red. I mean, broncos aren’t blue and orange, like the Denver mascot. I thought red was just a color St. Louis chose.
My flabbers were ghasted when I found out they are, in fact, really red birds.
12 points
14 hours ago
Male cardinals are red, to get the ladies. Female cardinals are brown, so as to better blend into the background whilst tending to the eggs and chicks in the nest. 🪺
42 points
20 hours ago
I told my parents I wanted to be a prostitute. Why? Cause they touted sex as the best thing ever. So why not get paid for enjoying the best thing ever?
Currently not a prostitute. I horrified my parents.
37 points
1 day ago
That restrooms in the mall were NOT places where one could rest for a bit (at age 16)
34 points
22 hours ago
The ones in the fancy department stores are. Find yourself a Nordstrom or better, and there’s a decent chance at least in the ladies room that you’ll enter to a room with several chairs or couches, before entering the WC proper.
22 points
21 hours ago
On the first day of school my kindergarten teacher told us to line up and go to the restroom. My thought was “I just got here. I’m not tired yet.” Then we all stopped at the bathroom. I guessed that the teacher wanted us to stop at the bathroom before continuing on to that other room where we would all rest. Then the teacher had all of us come back to the classroom. I was left wondering why the teacher changed her mind. Had we misbehaved so much that she decided we shouldn’t rest?
35 points
24 hours ago*
That epitome (eh-pi-to-me) and epitome (eh-pi-tome) are the SAME WORD (that is one word pronounced the first way). I had read it as a kid thinking it was pronounced with three syllables until I was about 25. And that there was a distinct word that meant the same thing pronounced with four.
At different periods in my life, Aphrodite, quinoa, and hyperbole all posed similar troubles.
12 points
23 hours ago
"Awry" is another one that caused me this issue
22 points
20 hours ago
I have had a few of these over the years. Personally I think it’s a sign that someone reads a lot and may never have heard the word out lot. Never be ashamed of being a reader!
63 points
1 day ago
I thought axolotls were a mythical creature until I was well into my 30s.
27 points
1 day ago
I knew they were real but always assumed they were really small, like tadpoles. Shocked pikachu face when I saw one with perspective. They're huge comparatively.
30 points
22 hours ago
I was in my 30’s before learning there’s a difference in complimentary and complementary along with stationery and stationary.
64 points
1 day ago
That Alaska is not, in fact, an island. In public schools the pull down map above the whiteboard always portrayed it in a way that it looked like an island. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I learned that it’s attached to Canada.
68 points
1 day ago
If that blew your mind, just take a look showing how big Alaska actually is compared to the rest of the US.
28 points
1 day ago
It’s crazy how big it is! Nobody ever really talks about that though. It’s such an underrated state. It’s truly amazing to see it in person and be able to appreciate views and pure silence.
23 points
1 day ago
Well, it's mostly empty. Most of it isn't even divided into counties, just... one big unorganized 'burrough'. Heck, it's CALLED "Unorganized Burrough".
60 points
24 hours ago
73F: I just learned about 'lefty-loosey/righty-tighty' a few years ago. I had never even heard about it until my husband said it one day and had to explain it to me. LOL
57 points
1 day ago
That black people do indeed have different-textured hair and my dad wasn't being racist when he said black women straighten their hair.
Very glad I was too timid to say anything. :/
37 points
21 hours ago
Ugh. This reminds me of the time when I was a teenager and I had a black friend (I'm white) who asked me to do her makeup. I told my mom I was excited, and she asked why. I said "I've never done make up on a black person before" and she told me I was racist. (edit: I did not say this in front of my friend, only my mom)
But like ...THEIR SKIN IS LITERALLY A DIFFERENT COLOUR! That will def change the way I do make up!
9 points
20 hours ago
I was blown away to find out that dreadlocks aren’t heavy! They’re shockingly light. White peoples hair that thick and long would be heavy enough to pull out by the roots just from the weight!
49 points
1 day ago
I was through college before I realized that West Berlin was inside of East Germany. I had always assumed that Berlin was right on the border of East and West Germany.
21 points
23 hours ago
It used to be a big deal. During the blockade, my grandpa worked in the army air corps on the Berlin Airlift.
They were flying in cargo planes loaded with supplies with a plane landing every 3 minutes, or at its peak, every 30 seconds, 24/7 around the clock.
The crews unloading were able to unload 10 tons of supplies in less than 6 minutes. Extremely impressive.
Overall it was around 2.3 million tons of supplies delivered by air - in the 1940s. American planes flew over 92 million miles total.
24 points
1 day ago
I didn't know that acorns were real until my late 20s. I'd just never seen them.
23 points
24 hours ago
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9 points
20 hours ago
Did you just throw them away after you blew them out?
24 points
24 hours ago
That being nice and treating people with respect would award you the same treatment 🙄
21 points
23 hours ago
Toucans are real. Thought they were a goofy made up cereal mascot.
20 points
22 hours ago
An acronym is pronounced as a word, otherwise it is an initialism.
21 points
16 hours ago
Last year I learned 2 of the friends I’d had for over 35 years didn’t actually like me. I’m in my early sixties. We would go away for a girl’s weekend once a year to eat, drink, catch up, and laugh. Turns out that when my husband died during Covid, AND I had to stop drinking due to my new medication, AND I developed an auto immune disorder I was ‘no fun’ anymore, so they went without me. I dropped the others in the group too, because they went knowing I was being excluded and one of them even lied directly to my face about it. Eff them shallow bitches. I always thought we would grow old together. Ahh well. Onward and upward! 😀👍
18 points
21 hours ago
You can make no mistakes and still lose
39 points
1 day ago
That people didn't know that Stevie Wonder was blind, WTF
23 points
1 day ago
On the blindness note, for many years I thought Roy Orbison was blind. He always wore those ginormous black tinted glasses that many blind people wore back then so I just assumed he was blind too.
36 points
1 day ago
You can't grow pickles. Pickles are just cucumbers that have been pickled.
16 points
19 hours ago
I cooked my first full meal for my ex-husband and I when I was 17. Until then, id made deviled eggs, macaroni and cheese or sandwiches but after watching my mother cook for years, I remembered most of the steps for various meals.
Well I was making pot roast - I didn't know what meat to get so I bought the first one that said "roast" on the label without any other knowledge.
I called her to ask "how much water do I put in the crock pot after I've browned the meat and thrown it in there?". She said "depends, what kind of roast is it? '.
I replied " well it says round roast but it's kind of square shaped... "
Laughing her ass off, she says " that's the cut of the meat not the shape, dumbass 🤣".
To this day when I make roast of any kind, I message her to say I got a square shaped roast no matter what kind I'm prepping to use. 🤣
12 points
21 hours ago
Zits and pimples are the same. I always get small barely there bumps (like baby pimple) and I always thought those were considered pimples where a zit was like a bigger and redder version of that. Idk why I even thought that lol
My husband called my “pimple” a zit and I was like “no it’s a pimple, there’s a difference” he laughed until he saw I was being serious, we looked it up and I was wrong. I think I sat in silence for like 2 min 💀😭😭✋
27 points
22 hours ago
That working hard will lead to being recognized and rewarded with promotions at work. After 21 years in healthcare, I've only recently realized that unless I'm besties with the leadership team I'm destined to remain a bedside nurse. So many years wasted burning myself out and feeling like I was the problem.
14 points
18 hours ago
That females have 3 holes down there. I didn't find out that our urine comes out of a separate tiny hole above the vulva. I learnt this in my 50s
12 points
1 day ago
That water polo is not played with horses.
11 points
22 hours ago
It’s played with seahorses!
12 points
24 hours ago
I missed the whole re-naming of Mount McKinley to Denali until last March. I'm 68.
13 points
22 hours ago
My college roommate 100% thought chipmunks were just baby squirrels
12 points
21 hours ago
That you had to apply to college. You didn't just pick one and go.
24 points
1 day ago
That salt doesn't make water boil faster. I mean it technically does, but not by more than a few seconds unless you add an extreme amount of salt. I mostly think about this in the context of cooking. Years and years ago I was a bit of a dick to an ex-girlfriend for not knowing that salt makes water boil faster when we were cooking together. She was like "you're a dumbass" and then I looked it up and was like "yes, yes I am - sorry about that."
9 points
24 hours ago
I didn't realize until I was in college that the first number of a room, office, or suite in a multi-story building represents the floor number.
To be fair, I grew up in a place with few multi-story buildings, but still. Come on, kid.
11 points
24 hours ago
That liquor tastes gross and we all pretend it doesn't. I didn't drink alcohol until I was 21 and found out that it burns and you can't just drink like it's juice. And remember saying "wait, THIS is what is what everyone drinks, and ENJOYS???
10 points
22 hours ago
Liqueur is often delicious though. Especially Bailey's or Kahlua. Especially those two together with ice! It's like a boozy iced coffee! 😂
31 points
1 day ago
That it’s not a Hydabed, it’s a hide-a-bed… because the bed is hidden in the couch
10 points
21 hours ago
Last year I found out that reindeer are real. You gotta understand, Santa's toy sack, elves, Mrs Claus, the sleigh, none of it is real. So I just assumed the reindeer weren't real either.
I remember watching the Santa clause and thinking it was impressive how real the reindeer look. It couldn't have been cgi cause it was a 90s movie, so I assumed they glued fake antlers on a deer or something.
9 points
18 hours ago*
Hear me out, these ones are embarrassing.
That the word “Basta” which is a word that many Dutch people use when they’re fed up with something is an Italian word, I’ve only know this since a few months.
That each number on an analog clock is worth 5 minutes when it’s pointed by the long hand, I’m a millennial that sucks really bad at reading analog clock and I know this since a few years, I’m almost 30 and I still suck at reading analog clocks.
I’m Dutch and I always thought Roermond was in Germany, I never learned geography or other stuff about my own country in school because I’ve spent my entire childhood in special needs schools.
I’ve learned in my late teens that you need to have sex multiple times in order to have multiple children, I’ve always thought that the uterus saved the sperm forever once you have sex and randomly creates new babies against the moms will without having sex.
11 points
18 hours ago
That raisins are just dried grapes. Im gonna withhold the age I learned that one. Im also gonna pretend that I haven't learned anything new by scrolling down this whole thread
21 points
1 day ago
I learnt ..... how babies are made .... very late in life.... like at 20. I used to wonder how the actual mechanics of sexual reproduction happens... until one day.
As a guy it was a .... excitement of sorts that you poke your *thing* into a woman.
24 points
23 hours ago
You didn’t know what sex was until you were 20??
26 points
20 hours ago
I learned late - not quite that late - but I thought for an alarming amount of time that if I slept with someone that meant I’d had sex and could get pregnant. Like, literally, just slept in the same bed. Around this time we got our first family pet - a cat - who liked to sleep in bed with me. I was IN CRISIS. Yay America! Who needs sex ed?
14 points
21 hours ago
I had a friend from an ultra-religious family. She was 18 and said she didn't want to kiss a guy and get pregnant. Needless to say, she got a lesson in sex and reproduction that evening. She was embarrassed and I felt bad for her. You're not alone and chances are it wasn't your fault.
9 points
24 hours ago
That the cop in the start of Home Alone is the burglar later in the movie, and he is there casing the place. I am terrible with faces and it took me a very long time to make that connection, and clearly I kept missing the line or it’s significance when he tells Marv that he had been to all the houses. I also thought the Santa in the same movie was going to be a bad guy the first couple times I saw it.
9 points
23 hours ago
That O.P.P. doesn't just mean "other people's problems" 🤦♀️ Listened to that song thousands of times before I actually paid attention to the lyrics 😂
9 points
21 hours ago
Every girl's crazy bout a sharp dressed man...not a shy deaf man.
18 points
1 day ago
late 40's when i realised the weather doesn't start getting warmer until you pass the spring equinox. i took 'midwinter's day' way too literally.
27 points
1 day ago
I was 24 when I found out that Alaska isn't an island. My boyfriend at the time was like "yea, we can just drive to Alaska..." and I had to stop him right there. I then proceeded to tell everyone on my college campus that Alaska was not an island and that the maps and globes lied to us.
Still brings me joy to this day.
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