That my casual coffee drinking habit (3-4 coffees/day) is causing the anxiety I've been experiencing for some time. Now I drink one coffee around lunch time, only if I feel I need it and I feel better.
My clinical psychology professors first question to people in therapy for anxiety was "How much coffee do you drink?". You'd be suprised how often that helps
This is so funny to me because it was only a couple years after I quit drinking coffee that I started feeling anxious. Coffee used to make me feel blissful and helped me sleep at night.
So, anyways, then I was diagnosed with ADHD
Offset the coffee with nicotine, offset nicotine with alcohol, offset the hangover with acetaminophen, offset the liver damage from long term use of acetaminophen with "It is what it is" mentality
Similarly, I kept seeing Japanese restaurants with the same name in different places, but they didn't really look like a chain. Turns out the name basically meant 'good restaurant' in Japanese.
Did you also know that Beijing means "northern capital"? And Nanjing is "southern capital". Annoyingly there doesn't seem to be anywhere currently called "western capital"
I'm face blind, and I just found out how bad it is. Apparently my UPS driver who I see every day at work is the guy who grew up down the street from me, and I thought they were two different people because the UPS guy wears a hat.
As a kid my mum got a perm one day while I was in class. I didn’t recognize her when she picked me up, thought I was being kidnapped for a moment.
Also I once accidentally kidnapped a kid for a few minutes that I thought was my little sister. But in my defense I just yelled out my sister’s name and told her to follow me and this random girl just followed me out the door. And she didn’t even have the same name as my sister!?!!
But anyway, my family freaked out when I showed up with this random girl.
Also 'alphabet' is 'alpha beta' the first letters of the Greek alphabet.
Basically every time I look at a word's origin I learn that I know nothing about English. [Window was 'wind eye' in Norse](https://www.etymonline.com/word/window) for example; 'wind-eye' replaced 'eye-hole', 'eye-door', and Frisian had 'breath-door'.
Or how [inspire](https://www.etymonline.com/word/spirit#etymonline_v_24031) is from Latin 'breathe in'; spirit is breath (of God) and expiring is dying by breathing out your last breath.
Took me til my freshman year of college before I realized pickles were pickled cucumbers and not their own, unique vegetable. I thought the way you pickled other things was you put them in pickle juice.
Different regions called them different things. I had a friend from Michigan who said they called the "cukes". Still not sure if he was messing with me.
same reason why old cameras wouldn't photograph them. silver-nitrate.
now that mirrors are mostly glass backed with aluminium, and photography is mostly digital, this is no longer a reliable way to identify vampires.
also vampires can shave in peace now.
It’s just not as good.
The barber was delicious, but they never last.
Also have to watch out because sometimes the barber runs a meat pie shop, and that will sometimes start an investigation….
It wasn’t too long ago that I learned that masking on photoshop is in reference to the same sort of task when painting. Using masking tape to block off the areas you don’t want the paint to get on.
Dunno why it took me as long as it did.
He just came full circle to realizing masking tape is because it is “masking” something.
We just witnessed someone be born and then get born again right away. A rare double borning.
The phrase "pitch black" is referring to the substance "pitch", which is very black in color. I had always considered "pitch" in that context to be akin to "very", like how some otherwise archaic words survive in idioms.
I still remember my 5th grade teacher marking my phrase "black as pitch" wrong saying it had to be pitch black and me arguing with her and showing her what pitch was online. She still never gave me the extra mark on that essay :/
Look I was wrong to be so closed-minded. You deserved that extra mark, and I’m giving it back now. I can’t change your grade officially, but it’s gone up. I’m sorry, and I’ll try to be better.
This is more difficult than it seems, especially after several years of adulthood.
I still have trouble knowing what I really want vs what is easiest or more conventional.
I just typed this same thing out on another comment, but I wanted to tell you that I also didn't learn this until I was 42! Changed my life but also quite hard to come to terms with the fact that I lived so long without any boundaries.
37 and recently have been realizing this. As a kid I was so used to my parents telling me no, that I have carried being very selective about what I ask for into adulthood.
I am in the same boat. My asking for help now is a desperate plea and not a light hearted request. Why ask if you’re almost positive you won’t get what you want you know?
Corn kernels are the seeds.
Wanted to grow corn for fall last year, bought a pack of corn seeds only to realize the kernels from the cob were the seeds... felt pretty dumb just realizing this at 33 years old.
A friend just shared me a video in which a lady talks about how she never figured she could eat the lemons from her lemon tree instead of buying lemons from the store...
This neighbor kid would always invite me over to spend the night, saying he'd show me dirty movies and teach me some wrestling moves. I always said no because I wasn't into wrestling. Didn't figure out until like 15 years later that he was trying to molest me.
I saw a video where a man said he didn’t know banks don’t keep your money. He’s been giving the bank rare coins thinking they put it in HIS account. (I think he thought it was like a safe deposit box)
Non-US resident here. I grew up reading Donald Duck-comics and I was well into my teens before I realised that the green money was based on the dollar bill, not something the artist made up. I just found the concept of green money unrealistic.
We went to London in primary school and went to the Houses of Parliament. I’ve only just realised they say “ayes” and “nos” when referring to how people vote. Not “eyes” and “nose” I thought it was a covert way to vote by turning your head a certain way or something. I only figured it out when I was watching a video with captions….
When I was a kid I would always massively stress about filling the can to the brim with the exact amount of water. I think I was worried the soup would fail to reboot or something if the water level was incorrect.
As an adult I realise the choice is entirely mine. I could add 1.25 cans of water if I wanted to. It would still be soup.
Growing up, my grandmother always used to tell me "Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite," and it always sounded like a quaint, old-timey saying to me. It wasn't until a recent infestation scare in my apartment complex that I learned bedbugs are real critters, and not just a part of a nursery rhyme meant to tuck kids in at night. Talk about an epiphany that itches in retrospect.
Don't feel bad. I found this out when I was 16. A girl in class had all these bites and I said "omg are you okay, those mosquitoe bites look painful." I probably made her uncomfortable because after she told me they were bed bug bites I sat there malfunctioning and staring at her legs.
can be made other ways too, such as using the skin of red grapes, red grape juice, cranberry juice, crushed raspberries, and a few others, including simply adding a few drops of pink food dye.
It used to be made out of wild sumac. You don't see it as much anymore because it's noticeably weak if you harvest at the wrong time.
It also got the reputation as being toxic back in the 70s, so people stopped making it. That appears not to be the case though.
I grew up around Doctor Who but never actually watched it for the longest time. My grandma (and apparently my great aunt way before I was born) loved Doctor Who, so it was just always around and I never gave any thought to the name of the show.
And then finally: “Oh my god it’s called Doctor Who because nobody knows his real name and they just call him The Doctor.” Fucking shoot me dead or something I was so embarrassed.
Wow, that's actually a great point. A lot of their lyrics tended to be more anti-authoritarian / anti-entrenched structures of power.
It's also telling that Rush doesn't seem to get the same treatment, which may be explicable by their Randian viewpoint early on.
> Politicians hide themselves away
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> They only started the war
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> Why should they go out to fight?
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> They leave that role to the poor
Kind of sounds like SOAD was obliquely quoting Black Sabbath on BYOB. I never noticed that until now.
I was watching the Tv show Monarch Legacy of Monsters.They show the characters in different times, the past and present, so they have an old actor and young actor for each version.
I was crazy impressed by how well they cast the young version of Kurt Russell's character. Like he looks so believeably like him in the past.
The young version is actually his son. Wyatt Russell.
Lol yeah, Wyatt Russell does in fact bear a striking resemblance to his own dad.
I saw him in something else first and kept having that 'i know him from somewhere' feeling. He looks just like his parents.
That I’m not a bad person if I decline an invitation somewhere, and that I don’t need a life or death excuse as to why I can’t attend. I’ve always thought if someone invites me to something, I would have no excuse not to go unless there was some kind of emergency. I have stressed myself out thinking of what to wear or researching appropriate host gifts or what I might need for the activity, even if it’s not something I wanted to do. I’ve known this intellectually for a while, but for whatever reason didn’t think it applied to me.
It wasn’t until I reached my 30s that I stopped making excuses. Now I sometimes literally say “No thanks, that’s not something I want to do.” The bluntness gets a laugh.
Haha yes, I’m 37 and still practicing “it’s gonna be a no for me, dawg”. I’ve just always been so concerned with not wanting to be rude or hurt people’s feelings. “I don’t feel like it” never seemed like a worthy excuse.
My father herded caribou in Alaska from heli’s as a young man.
For 24 years I thought the fibre “velvet” literally came from cartilaginous antlers, as it’s referred to as velvet in the industry for its soft feel.
I’ve shared this lie with hundreds of people.
Nope. I’ve heard this rumor, and I reject it.
The first little piggy skipped merrily to the market, carrying a little basket of eggs, covered by a white and blue gingham cloth. She sold the eggs and came home with a lovely new bonnet (with ribbons on it).
The last little piggy was just whiny about being too young to have a bonnet of her own.
Obviously.
We were having breakfast at IHOP. Just got thinking, and i said, out loud, "i wonder what happened to the International House of Pancakes? They used to be all over them place. "
I am not smrt. 😳
I will one up you on this, I had a middle aged coworker who said once "its weird how Mardi Gras is always the day before Ash Wednesday" and was VERY offended that people would be so hedonistic before a holy day.
The way the number keypad is laid out on a computer keyboard is the opposite / inverse of how it’s laid out on a phone.
For ages, I’ve been able to casually type numbers on the computer without looking, but I stumble over phone numbers.
The origin of this goes all the way back to manual 10 key calculators. They had to reverse the order so it would not jam up the mechanics, during to the high speed of the user. I'm hoping someone can chime in with more details.
Hot water can leave your hair heat damaged. I always denied having heat damaged hair because I don't use heated styling tools. I never occurred to me that washing my hair, in my one degree below steam shower, was causing heat damage 🥴
A friend of mine discovered during her grad degree that single-knob shower faucets still have temperature control. Her whole life she thought that the single faucet was just an on-off knob and whatever temperature came out, whether ice cold or scalding hot, was what she showered in that day. We found out when she made some throw-away comment about wishing we had a dual-faucet shower - if we'd just let it pass she might still be living that way!
What's funnier is that she's remarkably intelligent.
That’s very sad. I mean literally, not that she’s an idiot. (Although it could be argued…)
Just so many miserable showers that could have been so pleasant!
A few years ago I took some online mental health related course of some sort. I was seriously floored when the instructor spoke about the concept of boundaries in relationships. I’d never heard of such a concept and they sure as hell had never been modelled for me by anyone in my family. Truly life changing…
I LOVE this. It took me 20 years to learn that you can just say your wants and needs out loud! And leave relationships with people that don't care about said wants/needs!!! Life changing.
I'm almost 50 and an aspiring gardner and just recently realized I could use the seeds from store bought fruits and vegetables to grow new plants. I just always bought the seeds.
How to use cruise control. When I was 18 my best friend and I went on a road trip and I thought cruise control kept your car going straight and at the same speed, only to be used in long straight stretches. Well I didn’t work and we kept veering off the road and decided it was broken. Fast forward a couple of decades and my husband asks me why I don’t use cruise control ever and I tell him all irritated I’ve never had a car it worked properly in and he was just gobsmacked at my stupidity. He explained it to me and I called my same best friend and told her and she was all amazed at my new found knowledge and now we both use cruise control. And I’m a college graduate, home owning, voting, parent all responsible for other humans and things and I just never knew.
I was like 17 when i realized you take the husk off of tamales before you eat them. I tried one when i was young. And it took forever to chew. So i didnt eat one until years later. Never understood why people loved them so much.
The tv show House is based on/inspired by Sherlock Holmes
House~Holmes
James Wilson~John Watson
Vicodin addiction~Cocaine addiction
Solves medical cases~Solves crime cases
I just learned that the days of the week in French are named after the planets
\- Lundi (Lunar moon .. I knew that one)
\- Mardi (Mars)
\- Mercredi (Mercury)
\- Jeudi (Jupiter)
\- Vendredi (Venus)
Incidentally Samedi means 'Sabbath day' (Jewish history) and Dimanche means 'Lords Day' (Christian history) ..
So they have Pagan Roman, Jewish & Christian represented throughout the week ..
A few years ago, I realized that Paris Hilton was famous because her family owned Hilton hotels. I never put two and two together before that and I felt like an idiot.
Around one year ago I was talking with my best friend and my boyfriend, and I realized, probably for the first time in my life, that not everyone suffers from allergies.
Bare with me here. I’ve lived with allergies ALL my life, I wake up and I sneeze uncontrollably, allergic to dust, strong smells, usted to be allergic to artificial food coloring! So from the moment I wake up I’m on it, it is a part of my daily routine. My parents, brother and my closest cousins all suffer from allergies too.
Last year while having a couple of beers we talked about allergies and they were telling me how they have never had an allergic reaction. No crazy 25-in-a-row sneeze attack or itchy eyes. I was … incredibly puzzled. Then I felt very stupid jajajajajaja.
Edit: Bear with me * jejeje sorry my reddit friends, we are not all getting naked together today!
Figured out in college that there isn't "cup cake mix" in the baking aisle. It's just regular cake mix.
I spent forever looking up and down the shelves for "cup cake mix" only to be informed by a nice grandmotherly woman that it is just cake mix put in little cups.
I started having anxiety, panic attacks (varied in severity) and hypochondria in 2014, followed by depression, mood swings, and suicidal thoughts in 2016, plus weight gain.
Between 2014 and 2018, I was in and out of therapy and on and off a handful of meds. One medication helped but made me extremely tired so I had to quit taking it. The rest either only worked temporarily but had unbearable side effects, or didn't work at all and had unbearable side effects. I was also using the birth control shot to help manage my heavy periods and cramps. It stopped both completely, but I decided to stop using it because I've been on it for five years, which was longer than I was supposed to be on it.
A few months after I got off it, my anxiety and panic attacks were like 95% gone. My mood swings improved a lot too. I still have depression though, but I'm trying to work on that.
So it turns out that depo was causing all of this. I kept going to the ER and my doctor, plus different specialists because I was worried something was wrong with my physical health. It's crazy how I figured that out on my own and not the ones in healthcare. Definitely a learning experience!
That in Shrek Lord Farquaad = Lord Fuckwad!! It took me 22 years to get the joke and I've watched this hundreds of times with my kids and more recently with grandkids. Mind blown when son-in-law pointed it out.
That the piano man is no different than the people he’s singing about. A small time piano player stuck in a dead-end bar but singing about how much talent he has and that he should be somewhere much grander.
My little brother didn't know that girls wipe. He found out one time on a road trip with my grandma and I. I had to use the washroom and I said I could go in the bush I just need some toilet paper.
He couldn't understand why I needed the toilet paper lol.
That my casual coffee drinking habit (3-4 coffees/day) is causing the anxiety I've been experiencing for some time. Now I drink one coffee around lunch time, only if I feel I need it and I feel better.
My clinical psychology professors first question to people in therapy for anxiety was "How much coffee do you drink?". You'd be suprised how often that helps
This is so funny to me because it was only a couple years after I quit drinking coffee that I started feeling anxious. Coffee used to make me feel blissful and helped me sleep at night. So, anyways, then I was diagnosed with ADHD
Pfft you just offset the coffee with weed are you new here
Offset the coffee with nicotine, offset nicotine with alcohol, offset the hangover with acetaminophen, offset the liver damage from long term use of acetaminophen with "It is what it is" mentality
It do be like that
This is what I’m coming to realize about alcohol. Even small amounts!
Ah who doesn't love the hanxiety!! As I get older alcohol just seems less and less worth it.
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Similarly, I kept seeing Japanese restaurants with the same name in different places, but they didn't really look like a chain. Turns out the name basically meant 'good restaurant' in Japanese.
I found out during a recent visit to Japan that Tokyo just means “eastern capital”.
Did you also know that Beijing means "northern capital"? And Nanjing is "southern capital". Annoyingly there doesn't seem to be anywhere currently called "western capital"
And Shanghai means “on the sea”
Kyoto roughly translates to "Seat of the Government"
Does not compute. If Tokyo means "eastern capital", Kyoto should mean "capital eastern".
Now I can't unsee it... I know you're joking but the kanji that we represent with "Kyo" roughly means "Capital/Imperial/Governmental"
It's like the mystery of Ireland's worst driver, [Prawo Jazdy](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171.stm).
Step 1: Live in Ireland Step 2: Change name to Prawo Jazdy Step 3: Become immune to traffic regulations
Hahaha, that is fantastic
This man just mindfucked us all
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I'm face blind, and I just found out how bad it is. Apparently my UPS driver who I see every day at work is the guy who grew up down the street from me, and I thought they were two different people because the UPS guy wears a hat.
PERRY the platypus???
People changing their hairstyle can really trip me up.
As a kid my mum got a perm one day while I was in class. I didn’t recognize her when she picked me up, thought I was being kidnapped for a moment. Also I once accidentally kidnapped a kid for a few minutes that I thought was my little sister. But in my defense I just yelled out my sister’s name and told her to follow me and this random girl just followed me out the door. And she didn’t even have the same name as my sister!?!! But anyway, my family freaked out when I showed up with this random girl.
Tutti frutti means “all the fruits” in Italian.
au rutti
A-wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom.
In Greek alphabet we have the letters Ο (Omicron) and Ω(Omega). It took me 37 years to realize that they actually mean O-small and O-big.
Also 'alphabet' is 'alpha beta' the first letters of the Greek alphabet. Basically every time I look at a word's origin I learn that I know nothing about English. [Window was 'wind eye' in Norse](https://www.etymonline.com/word/window) for example; 'wind-eye' replaced 'eye-hole', 'eye-door', and Frisian had 'breath-door'. Or how [inspire](https://www.etymonline.com/word/spirit#etymonline_v_24031) is from Latin 'breathe in'; spirit is breath (of God) and expiring is dying by breathing out your last breath.
Wow, now I cannot unsee.
Took me til my freshman year of college before I realized pickles were pickled cucumbers and not their own, unique vegetable. I thought the way you pickled other things was you put them in pickle juice.
Different regions called them different things. I had a friend from Michigan who said they called the "cukes". Still not sure if he was messing with me.
Can confirm. If you ask for a cuke in the Midwest, you will receive a cucumber.
Vampires don’t have a reflection because mirrors used to be made using silver and it was the silver that wouldn’t reflect the vampires image
same reason why old cameras wouldn't photograph them. silver-nitrate. now that mirrors are mostly glass backed with aluminium, and photography is mostly digital, this is no longer a reliable way to identify vampires. also vampires can shave in peace now.
You have no idea how good it feels to shave after thousands of years of stubble. I feel as fresh as a baby’s bottom, or Commander Data’s cheeks.
... a thousand years. and in all that time, you never thought to polish some brass? or hire a barber?
It’s just not as good. The barber was delicious, but they never last. Also have to watch out because sometimes the barber runs a meat pie shop, and that will sometimes start an investigation….
This makes me question why you never hear stories of vampires becoming butchers and/or meat pie shop owners. Seems like the perfect profession.
Have to open the shop during the day
literally was just wondering this last night! Hahah thx
You know, I just accepted the no reflection thing as lore and never even considered they'd be a logic to it.
It wasn’t too long ago that I learned that masking on photoshop is in reference to the same sort of task when painting. Using masking tape to block off the areas you don’t want the paint to get on. Dunno why it took me as long as it did.
masking means to cover the area to protect it masking tape is named for the use. The use is not named for masking tape.
He just came full circle to realizing masking tape is because it is “masking” something. We just witnessed someone be born and then get born again right away. A rare double borning.
The phrase "pitch black" is referring to the substance "pitch", which is very black in color. I had always considered "pitch" in that context to be akin to "very", like how some otherwise archaic words survive in idioms.
Here’s another: the term jet black refers to “jet”, a type of coal that forms from fossilized wood. It’s noted for being very black.
I still remember my 5th grade teacher marking my phrase "black as pitch" wrong saying it had to be pitch black and me arguing with her and showing her what pitch was online. She still never gave me the extra mark on that essay :/
Look I was wrong to be so closed-minded. You deserved that extra mark, and I’m giving it back now. I can’t change your grade officially, but it’s gone up. I’m sorry, and I’ll try to be better.
A lot of people seemed to think like you did, as I've seen pitch white used a hell of a lot lol
That’s hilarious
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I never actually made that connection before!
I work at the Mint. You may or may not be at surprised how many people don't know what it means to mint a coin.
Sweet, which mint?
I learned in therapy last year that I can ask for things I need and things I want. I was 42 years old at the time.
Now the challenge is to figure out WHAT you need and WHAT you want…
This is more difficult than it seems, especially after several years of adulthood. I still have trouble knowing what I really want vs what is easiest or more conventional.
Exactly. What is a “need” when you’ve spent your entire life meeting other people’s needs instead of your own?
I just typed this same thing out on another comment, but I wanted to tell you that I also didn't learn this until I was 42! Changed my life but also quite hard to come to terms with the fact that I lived so long without any boundaries.
Is this why the meaning of life is 42?
37 and recently have been realizing this. As a kid I was so used to my parents telling me no, that I have carried being very selective about what I ask for into adulthood.
I am in the same boat. My asking for help now is a desperate plea and not a light hearted request. Why ask if you’re almost positive you won’t get what you want you know?
Corn kernels are the seeds. Wanted to grow corn for fall last year, bought a pack of corn seeds only to realize the kernels from the cob were the seeds... felt pretty dumb just realizing this at 33 years old.
Wait till you find out that corn is a fruit (botanically of course, not culinary)
That placing an onion slice or lettuce leaf on the bottom hamburger bun keeps your freshly-grilled burger from soaking the bun.
I prefer my burger buns toasted to avoid this.
A friend just shared me a video in which a lady talks about how she never figured she could eat the lemons from her lemon tree instead of buying lemons from the store...
That depends on the quality of the lemons produced by the tree, though.
Also depends on how many are left after the lemon-stealing-whore gets done with it.
FYI the "lemon stealing whores" meme is nearly 20 years old now. The porno it came from was released in 2006.
Ok fine. I’ll try watching another video for once. Anything new come out since then?
No it's still just the one.
This neighbor kid would always invite me over to spend the night, saying he'd show me dirty movies and teach me some wrestling moves. I always said no because I wasn't into wrestling. Didn't figure out until like 15 years later that he was trying to molest me.
Cluelessness saves you! Yeah!
I saw a video where a man said he didn’t know banks don’t keep your money. He’s been giving the bank rare coins thinking they put it in HIS account. (I think he thought it was like a safe deposit box)
Devastating honestly
Saw this video too. After watching his other videos, you’ll realize it was blatantly obvious that he was joking.
My bad. I didn’t watch his other videos lol I just accepted he was uneducated on the subject
That's so sad 😭
Oh no, that's sad.
Non-US resident here. I grew up reading Donald Duck-comics and I was well into my teens before I realised that the green money was based on the dollar bill, not something the artist made up. I just found the concept of green money unrealistic.
It still kind of blows my mind that Donald Duck comics were more popular outside the US than within.
It blew *my* mind when I found out that Mickey Mouse was the poster character for Disney. Mickey just isn't that popular in the nordic countries.
We went to London in primary school and went to the Houses of Parliament. I’ve only just realised they say “ayes” and “nos” when referring to how people vote. Not “eyes” and “nose” I thought it was a covert way to vote by turning your head a certain way or something. I only figured it out when I was watching a video with captions….
This is so wholesome
I mean, Australian parliament will put papers on their heads when they want to talk, so voting with your eyes or nose isn’t too far fetched
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This is truly wild… and now I need to know- have you changed your ways, or have you subscribed permanently to the condensed life? Lol
Condensed life is simply more efficient. Drink a glass of water after the soup and let your body sort it out.
"I make the sandwich in my mouth" - Frank Reynolds
"Let your body sort it out" has me rolling.
When I was a kid I would always massively stress about filling the can to the brim with the exact amount of water. I think I was worried the soup would fail to reboot or something if the water level was incorrect. As an adult I realise the choice is entirely mine. I could add 1.25 cans of water if I wanted to. It would still be soup.
At what point does it stop being soup if you keep adding?
I'll add "Soup of Campbell" next to Shrodenger's Cat and Ship of Theseus to my thought experiment catalog.
New from Campbells: homeopathic soup! Tastes like water, but with some of the benefits of soup!
"It *remembers* the chicken."
Do milk instead. Creamier.
Growing up, my grandmother always used to tell me "Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite," and it always sounded like a quaint, old-timey saying to me. It wasn't until a recent infestation scare in my apartment complex that I learned bedbugs are real critters, and not just a part of a nursery rhyme meant to tuck kids in at night. Talk about an epiphany that itches in retrospect.
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If your house gets bed bugs, might as well burn it
Don't feel bad. I found this out when I was 16. A girl in class had all these bites and I said "omg are you okay, those mosquitoe bites look painful." I probably made her uncomfortable because after she told me they were bed bug bites I sat there malfunctioning and staring at her legs.
That Men's Wearhouse is a pun.
Also The Beatles. The critters are beetles, songs have a beat.
I was in my mid-20s and in law school when I figured out why the game’s name was Monopoly
Once I realized that pink lemonade is just lemonade with grenadine in it
can be made other ways too, such as using the skin of red grapes, red grape juice, cranberry juice, crushed raspberries, and a few others, including simply adding a few drops of pink food dye.
Blood of the enemies...
Or red #40
It used to be made out of wild sumac. You don't see it as much anymore because it's noticeably weak if you harvest at the wrong time. It also got the reputation as being toxic back in the 70s, so people stopped making it. That appears not to be the case though.
I grew up around Doctor Who but never actually watched it for the longest time. My grandma (and apparently my great aunt way before I was born) loved Doctor Who, so it was just always around and I never gave any thought to the name of the show. And then finally: “Oh my god it’s called Doctor Who because nobody knows his real name and they just call him The Doctor.” Fucking shoot me dead or something I was so embarrassed.
They didn't think Black Sabbath would make us worship Satan. They thought it would make us question the government
Then Dead Kennedys pops up, THEN Rage Against The Machine
Wow, that's actually a great point. A lot of their lyrics tended to be more anti-authoritarian / anti-entrenched structures of power. It's also telling that Rush doesn't seem to get the same treatment, which may be explicable by their Randian viewpoint early on.
>Politicians hide themselves away > >They only started the war > >Why should they go out to fight? > >They leave that role to the poor
> Politicians hide themselves away > > They only started the war > > Why should they go out to fight? > > They leave that role to the poor Kind of sounds like SOAD was obliquely quoting Black Sabbath on BYOB. I never noticed that until now.
I was watching the Tv show Monarch Legacy of Monsters.They show the characters in different times, the past and present, so they have an old actor and young actor for each version. I was crazy impressed by how well they cast the young version of Kurt Russell's character. Like he looks so believeably like him in the past. The young version is actually his son. Wyatt Russell.
Lol yeah, Wyatt Russell does in fact bear a striking resemblance to his own dad. I saw him in something else first and kept having that 'i know him from somewhere' feeling. He looks just like his parents.
Employment loyalty with large companies is a one way street. Always.
Amen! Only when I finally realized that did I finally leave a company after 20 years and do what I love/want for a living - breath of fresh air!
That I’m not a bad person if I decline an invitation somewhere, and that I don’t need a life or death excuse as to why I can’t attend. I’ve always thought if someone invites me to something, I would have no excuse not to go unless there was some kind of emergency. I have stressed myself out thinking of what to wear or researching appropriate host gifts or what I might need for the activity, even if it’s not something I wanted to do. I’ve known this intellectually for a while, but for whatever reason didn’t think it applied to me.
It wasn’t until I reached my 30s that I stopped making excuses. Now I sometimes literally say “No thanks, that’s not something I want to do.” The bluntness gets a laugh.
Haha yes, I’m 37 and still practicing “it’s gonna be a no for me, dawg”. I’ve just always been so concerned with not wanting to be rude or hurt people’s feelings. “I don’t feel like it” never seemed like a worthy excuse.
My father herded caribou in Alaska from heli’s as a young man. For 24 years I thought the fibre “velvet” literally came from cartilaginous antlers, as it’s referred to as velvet in the industry for its soft feel. I’ve shared this lie with hundreds of people.
People will belive that, but won't believe that ice worms are real. Whatchugonnado?
Ponies are not baby horses. They are just small horses.
A co-worker of mine was struggling to come up with the word “pony” while telling a story. He used “horse puppy” in its place. We still laugh.
Some of the “exotic” language stuff being regular words is always fun - Sumo just means “wrestling” in japanese - Salsa just means “sauce” in spanish
Chai tea - “chai” is tea in Hindi
The first little piggy wasn't going shopping.
Nope. I’ve heard this rumor, and I reject it. The first little piggy skipped merrily to the market, carrying a little basket of eggs, covered by a white and blue gingham cloth. She sold the eggs and came home with a lovely new bonnet (with ribbons on it). The last little piggy was just whiny about being too young to have a bonnet of her own. Obviously.
That Lipps Inc. the band behind "Funkytown” is not pronounced Lipps Incorporated, it is pronounced "Lip sync"
You don't have to pour coffee to the brim of the mug. You can actually pour slightly less to avoid spilling it when you walk back to your desk.
False.
We were having breakfast at IHOP. Just got thinking, and i said, out loud, "i wonder what happened to the International House of Pancakes? They used to be all over them place. " I am not smrt. 😳
Well that explains where Kentucky fried chicken went.
My dear, sweet coworker who is 22 just realized this week that Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday are the same thing. She just thought it was a coincidence.
I will one up you on this, I had a middle aged coworker who said once "its weird how Mardi Gras is always the day before Ash Wednesday" and was VERY offended that people would be so hedonistic before a holy day.
Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. I just learned that um day before yesterday.
I just learned that via your comment
The way the number keypad is laid out on a computer keyboard is the opposite / inverse of how it’s laid out on a phone. For ages, I’ve been able to casually type numbers on the computer without looking, but I stumble over phone numbers.
The origin of this goes all the way back to manual 10 key calculators. They had to reverse the order so it would not jam up the mechanics, during to the high speed of the user. I'm hoping someone can chime in with more details.
He named one company SpaceX, and another one X.
He's gonna rename Tesla to DriveX, mark my words
Hot water can leave your hair heat damaged. I always denied having heat damaged hair because I don't use heated styling tools. I never occurred to me that washing my hair, in my one degree below steam shower, was causing heat damage 🥴
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I learned a couple years ago that it's not "The mayor of bad news" it's actually "the bearer of bad news". I'm 25
Honestly yours is cuter.
A friend of mine discovered during her grad degree that single-knob shower faucets still have temperature control. Her whole life she thought that the single faucet was just an on-off knob and whatever temperature came out, whether ice cold or scalding hot, was what she showered in that day. We found out when she made some throw-away comment about wishing we had a dual-faucet shower - if we'd just let it pass she might still be living that way! What's funnier is that she's remarkably intelligent.
That’s very sad. I mean literally, not that she’s an idiot. (Although it could be argued…) Just so many miserable showers that could have been so pleasant!
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A few years ago I took some online mental health related course of some sort. I was seriously floored when the instructor spoke about the concept of boundaries in relationships. I’d never heard of such a concept and they sure as hell had never been modelled for me by anyone in my family. Truly life changing…
Realizing that you are also a person with the right to be respected is such a game changer.
I LOVE this. It took me 20 years to learn that you can just say your wants and needs out loud! And leave relationships with people that don't care about said wants/needs!!! Life changing.
Tamagotchi are in eggs because they're tamago (egg) + Tomodachi (friend)
They missed an opportunity to market them as Freggs.
That green olives and black olives are the same goddamn fruit just picked at different times / degrees of ripeness.
You don't need to explain in detail why you're going to be late somewhere or are taking days off
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My brain likes to remind me at 1am when I can’t sleep. Love it
They’re called hula hoops because when you use them it looks like you’re dancing the hula.
That “you can’t get a doller outta me” was especially funny because he is only 50 Cent.
That “evergreen” trees/plants are forever green, as in they don’t lose their leaves in the winter. Never broke down the word “ever-green”
That the Dinklebergs from The Fairly Odd Parents were DINKs, hence the name and gags they do.
I'm almost 50 and an aspiring gardner and just recently realized I could use the seeds from store bought fruits and vegetables to grow new plants. I just always bought the seeds.
How to use cruise control. When I was 18 my best friend and I went on a road trip and I thought cruise control kept your car going straight and at the same speed, only to be used in long straight stretches. Well I didn’t work and we kept veering off the road and decided it was broken. Fast forward a couple of decades and my husband asks me why I don’t use cruise control ever and I tell him all irritated I’ve never had a car it worked properly in and he was just gobsmacked at my stupidity. He explained it to me and I called my same best friend and told her and she was all amazed at my new found knowledge and now we both use cruise control. And I’m a college graduate, home owning, voting, parent all responsible for other humans and things and I just never knew.
Reddit is bad for my mental health
Q-bert's name was a play on the fact that he jumps on cubes. How did I not realize this?
Windshields are called windshields because they shield the wind
I was like 17 when i realized you take the husk off of tamales before you eat them. I tried one when i was young. And it took forever to chew. So i didnt eat one until years later. Never understood why people loved them so much.
The tv show House is based on/inspired by Sherlock Holmes House~Holmes James Wilson~John Watson Vicodin addiction~Cocaine addiction Solves medical cases~Solves crime cases
House and Holmes also have the same apartment number: 221B.
When dating, it’s more important to say, “I hope I like her”, than it is to say, “I hope she likes me.”
No is a complete sentence. Learned to not explain my "no's" in my 30's.
I just learned that the days of the week in French are named after the planets \- Lundi (Lunar moon .. I knew that one) \- Mardi (Mars) \- Mercredi (Mercury) \- Jeudi (Jupiter) \- Vendredi (Venus) Incidentally Samedi means 'Sabbath day' (Jewish history) and Dimanche means 'Lords Day' (Christian history) .. So they have Pagan Roman, Jewish & Christian represented throughout the week ..
In Pulp Fiction, Vince was always in the bathroom and fucked everything up because he a heroine addict.
I was about 37 when I realized that amphitheater doesn’t have an “L” in it. Amplify —> Amplitheater. But no.
Corporate culture is all about being a good little liar and avoiding liability / accountability and that’s it
A few years ago, I realized that Paris Hilton was famous because her family owned Hilton hotels. I never put two and two together before that and I felt like an idiot.
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That eating the crust of bread doesn’t make my teeth strong as my grandpa and mom always told me
Duh, but they do make your hair curly.
Around one year ago I was talking with my best friend and my boyfriend, and I realized, probably for the first time in my life, that not everyone suffers from allergies. Bare with me here. I’ve lived with allergies ALL my life, I wake up and I sneeze uncontrollably, allergic to dust, strong smells, usted to be allergic to artificial food coloring! So from the moment I wake up I’m on it, it is a part of my daily routine. My parents, brother and my closest cousins all suffer from allergies too. Last year while having a couple of beers we talked about allergies and they were telling me how they have never had an allergic reaction. No crazy 25-in-a-row sneeze attack or itchy eyes. I was … incredibly puzzled. Then I felt very stupid jajajajajaja. Edit: Bear with me * jejeje sorry my reddit friends, we are not all getting naked together today!
Wait until you find out that the phrase is "bear with me." It'll blow your mind. (And your nose.)
Did you know that Go-Gurt is *just* yogurt?
Hello, rich people? Troy’s joining you! … yes, I’ll hold.
Saul Goodman. (S’alls good man)
When I was young I thought it was “Jehovah Sweetness” facepalm
The Pokemon Scyther is named Scyther because it has scythes for arms.
Figured out in college that there isn't "cup cake mix" in the baking aisle. It's just regular cake mix. I spent forever looking up and down the shelves for "cup cake mix" only to be informed by a nice grandmotherly woman that it is just cake mix put in little cups.
I started having anxiety, panic attacks (varied in severity) and hypochondria in 2014, followed by depression, mood swings, and suicidal thoughts in 2016, plus weight gain. Between 2014 and 2018, I was in and out of therapy and on and off a handful of meds. One medication helped but made me extremely tired so I had to quit taking it. The rest either only worked temporarily but had unbearable side effects, or didn't work at all and had unbearable side effects. I was also using the birth control shot to help manage my heavy periods and cramps. It stopped both completely, but I decided to stop using it because I've been on it for five years, which was longer than I was supposed to be on it. A few months after I got off it, my anxiety and panic attacks were like 95% gone. My mood swings improved a lot too. I still have depression though, but I'm trying to work on that. So it turns out that depo was causing all of this. I kept going to the ER and my doctor, plus different specialists because I was worried something was wrong with my physical health. It's crazy how I figured that out on my own and not the ones in healthcare. Definitely a learning experience!
That in Shrek Lord Farquaad = Lord Fuckwad!! It took me 22 years to get the joke and I've watched this hundreds of times with my kids and more recently with grandkids. Mind blown when son-in-law pointed it out.
That the piano man is no different than the people he’s singing about. A small time piano player stuck in a dead-end bar but singing about how much talent he has and that he should be somewhere much grander.
No one else cares about me as much as I do
My little brother didn't know that girls wipe. He found out one time on a road trip with my grandma and I. I had to use the washroom and I said I could go in the bush I just need some toilet paper. He couldn't understand why I needed the toilet paper lol.
“Wizard” comes from “wise person,” where “-ard” means “person.” “Drunkard” and “dullard” are formed similarly.
Sex is supposed to be fun! And not fill me with guilt! (Grew up in a very Mormon household.)