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35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group While watching Game of Thrones, I asked my husband when dragons went extinct. He had to pause the show for that one.

ashforgold , John Lester Report

Final score:

295points

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Donkey boi 1 year ago

They haven't gone extinct. I saw them a few years ago on Komodo Island!

109points

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group That Bonsai are not a species of tree, but a way to grow them. Any tree can be a bonsai.

ixent , Andreas D. Report

Final score:

256points

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Bi Frog 1 year ago

WAIT WHAT I thought Bonsai was a species of tree! You can do that with any tree? Why do they all look the same?

128points

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I was like, 22? working at a restaurant making myself a salad, and I asked the chef for bumps and he stared at me for like, 60 solid seconds trying to figure out what I wanted. I explained to him I wanted bumps for my salad. I have all the rest of the toppings but now needed bumps.

Guys … my family told me croutons were called bumps my entire life. I called my dad that night and confirmed that bumps are indeed, actually called croutons.

YesAccident5991 , jeffreyw Report

Final score:

251points

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Unknown 1 year ago

Depending on the restaurant I'm surprised the cook didn't just pull some coke out no questions asked

139points

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I live near the Hospital for Joint Diseases….when I was a kid I thought it was a special hospital for people who had two different diseases at the same time.

Baffhy_Duck , Wendy Wei Report

Final score:

229points

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ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ 1 year ago

AAHHHHAHAHAAAA*whhEEEEEEEZE*AAAHAHAAH

51points

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I thought that horses had toes until I was 22. I thought the hoof was a “horseshoe” and the toes were tucked inside.

How did I learn how wrong I was, you ask?

I was walking past a cavalry museum and saw a horse statue and loudly remarked “it must hurt so bad when they fold a horse’s toes to put them into the shoe!” Dozens of horse enthusiasts turned and looked at me with wild bewilderment in their eyes.

BronNatsPulisic , Ken Bosma Report

Final score:

226points

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glowworm2 1 year ago

Early prehistoric horses had toes. When they evolved, the toes slowly started to disappear.

75points

whyunoletmepost , Artem Savchenko Report

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I learned that pork and beans are not called "cowboy beans". I was 18 and asked a grocery store clerk to help me find the "cowboy beans". We were looking everywhere and I was getting frustrated because I know that every store carries these beans. After a while I pick up a pork and beans can with a picture and say "see, it looks just like this!" He says "you mean pork and beans?" Then I realize that my mom called them that so that I would eat them. The look of disappointment from that grocery store clerk haunts me to this day.

Final score:

206points

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SuperChicken 1 year ago

Isn't there a real recipe for Cowboy Beans, though?

5points

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group When I was ten years old, I considered orgasm to be a nice word for a fart. I told my mother that my stomach hurt from having so many orgasms.

Asruhk , Scott Wilcoxson Report

Final score:

201points

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Paulo Freitas 1 year ago

Well, i once got a few slaps from my mom from something similar, kid at school had made up a song ( we where 10 or 11 tops ) and it went like " A, E, I, O, U, VAIS LEVAR NO CU " it was a dumb rime, but ( a part from the voals) it means " you're gonna get it in the a*s " an me with all my Innocence thought it meant " you're gonna get spanked in the a*s " in sum, i sung it Next to my Mother, and got a few slaps, and later, much much later, i understood it meant " you're gonna get sodomized "

24points

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group When you're an adult...you shouldn't buy shoes that are "a little loose, incase you get taller".

willor777 , woodleywonderworks Report

Final score:

196points

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Boii 1 year ago

You can always get heavier, something none of us was thinking about back when our parents got us new shoes.

37points

#10

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group That you don't have to stand *in* the shower while the water warms up.

MagicPieBush , Christa Grover Report

Final score:

184points

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ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ 1 year ago

I'm feeling personally attacked by this list. I just stood at the other end so I didn't get splashed

88points

#11

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I though Mick Jagger’s name was McJagger, and people just never said his first name for some reason.

AcuteHazard , Bert Verhoeff Report

Final score:

181points

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mikejaz2 1 year ago

McLovin'...

5points

minnieslave0 1 year ago

Years ago, a TV host was talking about an actress called D'Meemaw. Couldn't work out who on earth she meant till a few days later, I realised she was talking about Demi Moore.

5points

CT 1 year ago

I think these kind of mistakes are cute, I like it. As a kid, I found the group name Jet Rotule funny (rotule = kneecap in French), until I saw the name written: Jethro Tull

5points

Mrs. Harry Potter 1 year ago

Well… I just learned that now 😳

4points

sociallyanxiousslug(She/Her) 1 year ago

Hi can I have a Mcjagger with a side of fries?

4points

Upstaged75 1 year ago

I thought that Van Morrison was a band. Like Van Halen. LOL! A friend in college looked at me like I had 3 heads when I referred to Van Morrison as "they". I still feel stupid about it.

2points

Timbob 1 year ago

First song I ever heard him sing was in multiple voice. So I thought Tommy Leonetti was a trio.

2points

Om 1 year ago

as a kid I thought JLo was called Jenni Ferlopez lol It's just, as a Latin American person myself, I've never seen her as a Latina but must like an American singer, so in my mind it was impossible that someone from the US had the Lopez surname. In fact, if someone here in Mexico is called Jennifer Lopez, or Bryan Gonzalez or any combination like that, people will most likely make fun of it, because of how odd it sounds, so it was just unthinkable that a renowned artist would be called like that. I wasn't that old though, probably like 6 or 7 when I started watching her videos on MTV and I could read the credits.

2points

Mel The Axolotl 1 year ago

To be fair I thought that until right now

1point

Lene 1 year ago

Ahhh... yes. Jick Magger from the Stolling Rones (My mouth messed up his name once when I was in my early teens. I try to say it on purpose now because.... well, I just sorta like it better that way)

0points

Shelly Lewis 1 year ago (edited)

I can’t stop laughing. McJagger.

0points

Confused Capybara 1 year ago

Wait his name is MICK JAGGER? I though it was Mcjagger too

0points

Meatballs 1 year ago

Tbh I used to think Mick jagger was a rapper

0points

Deanna Crichley 1 year ago

Look up Gilda Radner as Candy Slice singing gimme' Mick.

0points

Cal the dragon (she/her) 1 year ago

lol

0points

Scott Rackley 1 year ago

New collaboration with McDonalds and Jagermeister

0points

David 1 year ago

Kind of understandable considering how many single name performers there have been.

0points

Mickysixxx 1 year ago

Hes like Cher, just one name.......McJagger

0points

Groaver Andout 1 year ago

Did you get any satisfaction when you learned his actual name?

0points

Heavy Metal Librarian 1 year ago

I thought this when I was a kid, too!

0points

SCamp 1 year ago

I love this! Thank you 😂😂😂

0points

Gregg Carr 1 year ago

I always thought ELO was pronounced Hello but with silent H

0points

Barbara Kayton 1 year ago

Hahahaha! That is awesome,

0points

RandomFrog(He/They️‍️) 1 year ago

I thought it was nick nagger. Just learning this now hahha.

0points

Leigh 1 year ago

I thought there was a famous rapper named m & m like the candy.

0points

Stephanie Did It 1 year ago

He is, just spells m&m (his initials) differently. Marshall Mathers, Eminem.

1point

MustardLemon 1 year ago

So you're telling me its not McJagger👀 (To be fair not a big Mick Jagger fan lol)

0points

The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 1 year ago

My son thought Steve Correll was Steve Correllin (because he always heard Steve Correll In...)

0points

sparkly radish 1 year ago

WHAT I DIDNT KNOW THAT!!

0points

#12

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Jackalopes are mythical creatures. I was... 18 I think? To be fair, I've seen a platypus, rhino, and a giraffe. Those are some bs animals.

AtlasAngel02 , Mark Freeman Report

Final score:

180points

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Donkey boi 1 year ago

How can you say they are mythical, then provide clear photographic evidence of their existence?

135points

#13

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group That pineapples grow on the ground, and not in a tree

MR-LIBERIA , Dave Lonsdale Report

Final score:

175points

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LH25 1 year ago

And the baby ones are really cute

58points

#14

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group You don't have to rip the plastic top off of your new deodorant with your teeth or pliers or anything. You can just turn the base until it comes up enough to just take it off.

SanibelMan , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

166points

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ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ 1 year ago (edited)

I will become a statute for the next several seconds while I contemplate my stupidness

124points

#15

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Houston is not the name of the guy astronauts talk to

vienna_versailles , Lauren Report

Final score:

159points

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Fantastic Mr Fox 1 year ago

Not to mention "Roger". Roger that. Roger and over. Who's this guy?

15points

#16

I suspected it was the same with lots of people but I found out it wasn't gorilla warfare but guerrilla warfare maybe in my twenties.

The disappoints of growing up... they just keep coming.

octoriceball Report

Final score:

154points

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ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ 1 year ago

King Kong has left the chat

95points

#17

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I was probably 21 or 22 when I learned that whole milk is only 3% fat. I always thought it was 100, and when I saw reduced as being 2% I thought "why wouldn't they do 50% or somewhere in the middle?"

willk95 , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

153points

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Fantastic Mr Fox 1 year ago

Don't know if I'm being the Boring Panda here or not, but I wanted to know: "The reason it's called "whole milk" has less to do with its fat content, than the fact that it's comparatively unadulterated. As the Dairy Council of California puts it, whole milk is "the way it comes from the cow before processing." -- Washington Post

82points

#18

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Learned this yesterday, actually… apparently you need to RSVP to events even if you will not be attending.

corteser , Kelly Sue DeConnick Report

Final score:

152points

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Red Ruffensor 1 year ago

My Ukrainian mom said it stood for Remember Send Vedding Present.

28points

#19

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group My sister was in her 50's when she found out the meaning of: "you have an addictive personality". She thought after all these years of therapy that it meant that people were addicted to her personality. We laugh hysterically when we talk about this (in a very sad way).

casper02127 , Ben Mack Report

Final score:

151points

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Boii 1 year ago

That would be very sweet if it wasn't so dark. Hope she is doing well <3

52points

#20

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Just this week I found out about the little button on the back of the socket driver that pushes the socket off. I have owned the same socket set for about 30 years, and I have a dedicated screwdriver that I keep with my sockets and use to pry them off when I’m done using them.

I will be 55 years old soon.

ScaryNation , Bill Abbott Report

Final score:

148points

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zak 1 year ago (edited)

Hopefully you at least knew about the button/switch that changes the direction the socket spins, or did you have one socket wrench for tightening things and another one for loosening things? 😆

72points

#21

I was 19 when I learned that women have to give birth (or at least be pregnant) to have breast milk. I'd always thought that it's available at all times.

I was a very sheltered kid. Don't judge me.

krukson Report

Final score:

148points

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Boii 1 year ago

That's not too embarrassing, I see why one would think that. Especially without proper Sex Ed.

52points

#22

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Until I was in school for environmental studies, I thought “mourning dove” was “morning dove.” I usually heard them calling in the mornings, so “morning” made sense to me.

boldolive , Carolyn Savell Report

Final score:

144points

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Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago

I was today days old when I discovered this.🤣

130points

#23

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Coca and cocoa are two different plants, not one magical organism lol

ConsiderationWest587 , Tom Coady Report

Final score:

141points

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Paulo Freitas 1 year ago

Yea mate, cocoa makes you feel warm ínside and happy, Coca makes you f*****g fly and search for ninjas in the backyard....

148points

LochnessIntelChief07 Report

#24

That Cheesecake Factory is a restaurant and not an assembly line of workers making cheesecake. I always envisioned you would go in there and watch them and eat a slice, sort of like a brewery.

Edit: I’d like to add that I’ve lived in close proximity to multiple locations my entire life, and my sister used to go all the time with her friends. I thought they all just really liked the cheesecake, and the factory vibe of it all. It’s not until my now fiancé asked me to meet her and her friend there for drinks that I figured it all out, at about age 22-23 lol

Final score:

140points

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SuperChicken 1 year ago

Their cheesecakes are so rich, but so worth it.

29points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#25

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Birds have sex. I thought that the mother bird laid the egg and the father fertilised it later. I was 18 and asked my mother what the birds were doing…

drittinnlegg , Henry Report

Final score:

138points

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Boii 1 year ago

I can only imagine your mum's amusement

58points

#26

I was taught it's fine to flush tampons down the toilet, and would even flush pads, and sponges when I'd clean the bathroom. I didn't learn that it was a *huge* no no until sometime in my mid to late 20's. I'm surprised the pipes at the house I grew up in weren't constantly exploding.

edie_the_egg_lady Report

Final score:

134points

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

I think a piece of my soul just died. Don’t flush *anything* other than TP and the product. Even ‘flushable’ wipes wreak havoc on your plumbing… as we discovered upon returning from sabbatical. The house sitter had flushed baby wipes down the toilet… cost about $300 to fix.

105points

#27

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group the saying is: "Nip it in the bud" and not in fact *nip it in the butt*

too_sharp , Susanne Nilsson Report

Final score:

128points

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glowworm2 1 year ago

I knew exactly what the saying was thanks to Barney on the Andy Griffith Show.

7points

#28

Narwhals are real animals

I thought they were mythical like unicorns.

cartoonjunkie13 Report

Final score:

126points

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TheNightOwl 1 year ago

Unicorns are real! I should know! I almost died getting this picture! Dz7kyKvXgAAF31A.jpg

54points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#29

That in Billy Joel‘s hit song „We didn’t start the fire“ the line of „homeless vets“ meant homeless veterans and not homeless veterinarians. I was about twenty five before i put those pieces together, and always thought there was a big homeless veterinarian problem I had never heard about

Herr_Poopypants Report

Final score:

124points

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Boii 1 year ago

That's fine, the homeless veterinarians appreciated your concerns very much!

72points

PoopsieDoodles , Karolina Grabowska Report

#30

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Not me but my mom: waiting for the shower to be warm BEFORE stepping in.

She grew up with a bathtub most of her life, and didn't get a shower until she moved out of my grandparents' place in her 20s.

She was apparently talking to a coworker about the winter weather one morning. While lamenting, she goes, "And don't you just HATE getting into a cold shower on these cold days?! It takes SO LONG for the water to get warm!"

Coworker: "Uh... Cheryl.... You know you can just WAIT until the water gets warm, THEN hop in...."

Final score:

120points

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ThatG 1 year ago

Surprised Pika-Cheryl-chu face…

51points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

#31

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I thought that ‘prima donna' was 'pre-Madonna' and that it meant everything before the singer Madonna and just assumed she was some kind of universal queen.

vienna_versailles , Madonna Report

Final score:

110points

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MotherofGuineaPigs 1 year ago

She kind of does think she's a Queen...

73points

#32

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I was maybe 17 or 18 before learning that it was Timbuktu, not Timbuk 2. I thought there was an original Timbuk out there somewhere

BoiIedFrogs , Emilio Labrador Report

Final score:

109points

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Sam Juan 1 year ago

To be fair, there's a company called Timbuk2 that manufactures and sells really great messenger bags and knapsacks.

24points

#33

The "D" in the Disney logo was a stylized capital letter and not a backwards G.

omild Report

Final score:

98points

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Something 1 year ago

It's Gisnep.

62points

#34

That I was in fact NOT missing a testicle. Thought there was supposed to be 3 until I was like 14 years old.

Fgyiyio Report

Final score:

98points

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zak 1 year ago

*speaking into a microphone* "Testes, testes. One, two... three?"

29points

#35

When people say quote unquote I thought they were saying quote on quote

LF_redit Report

Final score:

94points

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Juliette the Fox 1 year ago

Wait… i actually thought thought it was quote on quote until this post

39points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#36

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I didn’t know I was circumcised until I was ~15 or 16. I was arguing with a girl online. I thought the head was the foreskin and that circumcision cut the actual head of the penis off.

MrDelicious84 , Malte Luk Report

Final score:

39points

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Boii 1 year ago

Again, it's sad that a 15/16-year-old boy doesn't know about that kind of stuff. Sex Ed is important and prevents many bad things!

76points

Prestigious_Sweet_50 Report

#37

Why I was really young my sister told me she threw her guts up. So I was really afraid of vomiting my entire insides up for years.

Final score:

34points

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Jake B 1 year ago

You can just stuff them back in. It’ll be fine.

14points

creamstripping4jesus Report

#38

That Jacques Cousteau was a real person. I always just thought he was a fictional character like Sherlock Holmes until I was in my 30s.

Final score:

34points

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ₜₕₐₜₒₙₑgₐy 1 year ago

Jacques Cousteau was an absolute legend

4points

ineverlikedanything , Kari Sullivan Report

#39

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group That the porta potty doesn’t somehow know when someone’s inside. That the sign only changes to “occupied” when you physically lock the door. Many people walked in on me during my childhood.

EDIT: I was dragged to many outdoor craft fairs and whatnot as a child. So I had to use them more often than most other children.

Final score:

33points

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bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 1 year ago

When I was a teenager, I worked shoveling sugar beets. Only girl on site. Only a port a potty. Of course, massive periods on work days. SO embarrassing. I just kept wadding up more TP and trying to aim it towards the pads. Then we ran out of TP, something else to blame the rib for. Even if it was technically my fault.

1point

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

#40

Let me tell you about how I thought you were awarded a "Pullet Surprise"

BendyBrains Report

Final score:

32points

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zak 1 year ago

Anyone else misread that as "Pullout Surprise", or am I the only one with a dirty mind 😅

30points

#41

I thought ponies were just baby horses until the age of 23.

EDIT: Until I was 23, I didn’t think horses aged like turtles. I’m dumb, but not *that* dumb.

Lowkey_Retarded Report

Final score:

32points

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Sam Juan 1 year ago

As soon as they turn 23, ponies become full grown, adult horses.

16points

#42

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group A few months ago 2 of my colleagues both handed in their notice at around the same time. I kept reading/hearing the sentence ‘they’re both moving on to pastures new’ being thrown about the office in the weeks leading up to them leaving and I hadn’t heard this phrase before and thought that was the name of the rival company that they were going to. I thought it was weird that nobody was talking about how they were both leaving for the same company.

I was in the car with one of the ones who was leaving and said ‘so where is that you and X are going to be working? Is it..’ and just before I could embarrass myself and say ‘pastures new’, they interrupted me and said they’re not going to the same place and asked me where I had heard that. I think at that moment I realised I was stupid and didn’t mention it again.

WorriedSoft , Kurt Nordstrom Report

Final score:

29points

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wyngerd 1 year ago

I don't get it, "pastures new"? Help english is my fourth language and I am not advanced enough to get it.

8points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

#43

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group That a coma was "A" coma. Until I was probably 19~ I thought it was acoma. I thought you fell into acoma.

FightWithBrickWalls , Pixabay Report

Final score:

28points

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ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ 1 year ago

I think one time I said "an acoma" and that's when I learned

19points

#44

My parents were divorced the whole time and my mom was not, in fact, taking a vacation lmao

artemus_who Report

Final score:

27points

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Ricardo Ferreira 1 year ago

*surprised Pikachu face*

2points

#45

In the last year I found out peanut butter is brown. I’m 34. And horrendously colourblind, if that wasn’t obvious.

DefiantEmpoleon Report

Final score:

22points

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TheNightOwl 1 year ago

Come on, how were you supposed to know that? “I mean, could you really like someone with curly red hair?” “And what’s wrong with curly red hair?” “What’s your problem, Invisible Man?” “I have curly red hair!” “Well how was I supposed to know that?”

22points

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Magnifico Giganticus 1 year ago

I thought there might be a god until I was 7 or 8.

21points

1 year ago

Don't know why you were downvoted. Not everyone has to believe in God or anything.

11points

Lene 1 year ago

I had a cassette tape as a kid with the story of Adam and Eve. I'm told I would get really angry if ppl questioned God because I thought he was real because I could hear his voice (the speak-actor) on the tape. I think I was 6-7 years old when I realized it was not God. Lol.

1point

Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

I grew up in a catholic family, although thankfully my own parents were not that bad, but my aunts are bat sh** crazy about it. Regardless, when I learned about Adam and Eve in Religion and the Ape theory in Biology, my little kids brain came up with this explanation: when Adam and Eve were thrown out of Paradise, they (or their descendants) devolved into ape like humans and then the evolution started. lol

1point

Kim Armand Nielsen 1 year ago

There might be a god. But i dont think any religion have a clue of how it is. Religions are oldschool politics: Made to controll the masses :-|

0points

Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

For the computer people: I was once asked for a "Comedy-Limited Askey" file (instead of comma-delimited ASCII); and I told someone in a training session to download a file to C:\TEMP, and they complained it wasn't working. They had written "C:BACKSLASHTEMP". These were both professionals in an office.

12points

The Original Bruno 1 year ago

Don't crack jokes about my a*s key.

5points

Javel! 1 year ago

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7points

Tardis42 1 year ago

Was terribly afraid of thunder as a kid. My mother said it was just clouds bumping into each other. When I was about 14 I said in a group outside my family, "I know thunder is just clouds bumping into each other, but that doesn't make me feel better. What the heck is in a cloud?!"

6points

majandess 1 year ago

I kinda like this explanation, though.

2points

Charity Angel 1 year ago

I was told it was clouds bumping together too! I believed that for *way* longer than I should.

1point

Lene 1 year ago

My kids are told in kindergarten that thunder comes when two clouds want to have the same space in the sky. The thunder comes from them fighting. Lol. And... it must be so confusing to them that I then tell them about Thor and his goats and that it's his wagon in the sky that makes the thunder and lightning. Lol.

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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

Wait… they do not do that? Kidding. But I thought the same for a long time.

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1 year ago

I thought "Kinky" meant "cool" for the longest time...

5points

Mickysixxx 1 year ago

Haha I can imagine the looks "So I went to the movies" "oh kinky" *side eyes from the group* "anyhoo............

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Old Daddy Funk 1 year ago

We lived by a river that flowed into Lake Huron. When we'd travel at night the shipping channel was lighted with buoys. When I was little I asked my mom what they were and she said 'buoys'. Until my teens I though little boys sat out on a floating thing with a light to keep the ships from running aground.

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Paul K. Johnson 1 year ago

My deceased wife was extremely intelligent in some ways and profoundly ignorant in others. We're driving to North Carolina. We get to I75. Signs says "North Atlanta/South Miami". She asks, "Which way?" It's at that point I realize I'm with the wrong person.

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GenericPanda09 1 year ago

It took me 50yrs before I learned that simmering isn't just boiling on a lower heat.

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memyselfandI 1 year ago

It’s not? What is it then?

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Tracy Creamer 1 year ago

I’m 59 and I always thought summer was the lowest heat. Dang! Been cooking wrong all these years 😂😢

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majandess 1 year ago (edited)

Well, apparently, it took me 45 years because I had no idea. I just thought you turned the heat down because once the water's hot, it doesn't need as much heat to stay there. Thank you!

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Lisa T 1 year ago

My daughter was 16 when she realised that seagulls weren’t baby pelicans 😂

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Sardonyx_3 1 year ago

I had the same idea growing up. (Although at a much younger age)

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Nolgoth 1 year ago

Have a friend that thought All Saints Day was a special holiday specifically for the New Orleans Saints. She grew up in new orleans so it made sense to her as a kid.

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Greta Kolding 1 year ago

I found out recently that SoMe is just short for social media. Up till then I assumed it was some kind of follow up to #metoo.

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Lene 1 year ago

A few years ago I also realized what SoMe was. But I still read it with the voice of a bored to death teenager in my head: soooooo mee.... 🙄. I think that when I'm 100 years old I'll still hear that teenager in my head. Haha!

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RKBJR82 1 year ago

Hot as Hades. Not Hot as Haiti. I thought Haiti must be super hot. Just learned as a 37 yo.

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majandess 1 year ago

My mom (73) was talking on the phone with me yesterday, and she thought pencil lead was actually lead. When I told her it wasn't lead, it was graphite, she thought that maybe that had lead in it. Nope. It's carbon. The reason it's called lead is a leftover from when graphite was first discovered in 1565 in England - not knowing as much about chemistry as we do now, they thought it was a form of lead. They would literally cut sticks of it to write with. But kids don't get lead poisoning from chewing on pencils, Mom.

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Mickysixxx 1 year ago

My beautiful wife is always mixing up sayings. My favourite one she often says is "Hang ya horses" lol it's just another thing I love about her

1point

Kim Armand Nielsen 1 year ago

For some reason have i always wetted my toothbrush. It was only when i as adult bought an electric toothbrush i found the foaming of the toothpaste unpractical and realised toothpaste is to be used ‘dry’.

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Stylishsidewaysbird 1 year ago

Some of these are sweet and funny....the rest is a sad commentary on the public education system.

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Amanda Abel 1 year ago

My husband argued with me that reindeer are imaginary. I had to go to Google for proof that they are not, in fact, pretend...this man was 32 at the time🙃

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Prince of Darkness 1 year ago

a better title for this would be "35 different ways to say 'dumb as a bag of hammers'"

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Bonnie Doyle 1 year ago

I thought you could swim under an island. That islands were just pieces of land floating around in the ocean. I was 45 when my brother set me straight. I have a 52 yr old friend that didn't know that pee and babies don't come from the same opening until I told her how a catheter works with both the female & male anatomy. She was shocked. She also thought only boy cows had horns.

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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

For the non english speakers: when I was around 11 and very bad at English, there was this song „shut up and sleep with me, come on shut up and sleep with me…“. I need to mention here, that I grew up in Germany and we had relatively many kids of Russian descend in our school. So, being the fool I was, I asked a Russian girl what „sharrap“ meant, because *obviously* that was a Russian word!

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Lene 1 year ago

Haha! That song! I remember I thought it was such a cool song... but then I learned English and....yeah, it's fun but not that cool. Haha! Thank you for reminding me of this song. 😂

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April C 1 year ago

My 70 year old stepmother asked me why she gets emails from someone called Nore Ply who never answers. She was so earnest I didn't dare laugh but I could tell she was embarrassed when I explained.

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Lene 1 year ago

Aww.... sometimes elderly ppl just can't quite wrap their head around things that younger ppl take for granted. My grandma was in her early 90s when my cousin and I visited her and she was so confused: the night before she had seen a film on TV where London got flooded and she had no idea how they could show a flooded London on TV when it wasn't flooded in real life. My cousin and I tried to tell her that you can do such great drawings on computers that you can make such fake footage. Am not sure she understood it at all.

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Magnifico Giganticus 1 year ago

I thought there might be a god until I was 7 or 8.

21points

1 year ago

Don't know why you were downvoted. Not everyone has to believe in God or anything.

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Lene 1 year ago

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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

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Kim Armand Nielsen 1 year ago

There might be a god. But i dont think any religion have a clue of how it is. Religions are oldschool politics: Made to controll the masses :-|

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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

Don't crack jokes about my a*s key.

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Javel! 1 year ago

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Tardis42 1 year ago

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majandess 1 year ago

I kinda like this explanation, though.

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Charity Angel 1 year ago

I was told it was clouds bumping together too! I believed that for *way* longer than I should.

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Lene 1 year ago

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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

Wait… they do not do that? Kidding. But I thought the same for a long time.

0points

1 year ago

I thought "Kinky" meant "cool" for the longest time...

5points

Mickysixxx 1 year ago

Haha I can imagine the looks "So I went to the movies" "oh kinky" *side eyes from the group* "anyhoo............

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Old Daddy Funk 1 year ago

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Paul K. Johnson 1 year ago

3points

GenericPanda09 1 year ago

It took me 50yrs before I learned that simmering isn't just boiling on a lower heat.

3points

memyselfandI 1 year ago

It’s not? What is it then?

1point

Tracy Creamer 1 year ago

I’m 59 and I always thought summer was the lowest heat. Dang! Been cooking wrong all these years 😂😢

0points

majandess 1 year ago (edited)

Well, apparently, it took me 45 years because I had no idea. I just thought you turned the heat down because once the water's hot, it doesn't need as much heat to stay there. Thank you!

0points

Lisa T 1 year ago

My daughter was 16 when she realised that seagulls weren’t baby pelicans 😂

3points

Sardonyx_3 1 year ago

I had the same idea growing up. (Although at a much younger age)

1point

Nolgoth 1 year ago

Have a friend that thought All Saints Day was a special holiday specifically for the New Orleans Saints. She grew up in new orleans so it made sense to her as a kid.

2points

Greta Kolding 1 year ago

I found out recently that SoMe is just short for social media. Up till then I assumed it was some kind of follow up to #metoo.

2points

Lene 1 year ago

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RKBJR82 1 year ago

Hot as Hades. Not Hot as Haiti. I thought Haiti must be super hot. Just learned as a 37 yo.

1point

majandess 1 year ago

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Mickysixxx 1 year ago

My beautiful wife is always mixing up sayings. My favourite one she often says is "Hang ya horses" lol it's just another thing I love about her

1point

Kim Armand Nielsen 1 year ago

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Stylishsidewaysbird 1 year ago

Some of these are sweet and funny....the rest is a sad commentary on the public education system.

0points

Amanda Abel 1 year ago

My husband argued with me that reindeer are imaginary. I had to go to Google for proof that they are not, in fact, pretend...this man was 32 at the time🙃

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Prince of Darkness 1 year ago

a better title for this would be "35 different ways to say 'dumb as a bag of hammers'"

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Bonnie Doyle 1 year ago

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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

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Lene 1 year ago

Haha! That song! I remember I thought it was such a cool song... but then I learned English and....yeah, it's fun but not that cool. Haha! Thank you for reminding me of this song. 😂

0points

April C 1 year ago

My 70 year old stepmother asked me why she gets emails from someone called Nore Ply who never answers. She was so earnest I didn't dare laugh but I could tell she was embarrassed when I explained.

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Lene 1 year ago

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