apply conditioner
― the deee-lite psa (kkvgz), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't know that luggage went into airplane cargo holds until I was about 14. I just thought there was a massive series of underground tubes/conveyor belts that whisked luggage to other parts of the continent. I only questioned this when I first contemplated how luggage got over the ocean. I made the mistake of asking this aloud in front of some friends who looked at me like I was crazy/making a bad joke and then I finally learned how the great modern phenomenon of air travel truly works, the end.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
salsa shark, are you familiar with the burrito tunnel?
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
why tits bounce
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Also soap operas were so poperas in my head until a revelatory moment I can still remember, when I was sitting on the stairs at home. I realised it was nothing to do with the fact they were 'so popular'
This is awesome! I love it when someone's misconception is more logical than the truth.
Me, I learned last year (age 42) that ponies are not just really young horses.
― boring wank about Linda's pies and Denny Laine's tunings (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i learned that ingmar and ingrid bergman were NOT brother and sister only a couple of years ago
― badtz-maruizm (donna rouge), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Right. They're mother and son, of course.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
no, they are the same person, before and after sex change. Surely everyone knows this?
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
nobody told me that beards were itchy!
― Bus to Yoker (dog latin), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 5:30 AM (7 hours ago)
there's that day and a half when stubbly turns to furry, and then after that it's ok
― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
...unless you are not, in fact, a person with a beard, but rather a clean shaven-person who is kissing the person with the beard, in which case the only way to stop the itching and scratching is to grow a beard of your own so as to cushion yourself from the other person's beard. this works best if both of you are men.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
or a dwarf woman
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
not all dwarf women have facial hair, coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green).
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Me too.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
They can still be if you want them to be. Just like how rhinos are obese unicorns.
― StanM, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarves_(Middle-earth)#cite_note-17
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Despite having read the pony/horse thing here and in the previous thread, I still don't think my mind is willing to accept it.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
A pony is a small horse (breed), and a young horse is generally also a small horse, so it's not that weird of a belief.
― mh, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I on the other hand am a stallion
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
--I used to think death metal vocals could only be achieved using studio manipulation--when I was like 10 years old I used to think those raspy high pitched hard rock singers a la Brian Johnson, the dude from Cinderella, Rob halford, et al, were demonic or were achieving those sounds due to some pact with the devil, so when I got the Wayne's World soundtrack Cinderella's "Hot and Bothered" scared me so I always skipped it.
― Motel Kamzoil, P.I. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I was also like 20 when I realized many live albums were overdubbed and it didn't provet hey really could pull it off live
― Motel Kamzoil, P.I. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Realized I was going around pronouncing "wolf" like "woof" when I was about 30 years old.
― Darin, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
larry the cable guy is a racist turd
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
that alt-print screen allows screen capture of only the active window
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Whaaaaaaat?!
36 years old; just learned that.
― Jesse, Thursday, 16 June 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
haha I had to send a bunch of screen prints of stuff at work recently, and the receivers would a) complain that they were too big (I have 2 monitors) and b) supervisors commented on how many IM windows I had open...then a friend who was on email group I was sending them to finally told me the alt-print secret
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 16 June 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I learned Alt+Print at work too, but we use SnagIt so for the most part I don't need it...
― Nebuchadnezzar Buchanan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 June 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Still can't tie my shoelaces properly. I mean I can tie them and everything but they come undone about 10/15 times per day. Found out a couple of my friends call it 'doing a Dan' when someone's shoelace comes undone.
― owenf, Thursday, 16 June 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes.html
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 17 June 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
^ He has a trick to fix your problem.
I learned stupidly late that the Nazis were the first to send a rocket to space & that Sputnik was really just the first orbiting satellite. they didn't teach me about V-2's in grade school, although there was plenty of talk about local (central Massachusetts) rocketeer Robert Goddard, who never made it to space and wasn't a Nazi.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Friday, 17 June 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I just showed my 44 year old wife CTRL Z. But she doesn't post here so I'm having to tell you.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 17 June 2011 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I only learned that FDR sent Japanese-Americans to concentration camps about five years ago; never heard this in high school.
Now apparently it's ALL high schoolers know about WWII.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Gah, I hate it when that happens.
Wait though, what other kinds of satellites are there?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, there's the moon...
― Mark G, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty much everything after wwii i had to learn on my own. i don't remember a single history class that actually made it past that point. way to schedule, school district.
― it seems i am the larry (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
that's true for me, too. odd, huh?
― remy bean, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
lol OTM
basically, everything I know about the Korean War I learned from "M*A*S*H"
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha xps, no-one's convincing me that Sputnik's place in history is as the second satellite.
(yes I know there might be a couple of others, and anyway for that matter isn't the moon an orbiting satellite too?!)
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
hello?
― Mark G, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
the best was that in 11th or 12th grade we took a "current events" course (called something else) (this would have been around 1994-1996) and it was like WHAT ABOUT THE 50 YEARS IN BETWEEN.
― it seems i am the larry (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
^rejected Odgen Nash manuscript
― Nebuchadnezzar Buchanan (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I took a class my senior year in HS -- this would have been 1986-87 -- called "20th Century America," which basically covered the Depression up to about Watergate.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
That's not including most of the last verse of Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" then.
― Mark G, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I think if I were teaching US history I would start with a 1- or 2-day "state of the union" address and close it with "how did we get here? starting tomorrow we'll back up 300 years and work it all out."
― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ That's how I've always thought US history should be taught!
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i would love to sit in on a history class now, actually
― it seems i am the larry (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I would have been a good teacher.
― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I for one demand the teachings of the rock and roller cola wars.
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
if i was a teacher i'm pretty sure i'd be saying "i can't take it anymore" on a daily basis
― it seems i am the larry (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha!
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Friday, 17 June 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link