I dated a guy in high school. He got a parking ticket and instead of paying it he went to court, not to plead not guilty but to PAY the ticket. I tried to tell him how to pay the $3.00 ticket before it became a $20.00 ticket but he just kept saying I was wrong. I told him to read the ticket which clearly stated that if he paid, at the town office or at one of the many pay kiosks, within 10 days at which time the fine would become $20.00. He absolutely insisted he had to go to court. I went with him and when they called his case he was told that there had been an error on his ticket so they were going to cancel the ticket. He went apeshit! He screamed l’ll pay, I’ll pay and waved a bunch of bills in the air. Everyone just stared then the judge said, well, if you insist. If you go to court there was another fine so he paid $40.00 for a $3.00 ticket. He was so proud and relieved. I again explained and so did his friends and family We didn’t last much longer.
@@Sysleeper22 small town years ago. If you paid the ticket within 10 days it was $3.00 after 10 days it was $20.00 unless you went to court and lost then an extra $10.00 surcharge was added.
A lot of the silly things I said when I was younger came from having severe gaps in my education from homeschooling or my hearing/speech impediments. I appreciate you pointing out that somebody not knowing something doesn't mean they aren't intelligent.
I kind of see where you're coming from. As a Brit living in the States, if Big Jessie (6' plus and named Jessie) ever finds out what that means in Scottish parlance, I'm going to need a running start!
Not someone I dated, but this entire video reminds me of a One Topic video. Poor OT was freaking about a clip of an armadillo he was reacting to. He was like: "Is that a Pokemon? Is that a real animal? That can't be real!" Guy had never seen an armadillo before. It was cute and wholesome. : )
@@aboveaverageazzuen2684Canada I think, but not every place has armadillos or would have seen them even if they are native. I remember on tumblr where someone pointed out Armadillos were in a few old horror movies and people didn't think they were real. So first time seeing one was... Interesting
Reminds me of a friend's kid who kept asking "what's that?" to things she knew so I took to replying "it's an aardvark!" Then one day there was one on animal planet and I said, "Look, there's an aardvark!" She looked at me and exclaimed in disbelief, "uh-uhhh!"
Story 20: Well, I think it comes down to wanting to be with someone whose beliefs you can respect, even if they're not your own. If you can't do that with their core beliefs and vice versa, then it was never going to work. Period.
Respecting another person’s beliefs is a really important thing and we all should for the most part but some beliefs, mostly in things like cults, deserve no respect because of what they do to people.
My husband's step father is a real piece of work. 😂 He's all kinds of wrong in so many ways. My favorite story from my experiences with him is the time he tried to convince me & hubby that dogs can't look up!! He was absolutely serious 🤣🤣🤣🤣 We still talk about it to this day..
Story 27 about the directionally challenged girlfriend reminded me about a conversation I had with my sister-in-law. Our father-in-law asked a question about an upcoming weather event as to what direction it would be coming in from. It was between 4 and 5 PM in late August, in central Louisiana, on a mostly sunny day. This is very relevant. I pointed to the south-east (where it would be coming from) and sis-in-law pointed north north-east. This started a discussion about which way was North. I ended up pointing at the literal sun saying, "this is West!" This absolute gem was hollered at me..."I don't care where the sun is, Jessica. That's North!" While pointing to the left of the sun. I will never let her live that down! 💙💙
Story 29: To be fair, giraffes _can_ be very dangerous. In the wild, males will fight by swinging their necks at each others' bodies, using their heads like wrecking balls to score hits with their ossicles (those little blunt horns on their heads). This can break ribs and rupture organs on adult giraffes; humans are much smaller and more fragile. A couple more things: Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as humans (7), and do not have vocal cords 😄 Edit: Just googled giraffes and found out a bit more..... They sometimes regurgitate previously-eaten food to re-chew it. They can also vomit, but they have a four-chambered stomach (the first two of which use fermentation for digestion instead of acid) like a cow, so any vomit usually doesn't go past the second or first chamber from the fourth. _Very_ rarely do they expel vomit from their mouths, but it does happen. Rarely.
I did a similar thing to the word misunderstanding kid! When I was 15, I knew what flipping someone off or giving them the finger meant, but I also thought that fingering someone was another term for that action. In my defense, i was a bit sheltered and had a lot of slang to catch up on!
Not someone I was dating, but my step-uncle (well, my dad's family in general). I was 11 or 12 and had just learned the word "idiosyncrasies" from a story I read online and was told not to call my sister an idiot by his daughter when I said it. I explained what it meant and he said I was just trying to make people feel stupid, I guess because I dared use a word with more than two syllables. I also grew up with shows that taught languages, so I'd often mix them with English, and sometimes drop, say, French and Japanese in the same sentence. I was again told by the adults that I was just trying to make everyone feel stupid, so I stopped doing that, too. I'm now 28 and still barely speak at all, and those assholes haven't even been in my life since I was 14.
Big Bird makes me think of 2 things: Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first" skit and the tv series, Taxi. Jim, played by Christopher Lloyd, was taking the written part of the driving test. If he failed, no taxi for him. The others went along to help. Jim comes across a question he doesn't know the answer to. He whispers, "what does a yellow light mean?" They whisper back, "slow down!" So he asks more slowly, "what. does. a. yellow. light. mean?" They repeat this dialog to a howling audience until the laughter died down.
I think I was a teenager at the time, but I once met a guy who thought reindeer weren’t real because they pulled Santa Claus’s sleigh. I told him no, they’re not magic but reindeer are real. He didn’t believe me.
I also feel like one thing those people have in common is the fact, that when corrected, they insist they are right, which of course prevents them from realizing their mistake and not repeating it.
My first ex spent $800 on speakers from a “friend” and couldn’t understand 1: why they didn’t work 2: where this “friend” went 3: why he didn’t have money to pay rent
Never dated but GF's cousin was someone who thought "knowing things" just happened and had no control over her life. She was on strong pain meds for a wrecked knee, left it until the last minute and found that she couldn't get another refill without a doctor's visit - a month out through the VA. I had to get her some pot through my contacts and teach her how to smoke to get her through the pain. I smoke but not pot so by the time I'd got through to her, through demonstration and 3 attempts, I had to go for a lie down.
So the girl that was miseducated on running form wasn't that far off on holding your breath when running. The issue is that tip is for sprinters, as holding your breath diverts resources away from your diaphragm (membrane of muscle that sits at the bottom of your ribcage and drives your lungs the way a blacksmith would run hid or her forge by cranking on the bellows) and shift that over for your limbs. Sprinting forms like this is great for launching your body like a rocket ship, getting you about 100-200 meters away from where you started in less than a minute. However, it sounds like OP and his then prospective girlfriend were trying to do endurance running, and that DOES require you to have a constant and consistent breathing rhythm as sprinting is designed to use anaerobic power (pretty much the emergency reserves your body can use without breathing) to get to a relatively close position quickly, while endurance running is based around aerobic power (conventional energy that's only released by the biochemical reaction in each of our bodies' cells that gives them energy at the expense of calorie-bearing material and oxygen). As for the rest of that girl's form, yes, the arms are supposed to cross the chest with limp, dead-fish-esc hands at the ends, but this is supposed to stop just as the opposite foot is hitting the ground and that hand isn't supposed to either touch anything else besides any wristbands you might have chosen to wear, and it should go at most to your body's centerline (that means for you ladies, at this point, your right foot is firmly planted on the ground while your left hand should be, assuming your 170cm tall, about 8cm below your boobs and about 3 cm away from your stomach). As for what the legs are doing, they should be making a perfectly elliptical cycle, like how the pedals on a bike work without any flailing out to the sides at all.
I’ve dated two people with shareable stories, one didn’t know what a McDonalds was and thought the Big Mac was my Ex boyfriend and the other guy (keep in mind were 17 at the time) thought tampons were a form of birth control and once I explained the difference it lead to him getting the talk from me
8:16 As someone from Europe I say since Europe and Asia don't have a body of water dividing them, they're one landmass. However, since I also tend to be a bit of a lumper, I also thought like "well, neither the Suez nor Panama Canals are substantial nor natural enough to truly separate the continents, so we might as well lump everything into like Eurasia and America + Australia and Antarctica" (also let's lump the eastern islands of Indonesia in alongside Papua and Australia proper into the continent of Australia or Australasia, because relatively similar wildlife when compared to the rest of maritime southeast Asia, and also let's treat the Pacific Islands (including New Zealand) as their own continentless world zone)
He wasn't really stupid though, but once he asked me that when I read a book, do I imagine the things I read? And when I said yes, he complimented me for it. Another time he also complimented me for being able to listen to music and also doing something else next to it, like "Whoaaaa, you can listen to music and you can draw at the same time? :o"
When I was 17 I had a cancerous growth in my Uvula. I kept telling people I had a growth on my Vulva. Everyone let me say this for a week or two until. My best friends sister told me that as a male I did not have such a body part.
I am reminded of a story of my mother's first husband (not my father). He was a doctor so a relatively smart person but having never interacted with a car beyond driving it he had little knowledge of how they worked. While my grandfather on her side ran his own 1 person mechanic shop. First off this guy thought mechanics were a scam and second when he complained his A/C, or maybe it was his heater I forget, didn't work in his Corvette and my mother suggested checking the anti-freeze his response was "You can't touch that it's sealed from the factory." She took a look under the hood and the radiator was almost bone dry. Once she put more in, it worked fine...she also happened to impress him by fixing his 8-track player when they were dating for a time frame. She has always been rather good at this sort of stuff something which seems to have been passed on to me and my siblings.
Europe and Asia separate geological locations mainly because of the cultural diffusion .Some instants combine three continents together to form Afroeurasia.
Europe and Asia are considered separate continents because the two are linguistically, ethnically, culturally, politically, and historically different from each other. At least that is what I read. It doesn't really have anything to do with tectonic plates in this case.
Not someone I dated but a coworker in Maryland once. I was tired of the east coast and was getting ready to move to Washington state. Guy asks me where it is, so I tell him it's in the NW corner of the continental US along the border of Canada. He proceeds to look at me confused before asking "Canada goes that far? I thought it was only above New York". This blew my damn mind as the guy was in his 50s. After informing him Canada runs along pretty much the entire northern border he shrugs and says "I'm not good with -history-, thats my daughters thing".
I have a working theory that the smarter someone is, the less common sense they have. Example, my cousin is an MIT grad with a doctorate. He once spilled pop on his keyboard and decided to wash it in the sink to clean it. Another is an ex girlfriend that was getting her doctorate. She was convinced that you got better mileage by speeding up then coasting instead of using the cruise control. I only had an associate degree and just didn’t know what I was talking about.
my theory is that they have a doctorate in stupidity, because they are hella good at it, let me brake it to you, doctorates don't mean a fu, I'm tired of seeing people with official degrees of any kind yet stupid as a rock, the education system everywhere on earth sucks, my own degree means absolutely nothing because literally nothing I know was learned from it but instead of personal study
Story 6: I live near that museum! It’s called the The Met Cloisters and It’s one of my favorite museums. it has beautiful medieval artworks, gardens and The Unicorn Tapestry mentioned in the story is amazing. If you want to check it out next time your in New York City, take the A train uptown to 190th and you’ll be right at the entrance to the park, pretty much all paths in the park lead to the Cloisters
Story 22- I have an older sister and brother, there's only a year between them but an 8 and 9 year gap from me. So when I was pre-school they used to get me to go ask adults what certain swear words meant, this usually elicited a burst of laughter from anyone within ear shot, and although being told numerous times that I shouldn't say those words, it had taught me that adults laughed when I said them. Boy, but primary school DID NOT appreciate my sense of humour lol!
Story 14: it’s a worry because she doubled down and just assumed a whole lot of people just got together and wanted to throw her off by calling a killer whale an orca
Story 27 reminded me of a conversation I had with my nephew many years ago. He was about 5 and I was around 18. I lived in New Hampshire and he lived in Florida. When I was down there visiting, I told him I lived up north and he thought I meant in the sky. He couldn't see any land up there and was confused. I couldn't figure out how to explain this to him, especially since how young he was. The poor kid just wanted to understand and I felt bad.
Story 29: Yes, giraffes CAN be dangerous, especially wild ones not imprinted on humans. They can swing their head at you and bludgeon you with the ossicones on top of their heads. Also, they are capable of powerful kicks as well. Still, such actions are rare and only when they feel provoked.
Shocking number of guys I went to high school with said they wouldn't read after graduation. Not just books or magazines but anything at all. As soon as they graduated they were done with reading. Yup. Very happy I moved out of that town.
I'm the dumb-dumb sometimes. I sometimes get brain-blips, or I get certain words mixed up or mispronounced. My boyfriend has a degree in English, and often gently corrects me. Here are two of my favorites: Me: (referring to a smoothie our friend got). Can I try it? I've never had acacia berries before. BF:...You mean acai? Me: (while moving house). These boxes are so heavy. I wish we knew someone who's like a muscle-builder or something. BF: (laughing) Did you mean a bodybuilder? We usually have a good laugh about it. I always appreciate him correcting me with my little mix ups. So many people worry about offending me, but I'd rather know my mistakes, so I don't make them again in the future.
Heh. I stayed at a motel in a somewhat sketchy area recently. At the office, next to the door, there was an intercom with a doorbell and a sign saying “ring bell for entry.” I tried the door first, then rang the bell, looked through the glass door at the clerk behind the counter, tugged on the door again, then looked back at the clerk waiting for a click or a buzz or something. The clerk sighed, walked around the counter, then pulled the door open from his side. I had been so focused on the non-functional intercom, doorbell, and sign off to the side that I completely missed the word PUSH in large letters across the glass door.
So as far as I remember right, from my high school classes, Europe and Asia are differentiated because of history. There is nothing geographical that seperates them (Normally the Ural mountains are taken as the border), but because historically there was such a big difference, and I think also because all the history we learn (in Europe and probably in North and South America too, since they were colonialized) Is about the history that affects our country/region the most. And until some hundred years ago, there wasn't much exchange between most of Asia and Europe. So this is more of a historical border that exists. My speculation is also that during colonialism there was a point to be made, that if it is another continent it is morally more ok to oppress them, so they used this as reasoning. So i think it really just is historical, and nobody ever changed it, because everybody learnt it like this.
26:45 my sister is like that….she’s smart, graduated with a bachelor degree….but sometimes common sense escapes her. She still can’t tell her left hand from her right….she’s not stupid, but she really doesn’t get some stuff like that 😂
Not someone I dated. I used to be a part of a movie meetup group that had a rotating cast of people who would come and go. We were out to dinner before some movie or another when one of the members that had come a handful of times joined us. At some point the conversation mentions, err... the villains of Raiders of the Lost Ark (not sure if I can type the actual word on TH-cam). It had come up in a conversation about movies, probably in a movie villain sense or the Tarantino movie, but I forget the exact context as its been a few years. Anyway, the guy has a confused look on his face and asks "what's a...?" At first we all think it's a joke, like that Redditor who pretended not to know what a potato was, but this guy was not an Oscar-winning actor and it soon became very clear he genuinely had never heard the word before. He was a grown American man in his late 20s, early 30s. To this day my friends and I have no idea how he never once in his life came across the word. To our credit we didn't mock him for this (we were too baffled by the whole ordeal honestly) and gave a brief explanation before promptly changing the subject.
I amazed a girl when I showed her that hot water freezes more quickly than water at room temperature. You know... typical 3rd grade science fair fodder. Perfectly reasonable that she didn't know that, as it is counter intuitive. We left it at that. We had dinner several years later. She was cooking the meal, pasta, but it was taking forever. She had become confused by what I showed her years prior, and thought that cold water would boil faster (the exact opposite). So instead of putting water on the stove to boil, she was filling dozens of ice cube trays. Apparently she would wait for the water to semi-freeze, then dump the slush in a pot and boil it. She had been doing this for years. ______________________ This one is from a friend of mine, but worthy of sharing. A female friend of mine (Jewish) was dating this guy (not Jewish). He wasn't antisemitic, but he clearly grew up around people who were and got some very odd ideas in his head. So they've been dating for a while, and it's finally time for him to meet her parents. He's the sort of guy to put his foot in his mouth, then double down... When the conversation, just typical small talk, turned to a local sporting event, believing the stereotypes that Jews can't play sports, he was shocked that they had any interest, and innocently inquired about how they knew so much, being Jewish. They laughed it off awkwardly, thinking it a bad joke. He pressed further, and her father attempted to explain that was just a stereotype. There are fewer practicing Jewish athletes because the majority of pee-wee sports, school sports etc fall on the Sabbath. People work or go to school Monday through Friday, and the overwhelming Christian majority in the U.S. keep Sunday clear for worship, not Saturday. A reasonable explanation, and this guy would know. But the boy insisted that it was genetics. Then the daughter's boyfriend spewed some garbage about how it's a heritable trait, etc. and tried to explain it in "technical terms". The girl's father, despite being Jewish, worked as a geneticist, and got his education on a Baseball scholarship. Even after knowing this, he wouldn't shut up. Of course, that was years ago, and every time I see any of them, they tell that story. I think I've heard it about 30 times now, lol. I did date her a few times after she dumped the jack-ass, and I would like to thank him for lowering the bar, it really took the edge off. I could have sauntered in there drunk, with a steel spike through my skull, eating from a bag of lead paint chips, and still been considered an improvement over the last guy, lol.
You're telling me that hot water freezes faster? How is that possible? Hot water has more energy, so it would have to take more time to convect enough to change states. I don't believe you.
@@andrewvelonis5940the process of convection is higher in hot water so hot water loses heat faster than water at room temperature so hot water freezes faster because it cools faster.
I once overheard a discussion between two girls whether our country has 10 or 11 provinces. It's 12 and has been since the 50's. Not saying anything about intelligence but it was funny hearing them argue.
13:22 octonauts is teaching little baby children about orcas and killer whales she probably just didn't watch octonauts which is a shame cuz that show is epic
She wanted to rush being married and I turned her down serval times as we had only been dating 3 months. She thought that if she put out and pretend that she was pregnant, something she said was impossible for her and reiterated that after she told me she was lying, that I'd marry her. I still turned her down and she stopped putting out and stopped texting me saying she needed space. So I stopped trying after a few weeks. She eventually wrote to me saying she wanted to go on a date again and I foolishly obliged cause I had nothing better to do. She acted like nothing happened and then told me she still needed space right after I dropped her off. I was confused and just stopped texting altogether. She tried to get me back for months and tried making me jealous and then finally slipped up about what her intentions were. She was not a citizen. And I was able to deduce that she was looking to get citizenship through marriage. It all made sense after that. Stopped talking to her altogether after that and she would occasionally call or text about me to try and bring me over to her place and it never worked
I had to go look up what a "Mary Sue" was. I have an advanced degree and a great deal of life experience and self-education, but yes, some blank spots as well. I am sure there are ways I could use my computer and my phone more efficiently, but I don't know anyone I could ask.
19:43 When I was a young child, I liked to use big words to try and make myself look smarter. But I didn't always 100% understand what the words meant. My mum still brings up the time I had a stomach ache, and went to tell her. I guess I was trying to say my "intestines" hurt. But instead, I went up and told my mum that my "testicles" hurt. This left my mum very confused as to what part of her young daughter was hurting 😂
I'm gonna be honest, I've heard the geometry/geography story on other channels and this is the first time the connection was made. Other narrators have laughed along like she was dumb for talking about maps.
I told her I was extremely busy that month. I sent her my calander because it was easier than typing everything in a text. She responds by asking "what does your calendar mean?" She didn't know what Reddit is. I tried to explain what vestibular migraines are and she was like, oh I've had vertigo, too. I know what those are like. I'm like, no, you don't. Vertigo is only part of it. When I sent a picture of the rotational chair used for treatment she said it looked like it would cause migraines and it's bad that my vestibular therapist was having me use it. FOR MEDICALLY APPROVED TREATMENT. I could go on. She's a nice lady and I really don't dislike her. She's just...intellectually deficient.
I wouldn't call him stupid but my husband one day asked in 2014 why Bernie Mac wasn't making any more movies or shows because he was a great actor. I looked at him in the eye and asked him if he was being serious and when he said yes, I had to tell him that Bernie died in 2008. The reason why I said I wouldn't call my husband stupid was because he doesn't follow celebrity media because he thinks it's a waste of time so he genuinely did not know that Bernie had died in 08.
Story 1: Copyright doesn't cover plots. It mostly covers the text itself, proper names, and characters. A good example is that 50 Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fan fiction, but the author later changed enough elements to publish. You can see the same story structure by reading both books. I'm not recommending anyone do this, except as an example of just how close plots can be. Story 5: The separation of Europe & Asia is cultural and is primarily taught in English-speaking countries. There are other models taught elsewhere. For example, Russia combines Eurasia, Greece combines North & South America but keeps Europe & Asia separate, and China treats Oceana as a separate grouping. Story 20: For me, the problem with someone believing in some things like this isn't necessarily the belief itself, but the unknown of what other things they do or don't believe in. Science is not a belief system, but many belief systems discount science as though it were.
so one reoccurring theme in these is a lot of the people have book smarts and not street smarts. a good way to think of it is inelegance is knowing tomato is a fruit and street smarts/wisdom is knowing a tomato does not belong in a fruit salad
Asia and Europe are different because the original three continents - Asia, Europe, and Africa - were defined by (simplifying a bit) the Ancient Greeks, who thought of Asia as primarily being the Middle East and the stuff past it connected to it. If you look at the map around Greece, it's a lot more sensible of a division: The Black Sea and Caspian Sea make a natural little separation, and it's not really any worse of one than the Africa division is there. As they started to pay attention to more northern parts of Europe... well, too late, it's tradition now.
I know someone who thought that the different kind of ivy under her maple tree was a hybrid between the English ivy growing nearby and the tree. I guess you could think that is stupid, but many people don’t seem to know much about nature. I just explained that it’s a different type of ivy (variegated, with large leaves).
Story 20: Gonna expand on Tarot card readings. They are essentially bogus. The reader makes observation analysis on the target. Age, gender, clothing , jewelry, hygiene. All these and more are used to profile where the target is in life. You can read the same combination of cards differently for a number of people. My cousin told me the trick is to generalize predictions based on assumptions of the target's profile. Basically, you read the person not the cards. You tell THEIR story through the cards. You can literally tweak the meaning of a card. The death card doesn't necessarily have to be actual death or near death experience. It could be the death of a career or a relationship. Overall, the best readers read the person and interpret the cards to fit the person's profile.
Hahaha story 22 reminds me of my own story. I learned the works "gleek" and "queef" around the same time in 7th grade. I gleeked on the guy across from me at the table then apologized for "queefing all over him". The look on his face is something I'll never forget 😂
For continents guy: "Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, shit on the board, and act like they won."
Asia and Europe are on the same 'supercontinent' of Eurasia, however they're linguistically and culturally distinct, so that leads to them being identified as Europe and Asia (source: National Geographic), so it turns into one of those 'well, technically...'
My sister once said that frogs and fish are reptiles and birds are amphibians I explained to her that birds are birds that their species and frogs are amphibians along with the salamanders and newts and reptiles are turtles and snakes and lizards and so on. Well she didn't listen she stood her ground and kept saying birds amphibians . Then called me a dumb@$$. She is two years older than me...
(Disclaimer: I haven’t fact-checked anything below, I have heard this things and choose to believe them) For Story 5, I’m told that the idea of there being 7 continents is a very west European idea (with seven being a lucky number and all), and that other cultures teach it differently. Two examples I’ve heard about are: - Russia don’t separate Europe and Asia, having Eurasia instead. They do this for political reasons, with the thinking being that if their country is split across two different continents then that will ideologically benefit separatist and independence movements. (Although, speaking of ideology, even as a teenager I found it suspicious that the line separating Europe from Asia seemed to conveniently draw a line between “majority white” countries and everyone else. - Brazil and many Spanish-speaking countries don’t split America into North and South, they just have “America”.
That's not legato... it's just a slide. Legato is when no intervention happens between notes. On guitar it would be picking a string once and playing notes without picking again.
Sometimes people just believe something different than you do and you may feel a bit silly but it's best just to let them do it and ignore that you feel it's silly. Meanwhile let the lady burn the sage all around the house and enjoy the scent. To out myself, when I was a kid I couldn't figure out what an apple type had to do with being hungry. Thankfully at 6 I began reading the dictionary and saw the word I had been miss hearing for 3 years.
Dated this dude. He was more delusional than an idiot. This guy, let's call him J, genuinely thought video game characters were real. So there's this game called Freddy where animatronics at a pizza arcade place come to life and jumpscare you. We got along because of our shared interest in the game. We started dating and it was great. Then he started telling weird lies. For context, in the game, there are these devices called springlock suits where they can be converted from functioning animatronics to wearable costumes and they're super easy to convert to animatronics if someone's inside and people have died that way. J told me he built a replica springlock suit of a character called Foxy and almost got stuck in it but escaped...? At first I thought he was just pretending for my little sister to make her laugh or something. He told a lot of these stories about making suits out of scrap and they'd wander around at night. Apparently his mom shot one because she thought it was an intruder. The stories got weirder and weirder. One time him and I were sitting on a bench across the street from this restaurant with outdoor seating on the 2nd floor. He was just starting at the balcony and then hid behind some bushes. So I asked "J, what's wrong?" And he told me, in complete seriousness, that a character called Springtrap, was up there watching him. Things like this were a common occurrence, as he was convinced a character named William Afton was out to get him. But that was my wakeup call that J was nuts, though it wasn't the nail in the coffin for the relationship. That was when he tried getting my nudes and threatened to murder my friends, but that's a story for a different time. Anyway I haven't seen or heard of him since 2020
Not someone I dated but my high school teacher when she was in college had a friend who thought she might be pregnant because she simply sat on a guys lap. Fully clothed and nothing unzipped. They asked her if anything happened apart from that….nope simply sat on his lap and that’s it. She literally had no clue you had to actually have sex to get pregnant. In. College. Like geez….I mean my parents never had “the talk” really with me but I figured things out from blips in health class or things my friend told me after her parents had the talk with her. How do you not know that in college????
Story 1: When you claim to do a good mile, then don't know how to breathe while running... I'm just plain concerned she won't be able to run away from danger. I know how many people cam have knowledge gaps, but this one, specifically, makes her dumb. And mary sue could of been a newer term by the time the third part happened, but that fact she's not even listening to the criticism... Yeah, she's dumb because she keeps choosing dumb Story 18: I'm more curious who taught her that, thank you for telling her the truth.
I think that Europe and Asia are different continents because they used to be on different techtonic plates. One remain of these two plates are the Ural mounts in Russia.
For me it was having to stop talking repeatedly to define words. Anything remotely esoteric, she didn't know. I'm a nerd, and I'm used to people needing the occasional word explained, but it was extreme with her. It made conversation so incredibly frustrating.
The dead pigeon: if it happened and isn't just one of the most-told jokes since the invention of joke books for kids, it was most likely: the brain fart that happens to the best of us occasionally. But also: there's unfortunately still often this weird perception thing going on that when the same absurd, silly, and/or stupid thing is said by a woman, she's assumed to be stupid and if it's said by a man, he's assumed to be making a joke. Sure, there is the possibility that the girl is stupid but just from this one story it really just sounds more like one of those "Oh, it's getting late, I better put the snacks and phone back into the fridge and get ready for bed!!" moments.
I feel like story 20 isn’t about how he’s shooting down her beliefs the silly part Is to keep spending money on something that she said is always wrong lmao he was not with how she felt strongly enough to keep paying for a service that never showed her signs of being real or helpful
Story 13: First of all: that is not called "stupid" it is called "gaslighting". Second of all: Men actually do have fluctuations in their homone cycle. Both per day and in a 40-day cycle (although I'm not entirely shure about the latter)
As a male, I have noticed this personally. I can be........well, the kindest word is probably "uncharitable" when I first wake up, and tend to "have a bad day" about every five or six weeks.
About person not knowing of killer whales/orcas… I still meet people who don’t know what a chinchilla is. When I got my first axolotl 10 years ago, nobody knew about them. Now I see adorable axolotl plushies in stands at the mall. Some people just have less interest and know less about things. Oh. Degus.
In regards to story 29: Actually, giraffe's can be quite dangerous! They aren't really dangerous to humans, but lions don't hunt giraffe's unless they are DESPERATE. Giraffe's have a VERY strong kick, and they can knock a lions head off with them
24:15 Fun fact... Giraffe- could and WOUld eat meat actually. Yes- they're herbivore... supposedly, but there have been cases of them eating... passing birds. Kinda like why cat and dogs eat grass for extra nutrient. So yes- they can eat meat. Panda and Koala are weirder in my opinion. Both are example of evolution is not always the survival of the fittest...
Not dating anyone but my father believes that airplane fly by filling the cabin with helium to make the plane lighter so it can fly, I tried to correct him a couple time but he still believe what he said is correct
TLDR: Narwhals aren't real. also this has nothing to do with the original video, but the narwhal horn reminded me of it regarding the one with the narwhal horn, when I was around 9 or 10 my mom (homeschooled and in a co-op) told me narwhals weren't real and not on her list of whales to do a report on (it was a sea mammals class). so I got mad and decided to do the report on a bottlenose dolphin, which I had no fun doing and was completely disinterested. the SAME DAY within an HOUR I heard my exfriend ask to do the report on narwhals. AND SHE SAID YES. I walked up and told her they were supposed to 'not be real'. she looks over the list and finds it immediately. she gave the report to my exfriend. so thats how the Narwhal became my favorite animal and everything I had was narwhal themed including: bags, pajamas, Halloween bucket/costume, stuffed animals, valentines day cards and that's what I can remember off the top of my head. he was 8 or 9 so the report was HORRIBLE. no detail, bad pictures, and it was only like 5 sentences. THE MINIMUM. everyone who knows me has heard this story lol. also, I love your videos! I watch multiple a day, but this is my first story that I am commenting (you should probably expect more). thanks for reading
I feel as though there is no such thing as someone who is objectively "stupid" sure they may not make the wisest decisions, but they know a lot of cool things you didn't, or have a great job that requires a lot of brains to get. Or someone might not be super successful and didn't do great in school, but are probably the "smart one" in the friend group. Or someone that has a very high IQ level (for whatever those are worth) but isn't very successful, didn't do great in school and makes a lot of unwise decisions. I feel as though calling someone stupid or an idiot is just an uneducated insult, or something couples and friend groups call each other for an innocent laugh. There is no such thing as a stupid person, no such thing as an idiot, and everyone is smart in their own unique way.
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I dated a guy in high school. He got a parking ticket and instead of paying it he went to court, not to plead not guilty but to PAY the ticket. I tried to tell him how to pay the $3.00 ticket before it became a $20.00 ticket but he just kept saying I was wrong. I told him to read the ticket which clearly stated that if he paid, at the town office or at one of the many pay kiosks, within 10 days at which time the fine would become $20.00. He absolutely insisted he had to go to court. I went with him and when they called his case he was told that there had been an error on his ticket so they were going to cancel the ticket. He went apeshit! He screamed l’ll pay, I’ll pay and waved a bunch of bills in the air. Everyone just stared then the judge said, well, if you insist. If you go to court there was another fine so he paid $40.00 for a $3.00 ticket. He was so proud and relieved. I again explained and so did his friends and family We didn’t last much longer.
I am so sorry you had to witness such buffoonery.
He paid his 1222% of idiot tax.
Is he insane? Who INSISTS on paying??? 🤷🏻♀️
Wait wait wait! A three dollar ticket? When was this?
@@Sysleeper22 small town years ago. If you paid the ticket within 10 days it was $3.00 after 10 days it was $20.00 unless you went to court and lost then an extra $10.00 surcharge was added.
A lot of the silly things I said when I was younger came from having severe gaps in my education from homeschooling or my hearing/speech impediments. I appreciate you pointing out that somebody not knowing something doesn't mean they aren't intelligent.
I kind of see where you're coming from. As a Brit living in the States, if Big Jessie (6' plus and named Jessie) ever finds out what that means in Scottish parlance, I'm going to need a running start!
Not someone I dated, but this entire video reminds me of a One Topic video. Poor OT was freaking about a clip of an armadillo he was reacting to. He was like: "Is that a Pokemon? Is that a real animal? That can't be real!" Guy had never seen an armadillo before. It was cute and wholesome. : )
That is legitimately adorable
Isn't OneTopic not from America/ North America?
@@aboveaverageazzuen2684Canada I think, but not every place has armadillos or would have seen them even if they are native.
I remember on tumblr where someone pointed out Armadillos were in a few old horror movies and people didn't think they were real. So first time seeing one was... Interesting
Reminds me of a friend's kid who kept asking "what's that?" to things she knew so I took to replying "it's an aardvark!" Then one day there was one on animal planet and I said, "Look, there's an aardvark!" She looked at me and exclaimed in disbelief, "uh-uhhh!"
Story 20: Well, I think it comes down to wanting to be with someone whose beliefs you can respect, even if they're not your own. If you can't do that with their core beliefs and vice versa, then it was never going to work. Period.
Respecting another person’s beliefs is a really important thing and we all should for the most part but some beliefs, mostly in things like cults, deserve no respect because of what they do to people.
My husband's step father is a real piece of work. 😂
He's all kinds of wrong in so many ways. My favorite story from my experiences with him is the time he tried to convince me & hubby that dogs can't look up!! He was absolutely serious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
We still talk about it to this day..
Story 27 about the directionally challenged girlfriend reminded me about a conversation I had with my sister-in-law.
Our father-in-law asked a question about an upcoming weather event as to what direction it would be coming in from. It was between 4 and 5 PM in late August, in central Louisiana, on a mostly sunny day. This is very relevant. I pointed to the south-east (where it would be coming from) and sis-in-law pointed north north-east. This started a discussion about which way was North. I ended up pointing at the literal sun saying, "this is West!" This absolute gem was hollered at me..."I don't care where the sun is, Jessica. That's North!" While pointing to the left of the sun. I will never let her live that down! 💙💙
lol
Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Story 29: To be fair, giraffes _can_ be very dangerous. In the wild, males will fight by swinging their necks at each others' bodies, using their heads like wrecking balls to score hits with their ossicles (those little blunt horns on their heads). This can break ribs and rupture organs on adult giraffes; humans are much smaller and more fragile.
A couple more things: Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as humans (7), and do not have vocal cords 😄
Edit: Just googled giraffes and found out a bit more.....
They sometimes regurgitate previously-eaten food to re-chew it. They can also vomit, but they have a four-chambered stomach (the first two of which use fermentation for digestion instead of acid) like a cow, so any vomit usually doesn't go past the second or first chamber from the fourth. _Very_ rarely do they expel vomit from their mouths, but it does happen. Rarely.
and they also engage in osteophagy (bone eating)
holy shit, i didn't know any of that
@@lobstotsbol No shame there. The average global citizen rarely needs to know anything about giraffes 🙂
And males also drink pee of the females as a fertility test
I did a similar thing to the word misunderstanding kid! When I was 15, I knew what flipping someone off or giving them the finger meant, but I also thought that fingering someone was another term for that action. In my defense, i was a bit sheltered and had a lot of slang to catch up on!
Not someone I was dating, but my step-uncle (well, my dad's family in general). I was 11 or 12 and had just learned the word "idiosyncrasies" from a story I read online and was told not to call my sister an idiot by his daughter when I said it. I explained what it meant and he said I was just trying to make people feel stupid, I guess because I dared use a word with more than two syllables. I also grew up with shows that taught languages, so I'd often mix them with English, and sometimes drop, say, French and Japanese in the same sentence. I was again told by the adults that I was just trying to make everyone feel stupid, so I stopped doing that, too. I'm now 28 and still barely speak at all, and those assholes haven't even been in my life since I was 14.
Big Bird makes me think of 2 things: Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first" skit and the tv series, Taxi. Jim, played by Christopher Lloyd, was taking the written part of the driving test. If he failed, no taxi for him. The others went along to help. Jim comes across a question he doesn't know the answer to. He whispers, "what does a yellow light mean?" They whisper back, "slow down!" So he asks more slowly, "what. does. a. yellow. light. mean?" They repeat this dialog to a howling audience until the laughter died down.
Mainly facts is the Best TH-cam story reader to watch tbh
Agreed.
Mainly facts and rslash are s tier
I totally agree! 👍
True
Mostly facts pretty dope too
I think I was a teenager at the time, but I once met a guy who thought reindeer weren’t real because they pulled Santa Claus’s sleigh. I told him no, they’re not magic but reindeer are real. He didn’t believe me.
I had to be corrected a out that as well. I think I was about 8 years old at the time.
I also feel like one thing those people have in common is the fact, that when corrected, they insist they are right, which of course prevents them from realizing their mistake and not repeating it.
My first ex spent $800 on speakers from a “friend” and couldn’t understand 1: why they didn’t work 2: where this “friend” went 3: why he didn’t have money to pay rent
Never dated but GF's cousin was someone who thought "knowing things" just happened and had no control over her life. She was on strong pain meds for a wrecked knee, left it until the last minute and found that she couldn't get another refill without a doctor's visit - a month out through the VA. I had to get her some pot through my contacts and teach her how to smoke to get her through the pain. I smoke but not pot so by the time I'd got through to her, through demonstration and 3 attempts, I had to go for a lie down.
So the girl that was miseducated on running form wasn't that far off on holding your breath when running. The issue is that tip is for sprinters, as holding your breath diverts resources away from your diaphragm (membrane of muscle that sits at the bottom of your ribcage and drives your lungs the way a blacksmith would run hid or her forge by cranking on the bellows) and shift that over for your limbs. Sprinting forms like this is great for launching your body like a rocket ship, getting you about 100-200 meters away from where you started in less than a minute. However, it sounds like OP and his then prospective girlfriend were trying to do endurance running, and that DOES require you to have a constant and consistent breathing rhythm as sprinting is designed to use anaerobic power (pretty much the emergency reserves your body can use without breathing) to get to a relatively close position quickly, while endurance running is based around aerobic power (conventional energy that's only released by the biochemical reaction in each of our bodies' cells that gives them energy at the expense of calorie-bearing material and oxygen). As for the rest of that girl's form, yes, the arms are supposed to cross the chest with limp, dead-fish-esc hands at the ends, but this is supposed to stop just as the opposite foot is hitting the ground and that hand isn't supposed to either touch anything else besides any wristbands you might have chosen to wear, and it should go at most to your body's centerline (that means for you ladies, at this point, your right foot is firmly planted on the ground while your left hand should be, assuming your 170cm tall, about 8cm below your boobs and about 3 cm away from your stomach). As for what the legs are doing, they should be making a perfectly elliptical cycle, like how the pedals on a bike work without any flailing out to the sides at all.
I’ve dated two people with shareable stories, one didn’t know what a McDonalds was and thought the Big Mac was my Ex boyfriend and the other guy (keep in mind were 17 at the time) thought tampons were a form of birth control and once I explained the difference it lead to him getting the talk from me
I realized when she said she thought dinosaurs were fictional…. I’m now married to her.
Well, dinosaurs might as well be fictional nowadays, some sixty-five million years after they died off......
5:02 Bruh Orzhov is becoming more real every day
8:16 As someone from Europe I say since Europe and Asia don't have a body of water dividing them, they're one landmass.
However, since I also tend to be a bit of a lumper, I also thought like "well, neither the Suez nor Panama Canals are substantial nor natural enough to truly separate the continents, so we might as well lump everything into like Eurasia and America + Australia and Antarctica" (also let's lump the eastern islands of Indonesia in alongside Papua and Australia proper into the continent of Australia or Australasia, because relatively similar wildlife when compared to the rest of maritime southeast Asia, and also let's treat the Pacific Islands (including New Zealand) as their own continentless world zone)
He wasn't really stupid though, but once he asked me that when I read a book, do I imagine the things I read? And when I said yes, he complimented me for it. Another time he also complimented me for being able to listen to music and also doing something else next to it, like "Whoaaaa, you can listen to music and you can draw at the same time? :o"
When I was 17 I had a cancerous growth in my Uvula. I kept telling people I had a growth on my Vulva. Everyone let me say this for a week or two until. My best friends sister told me that as a male I did not have such a body part.
I am reminded of a story of my mother's first husband (not my father). He was a doctor so a relatively smart person but having never interacted with a car beyond driving it he had little knowledge of how they worked. While my grandfather on her side ran his own 1 person mechanic shop. First off this guy thought mechanics were a scam and second when he complained his A/C, or maybe it was his heater I forget, didn't work in his Corvette and my mother suggested checking the anti-freeze his response was "You can't touch that it's sealed from the factory." She took a look under the hood and the radiator was almost bone dry. Once she put more in, it worked fine...she also happened to impress him by fixing his 8-track player when they were dating for a time frame. She has always been rather good at this sort of stuff something which seems to have been passed on to me and my siblings.
Europe and Asia separate geological locations mainly because of the cultural diffusion .Some instants combine three continents together to form Afroeurasia.
Europe and Asia are considered separate continents because the two are linguistically, ethnically, culturally, politically, and historically different from each other. At least that is what I read. It doesn't really have anything to do with tectonic plates in this case.
Not someone I dated but a coworker in Maryland once. I was tired of the east coast and was getting ready to move to Washington state. Guy asks me where it is, so I tell him it's in the NW corner of the continental US along the border of Canada. He proceeds to look at me confused before asking "Canada goes that far? I thought it was only above New York". This blew my damn mind as the guy was in his 50s. After informing him Canada runs along pretty much the entire northern border he shrugs and says "I'm not good with -history-, thats my daughters thing".
To be fair Big Bird is an unusual name even amongst the entire cast of Sesame Street and Muppets.
Yeah, but what's Cookie Monster's name?
@@andrewvelonis5940 Believe it or not it's actually Sidney.
I have a working theory that the smarter someone is, the less common sense they have. Example, my cousin is an MIT grad with a doctorate. He once spilled pop on his keyboard and decided to wash it in the sink to clean it. Another is an ex girlfriend that was getting her doctorate. She was convinced that you got better mileage by speeding up then coasting instead of using the cruise control. I only had an associate degree and just didn’t know what I was talking about.
my theory is that they have a doctorate in stupidity, because they are hella good at it, let me brake it to you, doctorates don't mean a fu, I'm tired of seeing people with official degrees of any kind yet stupid as a rock, the education system everywhere on earth sucks, my own degree means absolutely nothing because literally nothing I know was learned from it but instead of personal study
I’d love to see an Askreddit thread (and resulting vid) about when someone realized they were dating a genius.
Story 6: I live near that museum! It’s called the The Met Cloisters and It’s one of my favorite museums. it has beautiful medieval artworks, gardens and The Unicorn Tapestry mentioned in the story is amazing. If you want to check it out next time your in New York City, take the A train uptown to 190th and you’ll be right at the entrance to the park, pretty much all paths in the park lead to the Cloisters
8:27 that museum is probably The Cloisters in NYC, which is dedicated to medieval art. It's beautiful and I highly recommend it.
Story 22- I have an older sister and brother, there's only a year between them but an 8 and 9 year gap from me. So when I was pre-school they used to get me to go ask adults what certain swear words meant, this usually elicited a burst of laughter from anyone within ear shot, and although being told numerous times that I shouldn't say those words, it had taught me that adults laughed when I said them. Boy, but primary school DID NOT appreciate my sense of humour lol!
Story 14: it’s a worry because she doubled down and just assumed a whole lot of people just got together and wanted to throw her off by calling a killer whale an orca
Story 27 reminded me of a conversation I had with my nephew many years ago. He was about 5 and I was around 18. I lived in New Hampshire and he lived in Florida. When I was down there visiting, I told him I lived up north and he thought I meant in the sky. He couldn't see any land up there and was confused. I couldn't figure out how to explain this to him, especially since how young he was. The poor kid just wanted to understand and I felt bad.
Story 29: Yes, giraffes CAN be dangerous, especially wild ones not imprinted on humans. They can swing their head at you and bludgeon you with the ossicones on top of their heads. Also, they are capable of powerful kicks as well. Still, such actions are rare and only when they feel provoked.
27:05 BUT WHO'S ON FIRST?!
I love when you get real world encounters like this.
Shocking number of guys I went to high school with said they wouldn't read after graduation. Not just books or magazines but anything at all. As soon as they graduated they were done with reading. Yup. Very happy I moved out of that town.
I'm the dumb-dumb sometimes. I sometimes get brain-blips, or I get certain words mixed up or mispronounced. My boyfriend has a degree in English, and often gently corrects me. Here are two of my favorites:
Me: (referring to a smoothie our friend got). Can I try it? I've never had acacia berries before.
BF:...You mean acai?
Me: (while moving house). These boxes are so heavy. I wish we knew someone who's like a muscle-builder or something.
BF: (laughing) Did you mean a bodybuilder?
We usually have a good laugh about it. I always appreciate him correcting me with my little mix ups. So many people worry about offending me, but I'd rather know my mistakes, so I don't make them again in the future.
When I hear "Andorra ", the first thing that ran through my was "There's so many places that aren't Andorra"
Heh. I stayed at a motel in a somewhat sketchy area recently. At the office, next to the door, there was an intercom with a doorbell and a sign saying “ring bell for entry.” I tried the door first, then rang the bell, looked through the glass door at the clerk behind the counter, tugged on the door again, then looked back at the clerk waiting for a click or a buzz or something. The clerk sighed, walked around the counter, then pulled the door open from his side. I had been so focused on the non-functional intercom, doorbell, and sign off to the side that I completely missed the word PUSH in large letters across the glass door.
So as far as I remember right, from my high school classes, Europe and Asia are differentiated because of history. There is nothing geographical that seperates them (Normally the Ural mountains are taken as the border), but because historically there was such a big difference, and I think also because all the history we learn (in Europe and probably in North and South America too, since they were colonialized) Is about the history that affects our country/region the most. And until some hundred years ago, there wasn't much exchange between most of Asia and Europe. So this is more of a historical border that exists. My speculation is also that during colonialism there was a point to be made, that if it is another continent it is morally more ok to oppress them, so they used this as reasoning. So i think it really just is historical, and nobody ever changed it, because everybody learnt it like this.
26:45 my sister is like that….she’s smart, graduated with a bachelor degree….but sometimes common sense escapes her. She still can’t tell her left hand from her right….she’s not stupid, but she really doesn’t get some stuff like that 😂
Not someone I dated. I used to be a part of a movie meetup group that had a rotating cast of people who would come and go. We were out to dinner before some movie or another when one of the members that had come a handful of times joined us. At some point the conversation mentions, err... the villains of Raiders of the Lost Ark (not sure if I can type the actual word on TH-cam). It had come up in a conversation about movies, probably in a movie villain sense or the Tarantino movie, but I forget the exact context as its been a few years. Anyway, the guy has a confused look on his face and asks "what's a...?" At first we all think it's a joke, like that Redditor who pretended not to know what a potato was, but this guy was not an Oscar-winning actor and it soon became very clear he genuinely had never heard the word before. He was a grown American man in his late 20s, early 30s. To this day my friends and I have no idea how he never once in his life came across the word. To our credit we didn't mock him for this (we were too baffled by the whole ordeal honestly) and gave a brief explanation before promptly changing the subject.
The Nazis?
I amazed a girl when I showed her that hot water freezes more quickly than water at room temperature. You know... typical 3rd grade science fair fodder. Perfectly reasonable that she didn't know that, as it is counter intuitive. We left it at that.
We had dinner several years later. She was cooking the meal, pasta, but it was taking forever. She had become confused by what I showed her years prior, and thought that cold water would boil faster (the exact opposite). So instead of putting water on the stove to boil, she was filling dozens of ice cube trays. Apparently she would wait for the water to semi-freeze, then dump the slush in a pot and boil it. She had been doing this for years.
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This one is from a friend of mine, but worthy of sharing.
A female friend of mine (Jewish) was dating this guy (not Jewish). He wasn't antisemitic, but he clearly grew up around people who were and got some very odd ideas in his head. So they've been dating for a while, and it's finally time for him to meet her parents.
He's the sort of guy to put his foot in his mouth, then double down... When the conversation, just typical small talk, turned to a local sporting event, believing the stereotypes that Jews can't play sports, he was shocked that they had any interest, and innocently inquired about how they knew so much, being Jewish.
They laughed it off awkwardly, thinking it a bad joke. He pressed further, and her father attempted to explain that was just a stereotype. There are fewer practicing Jewish athletes because the majority of pee-wee sports, school sports etc fall on the Sabbath. People work or go to school Monday through Friday, and the overwhelming Christian majority in the U.S. keep Sunday clear for worship, not Saturday. A reasonable explanation, and this guy would know. But the boy insisted that it was genetics.
Then the daughter's boyfriend spewed some garbage about how it's a heritable trait, etc. and tried to explain it in "technical terms". The girl's father, despite being Jewish, worked as a geneticist, and got his education on a Baseball scholarship. Even after knowing this, he wouldn't shut up. Of course, that was years ago, and every time I see any of them, they tell that story. I think I've heard it about 30 times now, lol. I did date her a few times after she dumped the jack-ass, and I would like to thank him for lowering the bar, it really took the edge off. I could have sauntered in there drunk, with a steel spike through my skull, eating from a bag of lead paint chips, and still been considered an improvement over the last guy, lol.
You're telling me that hot water freezes faster? How is that possible? Hot water has more energy, so it would have to take more time to convect enough to change states. I don't believe you.
@@andrewvelonis5940the process of convection is higher in hot water so hot water loses heat faster than water at room temperature so hot water freezes faster because it cools faster.
I once overheard a discussion between two girls whether our country has 10 or 11 provinces. It's 12 and has been since the 50's.
Not saying anything about intelligence but it was funny hearing them argue.
Ha ha! I had a friend that once said "Oh, look! A baby butterfly!"
13:22 octonauts is teaching little baby children about orcas and killer whales she probably just didn't watch octonauts which is a shame cuz that show is epic
She wanted to rush being married and I turned her down serval times as we had only been dating 3 months. She thought that if she put out and pretend that she was pregnant, something she said was impossible for her and reiterated that after she told me she was lying, that I'd marry her. I still turned her down and she stopped putting out and stopped texting me saying she needed space. So I stopped trying after a few weeks. She eventually wrote to me saying she wanted to go on a date again and I foolishly obliged cause I had nothing better to do. She acted like nothing happened and then told me she still needed space right after I dropped her off. I was confused and just stopped texting altogether. She tried to get me back for months and tried making me jealous and then finally slipped up about what her intentions were. She was not a citizen. And I was able to deduce that she was looking to get citizenship through marriage. It all made sense after that. Stopped talking to her altogether after that and she would occasionally call or text about me to try and bring me over to her place and it never worked
I had to go look up what a "Mary Sue" was.
I have an advanced degree and a great deal of life experience and self-education, but yes, some blank spots as well.
I am sure there are ways I could use my computer and my phone more efficiently, but I don't know anyone I could ask.
19:43 When I was a young child, I liked to use big words to try and make myself look smarter. But I didn't always 100% understand what the words meant. My mum still brings up the time I had a stomach ache, and went to tell her. I guess I was trying to say my "intestines" hurt. But instead, I went up and told my mum that my "testicles" hurt. This left my mum very confused as to what part of her young daughter was hurting 😂
I'm gonna be honest, I've heard the geometry/geography story on other channels and this is the first time the connection was made. Other narrators have laughed along like she was dumb for talking about maps.
I told her I was extremely busy that month. I sent her my calander because it was easier than typing everything in a text. She responds by asking "what does your calendar mean?" She didn't know what Reddit is. I tried to explain what vestibular migraines are and she was like, oh I've had vertigo, too. I know what those are like. I'm like, no, you don't. Vertigo is only part of it. When I sent a picture of the rotational chair used for treatment she said it looked like it would cause migraines and it's bad that my vestibular therapist was having me use it. FOR MEDICALLY APPROVED TREATMENT. I could go on. She's a nice lady and I really don't dislike her. She's just...intellectually deficient.
I have run into a handful of people who didn't think narwhals are a myth.
I wouldn't call him stupid but my husband one day asked in 2014 why Bernie Mac wasn't making any more movies or shows because he was a great actor. I looked at him in the eye and asked him if he was being serious and when he said yes, I had to tell him that Bernie died in 2008. The reason why I said I wouldn't call my husband stupid was because he doesn't follow celebrity media because he thinks it's a waste of time so he genuinely did not know that Bernie had died in 08.
I made a joke that the schools air conditioning must have broke bc it was so hot and my friend replied with “that’s why I have AC” 😂
Story 1: Copyright doesn't cover plots. It mostly covers the text itself, proper names, and characters. A good example is that 50 Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fan fiction, but the author later changed enough elements to publish. You can see the same story structure by reading both books. I'm not recommending anyone do this, except as an example of just how close plots can be.
Story 5: The separation of Europe & Asia is cultural and is primarily taught in English-speaking countries. There are other models taught elsewhere. For example, Russia combines Eurasia, Greece combines North & South America but keeps Europe & Asia separate, and China treats Oceana as a separate grouping.
Story 20: For me, the problem with someone believing in some things like this isn't necessarily the belief itself, but the unknown of what other things they do or don't believe in. Science is not a belief system, but many belief systems discount science as though it were.
IIRC for many Greeks, all Slavic languages are actually one and the same language but I could be wrong
so one reoccurring theme in these is a lot of the people have book smarts and not street smarts. a good way to think of it is inelegance is knowing tomato is a fruit and street smarts/wisdom is knowing a tomato does not belong in a fruit salad
Well said 👍
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Story 4: well atleast she cried at the prospect of you dying?? That would provide a boost in self confidence
Asia and Europe are different because the original three continents - Asia, Europe, and Africa - were defined by (simplifying a bit) the Ancient Greeks, who thought of Asia as primarily being the Middle East and the stuff past it connected to it. If you look at the map around Greece, it's a lot more sensible of a division: The Black Sea and Caspian Sea make a natural little separation, and it's not really any worse of one than the Africa division is there. As they started to pay attention to more northern parts of Europe... well, too late, it's tradition now.
I know someone who thought that the different kind of ivy under her maple tree was a hybrid between the English ivy growing nearby and the tree. I guess you could think that is stupid, but many people don’t seem to know much about nature. I just explained that it’s a different type of ivy (variegated, with large leaves).
Story 20:
Gonna expand on Tarot card readings. They are essentially bogus. The reader makes observation analysis on the target. Age, gender, clothing , jewelry, hygiene. All these and more are used to profile where the target is in life. You can read the same combination of cards differently for a number of people.
My cousin told me the trick is to generalize predictions based on assumptions of the target's profile. Basically, you read the person not the cards. You tell THEIR story through the cards. You can literally tweak the meaning of a card. The death card doesn't necessarily have to be actual death or near death experience. It could be the death of a career or a relationship.
Overall, the best readers read the person and interpret the cards to fit the person's profile.
Hahaha story 22 reminds me of my own story. I learned the works "gleek" and "queef" around the same time in 7th grade. I gleeked on the guy across from me at the table then apologized for "queefing all over him". The look on his face is something I'll never forget 😂
My friend is a stand up guy who wont talk about his ex...but I'm not. She was going through nursing school and didn't know she was 6 months pregnant.
3! I love your videos!!!
the mary sue story
oh my god
as a writer, it hurts
It seems to me most of these stories have people not backing down or learning when they are wrong and being corrected.
Whenever I feel dumb I just remember the two guys I met who tried to hotbox in a closet with vape pens
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For continents guy: "Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, shit on the board, and act like they won."
I respect your right to believe what you want, as long as nobody is hurt yourself included, as long as you respect my right not to agree.
Asia and Europe are on the same 'supercontinent' of Eurasia, however they're linguistically and culturally distinct, so that leads to them being identified as Europe and Asia (source: National Geographic), so it turns into one of those 'well, technically...'
My sister once said that frogs and fish are reptiles and birds are amphibians I explained to her that birds are birds that their species and frogs are amphibians along with the salamanders and newts and reptiles are turtles and snakes and lizards and so on. Well she didn't listen she stood her ground and kept saying birds amphibians . Then called me a dumb@$$. She is two years older than me...
Introduce her to Britannica Online.
(Disclaimer: I haven’t fact-checked anything below, I have heard this things and choose to believe them)
For Story 5, I’m told that the idea of there being 7 continents is a very west European idea (with seven being a lucky number and all), and that other cultures teach it differently.
Two examples I’ve heard about are:
- Russia don’t separate Europe and Asia, having Eurasia instead. They do this for political reasons, with the thinking being that if their country is split across two different continents then that will ideologically benefit separatist and independence movements. (Although, speaking of ideology, even as a teenager I found it suspicious that the line separating Europe from Asia seemed to conveniently draw a line between “majority white” countries and everyone else.
- Brazil and many Spanish-speaking countries don’t split America into North and South, they just have “America”.
Seriously, please tell me where you get your shirts. That's two of them I love now
Like when someone mispronounces a common word, I had a friend who called a blacktop road "ashfault". Or this video at 20:01 and the "super vag way".
It's just a midwest dialect. Bagel, Vague, Plague...northern Minnesota lays it on thick sometimes.
That's not legato... it's just a slide. Legato is when no intervention happens between notes. On guitar it would be picking a string once and playing notes without picking again.
Sometimes people just believe something different than you do and you may feel a bit silly but it's best just to let them do it and ignore that you feel it's silly. Meanwhile let the lady burn the sage all around the house and enjoy the scent.
To out myself, when I was a kid I couldn't figure out what an apple type had to do with being hungry. Thankfully at 6 I began reading the dictionary and saw the word I had been miss hearing for 3 years.
Dated this dude. He was more delusional than an idiot. This guy, let's call him J, genuinely thought video game characters were real. So there's this game called Freddy where animatronics at a pizza arcade place come to life and jumpscare you. We got along because of our shared interest in the game. We started dating and it was great. Then he started telling weird lies. For context, in the game, there are these devices called springlock suits where they can be converted from functioning animatronics to wearable costumes and they're super easy to convert to animatronics if someone's inside and people have died that way. J told me he built a replica springlock suit of a character called Foxy and almost got stuck in it but escaped...? At first I thought he was just pretending for my little sister to make her laugh or something. He told a lot of these stories about making suits out of scrap and they'd wander around at night. Apparently his mom shot one because she thought it was an intruder. The stories got weirder and weirder. One time him and I were sitting on a bench across the street from this restaurant with outdoor seating on the 2nd floor. He was just starting at the balcony and then hid behind some bushes. So I asked "J, what's wrong?" And he told me, in complete seriousness, that a character called Springtrap, was up there watching him. Things like this were a common occurrence, as he was convinced a character named William Afton was out to get him. But that was my wakeup call that J was nuts, though it wasn't the nail in the coffin for the relationship. That was when he tried getting my nudes and threatened to murder my friends, but that's a story for a different time. Anyway I haven't seen or heard of him since 2020
I guess letting google maps rotate to always face the direction you are looking destroys any sense of geographic direction.
Not someone I dated but my high school teacher when she was in college had a friend who thought she might be pregnant because she simply sat on a guys lap. Fully clothed and nothing unzipped. They asked her if anything happened apart from that….nope simply sat on his lap and that’s it. She literally had no clue you had to actually have sex to get pregnant. In. College.
Like geez….I mean my parents never had “the talk” really with me but I figured things out from blips in health class or things my friend told me after her parents had the talk with her. How do you not know that in college????
Story 1: When you claim to do a good mile, then don't know how to breathe while running... I'm just plain concerned she won't be able to run away from danger.
I know how many people cam have knowledge gaps, but this one, specifically, makes her dumb. And mary sue could of been a newer term by the time the third part happened, but that fact she's not even listening to the criticism... Yeah, she's dumb because she keeps choosing dumb
Story 18: I'm more curious who taught her that, thank you for telling her the truth.
I think that Europe and Asia are different continents because they used to be on different techtonic plates. One remain of these two plates are the Ural mounts in Russia.
For me it was having to stop talking repeatedly to define words. Anything remotely esoteric, she didn't know. I'm a nerd, and I'm used to people needing the occasional word explained, but it was extreme with her. It made conversation so incredibly frustrating.
The dead pigeon: if it happened and isn't just one of the most-told jokes since the invention of joke books for kids, it was most likely: the brain fart that happens to the best of us occasionally.
But also: there's unfortunately still often this weird perception thing going on that when the same absurd, silly, and/or stupid thing is said by a woman, she's assumed to be stupid and if it's said by a man, he's assumed to be making a joke.
Sure, there is the possibility that the girl is stupid but just from this one story it really just sounds more like one of those "Oh, it's getting late, I better put the snacks and phone back into the fridge and get ready for bed!!" moments.
The guy who thought he had had a period needs to see a doctor.
To be honest, I was too baffled when I learned that narwals are, in fact, real. I think I was 13.
Nature is often weirder than fantasy 😆
Big Bird's name is "Garibaldo" if that helps her to feel vindiicated
John Mainly Facts: thinks "i meik gud grmmor" would be a good youtube title.
My girlfriend, while I do love her, once asked my mother and I if owls were real while we were watching Harry Potter
I feel like story 20 isn’t about how he’s shooting down her beliefs the silly part Is to keep spending money on something that she said is always wrong lmao he was not with how she felt strongly enough to keep paying for a service that never showed her signs of being real or helpful
Story 13: First of all: that is not called "stupid" it is called "gaslighting". Second of all: Men actually do have fluctuations in their homone cycle. Both per day and in a 40-day cycle (although I'm not entirely shure about the latter)
As a male, I have noticed this personally. I can be........well, the kindest word is probably "uncharitable" when I first wake up, and tend to "have a bad day" about every five or six weeks.
About person not knowing of killer whales/orcas… I still meet people who don’t know what a chinchilla is. When I got my first axolotl 10 years ago, nobody knew about them. Now I see adorable axolotl plushies in stands at the mall. Some people just have less interest and know less about things. Oh. Degus.
In regards to story 29:
Actually, giraffe's can be quite dangerous!
They aren't really dangerous to humans, but lions don't hunt giraffe's unless they are DESPERATE. Giraffe's have a VERY strong kick, and they can knock a lions head off with them
You don't need the apostrophes in "giraffes".
Plural, not possessive ☺️
@@Jedidiah_Martin_2 yeah, my keyboard did that automatically and I didn't feel like fixing it lol
I kind of like cycle path. 😂🤣😂
Yeah, me too 🤣
"Do you mean that he lets people ride bicycles around on his body?"
24:15 Fun fact... Giraffe- could and WOUld eat meat actually. Yes- they're herbivore... supposedly, but there have been cases of them eating... passing birds.
Kinda like why cat and dogs eat grass for extra nutrient. So yes- they can eat meat.
Panda and Koala are weirder in my opinion. Both are example of evolution is not always the survival of the fittest...
Not dating anyone but my father believes that airplane fly by filling the cabin with helium to make the plane lighter so it can fly, I tried to correct him a couple time but he still believe what he said is correct
TLDR: Narwhals aren't real. also this has nothing to do with the original video, but the narwhal horn reminded me of it
regarding the one with the narwhal horn, when I was around 9 or 10 my mom (homeschooled and in a co-op) told me narwhals weren't real and not on her list of whales to do a report on (it was a sea mammals class). so I got mad and decided to do the report on a bottlenose dolphin, which I had no fun doing and was completely disinterested. the SAME DAY within an HOUR I heard my exfriend ask to do the report on narwhals. AND SHE SAID YES. I walked up and told her they were supposed to 'not be real'. she looks over the list and finds it immediately. she gave the report to my exfriend. so thats how the Narwhal became my favorite animal and everything I had was narwhal themed including: bags, pajamas, Halloween bucket/costume, stuffed animals, valentines day cards and that's what I can remember off the top of my head. he was 8 or 9 so the report was HORRIBLE. no detail, bad pictures, and it was only like 5 sentences. THE MINIMUM. everyone who knows me has heard this story lol. also, I love your videos! I watch multiple a day, but this is my first story that I am commenting (you should probably expect more). thanks for reading
I feel as though there is no such thing as someone who is objectively "stupid" sure they may not make the wisest decisions, but they know a lot of cool things you didn't, or have a great job that requires a lot of brains to get. Or someone might not be super successful and didn't do great in school, but are probably the "smart one" in the friend group. Or someone that has a very high IQ level (for whatever those are worth) but isn't very successful, didn't do great in school and makes a lot of unwise decisions. I feel as though calling someone stupid or an idiot is just an uneducated insult, or something couples and friend groups call each other for an innocent laugh. There is no such thing as a stupid person, no such thing as an idiot, and everyone is smart in their own unique way.
Live long enough and you will meet at least one actual idiot.
fun fact human egg's are the only cell visible to the naked eye, unlike what story 18 says