What's an 'oh shit' moment where you realised you've been doing something the wrong way for years?
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My freshman year of college the local donut shop had “community coffee” branded coffee. I never paid for a coffee, because I thought “oh community coffee.. how nice that they offer free coffee to the community” I always got dirty looks when I would grab a cup and pour myself a coffee. I only realized when I went to the donut shop with a friend that it wasn’t free. I probably stole 100+ cups of coffee.
average communism enthusiast
Surprised nobody said shit
If you have spare money and are close, bring that up and try to pay for them please
You must have been in Louisiana. Lol
Omg I would so end up doing this!
why did my dumb ass think that the "fairy dust" from the first story would actually turn out to be cocaine lol
I mean I actually thought it was another way to say PCP cause sometimes people Say angel dust instead of PCP
Y'all dopers
@@lochofmceo how do you even know what dopers mean?
@@speczcosmic3300 from Nancy Goat Throat Reagan
@@lochofmceo bro what💀🗿💀
I thought visualizing was just concentrating on details of what something looks like. I also thought phrases like "picture in your mind" and "mental image" were figures of speech. I was in my late 30's when I learned about aphantasia: the inability to form mental images. Turns out "mental images" are _literally_ pictures that most people can just create in their mind on demand and *that* was what people meant when they said to "visualize" something. I'm just completely unable to do it.
Same here, although I've read that some people with aphantasia can't see dreams either, at least I can do that.
@@megatronacepticon Yeah, same here. I'm able to "see" in dreams, and they _always_ take on a "real perspective". I've heard people describe totally abstract dreams, like dreaming of themselves as something else (eg. a dog, a rock, a chicken cutlet, etc.), or dreaming of just some abstract image and nothing else (eg. Some celebrity in place of a family member's face). But for me, Dreams are always in a "setting"; I'm in a _place_ watching from either a first-person view, or a strange hybrid first/third person view where it's basically first-person, but I *also* see myself either over the shoulder or top-down. And the Dream is happening all around me, no different than being awake and being able to look around. Sometimes, I can even _feel_ in a dream. I could pinch myself, and actually feel the pinch, for example; I've tried using that as a test to check if I'm dreaming to trigger a lucid dream, but *in* the dream I reasoned that _if_ I could feel the pinch, I _must not be dreaming._ So I "Checked" myself the wrong way, tricking myself into thinking I was actually _awake_ when I was Dreaming, so I didn't want to do anything with adverse consequences because I believed, in the Dream, that they'd _actually stick!_
The *only* exceptions, I can count on one hand. *Very* occasionally, I get a dream that straddles either falling asleep or waking up. Your brain can start revving up the dream engine before you totally lose consciousness; you can also "coast" on a dream, partially waking up before the dreaming part of your brain fully shuts off. And in *those,* I've "seen" things, but somehow projected in my brain and "floating" in an empty space that's _very_ different from typical dreams. It was kind of like looking at a Magic Eye Picture (Stereogram), where it looks like visual static, but if you position your eyes _just right,_ a 3D image seems to "pop out" of the page at you. It was like that, but the image "popped out" of the black void behind my closed eyes and, somehow, was 3D projected right into the middle of my _head!_ Or, at least, that's what it felt like.
A friend of mine had a freezer for about 30 years and thought the auto-defrost feature didn’t work. She was manually defrosting it with a hair dryer. It turns out that she thought you should turn off the freezer before defrosting it. (I can see the logic. Make it stop cooling first.) But the switch that she thought of as turning off the freezer actually shut off power to it. And without power, the auto-defrost button doesn’t do anything.
I thought the tip line on a receipt was just to record how much money I left on the table for the tip. Turns out I’ve been tipping double all my life.
chaotic good
13:25
Credit card tips are automatically reported to the store, but most stores don't actually require you to report your cash tips. The reason is because every tip that you record gets taxed, usually at a higher rate than income tax. For example my tips are taxed at 15%.
These taxes come out of your paycheck. Most managers understand this and don't require you to report cash tips to avoid the extra taxing on your already small income.
So drivers will typically prefer cash over credit card tips because they can hide them from the taxman.
Good to know
23:07 one more for you all. My Geography teacher had a student who had acromatopsia, or total colour blindness and he didn’t even know he was colour blind until he was playing cricket and the ball landed in front of him and he couldn’t see it. He normally saw things by movement so when the ball stopped rolling he couldn’t see red on green. After that he got tested and diagnosed.
I can just imagine everyone yelling at him to throw the ball and he’s just mildly panicking while trying to see where it went
@@tempoticandmeepstar7584 yeah I’m pretty sure that’s what happened
For the past 2 years I have been getting texts from my wife like 'Siri, tell him to pick up some bread on his way home." or "Siri, tell him I'm working late today." I told her she's doing it wrong but I still get texts like this all the time. She's not really tech savvy.
The refrigerator in your hotel room
That's not free with the room
Do not even breath in that direction
My grandma didn't know her real name until she was in her early twenties. Her parents couldn't decide what to name her, so they named her the name her father picked but called her the name her mom picked. She found out that that wasn't her name when she saw her birth certificate. She ended up changing her name a few years before she died and put the name she was always called as her middle name.
How did she not figure that out tho at school haha so weird
@@Ilovemybaby247 they just called by the same name, so she knew no different. She was born in the 1920s so they probably weren't really as interested in formal IDs and stuff.
At the start of the pandemic I bought some 'Babybel' cheese because I've heard many good things from friends. I had never seen someone eat them so i just assumed it was like candy. I would remove the plastic wrapping but not the case and would eat them with the red shell. They only come with 6, ate them all(to not waste) and i ended up not enjoying the experience, so anytime a friend would offer me some I would politely decline. A few weeks later, I see a coworker eating a few for lunch and asked him why he was throwing away the red part of the cheese. That was when i learned that the red part isn't edible. ;-;
Lmfaooooo you're wild for that. Glad it got corrected early on 😂
The red part is wax right?
LOL, oke, that is a new level of ignorance. Thanks for the smile.
Maybe because we see commercials where they are being peeled all the time, that not too many people make that mistake?
Of course if you are used to 'natural' cheese / not factory blocks or pre-sliced/ you know about cheese-crusts you never eat.
But I can imagine how you would miss that.
I hope you will give them another try, they are pretty tasty for 'fake' cheese. (I say fake because they are a mixture, not 100% cheese.) Excellent snacks.
When I moved into my apartment, I didn't know for several years that the range top could be lifted up to clean under it. One day, I kept seeing smoke coming from the drip pans, no matter how much I cleaned. It was only then I discovered there was a whole nonstick surface underneath, and when I put a knife between the range top and the counter, lo and behold, up it comes to reveal a surface covered in burned-on food. I found the source of the smoke, all right.
“Itchy” as a flavour - f*ck it - I can dig that. Tomorrow when I eat my wife’s amazing cooking and she smiles that beautiful smile that I married her for, and she asks how I like it; I’m gonna kiss her and say “Babygirl, that food was the itchiest ever !!”
She gon smack you😂 also smart man smiles are definitely the greatest thing ever
How did it go?
@@potatpoo7313 it went down quite scratchy!
Testing yourself on cue cards or whatever is great because making the cue cards is just as good or better than the actual testing.
24:15 Neighbor in a mobile home (divorced man) had never heard of cleaning a lint trap much less under the drum of the dryer. We got the side of our house toasted when his place burned to the ground due to this oversight. Clean the lint off of the trap every load, out from the dryer hose at least twice a year, and from around the drum yearly. Dryer lint is highly flammable, as that neighbor discovered. Lucky we had insurance for the damage we sustained; lucky for the neighbor that he had JUST left the house 5 minutes prior to go to the store. Place was engulfed in flames in 30 seconds.
Please do more on this topic! Educational and fucking hilarious!
Right??! Like, I gotta know...how was the dude at 20:02 doing "it" exactly??! 🤔🙄😳
Alternate title for this video is 'Today I Learned.' ☺😁✌
I cant feel sorry for those who dont bother to read instructions that come with things.. ie tampons, cars or appliances. Seriously. This is why we have warning labels on tidepods ffs
But since people don't read, doesn't that make the warning labels pointless?
@@Jabberwockybird it just prevents lawsuits.
I've been raising my hand similar to the Hitler salute in order to gesture a "hello" to my friends, and I've been scolded by teachers many times, took history the year after and I don't do it anymore
Wow, you grew up under a rock?
I realised that I was studying the wrong way, after changing my grades went from D’s and C’s to A’s
How?
I didn't know how to properly put on deodorant until I was like 23. In middle school I played club basketball and a coach kept telling me I smell bad from sweating. I was like idk man I use deodorant. When I was 23 I saw someone else put on deodorant and realized I wasn't putting it down far enough. I would only put it on in the crack but not down lower. So stupid haha
The one that made me laugh out loud was the bathroom cabinet.
23:05 “YODA IS GREEN?!”
Cracked me up, lmfao.
I can’t stop laughing at these 😂 best one so far.
4:30. Goodness she's special 😂
03:12 "And itchy isn't a flavor" BRO THIS WAS ME WITH KIWIS
The 2 thumb rule in the front of the shoe
I thought it was so the shoe doesn't press your toes.
But my mum when I was moving to college made sure I got shoes that fit perfectly
3:28 I had to LOL at that one not really for her accidental, silly pun, but how everyone just assumed she called it that way on purpose assuming she had negative feelings harbored for that state.
4:18 I call them medicine cabinets. I reserve calling such furnishings cupboards, because I reserve such titles for similar furniture found in kitchens and dining rooms.
I didnt realize until I was into my 20's that I didnt need to step outside the shower to dry off. I can just shut the water off and dry off inside the shower instead of tracking water everywhere.
"Thats where grandma puts her teeth" 😖
Not me but my co workers in a laboratory had been using a hegmann gauge wrong for years until I started there and showed them how to use it properly.
They also weren't sending it off to get calibrated every 6 months either.
I worked Pizza Hut from ‘09-‘16 and I never once called it fairy dust. I called it the garlic seasoning. That’s it.
20:20
Only in America. Circumcision for non religious reason is an American thing. And Canadian I suppose.
I learned there was a better way to tie shoes! I was in my 30's at the time. Arg!
"This evil lady called Helen Handbasket" hahahahaha
I used to think a virgin was someone who couldn't do it ( infertile ). Then I found out in Freshman year. I was so ashamed because I didn't know that for 3 years...
The nuts thing sucks, but that dermatologist is wrong, while you're a lot more likely to develop allergies in childhood, you can develop allergies at any point in your life. Even to something you have previously eaten/been in contact with. I know, because that's what happened with me and walnuts, and my doctor had to explain this to me. I was floored by it. I thought it was just a childhood or discovered late in life thing. Not a can just happen sort of thing.
Yes! I have developed a few different allergies that started as randomly being intolerant and now I can’t eat them at all
Ok, do they literally not put instructions on tampons? I'm a guy so I don't use and have never purchased them. Are there no instructions on them? Like, I have seen instructions on fucking toothpaste and shampoo, but companies are not putting it on feminine hygiene products for some reason? Ladies please explain this to me so I can understand.
In Germany we have detailed instructions, especially for people who only started using them.
Another thing is, that we don’t have an applicator. When I found out they existed, I was shocked that we don’t have that!
Yes there is. I dont know of anything requiring some form of technical application that *doesnt have instructions 🤷♀️
There literally is, i have no idea what that woman was on about and why she never read it
Yeah, all tampon boxes I've seen have instructions and diagrams on the box.
These things make me think of ways I might have been thinking incorrectly my whole life. Me or even others.scary.
the dishwasher one got me the most
Mu aunt once told me that a famous song was wroten for me, because she had asked the compositor to make a music for her niece. I'm not sure for how long I believed, but was at least 3 years...Between 7 and 10yo, but mind started a little earlier and/or found the truth a bit older, not sure.
My older sister found out I believed that and made funny of me, but I'm really happy she did, or I could end up finding out when I was 20 😂
Is a famous brazilian song from the 70's, I was born in 1992. If any portuguese speakers get curious, is the song "olhos coloridos".
My great grandma is like 75, she found out a few years ago that she’s been celebrating her birthday a week late her entire life.
kind of like the bathroom cup story, we have two plastic cups by the sink in the bathroom and my thoughts were one for me and my mom and one for my step dad until my mom asked me why I was using the cats cup?... THE CATS CUP?! apparently the cat likes to drink her water from a cup in the bathroom 😓
7:08 kinda curious about whether or not she has a good relationship with her dad
Why? Some cultures and some families just don't talk about that kind of thing, but that doesn't mean the relationship is bad.
I didn't reach my final shoe size until 26.
But tampon boxes have a leaflet that tells how to use them?
Oh i was just watching a video from you and got a notification about this video, what a coincidence 😅
Thank you for the upload by the way 😌
Have a good day 🌹
I used to eat babybells with the wax on
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
4:49 won't this problem be different for everyone? like growth doesnt stop constantly at 23 right?
I had a very big dishes that didn't fit in the dishwasher. I used to wash them by hand for around a year until my mom came for visit and noticed that I don't put them in the dishwasher. It turns out that the trays can be lifted up so it fits taller dishes.
15:58 actively unlocked a childhood memory of my grandfather taking out his dentures and chasing me & my cousins around. It was terrifying 😭😭😭
I ate paper until I was 10. I was fine. I would just crunch up some paper, put it in my mouth , and eat it. I stopped because I learned that they were supposed to be toxic.
I hated jumping into water because of running out of air before surfacing, then realized you’re supposed to deep breath& hold it, then jump, not the other way around.
Lmfao
The sofa bed was obviously delivered by the store. Anyone who has ever picked one up would not have been so clueless.
I put 2 spaces after periods and ive been doing this for years
I’ve been putting the powder in the wrong compartment of the washing machine for years and years.
Long division and cross multiplying.
10:10 I've got a similar one. My middle name is based on a virtue, so I've been spelling it based on how it's spelled literally everywhere else for the first nineteen-or-so years of my life to make sure I spelled it correctly. Ordered my birth certificate when we couldn't find it, turns out I've been spelling it wrong. Because my dad misspelled it when I was born. Because he had dyslexia, which I should have figured because I do as well. At this point, though, I love my misspelled name, haha.
I too wound up 1st battery-powered watch. For several months.
Actually, I’m pretty sure you can gain new allergies as an adult. You can also lose allergies, and they can change in severity.
When I was 17 I was told I had been holding silverware wrong my whole life. Apparently you're supposed to hold utensils like they're pencils but I had been holding them like they're drumsticks, at least according to my parents.
2:28 Mind-blowing O_O
Crates and barrel / cracker barrel 🤣🤣🤣
I pronounced chimney as “chimley” and I wrote cupboard as “cuboard”
Mouthwash.....
I f^^^^^ up something to do with mouthwash. I thought you had to use the mouthwash THEN brush your teeth but... I was wrong. REALLY WRONG so basically the mouth wash was barely doing anything because I hadn’t brushed my teeth first.
Actually: mouthwash hardly does anything (except making the mucous membranes hurt), so you did not do anything wrong.
Every dentist I have spoken to this century told me mouthwash is a bad thing and should be avoided.
Alcohol disturbs the normal maintenance of the mouth.
Garlic salt? Nah. It's FAIRY DUST! Fight me.
I was recently told not to wipe side to side. Game changer.
What is the name of the last song in this video? :)
1:50 now teach him about Speed Dial
At school people jumping to reach high places only bc they were a small bean but then me, one of the tallest in class can just touch it bare handed 😧
7:00
My dad was the one to teach me how to use a tampon since my mum abused me and my dad and didnt really feel like going to her lol. Dad is a good coach... shame I can't use them anymore lol
10:35 didn't know other people had the same name as me
I always hated apples. It felt rough in my mouth and down my throat. I also hated apple juice. I liked the taste of it, but hated how it left my throat dry and itchy. The whole time, I just assumed it was the normal texture of apples, and it baffled me how people liked eating this fruit.
I only realised that I was mildly allergic to it a few months ago, when I experienced the same thing with kiwis. Kiwis made my tongue so itchy, and I remembered that it was a symptom of food allergy. I looked it up, and... yep, that's when I finally found out. LMAO
For some reason, though... latex, avocado, bananas, and carrots are fine. It's really just those two fruits...
If your dryer is intelligent do not take it apart, you will just end the warranty period and find there's no lint in there. This is for standard drum dryers only. Which everyone use to have but now most dryers don't need that clean out.
Your washers filter on the other hand ... Clean that. Every three months.
To answer the question of why he wouldn't give the cash back, because the government can't track cash tips to tax you on them, but they can with credit card tips.
I also fill a kettle from the spout, buy that's because I'm obstinate and I know it annoys people
Wait you’re supposed to take the dust out of the dryer every time you ended a round
You're supposed to take the *garlic salt out of the dryer every time.
That's not what they're talking about. The one that slides out easily (and can be seen when you open the dryer door) is the one you always clean. But then apparently, you have to basically take the dryer apart once a year and clean it...
Just today I realized something obvious. Back home there were two high schools (one all girls and the other all boys) run by the Sisters of Saint Joseph. The schools were, in a lot of ways, one unit (ie they always went to coed sporting events together.) I only just now realized the reason the boys' school's colors were orange and black was because they were the opposite of blue and white, the all girl's school's colors.
i didnt know how to dribble a basketball until like 4th grade
Shrek
I genuinely had no idea how to run until I was like 19
for about a year and a half I actually ate kiwis with skin and all. turns out the tiny hairs that are on the skin of a kiwi are actually mildly venomous my mouth was completely numb after I ate 15 kiwis
I was in 8th grade before I learned how to tie shoelaces. The principal taught me how and she was the best. Turns out no one bothered to tell me about the hole.
Oh yeah, I didn't learn until 6th grade. Im left handed and my family was all right handed, so my dumb kid ass would try to do it the way they did it with their right hands doing all the difficult maneuvering and would obviously fail because my right hand couldn't handle that workload
But mysteriously, I have no clue who taught me. I woke up one morning with a new method in mind and I used that and when they asked I thought my dad had taught me but he claimed he'd never seen that technique used to tie a shoe before
...now it's been so long since I tied a shoe (mostly been wearing boots) that I bet my dumbass has forgot again
What hole?
@@lochofmceo Rabbit goes around the tree and down the hole
@@54GodzillaFan I was taught the loop swoop pull not bunny ears. I remember it very well, 1st grade I got my first shoes that weren’t Velcro and my grandpa made me tie them over and over for like an hour until I didn’t need help anymore. I miss grandpa
I've seen this before!
Is kinda gross but its natural so deal with it. But tampons. Am female. And no one taught me how to apply them just that it exists. So youre supposed to push the cotton part from the plastic in you not stick the whole thing in... And guess what I discovered this a couple weeks ago there was an ad with Amy shumer I think... and I saw it and that prompted me to finally look it up and watch a TH-cam video
. So I got my 1st period when I was 11... and it took me to being 21 to finally know how to properly use a tampon.
We really need to educate young period having folks. It's not that gross if you take care of it. stop the stigma and just help people properly.
I also would leave the plastic in, it hurt a lot so I stopped using tampons for a long time. I dont know how I finally figured it out, but I dont have to worry anymore because I use a disc instead and it’s much nicer. 100% recommend if you find yourself raw or hurting from tampons.
In my country there are instructions and diagrams about how to insert a tampon on any box of tampons. Id that not available where you are?
@@Etianen7 in my case, the instructions didnt include pictures or anything. Also my mom used to keep the different sizes in different cubbies, so I dont think I ever actually saw a box to read until I was buying my own. My mom Sort of taught me about stuff but I did not want to ask her any questions so I just tried to figure it out by myself.
Read...the.....f*ing....manual!
This is the 'we can find anything online'-generation talking?
I am so shocked!
Every box has a manual included/ has been that way since the 1960s.
@@muurrarium9460 some people didnt have access to the boxes. You also don’t know where OP lives or how old she is, so you can’t know if she is part of the “we can find everything online” generation.
Although, I am part of that generation but was not allowed to have access to the internet until I was 17. So please keep your judgments to yourself.
I KNEW IT WASNT JUST ME WITH THE BOLOGNA I KNEW IT
Writing witch as which and wihch
Trimming bushes with a tarp under the bushes and then drag it across the street, no raking.
i’ve been pronouncing arkansas like are-kansas.
*At **20:02** I MUST KNOW exactly how in the hell he was..."doing it?"* 🤔🙄😳
Only thing I can think of is he was rubbing his hands back and forth like he’s trying to start a fire with a stick
YOU DONT EAT THE CUPCAKE PAPER?!?
I HAVE BEEN WRONG FOR SO LONG
Literally called paper
I just realized the saying roll your windows up is because you have to roll UP the hand crack to roll up the window
Lmfao rule number 1...... double tap
You can double tap that whote on screen home button on your iPhone. Settings. Assistive touch.
Honestly didn't know how to tie my shoes till 8th grade been taught at least 3 times and forgot and now in 10th I can do it but not great
Smfh
@@lochofmceonah dude ik girl who make guys tie their shoes for them
When I was younger my friendhad a lisp so they prounced like isp and like I said it from isp Bc I didn’t know the word lisp for about 5 years
I used to eat tissue paper, stopped when I was around 16.
I’m 21 and still chew the cupcake/muffin paper like gum, I don’t swallow it though.
So uh, I'm 33 and a few weeks ago I learned that you're not supposed to rinse your mouth after brushing because you need to give time for the fluoride to work... I honestly thought it worked like hand soap. Now this might have been nbd in a place with fluoridated water, but the city I've lived my whole life doesn't floridate their water (I learned this the same hour btw, after living here since I was still an infant. I have terrible teeth, I've had 3 back teeth pulled, several veneers on the front from the enamel wearing away on my front teeth, at least 3 root canals, and they're all a light beige color due to having pretty much no enamel, and I had blamed getting a terrible genetic hand teeth-wise because I've brushed at least once a day my entire life (and flossed!), guess I just figured out why a few years after I stopped taking my nightly flouride "tooth pill" supplement as a kid I went from having zero cavities to needing 3 fillings done at once and it just got worse from there. At least my lips are probably my best feature so I have been able to pull off a nice looking closed lip smile.
This happened to me too. I only learned a few months ago that to wasn't supposed to rinse.
Sorry, what?
That is why you have to make sure the brushing your teeth-session lasts 2 minutes or longer, so the fluoride from the toothpaste has time to "sink in".
Of course you rinse after you have finished!
Swallowing toothpaste is not good for you!
You are not supposed to brush your teeth straight after eating/drinking something acidic (oranges/ juice/ most sparkling drinks) because the teeth need to recuperate from that (with your saliva, which is a base). If you brush immediately after eating/snacking/drinking soda...you ruin your enamel-coating.
(Use non-sugar chewing-gum if you must...extra saliva and working it around your mouth will help.)