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    @amithegenius  ปีที่แล้ว +13

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    • @pumkin610
      @pumkin610 ปีที่แล้ว

      1:14 You got one word wrong and you will do it again and you have done it before, I will not be coming back to your videos.

  • @WolfDB
    @WolfDB ปีที่แล้ว +84

    My own personal story: First day on my first ever job, I was getting taught how to work at a gas station. All the wile, I start pressing this weird switch that I didn't know what it did, but it was fun to press. About an hour later, the police come by and tell us that someone's activated the silent alarm over and over. My bosses and I look at each other because we don't know who did it before I come to the realization and admit it was me pressing the switch thing because I didn't know what it was. The police understood and just basically told me not to do it again unless it was a real emergency

    • @MrGoesBoom
      @MrGoesBoom ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Little surprised by that, most police/fire departments actually fine places for frequent false alarms...mostly because if they're hauling ass to your place because someone's just playing with a switch, they aren't available to go respond to actual crimes

    • @WolfDB
      @WolfDB ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@MrGoesBoom It was mainly because they understood why and after the response the matter was cleared up

    • @samanthamaloy4413
      @samanthamaloy4413 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@MrGoesBoomEMS here. Yeah that's true for people who do it "maliciously" as in they are aware of the fact that they are calling for help and more importantly they have been informed previously that what they are calling for is not something that emergency services can help with. The cops saw a dumb kid pressing a button that he didn't know was calling them. Only a completely unreasonable d*ckhead would fine him for that especially after he realized it was him, admitted it in front of his employers and then sincerely apologized for it

    • @jamesreno3321
      @jamesreno3321 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's definitely your employers fault. Shame on them for not teaching you something so important from the first day

    • @lucasokeefe7935
      @lucasokeefe7935 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fire departments and medical I always understood charging for false alarms, but considering how many police departments serve as nothing more than money making scams for local governments I would blanche at any bills for a mistaken call

  • @rixon44
    @rixon44 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    The fake subway surfers footage💀

    • @Yureiissooocol1
      @Yureiissooocol1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      HRLP I JS NOTICED THATT

    • @Expertsmap_2
      @Expertsmap_2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fr💀💀💀💀💀

    • @dontworryaboutit993
      @dontworryaboutit993 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The subway surfer mixed with roblox

    • @cheshirecat3845
      @cheshirecat3845 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Looks like they crossed it with that cross road game😂😂

    • @Creative_YT
      @Creative_YT 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This ain’t subway surfers this subway sandwich

  • @rora9553
    @rora9553 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Everyone was confused whenever I asked why they would eat “poison berries “. It wasn’t until I was in my 20’s and wrote it down that someone said “ooooh! You mean BOYSEN-berries.”

    • @riverbanzachamploo9725
      @riverbanzachamploo9725 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      omg i had no idea

    • @datjasminecat
      @datjasminecat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      my question is wth is a boysenberry

    • @rora9553
      @rora9553 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Boysenberries are a hybrid between loganberries, blackberries, and raspberries. Loganberries are also a cross between blackberries and raspberries. Boysenberries are grown on the United States west coast from California to Oregon.

    • @RelationshipUpdates08
      @RelationshipUpdates08 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That's hilarious! It's funny how a simple mishearing can create such confusion. I'm sure everyone had a good laugh when they figured out what you actually meant!

    • @ursadabear2810
      @ursadabear2810 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No fr I also thought they were called poison berries for easily the first half of my life. I saw a label or something that said boysenberry in high school, quietly realized my own stupidity and pretended like I had always known.

  • @KiwiTyTy
    @KiwiTyTy ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I feel the Q-tip person. I didn't know what a sweet potato was until my late teens because I live in New Zealand and we call them "kumera" (the Māori word for sweet potatoes). Every time I found a recipe with "sweet potato" I thought it was for a type of potato that wasn't imported to NZ, and ditched the recipe for a different one with veges I knew. I finally got fed up with the popularity of sweet potatoes, googled "alternatives for sweet potato", and the top result was "five alternatives for kumera". I felt like a complete idiot for days.

    • @w.reidripley1968
      @w.reidripley1968 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They make a good pie, too. Very like pumpkin pie, using much the same suite of spices... and maybe with more ginger. Cook, mash, sweeten (say, using condensed milk), mix together and bake in moderate oven.

  • @LegendStormcrow
    @LegendStormcrow ปีที่แล้ว +32

    For anyone going "I thought it was duck tape," it's Duck Tape. That's the most famous brand of duct tape, hence why everyone is confused at some point in their lives.

    • @wolfskinchanger
      @wolfskinchanger ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It wouldn't surprise me at all if that brand was named in acknowledgement of that ongoing confusion.

    • @LegendStormcrow
      @LegendStormcrow ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wolfskinchanger I honestly could see it going either way. Either way, they've profited off from it

    • @grant5227
      @grant5227 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Also you're better off using aluminum foil tape for ducts anyways.

    • @carmium
      @carmium ปีที่แล้ว

      The story I heard (on TV so it must be true) is that it was originally made for the military out of heavily-glued cotton duck, a cheap fabric. When it entered the civilian market, somebody decided it would be good on ducts (it isn't) and named it accordingly. Years later, someone would revive the original tag as a trade name, complete with duck logo.

    • @MrGoesBoom
      @MrGoesBoom ปีที่แล้ว

      You're wrong as well I'm afraid. It's not Duck tape. It's Duct, DUCT, tape. as in tape you use for ventilation ducts. Granted it's useful for other things, but that's where it started

  • @cyberherbalist
    @cyberherbalist ปีที่แล้ว +35

    That was all very funny, but I especially liked the one about the guy who didn't know that you had to add water to condensed soups!

    • @RedK5
      @RedK5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I always add it to my noodles so I had no idea either. To be fair it said cream so I never thought of eating it by itself

    • @w.reidripley1968
      @w.reidripley1968 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "May I have another slice of soup?"
      "That's the canned cranberry jelly."

  • @jaroldscottwilliams.3rd832
    @jaroldscottwilliams.3rd832 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Actually... those lights on escalators ARE for the blind so far as I'm aware. Most legally blind people can see just well enough to use shining lights as a measure of depth based on how big the lights are as they move towards the lights and whether or not the lights are moving along with whether their foot is covering the lights fully or partially to indicate if they can put their foot down on the step. They can't see regular objects well, so the lights will help them a lot because stairs can be hard enough; let alone moving stairs.
    However... fully blind people and some people at the very deep end of the legally blind spectrum are probably not going to find it very useful.
    Fun fact: babies are born legally blind and can't see more than greyish blobs for the first month. Most babies will then see in black and white for the next five months; finally being able to see in full color after a full six months. There are, of course, exceptions; such as premature or late-pregnancies and some people who are born with fewer light cones in their eyes.

    • @Morna777
      @Morna777 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This. My dad has macular degeneration and the edges of stairs are one of the things that's very hard for him to see. We painted the stairs in the house with a yellow stripe at the edge.

  • @ninjabluefyre3815
    @ninjabluefyre3815 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Just for the sake of it, I do wanna draw Gladly the Cross-eyed Bear.

  • @PokeMasrerJ
    @PokeMasrerJ ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Just something to know about the last one. "Hamburgers" don't have "ham" because they were sandwiches made out of two slices of bread and beef in the middle for sailors back some time in Hamburg.

    • @MarsJenkar
      @MarsJenkar ปีที่แล้ว +5

      While the Hamburg origin is likely correct, I heard they were originally served in "steak" form--think a Salisbury steak with different seasoning and no gravy--and were thus called "Hamburger steak", later shortened to "hamburger". Serving them in sandwich form came later.

    • @PokeMasrerJ
      @PokeMasrerJ ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MarsJenkar oh, the more you know if so

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PokeMasrerJ 🌈⭐🦚

    • @daustinrichards
      @daustinrichards ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As a kid I thought hamburgers were made of ham too

    • @ChillaxeMake
      @ChillaxeMake 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      sorta like saying new yorker

  • @danielcreepercristo9864
    @danielcreepercristo9864 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    16:37 - Story 45: "I learned at 27 how to clean a toaster. I didn't know there was a trapdoor at the bottom of it."
    That part hits different when you know about the Protogen species.

    • @adostandley7047
      @adostandley7047 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      dude

    • @travisretriever7473
      @travisretriever7473 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This comment is more unhinged than a door after a tornado, dude, holy shit. 💀

    • @GrahamLavelle-hn3sz
      @GrahamLavelle-hn3sz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What? Please explain

  • @elessal
    @elessal ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I used to think that bricks were make by weaving. as in weaving for clothes. because in spanish ''cocer'' means bioling or heating food and other stuff (in this case, heating the clay to make bricks). and the word sounds exactly like ''coser'' which is the action of weaving threads with a neddle. never gave it any thought to realize that is what it meant, even at 28 years old when I already knew about the process. like as if my brain had forgotten to update an old entry.

  • @schizophrenicmelancholy2706
    @schizophrenicmelancholy2706 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    For some reason, I thought this subject was going to be filled with “Oh, so that’s what that was for” seconds before/midst/after disaster moments.

  • @TheCatMurgatroyd
    @TheCatMurgatroyd ปีที่แล้ว +9

    #9 the movie Clappers can also have colors on them which are used by the editors to find the real white shade. Either automatically by the program or by using the colors as a reference

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That makes a lot of sense. It's a similar reason why the TV broadcast test cards in my country have certain colours on them.

  • @LastGunslinger1
    @LastGunslinger1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "O you put it on your wrist" had me dying

  • @princessmarlena1359
    @princessmarlena1359 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    When I was living with my robot friend at their apartment, which was very tiny. My robot friend said they had a closet, and pressed a button on the wall to open the closet door. Behind it was a space the size of an apartment. I suggested I live in there, and my robot friend was cool with it but still found it strange.

    • @masoquistaeo
      @masoquistaeo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ahhh, another man of class, 🎩

    • @MegaAlucard777
      @MegaAlucard777 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      For those who don't understand, it's a Futurama reference.

  • @Emilyweasel2023
    @Emilyweasel2023 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I only knew about the pipe cleaners because my grandpa smoked a pipe and they were always pipe cleaners around

  • @radeakins
    @radeakins ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Took me 8 years to figure out how to set the clock in my old Cadillac. I live in the UK and the car had no paperwork. I got an original owners manual as a christmas gift. You don't press or hold the buttons, you pull them.😂

  • @jaroldscottwilliams.3rd832
    @jaroldscottwilliams.3rd832 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is it weird that I kind of want to normalize getting a ham steak on a bun if you ask for a ham burger? I mean... why not? chicken burgers exist. Fish burgers exist.

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 ปีที่แล้ว

      People won't likely bat an eye if you have bacon on your burger. It's a similar meat.

    • @jaroldscottwilliams.3rd832
      @jaroldscottwilliams.3rd832 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JamesDavy2009 No, I mean like... a ham steak, a slab of ham, maybe with a slightly goo-y egg on top instead of a beef patty or chicken breast. And then call it a ham burger. And then call hamburgers beef burgers and keep calling chicken burgers chicken burgers along with still calling fish burgers fish burgers. It would be a breakfast item.

  • @girlscanbedrummers5804
    @girlscanbedrummers5804 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The crossed eye bear one was so funny and adorable as heck lmao 🤣

  • @LegendStormcrow
    @LegendStormcrow ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I was like, "hair tie? How?"
    And I also thought a lorry was a brand of vehicle.

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, that's just what the Poms call a truck.

    • @LegendStormcrow
      @LegendStormcrow ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JamesDavy2009 is Pom a word for Brit?

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@LegendStormcrow You bet it is. Coined by the convicts they dumped on a land charted by James Cook.

    • @LegendStormcrow
      @LegendStormcrow ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JamesDavy2009 We call them lobsterbacks. I wonder what Indians call the Black and Tans.

  • @elessal
    @elessal ปีที่แล้ว +4

    good thing it was peper spray. my mother's perfume bottle that she carries on her bag looks too much like a clit vibrator (which I mentioned and she disproved)

    • @DeliverUsFromEvie
      @DeliverUsFromEvie ปีที่แล้ว

      ikr, i thought this kid was about to find a flask or condoms or something 🤣

  • @Jackuhlf
    @Jackuhlf ปีที่แล้ว +5

    We need a part 2

  • @rileymcphee9429
    @rileymcphee9429 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That lint roller one broke my heart

  • @MulletDestructur
    @MulletDestructur ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ok, I was today years old when I learned that “I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus was about the kid seeing their mom kissing their dad dressed as Santa Claus. 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

  • @tylerbartlett28
    @tylerbartlett28 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm 25 and I'm just now questioning why hamburgers are not made of ham. My life is a lie.

    • @nadinewesterveld5597
      @nadinewesterveld5597 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They come from Hamburg.

    • @neliaferreira9983
      @neliaferreira9983 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In fact, it's the word "burger" that comes from "Hamburg" ("Hamburger") and not the other way around.

    • @w.reidripley1968
      @w.reidripley1968 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've also heard the sandwich was popularized by Hamburg Lines, bringing Germans over the Atlantic to America.
      The history of the hamburger is apparently a long, convoluted one, stretching back to the Mongols, tenderizing meat by shoving a slice of it under their saddle and riding all day, then eating it raw. Germans took up this _steack tartare_ adding onions, chives, or capers and binding with egg, but then boiling or frying it, because, you know, it just wasn't done to eat meat raw even if minced up.

  • @stanwolenski9541
    @stanwolenski9541 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    6:54, the receptacles is a feature in homes that comes goes. It may be in new homes begining say in 1960. For up to 5 years it may be a feature, then no more. In 1995 it comes back, 5 years ok, then 30 without.

  • @chickenspiceproductions8109
    @chickenspiceproductions8109 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When I was very little I always thought it was “rock paper scissors shoe” but now I realize it’s shoot.

  • @Cheeseman66
    @Cheeseman66 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    SECOND COMMENT BABY
    also I’m a big fan I’ve watched all of the episodes

  • @arekm5717
    @arekm5717 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey i have a request for the editors. Please either tell the voice actora to talk more relaxee or just change the color of the text when the actor xomments the story

  • @jameshakola3603
    @jameshakola3603 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Story 48- There's no shame in using a Home Depot bucket as a handbasket. Usually I only grab one for my other purchases if I'm actually buying the bucket, but also occasionally if I just can't find a handbasket. Sometimes they don't have any left in the place where they normally stockpile them. I see people doing it all the time, no worries!

  • @msboon6078
    @msboon6078 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    DEFINITELY THE BEST QUESTION EVER ASKED! I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE ADMIT THEY DONT KNOW IT ALL.

    • @and365on
      @and365on ปีที่แล้ว

      Its refreshing being around someone who's a bit nieve and abmits it than someone who acts knowledgeable but doesn't know jack.😊... which sums up most people

  • @whocares397
    @whocares397 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i was 12 my sis was 10 dad was asleep and mom went out with friends
    i went looking for somthing to play with in her closet with my sis
    when mom got back with her 2 friends they see my 10 year old sis hand cuffed to the stair railing and me threating to tickel her with my moms vibrator *nothing sexual going on you sickos *
    here 2 friends started busting up laughing while my mother looked like she wanted to just die
    never figured out why she was so angry till i was 22 and learned about virbrators lol

  • @Rawkit_Surgeon
    @Rawkit_Surgeon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Built my first PC 7 years ago. Decided to upgrade this year (2023) because rig is aging. Found a mystery SATA cable attached to a mystery component. Weird, I only have 4 hard drives and I have 5 SATA cables. Fast forward to first boot and recall how I updated bios. Realized that I used a CD for that old motherboard I had. TLDR: I rediscovered a CD drive.

  • @stanwolenski9541
    @stanwolenski9541 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    17:36 I on occasion use the buckets at Home Depot and Lowes as a shopping basket especially for small items, on some occassions I will use them as a shopping basket then purchase it for use as a bucket. I just have to tell the cashier either I want it or not.

  • @Zerokey77
    @Zerokey77 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I got 2 for me ; I didn’t know you could use a can opener as a bottle opener ‘
    And until I was like 15 I thought fried rice was called shrimp fried rice , but I didn’t like shrimp so I would ask for SFR with out the strimp

  • @sej04
    @sej04 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Story about my cousin that relates to story 10. He believed for a long time that watermelons grow in water because our uncle put one in a creek to keep it cool and our aunt (uncle's sister) told him that's where it grew. He thought if you planted cheerios the next morning there will be doughnuts, same aunt got him with that by placing a doughnut on a plate where he planted the cheerio. And my favorite is when the same aunt again told him that birdseed grows birds and this was proven by the birds gathering on the yard after the seed was thrown. He was amazed at the "wonders of nature." The one that took him the longest to figure out was the watermelon.

  • @annasstorybox7906
    @annasstorybox7906 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I bought a drying rack. It came with a folding basket for clamps and an odd plastic bit that has four wide hooks. I thought it was cheap excuse for a hanger to hang stuff like bras on by just one strap. At least that was what I used it for.
    My boyfriend informed me that the four hooks were meant to be snapped apart and than one could put two each on the 'feet' of the stand... I still haven't done that and still use it as a hanger.

  • @janisbentzen4503
    @janisbentzen4503 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My sister drove for years before she found out the solid yellow line means you are not supposed to pass....it is amazing that she survived!

  • @RelationshipUpdates08
    @RelationshipUpdates08 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That moment when your sister brought your abusive twin to your in-laws' house was so intense! The way your husband handled the situation by calling the police immediately shows how much he cares for your safety.

  • @dutchvanderbilt9969
    @dutchvanderbilt9969 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I relate with way too many of these

  • @reallymadnomad7330
    @reallymadnomad7330 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Am I the only one who finds that background very distracting?

  • @emilydonut3262
    @emilydonut3262 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Today I found out at McDonald's when I asked for an iced Mocha I was saying to my friend I didn't want to slip from my hands, I found out you can ask for a iced cup holder 😅 I didn't you could get 2 types a warm cup holder and a iced one

    • @JessFirefox
      @JessFirefox ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wait what?!

    • @emilydonut3262
      @emilydonut3262 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not kidding I thought they only had 1 type and there's two iced and warm the iced one is chilled with the drink the warmth of your hand doesn't melt the ice in the drink right away and the warm one keeps your hands off the hot cup

  • @viktoytube
    @viktoytube ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ohhhhhh thats what the bell is for!

  • @SAVUFILMS
    @SAVUFILMS ปีที่แล้ว

    It took me untill i was 27 to finally understand how Minus worked as i was confused.
    I thoght it was 4 Takes away 5 then i get 1
    When acctually its:
    Theres 5... now take away 4.
    I felt dumb

  • @PowerTower694
    @PowerTower694 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    g i s n e y

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounded like the OP of that post had a form of dyxlexia-the spiral in Disney's "D" when horizontally flipped could look like a "G". The only people I know that write letters mirror flipped are children learning how to write or people who write with Cyrillic letters (certain letters look like mirror flipped Latin letters).

  • @ImBadAtGames-Bev
    @ImBadAtGames-Bev 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Until I was, like, 15 I thought that "Silverware" was pronounced "Civil-Ware". Ya know, because you're civil when you use them. I also thought they were invented during the Civil War.

  • @phillipb189
    @phillipb189 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My friend let me have his Original Xbox (this was around 06-07). He said ot worked great, except that there MUST be a disc in the drive AT ALL TIMES or the tray would jam and you'd have to press the button and wiggle it until it opened. Well, I let it close without a disc once; i messed with it briefly, then I saw a small hole under the tray. I knew PC CD drives had this hole to put a straightened paper clip in, and since Xbox was PC BASED I tried it. The door popped open enough that I could gently pull it open. About a year later I gave it back to him, he got the drawer stuck and knew I could get it open in seconds (would've taken him hours) so he calls me. I popped it open with the paper clip(while he watched), his mind got blown.

  • @c.f.3818
    @c.f.3818 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I about died laughing. And some of them were news to me.

    • @adamay-nolker5704
      @adamay-nolker5704 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same but how did somebody not know raisins and grapes are the same I’ve known that since I was like 6.

  • @Aar0nDavis
    @Aar0nDavis ปีที่แล้ว

    I think I always thought that the clapper boards were for outtakes or something. Since that's the only time I ever saw them when watching movies.

  • @4beachpeaches
    @4beachpeaches 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Alternating between “Oooh, that’s what that’s for!…to How the heck did someone not know that!” Same, dude. Same. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

  • @rheeeeeee2011
    @rheeeeeee2011 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    On composer island in msm there are natural notes and I wondered “what are these for????”
    I found out what they were for… in April of this year

  • @lostdarkysoul
    @lostdarkysoul ปีที่แล้ว

    Being of the millennial generation myself, I totally understand the person about Pipe cleaners. I Only found out a few years ago what they were originally for smoking pipes but in my defence all my life Smoking has always been seen as 'bad' and almost no-one smoked pipes. (The only person I've ever met who did was my paternal grandfather who died when I was 12) So it's understandable why I wouldn't know.
    Also my 'oh that's why!' moment was Chocolate Eclairs. I was far too old when I realised it Was chocolate Eclair Not Chocolatey Claire, (I had never seen it written down) I had wondered why they had a girl's name.

  • @w.reidripley1968
    @w.reidripley1968 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This one's a bit more exotic. When i worked construction, one of the guys had himself a short, oldfashioned folding ruler, that he'd gotten somewhere, and found handy. He said the length of the ruler rather puzzled him:it had not been sawn off, but neatly brass-tipped on each end; made that way. "39 inches and some change..." he said.
    My ears went up. "39 and change? Turn it over ( to read the other side of the rule)! You've got something rare; that's a scientific instrument. It's a folding meter stick." He was suitably impressed at this cute antique that might once have been in the field kit of a botanist or geologist.

  • @BenAnimationsOfficial
    @BenAnimationsOfficial 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A few weeks ago I discovered Roblox Studio has an undo button

  • @blackmagician7645
    @blackmagician7645 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I discovered that dryer machine lint collectors were flexibly wobbly. So you could just shake the lint off the catcher over thrash throw away. Making touching the lint with your fingers unnecessary.

  • @officialsquadrilogystudio
    @officialsquadrilogystudio 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One time in highschool my teacher wrote "pls take one" with an arrow pointing to the bottom corner of the white board.
    I stared for a minute until i realized that there was a stack of paper on the little desk.
    I jokingly responded with, "somebody should put a sign"

  • @josesun2402
    @josesun2402 ปีที่แล้ว

    Story 35: it just fall down on me that is DUCT tape, not DUCK tape, now it makes sense, English isn't my first language by the way.

  • @ZennMagic
    @ZennMagic 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tape measures also sometimes say how long the shell is, so you don't have to bend the tape against a corner. The end end is also serrated for marking and has a hole to catch onto a nail. No sure it what circumstances you'd be measuring with the end of the tape or happen to have a screw at that exact point, tho.

  • @3frenchhens818
    @3frenchhens818 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    About the no-cheese hamburger: That happens a LOT. When I asked the server in our dining room for a hamburger, she was all apologetic but said they only had beef, turkey, and veggie burgers.

  • @joshwolfe8208
    @joshwolfe8208 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Almost 26 years old and I didn't know that about the dryer sheets. In my defense I grew up in Arizona so dryers are stupid there, and even in a townhouse in California we have 2 clothes lines in our garage.

  • @blackmagician7645
    @blackmagician7645 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    12:32 I remember the shock of finding out that the small extra pockets over the larger pants pockets. We're originally for pocket lighters. Because back in the time when these pockets were first incorporated. Smoking was certain most everyone did without knowledge of consequences to their health in the past.

  • @nomadindabronx
    @nomadindabronx 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @9:22 I too always thought it was a "G" and when I would write Disney, I would use a G at first then switch it to a D because duh, it started with a D. But it wasn't until I was taught cursive in school and my teacher showed us how some people stylize certain letter. And there I saw the D that looks like a G. Mind blown. To this day, when I see the Disney logo, I still see that G for a dmfew moments.

  • @angc214
    @angc214 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I used to work midnight shift security in an office building. It was our job to turn off the lights after the janitors were done cleaning. There was one individual office that I could never find the light switch for. One night I turned off the other lights by that office. Went down a short hall and around a corner into a break area. I turned off those switches and left the kitchen area. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the office light was off. Went back to the kitchen, turned those lights on and saw the office light was back on. The light switch for the personal office was around the corner in a kitchen.

  • @madelineu7971
    @madelineu7971 ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought the line in the Cher song was “gypsies tramps and bees” when I was little. And I would picture Tramp from lady and the tramp. Hehe

  • @teacuptoe2143
    @teacuptoe2143 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:17 I had a horrible, walking red flag roommate (He was the one on the lease) who would take the batteries out of the smoke detectors, each time he cooked. One time he decided to make deep fried pickles, took his pickles into his air conditioned room, close the door with music blaring, and left the pot of oil on high...We had to evacuate the apartment and call the fire department
    That only lasted a few months thankfully, and I don't live with a walking red flag anymore, although he apparently has a good reputation in the music gig booking industry 👀
    Don't even get me started on the layers of slimy black mold in the bathroom, or the hundreds of dead bugs in the sticky fridge

  • @burgundymarcia
    @burgundymarcia 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had an over the door canvas and plastic door caddy. For years I fussed with it because the pockets were too small. After over 10 years, I noticed that there was a thin tape holding the pockets closed for packing and shipping. Pulled off the tape and shoes now fit just fine.

  • @epicpajama
    @epicpajama 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My oh that's what it was for moment was when I was a teenager I realized that I misunderstood a saying for the longest time as a kid. The saying being "have a good one." I didn't realize that was supposed to mean have a good day. kid me thought it meant have a good beer. So whenever someone told me this I would reply: "I'm not old enough to drink." And it wasn't until I told someone this and they corrected me. It suddenly made a lot of sense why everyone always gave me confused looks.

  • @hakansoderholm6514
    @hakansoderholm6514 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the last on - a friend of mein, first time in a bar. 15-16 year old - he is a Big fella som was no problem to get in.
    A whiskey on the rocks.... without ice! 😀 they allways say Whiskey on the rocks in the movies... so he tought that was the name 😀

  • @theslaya1576
    @theslaya1576 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    150th like

  • @teacuptoe2143
    @teacuptoe2143 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:33 my neighbor's 10 year old kid came over to help with my clothing business (I give her free clothes) and just learned the same thing about lint rollers 😱

  • @Morna777
    @Morna777 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My dad announced, like he'd found the cure for cancer, that if you move chairs first, it's easier to sweep under the table. He's 75.

  • @lisab7977
    @lisab7977 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The week I traded in my van, I discovered that the double arrow on my cassette tape player will immediately advance to the next song on the tape. I had always just used the fast forward or rewind arrows. I had the van for 13 years. 😂

  • @metarcee2483
    @metarcee2483 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For the light switch one, that was very trendy in the late sixties and early seventies. I don't know why. My family just found the same thing with a specific switch. Not helping matters is the fact that the switch and outlet are in different rooms.

  • @TsukasaFanTc
    @TsukasaFanTc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had a 2001 Limited Subaru Outback. this thing had all the high-end bells and whistles that were available for the time... problem is, that car had SO MUCH WRONG With it under the hood. My "Ohhh THAT'S What That's For!" moment came mere weeks before it blew its second engine.
    There was this weird large square on the ceiling in my back seat. It looked like it could be removed, but I could never figure out how. one night I was having fun with my friends and driving them somewhere, and I was playing with the moon roof switch, and apparently I moved it in a way I never moved it before, and low-and behold, that square opened up. my friends then took turns doing that thing you see in the movies when someone stands up through the roof of a limo. I was dumbfounded. I owned that car for two years and I never realized what opened that section.
    I both loved and hated that car. I loved it for all the cool "rich person" stuff that came with it (I mean- for the time) It had Leather heated seats, a six CD Changer, Moon Roof (and sun roof apparently), power seats, power windows (My first car had the manual windows), Roof Racks, and room in the back to fit a full new tire as a spare... and I hated it because: It blew two engines (not my fault either! I took damn good care of that car!) blew a radiator, and had this unsolvable AC Gas leak- as it would take 1 can of that gas and run through it in a week. My dad tried fixing it many times, but it just wouldn't stop leaking, and finally, the gasket around the hatch window leaked, so anything I had in the hatch back would get soaked in the rain. You get what you pay for- I only paid $2K for it in 2011

    • @BabalonNuit
      @BabalonNuit 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LOL We had a '75 Lincoln Continental, that upon reflection , could very well have been haunted. We got it cheap and quickly found out why. The headlights would start to blink randomly, and my ex was a mechanic and old-car fancier. He never did find out what was causing the blinking, and had to hotwire the lights in order to get it to stop. Then, the power seat locks. They would start slowly clicking back and forth and then rise to a veritable fusillade; it got so normal that we forgot to warn people about hem, and it scared the crap out of more than one person. It also got 7 miles to the gallon; his 4104 converted Greyhound RV got better mileage! But boy did that thing keep going...he pulled the spark plugs and they were so coated with carbon from the oil leaking in that they were barely recognizable as spark plugs.

  • @MeMe-mb6pm
    @MeMe-mb6pm ปีที่แล้ว

    I was in the Czech Republic and went up to this stand selling hamburgers and other stuff so I ordered one expecting beef but no it was ham. It was still good but I wasn’t ready for it

  • @theworst_astro7093
    @theworst_astro7093 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm not gonna accept the fact that you simply breezed over the "upside down eggs" comment!

  • @AnyoneMining
    @AnyoneMining 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    9:21 I think I had that moment too at some point, but I can't remember if I figured it out myself or if someone told me

  • @blackmagician7645
    @blackmagician7645 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:38 Plus you can use the wiggly measuring tape bracket end piece. To latch on edges of certain measuring surfaces. So you can have it clip in and hold place as you stretch it out in length. If you don't have another person to hold the other end that is.

  • @SuperTux20
    @SuperTux20 ปีที่แล้ว

    9:22 I wondered the same thing and then _finally_ figured it out when I was like 15.

  • @computernerd1101
    @computernerd1101 ปีที่แล้ว

    Story 54: I always knew they were called hamburgers, but I never understood why

  • @rebeccamiller9310
    @rebeccamiller9310 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I thought the D in Disney was a G for a long time too, until one day, in 4th or 5th grade, while I was playing with writing some penmanship, I was stylizing a D when I noticed it looked similar. Then it hit me lol

  • @robertheinrich2994
    @robertheinrich2994 ปีที่แล้ว

    #48 this is actually a clever way: take the bucket, put your purchases into it. then at the register, you just buy the bucket with the purchase. done, and you have a bucket.

  • @metarcee2483
    @metarcee2483 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just a few months ago, I showed my dad that the square button on Android phones let you see all of your open apps. He didn't know that it did anything.

  • @blackmagician7645
    @blackmagician7645 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:39 Actually didn't know that old film trick reasoning.

  • @TM-wm7om
    @TM-wm7om ปีที่แล้ว

    You do not HAVE TO use the accelerator when reversing. You can, but better be safe than sorry.

  • @Genni4862
    @Genni4862 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The lights on the escalators makes sense. Most legally blind people arent profoundly blin. They often can see lights, or shapes, or a small arsa of visuon.

  • @Morna777
    @Morna777 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The escalator lights could be for the blind. Very few blind people have total "lights out" blindness and one of the things that's hard to see with low vision it's the edge of steps. The lights could really help with that.

  • @samanthamaloy4413
    @samanthamaloy4413 ปีที่แล้ว

    On the purses thing my mom and grandma had the opposite problem with me😅 I didn't like going through them cuz it felt weird and invasive so I used to bribe my brothers to get the stuff whenever one of them asked me to grab something out of their purse 😂

  • @blackmagician7645
    @blackmagician7645 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When cooking for some time with pans and pots over the stove. Using paper napkins to set stirring utensils. Before realizing one day. I could use the holes in the handles to place the stirring instruments in when not using them.

  • @robinkelly1770
    @robinkelly1770 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rè plastic bag dispenser. The doll is specifically to store plastic bags. You put the bags in at the top and pull them from the bottom one at a time. Very easy...

  • @MeMe-mb6pm
    @MeMe-mb6pm ปีที่แล้ว

    The clutch sometimes is enough and u don’t need to hit the gas. Gives a more controlled reverse especially when parallel parking

  • @SEN_CryoZ
    @SEN_CryoZ ปีที่แล้ว

    Everyone: listening to the stories
    Me: watching the gameplay

  • @StarSpacewolf
    @StarSpacewolf ปีที่แล้ว

    Same here about Story 26 (the "G" in Disney)

  • @scottmartinson2524
    @scottmartinson2524 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are very funny and I learned some of these here

  • @bristlesub2791
    @bristlesub2791 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro tf is that background game tencent version of subway surfers?

  • @perrobravoperocastrado2286
    @perrobravoperocastrado2286 ปีที่แล้ว

    17:23 Baby Vests?! Envelope Shoulders?! WTF are you talking about?! Seriously!!

    • @w.reidripley1968
      @w.reidripley1968 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Onesies that work rather like hospital gowns, I suppose.

  • @overbooker1531
    @overbooker1531 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually @18:05, i have actually asked for a basket in a home depot and got handed one of the buckets by one of the employees.

  • @alm7707
    @alm7707 ปีที่แล้ว

    I drove my Mini Cooper for a year with the tire warning light on thinking I had a faulty tire pressure monitor in one of the tires. turns out you can reset the light to go out and the tire pressure monitors in the wheels aren't used on a Mini, it senses through the ABS.

  • @manunuod_ako1766
    @manunuod_ako1766 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The last one was so funny. That kids literal thinking makes sense.
    Burger should be the root word. Hahaha.
    Cheese-BURGER
    Bacon-BURGER
    Ham-BURGER

    • @stischer47
      @stischer47 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, but "Burger" means "fort", so "A townsperson of Cheese", "A townsperson of Bacon". Hamburger is a "townsperson of Hamma (the original name of the site of Hamburg - or Hamma fort)". But in the US, "burger" has become a root word.