What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?

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Anonymous wrote:Despite both being Christian, white people and black people don't go to the same churches

And Korean churches, and other divided churches. I learned this in my early 20s, after growing up Muslim. While I am no longer practicing, one of the best things about being a minority religion is that you don't have a lot of religious establishments, so you all gather together. Indians & South Asians, Arabs, Africans, Black Muslims, Asian Muslims, European/White Muslims and a few Hispanic Muslims, converts, etc. All praying side by side in one room.

I will say that the gender segregation was very prominent though, and still is to a slightly lesser extent. And I was, and still am bothered by it. But growing up I had no idea churches often divided along race/ethnic lines.

What are you talking about? Hindu people go to mosques to pray and muslims don't go to durga temple.

Huh? Hinduism is a religion, not a race or ethnicity. Hindu persons do not go to mosques. What on earth are you talking about?

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I didn’t know what left- or right-leaning meant until I was probably 20. I knew very little about politics or current affairs until my mid 20s. As a rebellious teen I thought it was all garbage and didn’t matter. Boy was I wrong (and dumb).

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Anonymous wrote:that quinoa is not pronounced "quin" "o" "a"

I personally found that difficult to even accept, and I feel weird saying it.

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Anonymous wrote:Despite both being Christian, white people and black people don't go to the same churches

And Korean churches, and other divided churches. I learned this in my early 20s, after growing up Muslim. While I am no longer practicing, one of the best things about being a minority religion is that you don't have a lot of religious establishments, so you all gather together. Indians & South Asians, Arabs, Africans, Black Muslims, Asian Muslims, European/White Muslims and a few Hispanic Muslims, converts, etc. All praying side by side in one room.

I will say that the gender segregation was very prominent though, and still is to a slightly lesser extent. And I was, and still am bothered by it. But growing up I had no idea churches often divided along race/ethnic lines.

What are you talking about? Hindu people go to mosques to pray and muslims don't go to durga temple.

Huh? Hinduism is a religion, not a race or ethnicity. Hindu persons do not go to mosques. What on earth are you talking about?

PP obviously meant Muslims from the subcontinent, not Hindus.

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I played that game Taipei on the computer and then pronounced it years later in front of friends as Tah-pee-eye. I also basically never heard of any central Asian countries and couldn’t pronounce or remember any of them until my late 20s.

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Anonymous wrote:That it's astigmatism and "a stigmatism."

me too!

This raises an interesting spinoff. Do you correct your spouse when they say something like this? I do, because I don’t want others to think less of my spouse. However, I appreciate it can be viewed as patronizing. I always struggle whether to say something.

Do you have a super formal relationship with your spouse? I would abs. say something in private but maybe I have boundary issues.

I do not. I say something but worry a bit about offending her.

Of course you correct them. Would you rather they be embarrassed in front of you or make an ass of themselves in front of a group. I misused 'veracity' in a report at work once and a co-worker corrected me and to this day I'm glad of that and never misused it again.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite both being Christian, white people and black people don't go to the same churches

And Korean churches, and other divided churches. I learned this in my early 20s, after growing up Muslim. While I am no longer practicing, one of the best things about being a minority religion is that you don't have a lot of religious establishments, so you all gather together. Indians & South Asians, Arabs, Africans, Black Muslims, Asian Muslims, European/White Muslims and a few Hispanic Muslims, converts, etc. All praying side by side in one room.

I will say that the gender segregation was very prominent though, and still is to a slightly lesser extent. And I was, and still am bothered by it. But growing up I had no idea churches often divided along race/ethnic lines.

What are you talking about? Hindu people go to mosques to pray and muslims don't go to durga temple.

Huh? Hinduism is a religion, not a race or ethnicity. Hindu persons do not go to mosques. What on earth are you talking about?

PP obviously meant Muslims from the subcontinent, not Hindus.

I think that pp could use some chai.

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Anonymous wrote:The meaning of the lyrics of most of my favorite songs from the 70s...and 80's for that matter!

Lol
Yes
I thought song lyrics “afternoon delight” was akin to Narnia’s Turkish delight (dessert)

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That the sleeves on onesies are designed to be folded back, so that you can pull it off in the direction of the baby's feet in the event of a diaper explosion.

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No idea until I read this thread that people commonly put a sexual gloss on shoot your wad.

Guess I'll have to stop using it, but it's a nice bookend to keeping your powder dry.

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Anonymous wrote:That the sleeves on onesies are designed to be folded back, so that you can pull it off in the direction of the baby's feet in the event of a diaper explosion.

WOW!! This is truly amazing and makes a lot of sense.

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My mother just learned over Thanksgiving that if you put the lid on a pot of water, it will boil faster. She is 70 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:For a word game competition in college i pronounced Sobriquet as so- bri - que - T.

Everyone laughed at me . Worse when it was their turn to speak, they delibertely purposely mispronounced all the words they were using i.e. K - nife, buffe-T, etc. The audience, the comp and all the participants were in stiches!

I still die a thousand deaths when i think of this.

On a related note (there is a theme here), I pronounced hyperbole as hyper-bowl. My BF at the time asked if it was a larger version of the superbowl. Cringe!

You are not the one who should be embarrassed by this.

Confession, I have never had reason to speak the word but if I did I would probably say the T, that's what it sounds like in my head--even though I have 2 years of college French and even though DH and I enjoy pronouncing French place names in the US (like Des Moines) with (more or less) correct French pronunciation.

An acquaintance of my DS is in his early 30s and we are constantly amazed by him. He thought bathroom fans are required by code specifically to get rid of smells (he called it the s***fan, maybe he thinks it's what the s*** hits??). He asked me one day if there are still nuns.

I thought Hermès was pronounced “Her-mees “ until a posh friend explained it was “Air-May”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a word game competition in college i pronounced Sobriquet as so- bri - que - T.

Everyone laughed at me . Worse when it was their turn to speak, they delibertely purposely mispronounced all the words they were using i.e. K - nife, buffe-T, etc. The audience, the comp and all the participants were in stiches!

I still die a thousand deaths when i think of this.

On a related note (there is a theme here), I pronounced hyperbole as hyper-bowl. My BF at the time asked if it was a larger version of the superbowl. Cringe!

You are not the one who should be embarrassed by this.

Confession, I have never had reason to speak the word but if I did I would probably say the T, that's what it sounds like in my head--even though I have 2 years of college French and even though DH and I enjoy pronouncing French place names in the US (like Des Moines) with (more or less) correct French pronunciation.

An acquaintance of my DS is in his early 30s and we are constantly amazed by him. He thought bathroom fans are required by code specifically to get rid of smells (he called it the s***fan, maybe he thinks it's what the s*** hits??). He asked me one day if there are still nuns.

I thought Hermès was pronounced “Her-mees “ until a posh friend explained it was “Air-May”

That's wrong. The "s" is pronounced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a word game competition in college i pronounced Sobriquet as so- bri - que - T.

Everyone laughed at me . Worse when it was their turn to speak, they delibertely purposely mispronounced all the words they were using i.e. K - nife, buffe-T, etc. The audience, the comp and all the participants were in stiches!

I still die a thousand deaths when i think of this.

On a related note (there is a theme here), I pronounced hyperbole as hyper-bowl. My BF at the time asked if it was a larger version of the superbowl. Cringe!

You are not the one who should be embarrassed by this.

Confession, I have never had reason to speak the word but if I did I would probably say the T, that's what it sounds like in my head--even though I have 2 years of college French and even though DH and I enjoy pronouncing French place names in the US (like Des Moines) with (more or less) correct French pronunciation.

An acquaintance of my DS is in his early 30s and we are constantly amazed by him. He thought bathroom fans are required by code specifically to get rid of smells (he called it the s***fan, maybe he thinks it's what the s*** hits??). He asked me one day if there are still nuns.

I thought Hermès was pronounced “Her-mees “ until a posh friend explained it was “Air-May”

I thought it was "er-mez?"