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

Nor do they use the same funeral services. Found this out when my white father died and used a black funeral home. His family from rural VA was surprised, to say the least.

Yes, to all of the above, and we sing our gospel songs differently. We yell obnoxiously and dance everywhere, our white Christian believers like Christian rock. But my eyes are opened to the entire world of Christian music now, thanks to the internet and not being limited to Southern Baptist churches where everyone gets the holy ghost and starts sweating at 12:30PM.

- A black Christian

Hold on! I grew up in a bougie Black church and only one woman got the holy ghost in there ever and it was viewed as unseemly LOL. I went to an evangelical church with a friend as an adult and people started talking in tongues and I had no idea what was happening. The movie "Saved" hipped me to Christian rock etc.

-- black lapsed Christian

I was coerced into attending a (very white, rural northern state) Assembly of God church for a couple of years as a teen as friends of our family had switched from our Lutheran church and formed a gospel singing group and needed me to play piano, so many many hours of services on many many Sundays. The speaking in tongues and being stricken by the spirit TERRIFIED me, I was afraid God would snatch me up too. Happened every single service. Once the soprano in the family gospel group was stricken by the spirit (I believe that was the term) and unconscious in the aisle for an hour after the long, long service was over, people would just step over her and it took forever before they brought me home.

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^^--white lapsed Christian

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In the movie "Grease" Sandy says:

"You're a fake and a phony and I wish I never laid eyes on you..." and one of the Tbirds said in the background "I'll bet that's not all she laid on him".

I didn't get that until about 20 or so and I'd seen the movie when I was maybe 11 or 12.

Come to think of it, I didn't understand what MOST of the references in that movie were until my 20's, lol (the song "Greased Lighting" is a great example).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Nor do they use the same funeral services. Found this out when my white father died and used a black funeral home. His family from rural VA was surprised, to say the least.

Yes, to all of the above, and we sing our gospel songs differently. We yell obnoxiously and dance everywhere, our white Christian believers like Christian rock. But my eyes are opened to the entire world of Christian music now, thanks to the internet and not being limited to Southern Baptist churches where everyone gets the holy ghost and starts sweating at 12:30PM.

- A black Christian

Hold on! I grew up in a bougie Black church and only one woman got the holy ghost in there ever and it was viewed as unseemly LOL. I went to an evangelical church with a friend as an adult and people started talking in tongues and I had no idea what was happening. The movie "Saved" hipped me to Christian rock etc.

-- black lapsed Christian

LOL, PP here and I remember there was a woman like that at a congregation I attended as a child. When the pastor started singing, she started stomping, the drums started rolling, and we knew it was almost time for the bake sale.

[Anonymous]

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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

Nor do they use the same funeral services. Found this out when my white father died and used a black funeral home. His family from rural VA was surprised, to say the least.

Yes, to all of the above, and we sing our gospel songs differently. We yell obnoxiously and dance everywhere, our white Christian believers like Christian rock. But my eyes are opened to the entire world of Christian music now, thanks to the internet and not being limited to Southern Baptist churches where everyone gets the holy ghost and starts sweating at 12:30PM.

- A black Christian

Hold on! I grew up in a bougie Black church and only one woman got the holy ghost in there ever and it was viewed as unseemly LOL. I went to an evangelical church with a friend as an adult and people started talking in tongues and I had no idea what was happening. The movie "Saved" hipped me to Christian rock etc.

-- black lapsed Christian

I was coerced into attending a (very white, rural northern state) Assembly of God church for a couple of years as a teen as friends of our family had switched from our Lutheran church and formed a gospel singing group and needed me to play piano, so many many hours of services on many many Sundays. The speaking in tongues and being stricken by the spirit TERRIFIED me, I was afraid God would snatch me up too. Happened every single service. Once the soprano in the family gospel group was stricken by the spirit (I believe that was the term) and unconscious in the aisle for an hour after the long, long service was over, people would just step over her and it took forever before they brought me home.

LOL!!! It is funny because it is so true. That is hilarious. I remember the first time I went to college, it was catholic. My roomate went to mass and was back before I could deep condition my hair! Speaking in tongues made me scared too - but you knew the fakers vs. those that truly were moved. Funny how Mrs. Smith always comes to after everyone has left. Playing possum. LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:In the movie "Grease" Sandy says:

"You're a fake and a phony and I wish I never laid eyes on you..." and one of the Tbirds said in the background "I'll bet that's not all she laid on him".

I didn't get that until about 20 or so and I'd seen the movie when I was maybe 11 or 12.

Come to think of it, I didn't understand what MOST of the references in that movie were until my 20's, lol (the song "Greased Lighting" is a great example).

Wait, what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the movie "Grease" Sandy says:

"You're a fake and a phony and I wish I never laid eyes on you..." and one of the Tbirds said in the background "I'll bet that's not all she laid on him".

I didn't get that until about 20 or so and I'd seen the movie when I was maybe 11 or 12.

Come to think of it, I didn't understand what MOST of the references in that movie were until my 20's, lol (the song "Greased Lighting" is a great example).

Wait, what?

I was going to say the same thing! What does Greased Lightning mean?

[Anonymous]

That dogs drink water and curl their tongue towards them like a scoop instead of licking it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I once went on a first date to sushi. At the end of the meal, by date started pushing the ginger around his plate, quite intently. I asked him what he was doing and he said, in a patronizing tone, “I’m using the ginger to clean my plate. That’s what you do when you eat sushi.”

I’m sad to report that was not our last date.

This is hysterical.

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Anonymous wrote:That realtor is not pronounced "real-uh-tor"

again, this is regional.

Jewelry and Realtor are pronounced differently depending on where you were raised.

Huh. I always just assumed that these were simply commonly mispronounced words, rather than words with multiple pronunciations that are considered correct. Like mixing up the vowels in “nuclear” by pronouncing it “nook-you-lar.”

NO, no, no -- "nook-you-lar" is just plain wrong! Not regional.

Nook - You - Lur IS regional! If you're from Texas, this is how you say it even though it is clearly spelled differently than it's being pronounced.

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I’m from Russia and I know how to pronounce nuclear. Maybe it’s ignorance that’s regional.

It may be regional . . . but it's still wrong. This is not a subjective question. Says a lot for the Texas educational system.

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I was in middle school when I learned that public schools were free (I attended private school and assumed everyone had to pay to go to school).

[Anonymous]

Lived in NYC 10 years before I realized traffic on odd # streets run east to west and even # streets run west to east.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I once went on a first date to sushi. At the end of the meal, by date started pushing the ginger around his plate, quite intently. I asked him what he was doing and he said, in a patronizing tone, “I’m using the ginger to clean my plate. That’s what you do when you eat sushi.”

I’m sad to report that was not our last date.

This is hysterical.

I just got that he mistook "palate" for "plate!"

[Anonymous]

My female cousin was mid 30s before she realized her pee didn’t come out of her vagina.

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Anonymous wrote:Lived in NYC 10 years before I realized traffic on odd # streets run east to west and even # streets run west to east.

Thank you for sharing that. I had no idea.