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

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Anonymous wrote:I never understood Kay Jewelers jingle; "Every Kiss beings with Kay" but "kiss" does indeed begin with the letter (K).

Clever, Kay Jewelers!

AND it’s a double entendre. Not only does the word kiss begin with the letter K; but a kiss on the lips begins with something from kay Jewelers.

Great marketing for its time.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 43.
A couple years ago my friend mentioned 4/20 and lo and behold - I had no idea what it was!

What is it?

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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

Not all black Christians are Protestants. You were this many days old when you found that out.

Wait what? Did I miss the Protestant part?

They can be Catholic. A Protestant is a non Catholic Christian.

Pp here, my dad was black catholic, mom was black southern baptist

There are also thousands of Ethiopian Christians in this area. They are both non-Catholic and non-Protestant. It’s an ancient Orthodox form of Christianity.

Interesting. What do they believe? Is their worship different?

Orthodox. Like Eastern Orthodox like you get in Russia but slightly different theology.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 43.
A couple years ago my friend mentioned 4/20 and lo and behold - I had no idea what it was!

I'm 54, and only figured that out about 4-5 years ago. I don't partake, never have - so that's likely why. Not condemning those who do partake, btw.

I grew up in another country, so I guess that’s why. I have tried it when I was young though.

I just looked up 420. Is this what you guys are talking about?



420
/fôr?twen(t)?/
nounINFORMAL•US
noun: 4-20
used to refer to marijuana or to the act of smoking marijuana.
"a 420-friendly hotel"
April 20th (4/20), considered as an occasion for smoking or celebrating the smoking of marijuana.
"thousands of marijuana smokers converged on Hippie Hill for the annual 420 celebration"

Origin
1970s: apparently coined as a code word by high school students in San Rafael, California in 1971 with reference to 4.20 p.m., the time at which they regularly met to try to locate an unattended plot of cannabis plants.

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Sorry for another bathroom post, and maybe this isn’t really a commonly known thing, but I didn’t know people stand to wipe.

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Anonymous wrote:It blows my mind that grown women go this long without knowing you aren’t supposed to flush tampons when signs EVERYWHERE tell you not to flush anything but toilet paper. Hospitals, schools, movies, libraries, malls, etc. all places where I’ve seen these signs. Are you just not paying attention?

To be fair, this is only "recent," and by recent I mean maybe the last 10 years? I swear, growing up there were no signs anywhere. But I'm old.

Agreed. Although it seems so 'obvious' to some now, the signs about not flushing haven't been around forever, and weren't displayed at all when many of us were younger. What actually seems to be more obvious and logical to many, and no one mentions on these threads (because it's TMI), is to FLUSH BIOLOGICAL WASTE down the toilet. It really is gross to have to discard a bloody, dripping, used tampon (especially on someone's heaviest days!) in the trash/receptacle rather than just flush it down.

I'm 43, got my period at 12, and have NEVER flushed a tampon (or a pad). This seems like total common sense to me. I can't recall whether or not there were signs saying not to, but I'm surprised anyone wouldn't instinctively realize that would be a bad idea.

I'm 60 and knew not to flush them when I was 20. I recall every single plumber back in the day warning us about it.

I think this may be regional. Just spent time over the holidays traveling around the Midwest and the signs in the ladies room said to not flush diapers, sanitary napkins or paper towels. Nothing about tampons. I grew up there and used to flush. Now I live in an old house in DC and never would do that again.

I grew up on a farm in the Midwest. We would never flush anything that wouldn't easily break down in the septic tank - it was a rule that was drummed into us at a very young age. The only thing that goes down the pipes are bio-degradables. Tampons/pads aren't on that list nor are baby wipes or Bounty paper towels.

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That you're supposed to wipe front to back.

Truthfully, I don't get how people do this! My arms are not that long. Unless I'm wiping from over my butt (instead of between my legs), it's just not physically possible.

I still wipe back to front, but have only ever had one uti, and that was at 37.

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Anonymous wrote:How to pump gas but in my defense I am from NJ

This comment reminded me of something I recently learned:

That there is a little arrow by your gas gauge on your dashboard that tells you what side of the car the gas tank is on. Who knew!

I just learned that last month!

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Anonymous wrote:How to pump gas but in my defense I am from NJ

This comment reminded me of something I recently learned:

That there is a little arrow by your gas gauge on your dashboard that tells you what side of the car the gas tank is on. Who knew!

I just learned that last month!

I learned this just now!

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry for another bathroom post, and maybe this isn’t really a commonly known thing, but I didn’t know people stand to wipe.

I didn’t know that people didn’t!

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Anonymous wrote:When in college, both male and females almost always experiment in same sex relationships and it’s not considered strange.

Almost always? I think you’re a little off with that assertion.

Ask your college kids. They will all tell you that every guy or girl has had at least one same sex experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry for another bathroom post, and maybe this isn’t really a commonly known thing, but I didn’t know people stand to wipe.

I didn’t know that people didn’t!

When we were building a new bathroom my DH and I had to discuss the layout and somehow this came up. Apparently he stands, though he didn’t teach the children to stand as far as I know.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry for another bathroom post, and maybe this isn’t really a commonly known thing, but I didn’t know people stand to wipe.

I didn’t know that people didn’t!

When we were building a new bathroom my DH and I had to discuss the layout and somehow this came up. Apparently he stands, though he didn’t teach the children to stand as far as I know.

It's generally a male vs. female thing. There's an epic Metafilter post on it https://www.metafilter.com/87536/Sitters-Vs-Standers-The-Great-Wipe-Hope

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I didn’t realize that MPH meant quite literally “miles per hour,” as in you go that many miles in an hour. I thought the number was just a speed computation with no connection to distance. When I was a kid my dad used to estimate road trip time by showing us the map and saying “we’re going 900 miles. We can drive roughly 50 miles in an hour (guess he was a slow driver) so it should take us 18 hours.” I lived a 13 hr drive from college and I guess I thought I rocketed through some time warp of awesome when I made it in 1/3 of the time from my dad’s childhood calculation. Blew my mind junior year when I had my AHA moment at midnight on a long stretch of hwy through Tennessee. I. Am. So dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:When in college, both male and females almost always experiment in same sex relationships and it’s not considered strange.

Almost always? I think you’re a little off with that assertion.

Ask your college kids. They will all tell you that every guy or girl has had at least one same sex experience.

My millennial laughed her head off about this. She says only girls desperate for male attention at parties are experimenting in college. Everyone else bicurious handled that back in middle school and either are really bi or figured out they aren’t.