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

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I learned God is real. God is love.

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Anonymous wrote:In recipes, tablespoon has a capital T (Tbsp) while the smaller teaspoon has a small t (tsp). We could probably have a whole cooking thread.

b = tablespoon (tbl); and p = teaspoon (tsp)

I mean. No, the p does not = spoon. They both have tsp in them. The sp = spoon...

Tb=Table, t=tea

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Anonymous wrote:That you are supposed to give a hostess gift when you go to someone's house. I grew up middle class, and the only people we ever entertained were lower middle class family.

I learned this in college. Extremely embarrassing.

I'm fifty and just learned this right now. None of my middle class / lower middle class family and friends did this

Isn’t this just done when one is hosting a party?

No. When someone invites us over, we take a bottle of wine, a six pack of beer, some cookies, whatever. My DD has a friend who brings over a snack every time they have a playdate, I think it's great of her parents to teach her such good manners at an early age, we've started doing it too - either a snack or a craft.

I grew up solidly middle class and our family friends were of a varied socioeconomic group, this was always the case. I grew up in the midwest, so perhaps that's why. In my opinion, people are more polite, generous, and mindful of others in the Midwest.

I grew up in Michigan, rural and working class (blue collar and agricultural). This is not a thing, unless there’s a new baby, someone is sick/dying/dead, a party or a holiday (with or without a party).

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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.

Russian Orthodox isn’t the same as Eastern Orthodox. It was a division, but has separated from the rest over recognition of Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Wipe the front front the front, then back from the back.

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Anonymous wrote:I was in grad school when someone had to explain what “take a dump” meant.

In high school, one guy said he’d meet us an hour later. Completely naive, I asked what could possibly be that necessary. At which point he choked out that he needed to use the bathroom. Everyone was snickering, and I obliviously asked why he couldn’t just take about three minutes and go. So, this poor guy was completely red and told one of the girls to explain while he fled. I’d never been constipated in my life, so taking 30 minutes to just sit and then needing to shower and relax after (figure out a year later that he was going to manually handle the issue, since we were all going dancing) was completely foreign.

What? He was going to do what? Maybe I’m today years old and learning something new

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I just learned that writers who can’t think up original content lurk here and then write articles about it on Buzzfeed.

www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/andyneuenschwander/16-super-obvious-things-that-people-just-realized

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Reposting link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/andyneuenschwander/16-super-obvious-things-that-people-just-realized

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Anonymous wrote:That all Asians are not universally referred to as “orientals”. Thanks rural Ohio.

In the same vein... that “chinky” is not a cute nickname for a white kid with almond-shaped eyes. I’m from rural Illinois.

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Anonymous wrote:That all Asians are not universally referred to as “orientals”. Thanks rural Ohio.

In the same vein... that “chinky” is not a cute nickname for a white kid with almond-shaped eyes. I’m from rural Illinois.

But do you know who Chingy is?

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Bigfoot (if you believe in it) is a species; it's not just one Bigfoot, hiding out in the woods for centuries.

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Anonymous wrote:Reposting link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/andyneuenschwander/16-super-obvious-things-that-people-just-realized

Did you actually read that? I only saw one overlap.

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Earth quake
I always thought of this as Earth reorganization
Not like tremors from underneath

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That Lewis and Clark weren't marching around as a pair...they had an army with them. Who knew!

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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.

Standing to wipe closes the butt cheeks. You’re missing dingleberries.


I didn’t know how many grown folks don’t know how to wipe their behind.

People stand to wipe!? That’s gross.

The country is split pretty much 50/50 on this! I thought EVERYONE wiped sitting down! It wasn't until we took a family poll did we realize this wasn't true. My mom, DS and I wipe sitting, whereas DH and DD wipe standing! I've been married 23 years and only just recently found this out about my own DH. Then again, I've never been around during that activity