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

[Anonymous]

That it’s “rolling boil” not “roaring boil.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to think it is a common knowledge that the person with stroller has a priority
for the use of an elevator even if they came last to the lane. It is because the
stroller can not take escalators or stairs, just as a handicap person with a wheelchair,
anyone with wheels has the first priority.
I learned late that people insist on getting into the elevator regardless
of seeing parents with strollers. This is not just courtesy, it is a law.

Cite the law.

[Anonymous]

That the Salvation Army has nothing to do with any army.

[Anonymous]

That the average size of a mans package is about 5 inches. Not 9.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just learned a few years ago, age 57 why women want pantyhose with control top. It is hard to find pantyhose without control top. I know really fat women can have huge bellies, but why do thinner women want control top too.

I'm a mom by adoption and it wasn't until I was told I didn't have enough belly to do an autologous (use your own tissue) to create a breast after my mastectomy. I am plenty of fat, but I have no extra fat on my belly. My fat is on my butt and outer thighs. All these other women were able to have a breast (or two) created out of their own belly tissue and I was really angry I could not. I started asking to see other women's bellies who were slim or average and suddenly they pull their active wear pants lower and a belly sticks out. This was over and over. I had no idea that so many women who are thin had a belly, maybe from childbirth.

But me, who is about 30 lbs over weight did not have enough tissue in my belly for even one breast. That is the same choice for really skinny women. How did I get in this category and oh, now I see why women want control top pantyhose.

Humblebrag detected!

Not a humble brag. Only reasonably safe choice was implant, but: https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20190724/textured-breast-implants-recalled-for-cancer-risk

I had my doubts about implants, so I have a prosthesis. I wish I could have had an autologous implant from my stomach. Outer thighs implant exceedingly risky. Inner thigh implant risky and all the fat is on outer thigh. back implant uses your back muscle. I'd rather not lose muscle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to think it is a common knowledge that the person with stroller has a priority
for the use of an elevator even if they came last to the lane. It is because the
stroller can not take escalators or stairs, just as a handicap person with a wheelchair,
anyone with wheels has the first priority.
I learned late that people insist on getting into the elevator regardless
of seeing parents with strollers. This is not just courtesy, it is a law.

No it isn’t. Wait your Turn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to think it is a common knowledge that the person with stroller has a priority
for the use of an elevator even if they came last to the lane. It is because the
stroller can not take escalators or stairs, just as a handicap person with a wheelchair,
anyone with wheels has the first priority.
I learned late that people insist on getting into the elevator regardless
of seeing parents with strollers. This is not just courtesy, it is a law.

Cite the law.

It’s not the law anywhere around here. And a stroller is a lifestyle choice, not something to accommodate a disability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just learned a few years ago, age 57 why women want pantyhose with control top. It is hard to find pantyhose without control top. I know really fat women can have huge bellies, but why do thinner women want control top too.

I'm a mom by adoption and it wasn't until I was told I didn't have enough belly to do an autologous (use your own tissue) to create a breast after my mastectomy. I am plenty of fat, but I have no extra fat on my belly. My fat is on my butt and outer thighs. All these other women were able to have a breast (or two) created out of their own belly tissue and I was really angry I could not. I started asking to see other women's bellies who were slim or average and suddenly they pull their active wear pants lower and a belly sticks out. This was over and over. I had no idea that so many women who are thin had a belly, maybe from childbirth.

But me, who is about 30 lbs over weight did not have enough tissue in my belly for even one breast. That is the same choice for really skinny women. How did I get in this category and oh, now I see why women want control top pantyhose.

Humblebrag detected!

Not a humble brag. Only reasonably safe choice was implant, but: https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20190724/textured-breast-implants-recalled-for-cancer-risk

I had my doubts about implants, so I have a prosthesis. I wish I could have had an autologous implant from my stomach. Outer thighs implant exceedingly risky. Inner thigh implant risky and all the fat is on outer thigh. back implant uses your back muscle. I'd rather not lose muscle.

Interesting. I didn't know that. I'm a skinny woman who, post-babies, needs control top. I didn't need it before kids.

[Anonymous]

A lot of really obscure posts here, many of which don’t deal with “commonly known” things at all, breast reconstruction for example. And I don’t even know what a “sobriquet” is, much less how to pronounce it. Literally never even heard that word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of really obscure posts here, many of which don’t deal with “commonly known” things at all, breast reconstruction for example. And I don’t even know what a “sobriquet” is, much less how to pronounce it. Literally never even heard that word.

a what? I'm with you...never heard this word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to think it is a common knowledge that the person with stroller has a priority
for the use of an elevator even if they came last to the lane. It is because the
stroller can not take escalators or stairs, just as a handicap person with a wheelchair,
anyone with wheels has the first priority.
I learned late that people insist on getting into the elevator regardless
of seeing parents with strollers. This is not just courtesy, it is a law.

Cite the law.

Cole’s Law

[Anonymous]

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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

Wait I am needing an answer to this, moderately desperately.

Was he masturbating? Wtf would you do 'manually' for constipation? I'm also today (+ 5 days with NO RESPONSE) years old before I learned this apparently

Yes how do you manually handle using the bathroom? As a man? I know what you can do as a woman. (Reach into your vagina and press against back wall to prompt poo out — gross but it can be done).

For a man? What?

Digital stimulation.

I guess I am dense, because I am still not following. Someone, please, help me out. I’m usually good at this stuff. I’m not the PP that has been waiting for an answer for 5 days, but I feel her pain. What the hell is the OP talking about?

Ok, here it is. I was a CNA while going to college. There were residents who had chronically hard stools and sometimes couldn't pass them, so sometimes a nurse would "dig them out". Stimulation by the fingers probably also triggers some reflex--DS would get constipated at times as a baby and we used suppositories once in awhile. They tended to work almost immediately, so I figured it was probably just the suppository (not what was in it) being inserted then melting that kicked things off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of really obscure posts here, many of which don’t deal with “commonly known” things at all, breast reconstruction for example. And I don’t even know what a “sobriquet” is, much less how to pronounce it. Literally never even heard that word.

I should be less lazy. I've heard the word ==well, read the word--and understand what it was referring to but never looked up the definition. Means someone's nickname.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of really obscure posts here, many of which don’t deal with “commonly known” things at all, breast reconstruction for example. And I don’t even know what a “sobriquet” is, much less how to pronounce it. Literally never even heard that word.

I should be less lazy. I've heard the word ==well, read the word--and understand what it was referring to but never looked up the definition. Means someone's nickname.

--which means I don't know how it is pronounced! In my head it rhymes with briquet. (Or is that pronounced bri-KWAY???)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to think it is a common knowledge that the person with stroller has a priority
for the use of an elevator even if they came last to the lane. It is because the
stroller can not take escalators or stairs, just as a handicap person with a wheelchair,
anyone with wheels has the first priority.
I learned late that people insist on getting into the elevator regardless
of seeing parents with strollers. This is not just courtesy, it is a law.

No it isn’t. Wait your Turn.

So did someone tell you it's a law?

Do we need a thread for embarrassing things you thought were the law/were true but really aren't? That might be fun.