Anonymous
Post 01/25/2020 10:27     Subject: What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Have you looked up the statistics? Average is 5.1 inches.


Not based on what I’ve seen. Avg is about 7


And your sampling is statistically meaningful?



More importantly, are you using a tape measure every time you see a dick? I'm guessing you're just guessing and people are notoriously wrong at guessing measurements.


CALm down I’m sure your partner or SO loves your needle dick
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2020 10:09     Subject: Re:What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
I found out that HOV lanes are for 2+ people after 5 years of driving in VA and using them constantly. I was finally pulled over, and paid a fine, but never using it again. I came from a foreign country and got my fist driving license in a state that don't have HOV lanes. When I moved to VA, they just issued me VA license without taking any test. So for 5 years, I had approximately an hour long commute, and logically, as soon as I get on highway, I would move to the far left lane and drive there for an hour. I am surprised it took me 5 years.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2020 10:09     Subject: What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Disagree that wiping has nothing to do with UTIs. I used to get a lot of UTIs when I was younger. I started wiping front to back and also peeing immediately before and after sex. Never had another UTI. My doctor explained that poop bacteria gets pushed into the urethra during sex; peeing before and after sex clears bacteria away from your pee hole and doesn't give it a chance to migrate up the tube and cause an infection.

Works for me.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2020 10:07     Subject: What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
I thought porn couldn’t legally have PIV sex until late high school. I thought that late night soft core porn on cable was the law.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2020 09:37     Subject: Re:What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:That number % thing really got me. Like blew my mind (5% of 20 is the same as 20% of 5). Who knew!!


x/100 * y = y/100 * x
x * y = y * x

Math checks.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2020 10:44     Subject: What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:That if a police car with lights on, ambulance with lights on, fire truck with lights on and a post office truck arrive at a four way stop sign at exact same time who goes first?

Answer is Post Office truck as Federal Vehicles Have right of way over state and local vehicles


Seriously, what law are you reference if. If the lights and sirens are on, they’re in hot pursuit so I’d guess the exact opposite - everyone except for the postal truck would have right if way over other vehicles not in an emergency situation. I am pretty sure that USPS trucks pull over when the lights are coming behind them from a cop, fire truck blaring a horn through an intersection, or ambulance with a patient.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2020 08:42     Subject: What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:That if a police car with lights on, ambulance with lights on, fire truck with lights on and a post office truck arrive at a four way stop sign at exact same time who goes first?

Answer is Post Office truck as Federal Vehicles Have right of way over state and local vehicles

While this may be technically correct, I don’t believe the majority of mail carriers would go first.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2020 08:41     Subject: Re:What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:That number % thing really got me. Like blew my mind (5% of 20 is the same as 20% of 5). Who knew!!


Commutative property. And decimals.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2020 08:38     Subject: Re:What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:I have not seen anyone mention this, so I thought I'd mention it, so you would know if your father didn't explain the streets of DC to you when you were in your teens or 20's.

Everyone knows that streets that go north-south are named with numbers. And the numbers are west and east of the US Capitol.
And the lettered streets go east west from the US Capitol.

But my dad went further to explain the first set of streets which went E-W were A - W, no J. The second set of streets E W as you got closer to MD were two syllable streets through the alphabet, then the closer you got to MD, the third set of streets were 3 syllable streets thru the alphabet. And then when you got almost to Silver Spring, the names were names of botanicals from A - R

Eastern and Western Aves are the boundaries E and W. North, South Capitol streets go N-S from the Capitol. There is an E Capitol St, bit no W Capitol St.

So you see you are at Rittenhouse and 16th NW, you have a long way to go to get downtown.


The diagonal streets are names of states. The first states are closer to downtown and the last states (e.g. Alaska and Hawaii) are much further out.

There are no A-B streets, Constitution is where those would be in NW. I'm sure I forgot or got wrong some things that people could fill in.



Similar thing occurs in Arlington. Streets down by Rosslyn/Courthouse are one syllable eg Oak and Veitch, then move on to two syllables near Clarendon eg Edgewood and Highland, then become three syllables as you get closer to Falls Church eg Edison and Roosevelt streets. Numbered streets are "South" south of Rt 50 or "North" north of Rt 50.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2020 08:15     Subject: Re:What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
That number % thing really got me. Like blew my mind (5% of 20 is the same as 20% of 5). Who knew!!
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2020 07:09     Subject: What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:That Lewis and Clark weren't marching around as a pair...they had an army with them. Who knew!


I didn't. Are you sure? I've always thought of them like the Lone Ranger and Tonto.


DP. History teacher.

They led a small expeditionary force. So neither a duo or an army.


And York, an enslaved black man, who was never freed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/01/12/york-slave-lewis-clark-expedition/


I watched Ken Burns account of Lewis and Clark on PBS years ago. Loved it, until the end when they read Clark's writings on York. You can't give a human being that much freedom and think he's going to go back to being your slave easily. I cried listening to his words of how he tired to beat York back into submission, loaning him off to other plantation owners for money and so they would break him, but never giving him his freedom when he asked or bartered for it to work on the farm where his wife was enslaved. I should have seen this coming.


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We really have no hero left in US history.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2020 01:07     Subject: What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:That if a police car with lights on, ambulance with lights on, fire truck with lights on and a post office truck arrive at a four way stop sign at exact same time who goes first?

Answer is Post Office truck as Federal Vehicles Have right of way over state and local vehicles


That’s odd. Who goes second?
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 22:53     Subject: What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That if a police car with lights on, ambulance with lights on, fire truck with lights on and a post office truck arrive at a four way stop sign at exact same time who goes first?

Answer is Post Office truck as Federal Vehicles Have right of way over state and local vehicles


That's interesting, but I don't think that is something commonly known, or at least not something that an adult should feel embarrassed about not knowing.


My drivers Ed teacher in HS told us a Post truck always right of way and if an accident you are always at fault
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 22:36     Subject: What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:Whoever posted about the luxury car visor extending out - you have changed my life!


Lol! You are welcome! I felt the same way when I learned about it. I use it ALL THE TIME.
Pass it on. Many people have it and have NO idea.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 22:31     Subject: What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?
Anonymous wrote:That if a police car with lights on, ambulance with lights on, fire truck with lights on and a post office truck arrive at a four way stop sign at exact same time who goes first?

Answer is Post Office truck as Federal Vehicles Have right of way over state and local vehicles


That's interesting, but I don't think that is something commonly known, or at least not something that an adult should feel embarrassed about not knowing.