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AIBU to ask you to tell me things that you learned way too late in life *lighthearted*.

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Tinkofhousepan · 24/02/2018 06:43

I started talking with a friend who emigrated to the states a few years ago for work. He lives in New York. We were discussing me going over for a holiday as I've never 'done' NYC. Started discussing the time difference between there and here 5 hours which surprised me as when I went to California the difference was larger 8 hours I think.

This lead to me being informed that the two states are on totally opposite ends of the country.

This is my thing I learned late, ive gone 26 years assuming florida and California were next to each other, And i have learned today that Florida is on the same side as NYC. AND IS AS FAR SOUTH AS TEXAS??? I also learnt that Washington is the most northern state on the side of California, where as Washington DC is just below Maryland and right next to Virginia, which is not at all in the middle part of America where I assumed it to be Blush. I didn't learn USA geography at school, but surely I should have picked this up before now, especially considering I have been to both California and Florida!

Anyone else never realised this? Or is it just Me!

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MrsGrindah · 24/02/2018 08:58

I’ve learnt that some people really enjoy bringing down a light hearted thread with simply comments

WhyDoesItAlways · 24/02/2018 08:56

I learnt just yesterday the south Korea is in the northern hemisphere. I assumed it was southern and near the equator so was confused as to why it's currently winter there. Then I realised that literally all I knew about south Korea is that it's south of North Korea which I have since learnt has a land border with China and is not much further south than Russia.

Thanks Google maps!

Northernknickers · 24/02/2018 08:56

@LakieLady 100% agree with you about dogs 💕 (notevenlighthearted) 😊

turnipfarmers · 24/02/2018 08:53

That many, many people are really rather thick poorly educated.

calmandbright · 24/02/2018 08:51

Not you lot. You know who I mean 👆👆

calmandbright · 24/02/2018 08:51

I’ve learned that some posters are total dicks

ChickenVindaloo2 · 24/02/2018 08:48

YY to PP who says there are no prizes for doing social things you don't want to do. Eg work nights out.

k2p2k2tog · 24/02/2018 08:46

I don't get these threads where people post boasting how ignorant they are - not knowing where Florida or California are on the map isn't really something to be proud of.

Or put it another way, I've learned to late that some people like to revel in their lack of knowledge as if it were something funny.

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Tinkofhousepan · 24/02/2018 08:42

Something that I literally just learned that I wish I had known yesterday. The southern railway line going between dorking and London Victoria via Sutton, hackbridge, Mitcham etc is not running today.

There are, according to a sign that I would have loved to have seen displayed so prominently at my station yesterday, apparently no trains running through the Mitcham stations, cheam, sutton, carshalton stations and possibly further afield at all today or tomorrow.

Not the point of this thread but just a heads up to any of you folks that live round this way and like me have to get a bus possibly a taxi now as I've just missed my sodding bus which arrived early😣😤😤😖!! Driver I know you saw me running! Envy up to London today.

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PanPanPanPing · 24/02/2018 08:41

I only recently discovered why there are, usually, three sets of hooks on bras. When it's new you start off using the outer hooks, but as time goes by and the fabric stretches a bit you move to the middle hooks and then the inner hooks.

Chugalug · 24/02/2018 08:36

You don't need a reason to leave

APMom · 24/02/2018 08:29

I found out well after finishing having children that baby vests have the envelope top on them so they can be taken off downwards rather than trying to get a poo filled vest (from an explosive poo) off over a baby’s head.

topcat2014 · 24/02/2018 08:25

Punta, it is to do with adding extra fabric on the correct side so that the silhouette is more discreet.

The side is affected by which testicle is larger than the other, which is generally the left, and therefore hang lower.

Avocado0nToast · 24/02/2018 08:25

I was in my late 20s when I realised Australia and New Zealand were totally different land masses - I thought they were connected like England, Scotland, Wales etc! You'd think North and South Island would give me a clue but no! It's a standing joke in my family that looking at an Atlas is always mind-blowing for me 😂.

turnipfarmers · 24/02/2018 08:25

I always thought it was so the could add extra material on that side to accommodate a penis

No doubt that is what men would like you to think.

MissMoneyPlant · 24/02/2018 08:23

Loads of geography ones...
Pontefract is not in Wales (maybe I was thinking of Pontypandy!). Padstow is not a stop on the London Underground.

Cambodia is not in Africa.

Timbuktu is a real place.

Also twigged quite recently that menopause is when you stop being fertile. I knew it was obviously related, but previously had this vague idea that fertility ended and you carried on having pointless periods for a few years. Just hadn't really thought about it, and I suppose fertility is so low in the last few years people aren't generally having babies then...

Punta · 24/02/2018 08:18

pineapple Confused

RandomMess · 24/02/2018 08:18

That Hawaii is miles from anywhere, no where near the American continent!!!

Punta · 24/02/2018 08:17

Thanks for the clarification daisychain01. My mum used to have an old dressmakers tape measure and I always wondered why it had the metal bit at the end. It wasn’t 6inches though!

I only found out about the punaople thing from here a few weeks ago too. My husband didn’t know this either.

Jaxtellerswife · 24/02/2018 08:15

My friend is 30 and until recently thought the pope was just a bit of every religion and that Copenhagen was somewhere near Bedford Grin

TiredMumToTwo · 24/02/2018 08:14

I got to mid 30s before being told that “AKA” stood for “Also Know As”, I knew what the phrase meant but had never stopped to wonder what the letters stood for!

TiredMumToTwo · 24/02/2018 08:13

My ex got to mid 30s before I told him pig’s trotters were pig’s feet - because they trot on them - he didn’t know what he thought they were?!

daisychain01 · 24/02/2018 08:13

Apparently, having just consulted about this with DH, he says that tailors used to have a special tape measure with a 6 inch stiff end so they could position that up to the gentleman's crotch without having to put his hand anywhere near Sir's penis.

Nowadays they give one end of the tape to Sir to position against his crotch himself, so no chance at all of touching his penis Grin

What a revelation!

Missingstreetlife · 24/02/2018 08:10

Have people never looked at a map? I don't know where everything is, but if someone moved there or I was visiting I think I would find out!
Yoghurt, can eat it to restore good bacteria in gut, or apply it to change ph to more acid and discourage fungal growth, but it must be live and organic.

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Tinkofhousepan · 24/02/2018 08:09

Also the expression 'how's it hanging' is also in reference to which side the penis is resting on. Got that gem from my dad.

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