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

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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 . 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!

I'm usually good with maps, but I've just in the past couple of weeks noticed where Luxembourg is. I vaguely thought it was in the vicinity of Switzerland.

Some penises don't have a 'side'. Centralised danglers.

When I was younger, I was told that the penis leans to the side of the hand that the owner uses to masterbate. I am highly dubious but now wonder that a "Centralised dangler" means. Hhhhmmmmmmm..

Uses both hands, perhaps, or alternates.

TMI about sides

@StripySocksAndDocs & @Punta that is brilliant!! I NEVER knew that!

Yeah, don't go nuts with a Muller Corners yoghurt down there

It was only recently that DH snapped and said: "FFS, why do you say it like that? In that stupid French fake accent?". I then checked the spelling and realised I had been saying it wrong all these years.

The entire population of the USA pronounces "chaise longue" as though it were "chaise lounge". They don't get even slightly embarrassed.

The entire population of the USA pronounces "chaise longue" as though it were "chaise lounge".

No, we most certainly do not. At least those of us who learned French don't. I have an always perfectly pronounced one on my back porch.

No, we most certainly do not. At least those of us who learned French don't. I have an always perfectly pronounced one on my back porch.
Sorry, Seneca falls. Over-generalization on my part. Is your back porch somewhere nice? (Obviously it's at the back of your house, but is that somewhere nice?)

It's pretty nice, I think, Skiiltan. I live in Florida. Good porch weather right now, not so much come August.

The entire population of the USA pronounces "chaise longue" as though it were "chaise lounge".

I'm actually not sure how this is "supposed" to be pronounced but mine is called "shayz" and we completely ignore the longue part. That's how I've always heard it. I'm in the upper midwest of the US.

How can you not know about which “side” a gentleman dresses? Did you never watch the Fast Show? 😂

Americans have loads of other weird pronunciations of French words, Enn-rowt, Cordon Blooo, lahn-zhe-ray etc.

Having two teenagers, I now seem to learn something new every day.

What I learned yesterday is that there is a female condom available that has 'teeth' , in cases of rape the teeth will grip the penis.

They were never actually made though were they?

I've only just discovered the 'scan as you shop' machines. It makes shopping with an almost one year old much easier as you don't have to empty the trolley and bag it all up again.

Lolita, I will need to check if they were.

That the hoses on petrol pumps are made to stretch to either side of the car. I spent - ah - more time queuing than was necessary until I worked that one out!

Entree is American for main course. I was quite puzzled when I went to the US the first time and restaurant menus had starters, entrees and no main, just desserts.

That capers aren't seafood.....

That the word alphabet comes from the start of the Greek alphabet... alpha beta etc

That the suffixes on numbers represent the last letters if you spell the full word.

So
1st = First
2nd = Second
3rd = Third
....

@HotelEuphoria Not me but some southern friends (I'm northern) announced a week ago that they thought cracking the flags meant getting the flags out and that it was windy.

Am I misunderstanding you? I thought cracking the flags DID mean it was windy - a naval thing possibly - such a stiff breeze the flags were all snapping in it. Certainly that is the context I've always heard it.

Shots. I didn't get it either so I Googled. It appears that it means that the temperature is so hot that the heat from the sun is cracking the flag(stone)s.

The Irish equivalent to cracking the flags would be 'the sun is splitting the stones'. Sadly it doesn't get used much.