ITT: Common knowledge that you had wrong for ages

[BBdotcum]

Only found out about a week ago that



is a sideways profile of a man's face
always thought it was just a white blob thing looking away or something
srs

WOW....how didnt i notice that.

[MrOpee]

my one is full retard, but I was in 1st grade so don't judge me.
-As a kid dad used to always play pink floyd 'the wall' video
-never had any idea of what war etc was
-they were teaching us about world war one in school
-I thought it was world WALL one and drew a picture of a bunch of english royal guard shooting at randoms on top of a wall with poppy plants everywhere.
-dumbest kunt.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to glenn777 again.

[Marius87]

I thought albuquerque was a made up place until recently, 100% srs.

[ftown]

learned maybe 2 things from this thread.

1. For all intents and purposes, not intensive purposes
2. The misc is fuking retarded. Can't believe people don't know some of this stuff.

[MrOpee]

i used to think that every single guy was supposed to get circumsized (Srs) until about 2 years ago when i discovered all the uncut miscers in here

strong join date to sudden realization to rename account correlation.

[MrOpee]

Thought the Titanic was the largest ship EVER. Believed this 'till around 14.

[GetBigBrah]

there's no such thing as "lactic acid"

uuuuuh yes there is..

but the majority of it dissociates into 'lactate' as soon as it's produced, although it is a reversible reaction

[ftown]

there's no such thing as "lactic acid"

r u stoopid

[TheUsual]

read dammit im mad backwards

[akz123]

UK brahs,
Southwark in London is pronounced 'suthurk' WTF
English language

[HandstandPushup]

innnnn for later

[ScottGomez]

The first time i saw the word USA, I was ~6 yrs old I said "oossa"

[_AdaM_]

The first time i saw the word USA, I was ~6 yrs old I said "oossa"

lmfao

[donprincekaveli]

the hole in a can is for a straw

[TheRealOrson]

Both wrong. It's 'making ends mete', as in making the ends of your labours mete out enough sustenance to survive.

No.

Whilst there are several options when it comes to the idiom's true origin, The expression is most definitely "make ends meet"

Imagine there is a gap in your budget and you need to get the two ends to meet one another...

ie. You need to stretch things out to "make (the) ends meet"

Possible origins:

1. The origin is from sailing ships with lots of masts. Some were attached by ropes that moved. Some were hung with ropes that were permanent. When the lower ropes broke, the Captain would tell the men to pull the ropes together, splice them to get the ends to meeet again, pull and tug on the canvas, so that the masts would be productive for sailing again.

2. make ends meet - budget tightly - the metaphor was originally to do with wearing a shorter (tighter) belt presumably because you have been frugal, and are eating less, your belt would more easily fasten.

3. This phrase was first used by Tobias Smollett in the book The Adventures of Roderick Random. The phrase was used as a shorter form for the phrase "Making both ends of the year meet".

[pushlimits]

UK brahs,
Southwark in London is pronounced 'suthurk' WTF
English language

Always known this. Mirin my superior IQ?

[TheRealOrson]

So much retardation up in here.

Since when was wiping your a$$ standing up a thing????

So when your parents taught you to wipe, they made you stand up to do it???

[Preban_AR15]

No racist but I thought that Donovan Mcnabb gif was actually Michael Vick for the longest time.

The only reason I found out I was wrong because someone made a post "mcnabstaring.gif" and I had to google it to figure out what he was talking about.

In my defense I only watch UFC and boxing so I had no idea how Mcnabb even looked like but was aware of how Vick looked like because the dog fighting incident.

This one

[emerica1184]

Found out recently that Oregon is not pronounced like polygon

[R3L3NTL3SS]

Found out recently that Oregon is not pronounced like polygon

It's pronounced like organ isn't it?

[GodMadeDirt]

That islands can tip over if all the people moved to one side

[FitStick]

I thought Miami was pronounced meeami. Feels embarassed i dont even tagalog

Ya, it's funny a hispanic lady tried correcting me, said it is a Spanish name and that it should be pronounced meeamee. It said no bish, Miami is an English bastardization of the native american tribe that lived in what is now Florida (Mayaimi tribe).

[DaConstantLiftr]

Went to Catholic/Christian school when I was little. Was told that God looks down on us from the ski. Was shown a picture of God's hand pointing down from a cloud. I used to think up in the clouds were huge kingdoms where God and his people lived.

I was 7-8.

Damn religious people fuking up kids perception of reality.

[ParasiteComplex]

ooooo

aw ****, I lerned sumthing today, thx brah

[hundredgrand]

I have a feeling that the more CONSCIOUS you are, the more stuff you will notice. If this entire thread is blowing your mind, chances are, you are a highly unconscious human. Do you even know what color is at the top of a stoplight? Sheesh

[JoshSP1985]

This is a misconception as well (at least in Canada). If you pay off the credit care in full, and you are the one to initiate closing the account it does not hurt your credit score.

The confusion arises because people know paying monthly bills/having a credit card is good for credit. So they assume closing it must be bad. But if you are closing one credit card account, because say you don't like Visa, and opening an account with Mastercard it will not affect your credit score. Whereas if you closed the Visa and then had no other lines of credit, and could not continue to establish your credit history it would hurt your credit score.

Again, this is for Canada but I am willing to bet it applies in the US as well.

Source: I just went through all of this with two banks.

It can still affect your TOTAL available credit which has an impact on your credit usage ratio. Canceling that account might not have a negative impact but the impact it has on your credit ratio can make a difference.

[JoshSP1985]

the hole in a can is for a straw

No it isn't. The hole is so they don't have to use as much metal in the construction of the tab. Just because you can stick a straw through something doesn't mean it's for a straw. BRB putting a straw in my ass hole.

[DatPass]

I've spent the last decade + calling that bish from Underworld "kate BeckinsDALE" until about 6 months ago i was watching a movie and was like "BeckinSALE.....da fuk? THEY SPELLED HER NAME WRONG IN THE CREDITS!!!" and everyone looked at me like i was ****ing idiot.

[zonee2k]

there's no such thing as "lactic acid"

There is but I get your point, its not lactic acid that actually makes your muscles weak and tired, it's a too high amount of phosphate stacked up in your muscles.

This isnt common knowledge though, I learned this two months ago at physiology class.

[ohsnaps88]

that toaster thing is NOT true. I just made toast this morning on the 6 and it was only in there for about 3 minutes