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re: What are some obvious things you were surprised someone didn't know
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:42 pm to gazelles
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:42 pm to gazelles
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The ice floating on the arctic ocean/north pole, not so much
Bingo. She missed that part. We were talking specifically about the ice caps not in Canada or Greenland. She forgot they were floating.
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Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:43 pm to LikeABaussCat
Some of the folks under the age of 25 or so don't realize that there was a time when the internet didn't exist, or that we once stopped at gas stations to use pay phones if we needed to make a mobile call.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:45 pm to jdd48
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pay phones
Saw one at the Orlando airport the other day and almost took a picture of it to prove to people they still existed
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:45 pm to Bard
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She literally had no knowledge of The Great Wall of China. She was an elementary school teacher.
It's scary to think of some of the people educating our children. It makes me angry because these dumb m'fers don't realize how dumb they are and are spreading their stupidity. Oblivious and inconsiderate.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:47 pm to htownjeep
I knew a couple of generally well-informed guys in their 30's at the time who didn't know who Sgt. York was.
The main reason that surprised me is the movie is on every single Memorial Day over and over and over.
The main reason that surprised me is the movie is on every single Memorial Day over and over and over.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:53 pm to htownjeep
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Where would someone get 180F from?
I have no idea, the first time I heard someone say this was at an old job of mine. I then asked 4 other people that we worked with, what the boiling point of water is.Each one answered 180 degrees.
I was shocked.
Later it occurred to me,that there is a 180 degree swing from freezing point to boiling, so maybe this is where they were confused?
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:54 pm to DosManos
Dude, there are dumb people in every profession that rub off on others.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:57 pm to High C
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Dude, there are dumb people in every profession that rub off on others.
Yeah, think about how dumb the average person is. Half the people in the world are dumber than that.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:01 pm to Tiger1242
I'm not real sure my wife could tell you who generally fought whom in World War I or World War II.
She's from Vicksburg, so she knows a little more about the Civil War.
I don't understand how any educated person can't have a basic, reasonably intelligent discussion about the origin of Western Civilization. I'm not talking details, I'm talking something as basic as
Egyptians to Greeks to Romans to the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the dark ages to the Renaissance to colonialism, etc.
She's from Vicksburg, so she knows a little more about the Civil War.
I don't understand how any educated person can't have a basic, reasonably intelligent discussion about the origin of Western Civilization. I'm not talking details, I'm talking something as basic as
Egyptians to Greeks to Romans to the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the dark ages to the Renaissance to colonialism, etc.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:04 pm to Tiger1242
My girlfriend didn't know that a 'couple', a 'few', and 'several' all had different numerical meanings
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:05 pm to TigerTreyjpg
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I'm talking something as basic as
Egyptians to Greeks to Romans to the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the dark ages to the Renaissance to colonialism, etc.
I'm afraid that you're over the head of about 90% of the population right there.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:06 pm to TigerTreyjpg
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I don't understand how any educated person can't have a basic, reasonably intelligent discussion about the origin of Western Civilization. I'm not talking details, I'm talking something as basic as
Egyptians to Greeks to Romans to the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the dark ages to the Renaissance to colonialism, etc.
The fall of Byzantium was more like in between the Dark Ages and the Renaissance, rather than pre Dark Ages.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:08 pm to 400lb. Ape
I saw someone put a belt on the opposite way than I always do and was like "hey you're putting your belt on backwards." He looked at me weird and I had a sudden realization that belts can go around either way
You've never been in the military have you?
You've never been in the military have you?
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:14 pm to High C
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Great Britain is an island. England is a part of Great Britain.
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What do you do with Northern Ireland, then?
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It's part of Great Britain and not a part of the other landmass that you called the island of Great Britain.
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom--along with Great Britain. It's formal name is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
Great Britain is England, Scotland, and Wales.
Britain is one island. Ireland is another. Together with the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man they make up the "British Isles".
This is one of those things that I'm surprised people don't know and that they screw up.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:16 pm to LSURussian
Friend of mine thought only milk could come from the "black and white" cows. He was about 20 at the time.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:17 pm to Tiger1242
I don't know what Taco Bell tastes like because I have never eaten any of their products.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:21 pm to LSURussian
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Those same people don't know that Canton, Ohio is further east than Savannah, Georgia.
Or that Maine is the closest state to Africa.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:22 pm to Michael J Cocks
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Remember that dude Ole Rebel Nasty used to say War War 1 and War War 2?
Dude, I absolutely cannot stop laughing at that
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:31 pm to Sophandros
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Or that Maine is the closest state to Africa.
Geographically
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