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what are obvious things you've just become aware of I thought it was normal to get a little burning sensation in your throat when you eat hazelnuts turns out I was allergic I was six when I learned nuts aren't supposed to taste itchy the bald spot on the back of my head I mean I knew it was there for a few years but last month we moved into a new house and the upstairs bathroom has a large wall mirror across from the vanity mirror so now every morning while I brush my teeth all I can do is stare at my bald spot all this time I've been walking around like this unaware of just how large and obvious it was at it removed redundancy that the reason old people move so slowly is that they are in pain source em now old person is there any way I can unlearn this I didn't realize how much I interrupted people while they were talking until one person didn't let me they bulldozed right over whatever the duck I had to add I'm much more aware now I realized I used to be a one-upper every story you had I had one better I completely stopped this behavior and I think it has made me a better listener I am no longer just waiting for my turn at it I am NOT attempting to one of you here Fez wasn't his name its Fez for foreign exchange student wait what you just blew my mind I didn't watch the show but I thought the joke was that no one ever said his real name after a thorough reading of the comments section I've actually learned a lot I was told a couple weeks ago that he was just dried grass I thought it was its own thing that grew and I just never saw it to be fair it tends to be a special type of grass so it is still its own thing just also a subset of grass much like oak is a subset of tree or Pokemon professor that the Autobahn is the entire highway system in Germany not just a single road that you can drive really fast on you would not believe the number of people that just don't get it when asked if I've ever drove on the Autobahn I usually ask if they've ever drove on the interstate you can get slash spread herpes while wearing a condom it's been a few years since I leaned right here on reddit but herpes is skin-to-skin contact nothing to do with sexual fluids caught me way off guard there's a lot of good information posted to this comment chain I'd suggest reading through others posts and links for even more and better info on herpes you should still wear condoms with new partners to prevent other STDs sti's and unwanted pregnancy educate yourselves I was 50 when I figured out 52 now bTW that the little piggy that went to market wasn't going shopping edit I talked to my wife about the poem and she pointed out this little piggy went to market off to be slaughtered this little piggy stayed home the mother pig this little piggy had roast beef being fattened for the market this little piggy had none fat enough being sold tomorrow this little piggy cried wee wee wee all the way home actually apparently the source of this is French and the pig is crying wee wee wee all the way home because it escaped from the slaughterhouse it's crime yes yes yes all the way home horses scratched themselves behind their ears just like a dog does ie with their hind legs that's weird I had to look up a video because I didn't believe you my family even has horses and I've never seen it we've had horses my whole life they don't teach like that very often I've noticed they tend to just shove their head against a wood post or tree and move up and down I had to explain to my mother sister and boyfriend that cobwebs are leftover spider webs that collect a dust not just dust magically stringing together edit guys they have to be abandoned to collect dust there aren't spiders in them anymore it's okay when I was a kid I thought that they were just made by another type of bug called a cob made sense in my mind spider webs come from spiders and cob webs come from cobs I had an Aunt Grace I thought the song Amazing Grace was about a woman named Grace for my entire childhood at least and only yesterday sat down and consciously realized it wasn't I'm in my 60s I had no idea that peanuts grow underground until the other day when I saw a video on reddit I think I always assumed they grew unlike I don't know a peanut tree peanut Bush I was flabbergasted look up how pineapples grow - that one really caught me off guard it takes two years to grow one pineapple white green and black tea can be from the same plant just picked at different times edit yes it's also a drying / oxidizing process as well when I moved to the States I kept wondering what peds sing with a guy crossing the road meant I knew it meant that somebody was crossing the road but how did sing meant crossing a decade later I realized it x equals cross edit thanks guys I hope I have enlightened you all did you at least figure out that pen is short for pedestrian miles Prower aka tales from Sonic is a pun on miles per hour till tales also goes by miles per hour Nabisco equals national be ice cut company I always thought it was just a funny name Geico equals government employees insurance company canola equals cnat and oil low acidity its oil from the rapeseed plant a variety low in Aroostook acid that percentages work both ways 50% of 73.5 is the same as 7% of fifty three point five I am just now this moment discovering this Lowell this changes everything balloonfish inhale water to expand not air gonna blame Nemo for that I said thinners instead of fingers for an embarrassingly long time of my life it always went in my brain that you use things to pick up things with but like why are they called fingers if I've never seen them thing oh wait I thought when people said you can't stare at the Sun it was because it was a really hard thing to do like a skill rather than the truth which is it damages your eyes horribly so I'd boasted how I could stare for up to three minutes before I had to look away glad I didn't take you can breathe underwater literally - LOL how ducked are your eyes what do you mean by how tucked are your eaves I thought the semicolon tattoo was for people who had Crohn's disease or colon cancer or something and had lost part of their colon you can buy individual bananas I always thought you had to buy them in bunches I am 30 years old yeah man me too I saw my GF taking bananas off the bunch and I was like yo WTF that's illegal stop that [ __ ] apparently people do this barbarian [ __ ] all the time I've seen a person select individual bananas from multiple different bunches they should have been tranquilized by the grocery police I didn't know babies only drink milk for the first six months and that water can be toxic for them learn that in our / just nominal I definitely ran into a lot of people who were shocked to learn that babies don't eat food until they are 6 months old they would ask me things like what is her favorite food and I would say oh we haven't given her any food yet and they would look like they were just waiting for me to leave so they could call CPS on me young people who had never had kids but also old ladies who had their kids a long time ago when they used to start them on food earlier in kindergarten they'd always say a little dab'll Dalia when working with glue a little dab will do ya I realized this when I was 26 baking soda is called baking soda because it's sodium bicarbonate and sodium compounds are referred to as soda and you use it to bake I knew why soda lie sodium hydroxide was named as such but I guess I learned about baking soda at such a young age that I never questioned it until a few weeks ago what makes it really embarrassing is that I'm a ducking chemist I'm a chemist too every so often you see the old labels bicarbonate of soda I love soda lime I prefer lime soda tanks my roommate and I googled what is pepper the other day because we realized we had no clue if black pepper was a plant or a mineral and it it's a plant I've just never seen a peppercorn tree at it - I get it it's not a mineral damn [Music] cigarettes are just a cute name baby cigars I never made the connection for some reason that my 67 year old mom dyes her hair and has been for years I never questioned why her hair was red in my baby pictures but why she's blonde now I'm like well her hair just changed you know like how tons of people have their hair go from red to blonde had to tell all my friends it's nip it in the bud not nip it in the bud blue some people's minds the day a fortnight is called that because it's 14 nights different Winans are named after the grape used to make the wine I didn't realize there were different kinds of grapes I guess I thought that it was just green grapes equals white wine red grapes equals red wine and that whatever makes it a Shiraz or a merlot or whatever was some other magical [ __ ] that happens in the barrels many wines are also named after the region in France they're produced in this gives you your Bordeaux burgundy Sauternes etc earth email addresses are not case-sensitive also gmail ignores periods so if you want to sign up for a service with the same address just stick a period somewhere in there I legitimately thought you grew pickles like underwater I'm not a smart man I lost my great-grandfather in a pickle diving accident I hope you find him it took me until I was like 10 years old to understand that you are supposed to close your eyes when trying to fall asleep until that point I just laid in bed staring at the ceiling wondering why I'm still awake it's called a coincidence because two events coincide when my brother was little his favorite movie was Free Willy because he was like for my whole family would refer to orcas as Free Willy s it wasn't until about 20 years later that I realized the whales name was just Willy free is a verb in the title that is a person with a vulva I can simply slide over the crutch of my swimsuit to pee no need to take off my wet cold one-piece and drag it back on again after I pee my husband shared this magical method with me I was 42 guys are experts at efficiently peeing simply whip it out that ponies are not baby horses it took me a good 15 years to realize M&M was a play on marshall mathers that Squidward and Squidward and William but with squee in the beginning what if we tell you spongebob is just Bob with sponge in the beginning that's right and Patrick has just Rick with a pat at the beginning I found out that a perm is short for permanent and not just a hairstyle but saying the type of hairstyle is permanent this is only partially correct it's short for permanent wave it's permanently making your hair a different wave pattern you can get a perm even if your hair is already curly to change the exact size or shape of your existing curls source cosmetology student I'm not as funny at work as I believed I was that's okay it's not for them anyway it's for us when I was in ninth grade I found out that narwhals are real always just assumed they were mythical come on dolphin like creatures with a unicorn horn similarly I did not think reindeer were real until my late teens when your only exposure to an animal has them flying through Christmas magic it can be hard to believe they're real that the Christmas song that goes I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus is not actually about infidelity the father was Santa Claus the whole time when I was a kid an advertisement at the beginning of one of my Disney movies called The Lion King Disney's 32nd motion picture I called everything I knew into question to evaluate whether it was possible that The Lion King which I had watched many times was only 30 seconds long my fiance gave me that Wow I'm about to marry you look when she made me realize Nilla wafers were VA Nilla I somehow missed that I realized a year or two ago that Laffy Taffy was called Laffy Taffy because there were jokes on the wrapper I'm 23 and Laffy Taffy was one of my favorite candies as a kid people sometimes see what you've done in a completely different way as you do thought this earlier this morning strange and off-putting to think I'm the only one who sees me as I see me first time I heard my voice in a video I couldn't believe it was me like that's how I really sound I sound so much cooler in my head voice when you go the liquor store the good liquor is on the top shelf the crappy liquor is always on the bottom shelf that way back in the day we had this messenger thing called ICQ it actually means ICQ youngmee's mine wasa thoroughly blown that that the division sign is just an incomplete fraction XX same with percent there's also bear meal to go along with percent it means per thousand and the sign is Royal Family's last name is Windsor mountbatten-windsor if they have to use one as a rule they don't use surnames the princes used Wales as their surname during their military careers those with titles don't have surnames those without titles used mountbatten-windsor the romantic languages aren't called that because oh pretty they're called that because they descend from Latin which was spoken in Rome their romantic languages there's no milk in yoo-hoo old reference and it's been about a year since this dawned on me but that the what his love had bobbing guys from SNL in the 90s are supposed to be on coke staying out super late clubbing always ducking with their noses never occurred to me before I thought the nose thing was just a random physical joke at it aka night at the Roxbury guys Chris Kattan Will Ferrell plus occasional guest stars at it too crappy quality but the best one emo Jim Carrey that your stomach growling and feeling hungry can also be a sign of thirst when you call a girl a dime it's another way of saying she is a 10 a 0.1 zero your ten dimes breakfast is called breakfast because you are breaking your fast go ducking figure I was driving around in the country with my girlfriend and we passed by some sheep I turned to her totally serious and said I don't even know what a baby sheep looks like I've never seen one then as we drove on I saw some lambs in a field and I said and what's even more weird as this I don't know what an adult lamb looks like she then tells me that they're the same animal but I didn't believe her once we got to her house she grabbed a baby book from her little sister and showed me that they are in fact the same animal it still blows my mind but I didn't put that together and had to have someone explain it to me at age 18 that honey is mostly sugar I sold honey door-to-door as a kid once a guy came to the door and I gave him my sales pitch he stated that he couldn't have sugar because he was diabetic I assured him that the honey was pure and sugar-free he bought two tubs r.i.p that the family cat did not in fact go to live on a farm and yes I came to this realization while watching the episode of Friends where Ross comes to the same realization I was obviously aware that mirrors are reversed since a very young age however I recently got side bangs in my hair and since it was so obvious didn't consider that it looked like the opposite side to others it was actually a very surprising realization one of my mates only realized Elton John was gay when the TV commentary at the Royal Wedding talked about him and his husband since him three years old I'm living in Germany we have speed limit signs in our villages that say something like 30 zone which means 30 km/h maximum in that street there are many more speed limit signs like 50 70 100 and much more the only sign that has the word zone in it is the 30 zone sign you won't find most of these anymore because they changed them to just the 30 so when I was younger a quiet didn't understand what that zone stands for every time I passed by such a sign on my bike I thought zone just means soon a German for Sun so my young dumb brain thought those signs indicate the maximum temperature the street can reach like WTF why did I think that I literally thought that a 30 zone street keeps its temperature at 30 degrees Celsius and cool down to 30 see whenever the outside temperature gets higher I realized my mistake when I was like 12 to 13 years old and it still bothers me to this day how the duck I believed my own theory about those signs good thing is I never told it to anybody so nobody knows what a dumbass of a kid I was until now because reddit now knows it and I won't sleep well that night ha thanks for listening to another episode of Rhett attacks subscribe and activate the notification bell so you won't miss any stories feel free to share your own stories below in the comments have a good day

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Length: 18min 2sec (1082 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 02 2019