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What’s something you can’t believe you had to explain to a grown adult?
What’s something you can’t believe you had to explain to a grown adult?
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Common sense, manners/etiquette, racism vs. prejudice, the impact of Styrofoam on the planet…..
That Pepsi and Coke are two competing companies, and there isn’t some mega corporate conglomerate that controls all soda.
What consent is
Not quite a grown adult, but I once had to explain what “gay” means to a 17 year old in an online game. There was a pride month event and he said he was “scared of gay people”, turns out I blew his mind with the concept of two men being in a relationship.
Washington the state and Washington DC
That the noise fly’s make comes from their wings, not their mouths
My parents think it’s racist that they aren’t allowed to say the N word because they are white. Oh boy what a fun convo that was
You can get pregnant if you have sex standing up. Had to explain this to a woman in her late thirties that had a teenage daughter.
I worked at a family dollar last year and had a young kid start and had to show him what the change was Penny’s dimes nickel and quarter. I’m 50 at the time and for the life of me couldn’t figure out how someone doesn’t know this
At work i explained sales tax, cause this guy was getting mad that the total increased, and that I couldn’t take it out
That telling someone to stop being sexest doesn’t make you a snowball
Stopping on the highway’s exit ramp is dangerous.
That Australia isn’t a part of the UK
How to count change
8% interest rate doesn’t mean you only pay $8 a month in interest.
Had to explain to my teenage brother that the USA is a country in North America and that Florida isn’t.
That the earth does not infact orbit the moon…
Kissing doesn’t get you pregnant actually I told a few that thought it did
Change for a $20.
That I don’t have to respect them just because I’m a minor and they’re an adult
My father-in-law asked me if I was born with the genetics to begin life only speaking Spanish when I told him that English wasn’t my 1st language lol
That was a fun conversation to have. Even my mother in law was dumbfounded by his question.
That opinions are not facts. Noone is saying you are wrong just because they have a different opinion or do not agree with you. No, you are not being attacked. Sucks cuz there will be good people in your life that you just cant have any sort of conversation without them getting offended.
No, my snake won’t turn into two if you cut him in half
That Germany is in Europe.
Then when I was retelling the story later that day, another person was amazed by this tidbit.
How a period works and what it’s for.
The numbers on a toaster are minutes not the level of “toastiness”
Yeah also they called my a snowflake because they stereotyped that all men are assholes too 🙂
How to wear literally any formal attire. It’s sad how many people don’t know what many dress codes mean, and that’s coming from someone who’s 19.
How to do multiplication and division without a calculator
* That an ampersand and a musical G-clef are not the same symbol.
* That a 2-inch salamander tadpole found in Maryland was not an axolotl (which are 12-inches long and live in Mexico).
* That a public elementary school book sale was not raising money for scholarships. (Public = no student pays tuition. Elementary = our students are too young for college.)
* That the 2012 rerelease of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in 3D was the original film converted to 3D by a computer, NOT a remake with new actors.
Yellow lights correlate to the speed limit, if the speed limits 35 the light will last 3.5 seconds
I work for an early intervention program where therapists work with little ones in homes and daycares doing speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, etc. I had a parent get upset over the phone when I told her her child’s provider cannot come to the home if the child has hand, foot, and mouth disease because it’s contagious and since they visit several homes a day all day and also work with medically fragile kids, they can’t spread illness around. She wasn’t having it. We’ve had providers get URI’s and gastro bugs and spread them around the office because parents don’t let them know they or the kids are sick because they don’t want to cancel appointments.
Personal hygiene and the importance of doing laundry on a regular basis, it was always an awkward conversation.
RECYCLING 🫢
“Businesses have the freedom of speech *as well* and as such: them banning your account, censoring you in any way or otherwise removing content without your permission *is* (drum roll): **fully legal**”.
Nowhere in the mix is government getting involved, which *means* your freedom of expression ***was never removed, not even once. Not even close.***
Remember “no shirts, no shoes, no service”? *That’s Freedom of Speech.*
Someone owning a gigantic social media platform does not then just automatically guarantee your a) usage of that service or b) continued usage of that service simply because it’s also where other people go to talk. Even elected officials. Doesn’t matter. Even if that’s their *chosen* platform, it still does not make said platform as an automatic and default-state “town square”. That’s not a thing. It’s still a business.
Which has its freedom to express itself, just like you do. They own the thing you put that content on. Being that they invented it, even if they simply just don’t like what you say and even if it’s not even offensive: you can still have it removed and your freedoms still will not have been removed.
People seriously somehow can NOT seem to get this. It’s like they constantly try to work ways around it, as though the legality of the freedom itself is actually what they hate.
I.E: Saying “soandso thinks their opinion is more important and worth more than MY freedom of speech” makes ***absolutely no sense, at all.***
The words don’t connect in the above sentence to make it a coherent string of words, as the concepts are at complete odds with each other. If someone has an opinion on anything and they expressed it, as did you: then you enacted your freedom of speech, even if the business (for example) removes only 1 person’s comments in like a comment-tree. *Still does not matter at all, no freedoms were ever lost in any of this so the sentence of someone else thinking they are more important than YOUR freedoms is nonsensical, since neither of you lost any of them.*
At worst it’s a business who plays favorites with the things it wishes to express against the things it wishes not to express. *Businesses are allowed to do that.*
My wife (a nurse) had to explain to a coworker (also a nurse) that you can not get pregnant via anal. I have no idea how she passed nursing school.
That there are only 50 states…
I was working as a bank teller (US) and had a customer call and ask me to make a withdrawal as a cashier’s check from their account. Then to fax the check to the store where they were so that they could make a purchase. I tried to explain that while there were several problems with this, the biggest one was that I could not fax them a cashier’s check because it would not be legal tender, only a picture of a check. Customer got irate and asked to speak with my manager.
Yelling louder doesn’t make you right it just makes you the loudest monkey with a brain
How the equator works. My mom really thought that the southern tip of Chile was just as hot as Ecuador.
He was only a college freshman, but fuck it, no quarter. I had a conversation with a friend once that went like:
“Drug laws are really strict in Japan. Like, you can actually go to jail.”
“Dude, you can go to jail in America for drugs.”
“No, no. My friend got caught with weed once and he just had to pay a fine to the cops and they let him go.”
That was fun to unpack.
To wipe pee splatter from the toilet seat or just lift it if you can’t aim (or have regular split beams). My son at 4 years old has been told this less than his near 30 year old uncle flopping at my house
Not me but my husband. Had to tell his best friend why jumping around in the woods with some deer antlers he had found on his head was a Bad idea. They were hunting.