16 Facts That Will Warp Your Sense of Time
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2022
- This perspective-warping episode of The List Show will make you reassess time. You'll learn about how Cleopatra is more modern than you may think, how relatively recent the guillotine is, and that your favorite dinosaur species probably weren't friends.
Join host Erin McCarthy as she shares facts that will warp your sense of time and perhaps make you feel a little old. Sorry.
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I'm in my 40s and I currently work with an 18 year old who's discovered grunge music and other artists from the 90s. We discuss that time a lot and I show him lesser known bands he may not have heard of. I never really stop to think about how it's just like when someone would play me Pink Floyd or Hendrix as a teenager.
Show her how very wrong music went in the nineties too. show her things like Ace of Base Wilson Phillips and Color Me Badd. That way she can see that bad music isn't just from her generation
Just to show you how time goes by, I actually have had a conversation with someone who lived during the civil war. I am 75 years old and when I was 13 (1960), I spoke with a friend of my grandma's, a lady who was 101 (born in 1859). She told me how she (at age 6) remembered her father returning from the war in 1865. When I told that to a friend recently, my friend said she found it amazing.
That is so beyond amazing I can't even tell you how cool that sounds to me. And we have the same that if somebody who has never met you says your name after you're dead that makes you immortal and so even though we don't know his name I still think you just made this man immortal
As a African-American45 year old. I remember my Uncle who came Back from South Africa in 1982. Telling me about a “Temporary White Man” card he had in South Africa! He also made me watch Casablanca “There some parts of Brooklyn I recommend you shouldn’t walk through” I wanted to be Humphrey Bogart in Star Wars! 🤣😂🤣🤷🏾♂️✌🏿🇺🇸
Let's do the time warp again!
You know, I remember doing the tiiiiiime warrrrrp
Just a jump to the left... and a step to the rrrriiiigghhhtttt
Once is enough.
I literally have to do it every single time I hear the song I think it has become a problem for me and I think I really need help
One that got me a while back is that That 70s Show aired on TV closer to the time the show took place than to today.
The guillotine thing came up in pub trivia last night just after I’d watched this video. I answered so quickly the host was there “there’s no way y’all could be cheating”.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - fear of big words
Love the Cosmic Calendar 6:15
This is such a cool way to give perspective ❤
This should be a semi normal aspect of history class to rope together the difficulty of studimying history and for extra context.
You can't go wrong with triskaidekaphobia, or the fear of the number 13. A perfect phobia for this spooky season... Also apparently a magic the gathering card for some reason?
Along with that there's Paraskevidekatriaphobia of Fear of Friday the 13th.
I came to the comment section to say the same exact thing about triskaidekaphobia.
There is also the Magic cars triskaidekaphillia
Because man if you hit 13 life exactly you lose the game so a word that represents the fear of 13 is a very good card title for that enchantment
@@SupermarketSweep777LOL - that's the one that came to my mind too!
One of my all time favourites in phobias: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
🤣🤣
As a person with a phobia in my user name: It's not an uncommon phobia, but people often get it mistaken for agoraphobia or arachnophobia because of sight reading, versus taking the whole word in. But no, fear of heights. Same root as acrobat. I've gotten stuck on step stools, just a few inches off the ground.
No lie. I shed a tear. I loved the magazine years ago and then forgot about it. Thanks a thousand times over.
In case no one has said it…
Anatidaephobia: the irrational fear that somewhere, a duck is watching you
Originally coined as a joke by Gary Larson in The Far Side comic, it’s apparently gained some legitimate traction
Don't forget Luposlipaphobia, the fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor!
I was born in 1947. In the 90s, I introduced my son, born in 1983, to early Skynyrd. He was amazed that the old man knew about such music. LOL!
I loved this episode. Please do more like it. Facts are awesome.
Something that put time into perspective for me last year after Betty White died was this:
Betty White was born in 1922 and was older than both Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank who were both born the same year of 1929.
Also…
If you search for it you can find an interview recorded on audio cassette of a former slave of the US South.
The Protestant Movement in Europe happened after Columbus sailed to the Americas.
The Battle of Little Big Horn (aka, Custer’s Last Stand) happened 15 years after the American Civil War.
Some things we think were “long ago” really aren’t…
I started feeling old when my high school classmates's kids started graduating...
Insane to think there are sharks older than all of America.
A few other time warp facts: The can opener was not invented until decades after canning was developed. The first elevator shaft was installed in a building before the first safety elevator invented. Between the time Pluto was discovered and it being demoted to a sub planet, it did not complete a full transit around the sun.
This is one of my favorite episodes!!
Great video to be uploaded on my birthday
Onomatophobia is the fear of a certain word or words. Obscure, and I had it as a kid for no reason.
Loukanikophobia is the fear of sausages.
"No footlongs!"
"I know, Ned; they make you feel inadequate."
We all know arachibutyrophobia, right? Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. I learned about it in sixth grade and I remember having to look it up and print it out from the World Wide Web to prove to my camp counselor I wasn’t making stuff up! Oh, the early ‘00s…
My great-grandmother was born a citizen of the Ottoman Empire and passed away in New York during the Reagan administration. You’re right about the Ottoman Empire being a time warp 😅
My husband was a middle school music teacher between 2012 and 2017. During an Instrument Petting Zoo a kid wanted to try the saxophone. I threw in some trivia asking which former US president plays the saxophone. I later gave the answer of Clinton. I explained how he was on the Arsenio Hall Show playing it and how it helped his campaign. I got a lot of blank stares of “who’s Bill?” “Who’s Arsenio Hall?” I explained that the Arsenio Hall show was my version of Ellen way back when. But boy did I feel old.
I was born in the mid 80s during the Reagan administration. I remember Bush Sr. being president. But the 1992 election where Clinton won was the first election I remember.
A few years ago I was at a pet adoption event when the topic of raising cats and dogs together came up. I joked about how during the Clinton administration he had an easier time with the peace process in the Middle East than he had with his dog and cat. I got some blank stares. Everyone I was talking to was born in the late 90s. I’m feeling old.
Many references get lost in time. I had to correct some 20 year olds when they heard the Knight Rider theme and recognized it as an obscure musical reference to a (relatively) recent video game :)
"I haven't heard this since I was a teen!". You an me both kid...
When someone is born should be irrelevant, the fact that these audiences had no idea who Bill Clinton is scares me. He was a freaking US President for petes sakes, WHAT are they teaching in schools these days? I'm so glad I don't have kids... If I had to deal with teachers and school administrators, I'd be in jail...
I happen to be born during the Reagan administration too, and I don't remember any US president before Clinton.
(I was only eight years old when he was elected and I'm from Sweden, so I wouldn't have had any knowledge about US presidents before then).
But my brother who is fourteen years older than me and still thinks that Reagan was the best US president ever once made a snow sculpture in his likeness.
This was during Reagan's first term in office, but we still have a photograph as proof.
For your next video on phobias. I'm a lefty and this has always been my favourite phobia. Sinistrophobia is the fear of things at the left side or left-handed people. Sufferers may avoid using their left hand, touching someone else's left hand, or touching an object which has come into contact with a left hand. I was also born on the 13th 😏
@@dominicyelin Wow... I clearly state in the third sentence of my comment, that I am talking about left-handed people. I even name the phobia. I could not have been more specific. So, what are you talking about?
@@NickyQuesne13 another autist, I see. I'm sorry you were unable to understand my comment.
Thank you. This was a very interesting and enjoyable video.
Watching old westerns, I always got the impression that the Pony Express was this thing that existed for years and years. Looked it up and the service only operated for nineteen months.
Sesquipedalophobia: the ironically named fear of long words
One of my fave videos! Really pits things in context.
Like how (time line wise) Martin Luther King Jr and Anne Frank "grew up" together. They were born the same year.
Lucy Van Pelt lists a bunch of phobia names to Charlie Brown in "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Maybe start the video with that clip? (It would be fair use).
It all brings to mind the question posed by Laurie Anderson (who was probably using someone else's material, but I don't have time to look it up) "is time long, or is it wide?" If you take a moment to think not just of your personal experience, but of the persistence of all the things that you contributed to it all gets pretty expansive with the observer (you) becoming a speck on a much broader canvas. When was your house built? How many people lived there? It's a play on the six degrees of separation observation. So many stories, most to be forgotten.
Even better about the Guillotine one and Star Wars. Christopher Lee, the man who would go on to play Count Dooku was AT that execution
Is there a word for fear of having left the electric iron on when departing on a trip?
One of my favorite time observations: As much time passed between the founding of Jamestown and the signing of the Declaration of Independence as passed between the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the dropping of the first atomic bomb.
I once came across a mention of harpaxophobia, the fear of being robbed, and just love the name of it to bits. Thalassophobia (fear of deep bodies of water) is a close second -- the name specifically references the sea, but can also include lakes and other deep waters -- and their denizens.
After watching this I feel a need a walker lol
Also, since we first discovered (noticed) Pluto, it hasn't even gone half way around it's orbit of the sun. It takes about 248 years to do so.
Pluto IS a planet ! . . .
I do feel old. I just turned 38 yesterday. On the bright side, I thought I already was 38, so it's not like anything really changed.
Happy birthday. Just wait. 38 will seem like 18 when you get to 48
The cosmic calendar has truly and in so many ways changed my whole entire outlook on the world it put things into a frame that I could truly and fully understand and get a feeling of its importance I hope other people have found things like this as truly life-altering because science man
Well, thank you for making me OLD! I *was* born in 1972, btw
Wow.. I'm blown away by those facts... and that background. My ADHD side loved it
Feel old? Hell, I am old.
2 of my great grandmothers were born in 1893 and 1899. And neither of them died until I was in my 20s.
I've not only heard them talk about things from their childhood as well as WWI, but also heard accounts from their kids concerning their time in WWII and the Korean war.
And the Vietnam war? That seems like just last week.
Seriously, I feel like a walking museum piece in some ways, even though I'm only 60.
I'm 54, but I am a product of parents who grew up during The Great Depression. My father was born in 1922 and my mother in 1927. My son, who is 19, does not understand my tendency toward austerity, not throwing away stuff and reusing items. It was ingrained in me. We also lived on a really tight budget. My parents always feared another severe economic downturn.
@@LGW27 - I know that feeling exactly.
I was basically raised by my grandparents, who were born in 1921 and '25, and got the same ideas drilled into me.
...along with never having to rely on someone else to do what you can do yourself.
And yes, people still don't understand my tendency to hang onto things I may be able to use later.
( But then my neighbors never complain when I just HAPPEN to have that one tool or item that they need but can't find or afford to buy. lol )
Triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia - fear of Friday the 13th.
My Mexican great grandfather was born in 1850 . 60 years before Mexico was independent. He had a daughter ( my grandmother) at 70 in 1920.
At the time of his birth he lived in what is now Texas .
He got to see 2 centuries of history in 4 countries. Spain, Mexico, Texas and United States 😮
I learned this one waaaaay back: arachibutyrophobia - the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
1980 will always be 20 years ago!!
Sing it!!!!!❤️
Anemophobia
The fear of air
Kompounophobia - fear of buttons, which I used to have pre-transition.
Watched the whole thing to see if there were any surprises for me. I was pretty much aware of all of these. The last Cleopatra ( there were several ) may have been the only one of them who spoke Egyptian, and that's not certain for her either. Her first language was Greek.
I remember doing the time warp...kick! kick!
Lepidopterophobia- The fear of butterflies and moths.
🤔In 2008, my son was in kindergarten. For Veteran's Day, his teacher told him to bring a picture of a relative. I sent him to school with a picture of my father, who served with The Army Air Corp during WWII. His teacher did not believe that he was my son's grandfather because he would be too old, but she was wrong. My father was born in 1922. My mother had me and my twin sister when she was 39 and he was 45 (1967). I had my son when I was 35 (2003). Indeed, had my father been alive, he would have been 81 when my son was born. Actually, quite easily done.
You don't have to be smart to be a teacher, as shown here . . .
Both my grandfathers would have been in their '80s if they had still been alive when I was born, but neither of them lived to see their grandchildren.
@@fjb4932 She was young and couldn't see how it was possible.
I was born in 1966, and my father fought in WWII, so...this wasn't news to me. Also, I knew aged people as a boy, who had fought in WWI, some of whose fathers had fought in the Civil War. Human lives are really just a blink of an eye.
Gephyrophobia- fear of bridges.
Tall, climbing, unyielding bridges.
Yeah, I feel old. Thanks a lot!!.
Papaphobia!!! Fear of the Pope. One of my favorite oddly specific phobias!
That last one hurt.
Onatopasomethingpia. I forget the name. Fear of ducks watching you 🤣
I read THE DRAGONS OF EDEN in the 8th grade, when it first came out in paperback. The man was right about sooo many things that my head still spins when I think about the implications of that book.
I love things like this. Time is crazy.
How about phobophobia...the phobia of phobias.
Considering I was born in 1981 yeah that last one hits home lol
Deep time breaks everything else on this list
I have a fear of false Vietnamese noodle soups - fauxphophobia
I'm a trivia buff so I know a few off the wall phobias. Pentheraphobia is the fear of mother in laws. Venustraphobia is the fear of attractive women. Ergophobia is the fear of work. Glossophobia, the fear of speaking in public. Gingerphobia is the fear of redheads, which I definitely don't have since I'm a rutiluphile.
Thank you for still referring to Pluto as a planet. ♥
Yeah, I know I will never stop seeing Pluto as a planet.
Born in 1971, yeah ... I feel my age. Yet, my Grandmother (Nanna) swept the linseed oiled earth floors of her house, shared her recipe for "Possum and Blackbird Pie" (I've never eaten either), and my Grandfather on my dad's side was a pioneer in making Neon signs after spending WW2 repairing aircraft hydraulics. A single FACT warps my sense of time. I'm 51 years old yet my brain is 19 (with complaints). $0.02
Same here - born 1971 with a mental age of 19. Still playing video games, going to gigs, playing in bands, d&d etc. - often with my kids (age 15 & 18).My parents didn't do any of that stuff when I was that age. I must admit I have given up skateboarding though.
I feel really old since I lived in Alabama in the 60s and our school was not integrated until I was in the third grade.
Nuke that state
I was born in 1972 and yes, I do feel old.
Heh. See that moustache? It's older than some of my coworkers.
I do wish my history classes gave more context of what was happening simultaneously in other parts of the world.
As someone born in 1971, thanks for that last part. 😉😂
I still find it ridiculous (and I am not the only one) that the word for a fear of long words (which is a silly-sounding, but probably very serious phobia) is "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia".
Trypophobia - fear of hole clusters
If you ever feel old, just remember that on a cosmic scale, you're still a minor!
I had 2 recurring nightmares as a child, being chased by a crocodile (specifically around my aunts house) and being beheaded by guillotine. Do either of those very specific fears have a phobia name 🤣
diokophobia is the fear of being chased. Kabourphobia is the fear of being decapitated.
@@Dillon-117 yeah but I'm not scared of being chased in general, I'm specifically scared of being chased by a crocodile through one specific house
Herpetophobia if the fear of reptiles so maybe diokoherptophobia.... 🤔
@@rach_laze While there's not a Latin term for it, I'm sure there's a German super-term for it.
German is really good at smashing words and phrases to one superword.
The name Pluto didn't originate with the cartoon dog or the planet as it had already been around for a long time being the name of a Roman god, so it's possible that both the cartoon dog and planet were both inspired by the god, hence making it redundant which of them came before the other.
A great phobia is the ironically named fear of long words: hippooptomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
Oikophobia is the fear of houses and/or being in a house. I actually knew someone who had this phobia and was living unhoused solely because of this untreated fear
my grandfather was raised by his grandfather to a large extent, and he was born a slave before the civil war. got freed before the civil war and joined the creek nation. walked the trail of tears with them. how long ago was that really? when people tell me slavery was a long time ago i try to laugh but sometimes i just cry.
I always tell my son (age 19)that what he may think of as ancient history may be someone's (who is living today) present history or only a generation or two away. I, specifically, mention slavery.
As a culture, we tend to think of a generation as being about 20 years. I believe it is more accurate to base a person's generation on the years their parents were born. I'm 54, but my parents were born in the 1920's. I relate better to people who are much older than me.
Tachnophobia: fear of moving at high speeds.
Thanks, yes I feel old now. 😿
Being 42 and having 3 children, 7, 14, and 20, I'm realizing that the parents of my 7 year old are not to be considered my "peers" in many regards. Especially, understanding than they could be 17 years younger, or further younger, than me. The same consideration could be had with his teachers.
Xanthophobia- fear of the color yellow
coulrophobia is fear of clowns and triskedekophoia is fear of 13
Another bizarre fact, President John Tyler, who served from 1841 to 1845, still has two living grandsons.
I think it's kind of crazy that back in the 80s if someone was turning 40 that means they were born in the 40s. If someone turns 40 now it means they were born in the 80s. That messes with my head because when I think about 40-year-olds I still think of Boomers, not ME in just over 3 years!
As someone born in 1951: I was in my 20s in the 70s; and I’m now in my 70s in the 20s. It’s really freaky how fast that seems to have happened.
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia ironically this is the fear of long words
When I was a kid the moon landing seemed like distant history. It happened 11 years before I was born. Now it's been twice as long as that since I graduated high school.
I remember watching it broadcast live on an old black and white TV.
I was 7 at the time.
Megalophobia - fear of giant objects (wind turbines, oil rigs, towers, etc)
Is there a more technical name for FOMO (fear of missing out)?
Mysophonia - fear of sound. When I was a boy, I would become irate when my sisters smacked whilst chewing their cereal. They all thought I was out of my mind… turns out I was. Though not in the way they thought.
I live knowing how close the 70's are to now, i have a dad who born in 1970, a mother who was born in 1974, and an 82 year old grandmother born in 1940. I know all too well how close those are to now. Also how about automatonophobia, or phobia of anything human like? Scarecrows, puppets, and robots included
phobophobia is the fear of fear.
Somniphobia is the fear of sleep or falling asleep
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your tongue.
Chaetophobia is the fear of hair.
Astraphobia, also known as astrapophobia, brontophobia, keraunophobia, or tonitrophobia, is an abnormal fear of thunder and lightning or an unwarranted fear of scattered and/or isolated thunderstorms, a type of specific phobia. I have had since I was young, it has gotten better over years. But yes it can get bad for me.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words
Agoraphobia. Fear of open spaces/leaving your house
So, Cleopatra had an iPhone, huh? Weird, I would have assumed she'd be an Android user.