Took me 28 years to realise the when people say "don't assume, it makes an ass out of you and me" I always thought it was just a thing people said when one day I someone explained to me that it spelt the word 'assume'. I sat on that one for a while.
My friend told me in school (i was about 12/13) that a fetish is something you like to make jokes about. At the time i had a ginger friend and we both made jokes about eachother, mine being mostly ginger jokes. So, i told my family at a gathering, that i had a ginger fetish. They all start laughing so loudly and i just laugh along thinking "oh yeah they find this funny" my uncle and cousins are ginger also. This cringe memory still makes my body warm up with embarressment.
I grew up in NJ. My parents had many friends. One day my mother told me we were going to Joan's beach. I thought that meant they had a friend named Joan who was inviting us to her beach. It was probably 20 years later when I realized we went to Jones Beach.
It's actual context is still screwed up because it means you're not allowed to explain your actions/thought process(or lack thereof as tha case may be)as it could actually be illuminating for the authority figure in question| What's even worse is sometimes I've seen kids get in trouble for that when they were told to provide an explanation by said authority to begin with|
I was very very young when the whole Baby Jessica situation happened. For some reason I heard that she fell into a "whale" instead of "well". I still remember trying to wrap my brain around how a toddler could accidentally fall into a whale's blowhole.
We moved house at the end of 3rd grade, and we moved to a very rural town, with new “common” phrases. The teacher used the phrase “No ifs, ands, or buts”. But I was unfamiliar with that phrase and heard “no ifsannzerbuts” and I had no idea what it meant, so I asked and got in trouble
I was a math major back mumble-mumble decades ago, and "discrete" functions and the like were a thing. It took WAY too long for me to realize that "discrete" and "discreet" were two separate words, and that the second was NOT a misspelling of the first.
2:58 "Death sentence." Okay, that idea could be the germ of a Really Good suspense/horror novel. 6:43 I heard this in high school or college (1970's) as "useless as t*** on a boar hog." 16:05 Wife to hubs: "NO MORE COLLOQUIALISMS IN HOUSE! EVER!"
I remember 1st knowing of it from "ARMS BLACK MARKET" in tha game "VIRTUA COP" and thinking some dude called "ARMS" owns this weird looking market that's gotta be just the employee access section but it didn't help that the boss of that stage was in fact a big black guy|
I thought “if you lay down with dogs, you’ll get up with fleas” meant that if you did bad things then those decisions would follow you for the rest of your life. Which is kinda true but not exactly what that means. I was 8 when I was saying it btw 😅
Years ago, I was talking to a co-worker about how I stopped smoking, cold turkey, and another co-worker, a full grown woman over hears me and says "Wait, cold turkey makes you stop smoking?"
17:07 -- God is great, God is good, we thank Him for our morning wood. Or as the ladies might say: God is great, this I know, I thank Him for my monthly flow.
The astigmatism thing, I thought that it was two words too. Luckily nothing changed in how I said it so no one laughed at me for it. Also ever watch the same movie or show multiple times only to just grasp what the character is saying? Happens all the time. It has less to do with poor pronunciation on our part and more to do with us not being able to hear properly as kids. Not sure if it’s normal or just a weird me quirk but it happens all the time (and sometimes I have to use subtitles when I want to know what a character is saying)
Took me 28 years to realise the when people say "don't assume, it makes an ass out of you and me" I always thought it was just a thing people said when one day I someone explained to me that it spelt the word 'assume'. I sat on that one for a while.
My friend told me in school (i was about 12/13) that a fetish is something you like to make jokes about. At the time i had a ginger friend and we both made jokes about eachother, mine being mostly ginger jokes.
So, i told my family at a gathering, that i had a ginger fetish. They all start laughing so loudly and i just laugh along thinking "oh yeah they find this funny" my uncle and cousins are ginger also. This cringe memory still makes my body warm up with embarressment.
I always wondered why we say we’re gonna go take a dump as opposed to saying we’re leaving one
I grew up in NJ. My parents had many friends. One day my mother told me we were going to Joan's beach. I thought that meant they had a friend named Joan who was inviting us to her beach. It was probably 20 years later when I realized we went to Jones Beach.
I didn't understand what "talking back" meant when I was a kid. In my head, it sounded like I was getting in trouble for just talking to adults. 😭
It's actual context is still screwed up because it means you're not allowed to explain your actions/thought process(or lack thereof as tha case may be)as it could actually be illuminating for the authority figure in question|
What's even worse is sometimes I've seen kids get in trouble for that when they were told to provide an explanation by said authority to begin with|
I was very very young when the whole Baby Jessica situation happened. For some reason I heard that she fell into a "whale" instead of "well". I still remember trying to wrap my brain around how a toddler could accidentally fall into a whale's blowhole.
The "Euthanasia as Youth In Asia" one I did that too. Took a long time to understand XD
We moved house at the end of 3rd grade, and we moved to a very rural town, with new “common” phrases. The teacher used the phrase “No ifs, ands, or buts”. But I was unfamiliar with that phrase and heard “no ifsannzerbuts” and I had no idea what it meant, so I asked and got in trouble
I was a math major back mumble-mumble decades ago, and "discrete" functions and the like were a thing. It took WAY too long for me to realize that "discrete" and "discreet" were two separate words, and that the second was NOT a misspelling of the first.
2:58 "Death sentence." Okay, that idea could be the germ of a Really Good suspense/horror novel.
6:43 I heard this in high school or college (1970's) as "useless as t*** on a boar hog."
16:05 Wife to hubs: "NO MORE COLLOQUIALISMS IN HOUSE! EVER!"
I thought the "black market" was located somewhere for real. Like tables in a back alleyway or an abandoned warehouse.
I remember 1st knowing of it from "ARMS BLACK MARKET" in tha game "VIRTUA COP" and thinking some dude called "ARMS" owns this weird looking market that's gotta be just the employee access section but it didn't help that the boss of that stage was in fact a big black guy|
I thought “if you lay down with dogs, you’ll get up with fleas” meant that if you did bad things then those decisions would follow you for the rest of your life.
Which is kinda true but not exactly what that means.
I was 8 when I was saying it btw 😅
10:20 I thought the exact same thing as the second commenter.
Thinking a boil order meant someone was convicted of a crime since I saw an ancient torture episode on history chann prior to that
I thought the Blue's Clues line was, "When you take a step out of time."
But it's.
"When you take a step at a time."
Years ago, I was talking to a co-worker about how I stopped smoking, cold turkey, and another co-worker, a full grown woman over hears me and says "Wait, cold turkey makes you stop smoking?"
17:07 -- God is great, God is good, we thank Him for our morning wood.
Or as the ladies might say: God is great, this I know, I thank Him for my monthly flow.
If one of my parents said something like, “We can’t visit your cousins because your uncle Frank has pneumonia” meant has *ammonia* .
Some Attorneys do get paid a lot to fill out paperwork
I'm one of them.
i thought elope meant scx because of an eminem song where he says the word and a moaning effect plays in ghe bg
I thought the phrase "foiled again" was "boiled again" and assumed it must be a metaphor for how your plans got "boiled".
"Numb-nut"
I thought it meant a nutty (funny/crazy) person that became numb to bad jokes.. 💀
I once had to explain it to a 60 year old woman.
"Soupcase". I'd thought it was for cans of Campbell's soup. Not suits.
The astigmatism thing, I thought that it was two words too. Luckily nothing changed in how I said it so no one laughed at me for it. Also ever watch the same movie or show multiple times only to just grasp what the character is saying? Happens all the time. It has less to do with poor pronunciation on our part and more to do with us not being able to hear properly as kids. Not sure if it’s normal or just a weird me quirk but it happens all the time (and sometimes I have to use subtitles when I want to know what a character is saying)
When movies were described as having "adult situations" i thought it meant things like paying taxes or parent teacher conferences.
This had me laughing good.
Thought address was a dress. One time our teacher was asking for our addresses and I wasn't wearing a dress that day
I once bought an ‘unexpurgated’ book on my family’s kindle account because I thought it was just a synonym for ‘unabridged’. Oops.
The messed up version of the Lord's Prayer took me out!
One kid supposedly learned it as, "Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Harold be Thy name ..."
Drinking and driving.
I thought "tits on a boar" was "tits on a board" technically it means the same thing.