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Publish Not your original work? Add source Have you ever found yourself realizing that there are some things that you were interpreting wrong? If yes, then it's okay because there are more people who misunderstood some common things and they all confessed this after someone on Reddit asked "What took you an embarrassing amount of time to figure out?" The question that received more than 39k upvotes was soon answered by many people who decided to share their personal and funny stories. People confessed how long it took them to realize how some items and things work or how someone else had to explain this to them. One user shared that it took 9 months for them to finally realize how to use a French press correctly. Another Redditor revealed that it took them a while to understand how the fashion world and its runway shows work and that "those ridiculous over-the-top dresses exhibited at fashion shows are not intended to ever be worn in real life." What are some of the things you had to take some time to understand? Don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below! More Info: Reddit This post may include affiliate links. #1 I was 50ish when I realized that the little piggy that goes to market wasn't going f**kin' shopping. dramboxf , jennicatpink Report Final score: 273points POST Debi Gallagher Debi Gallagher Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago R u kiddin me?!! I had no other idea that he was going to market for anything else but to shop!! I am 60 yo and it sure blew my innocent old mind! 160 160points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 When I was younger I thought 'feat' was a very popular rapper. ie Eminem feat 50 cent etc.. I was like damn this feat guy appears in a lot of songs.. fr0896 , Eva Rinaldi Report Final score: 231points POST AndersM AndersM Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago That's really funny! Love this one 49 49points reply View more comments #3 When I was like 5 my dad would constantly make the following joke:
He'd put his hand on my head and squeeze lightly a couple times while saying "I'm a brainsucker. What am I doing?" After a quick pause he'd follow up with the punch line "Starving!", but he always stretched out the pronunciation for the word so it sounded to me like "Star...ving"
For years I thought it was a lame joke where the punchline somehow referred to the fact that brainsuckers were aliens and came from the stars or something like that.
I was sitting in class one day and I must have been 10-12 years old before I realized "He's calling me dumb! The joke is that I dont have a brain so the brainsucker is starving!"
I was at least smart enough to never tell him this, because I'd never live it down if he knew it took me five years to figure out the joke. stevenjackson121 , David B. Gleason Report Final score: 219points POST Joshua Seaman Joshua Seaman Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago If you're joking with a kid, make sure they get it and are in on the joke. Otherwise it risks coming across as mean. Dad calling his kid dumb isn't a good joke to begin with. 53 53points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 How ring binders work. I thought you had to take out all the pages to add a new page to the back of the binder, which annoyed me in school because it could take a while having to realign all the pages to fit the holes in the binder. I was about 22 when I worked in a bookstore and my coworker saw me take all the pages out, after which she showed me how it actually works. I will never forget the look of disbelief on her face. axolotl_1994 , intenteffect Report Final score: 205points POST BoredHuman BoredHuman Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I am actually in disbelief right now. 162 162points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 That those ridiculous over-the-top dresses exhibited at fashion shows are not intended to ever be worn in real life; they are like concept cars of the fashion world, intended to showcase the designer's creativity and vision. Unobtanium_Alloy , Oliver Ayala Report Final score: 204points POST third molar third molar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago TIL !! 52 52points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 Before my cataract surgery I thought Hellboy wore aviator goggles. Post surgery I saw they were remnants of his horns. MollyXDanger502 , Michael Neel Report Final score: 195points POST Alice By Heart Alice By Heart Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago well now I feel dumb 66 66points reply View more comments #7 That the state Montana is literally the word ‘mountains’ in Spanish. Didn’t realize until I was physically in Montana, staring up at some mountains, and thought ‘wow! Mountains are so pretty! Montañas… Montanas… montana, oh.’ clean_da_erf , american_rugbier Report Final score: 186points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Til 64 64points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 I didn't realize until my late teens/early 20s that "chemical castration" means taking pills which render you infertile, not necessarily dipping someone's balls in a vat of acid. Yea this one is pretty embarrassing. MGrooms94 , Jay the Expat Report Final score: 184points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago For pedos your way is a lot better actually 150 150points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 When I was growing up the family would often do road trips to Vancouver, at least once a year. Just outside Williams Lake I would always observe a construction site where some sort of log house is being built. It was always half finished.
After like a decade I was maybe 18 and finally made the comment about them "still building that place". Apparently they build custom log homes on site and disassemble and ship them out. Regnes , Thomas Elliott Report Final score: 172points POST AndersM AndersM Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Nothing to be embarrassed about mate! 79 79points reply View more comments #10 In 'Lady and the Tramp' the humans are called Jim dear and darling. I was in my 30s before I realized that wasn't their actual names, it was what lady heard them calling each other. spacepunk17 , Chad Sparkes Report Final score: 172points POST Emilie Essiambre Emilie Essiambre Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Well I'm 32 and I just learned that haha 67 67points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 That my childhood hamster did not, in fact, run away. kifflington , Ryosuke Iwanaga Report Final score: 171points POST Debi Gallagher Debi Gallagher Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Awwwwww 44 44points reply View more comments #12 My French press. I owned one 9 months before I realized the coffee grounds go UNDER the plunger and not ON TOP of it. I was always so annoyed having to clean the top of the plunger after lowering the coffee into the water.
My girlfriend stared at me like I was the stupidest person she’d ever met trying to formulate how to politely fix this. RollinDeepWithData , Bean Poet Report Final score: 166points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago The first time they served me coffee in this years ago, i started moving the press up and down waitress was not amused 42 42points reply View more comments #13 That breakfast actually means breaking the fast. droidarmy99 , Sean MacEntee Report Final score: 154points POST Isa Trip Isa Trip Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago now i know 30 30points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 That chickens always lay eggs without needing to mate with a rooster. TheGodfearingLegend , Jen Zajac Report Final score: 152points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Basically it's their period.... these eggs are infertile 54 54points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 How to use a staple remover.
Until I was was in my 40s, I’d just use the staple remover to “bite” the long side of a staple and kind of tear it back through the paper.
Then someone showed me how to properly use a staple remover by “biting” the crimped side of the staple to bend the crimp and kind of straighten out the staple again. Once kind of straightened, “bite” the long side of the staple and the staple will back out the same holes it went in without further tearing the paper. slider728 , PIX1861 Report Final score: 143points POST James016 James016 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Well this is a new one for me. 79 79points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 That the ‘Teletubbies’ literally had tele-tubby’s, as in their stomachs were TVs. Figured this out at university. DryPencil_BluntPen , Stevie Rocco Report Final score: 139points POST AndersM AndersM Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Wait!! No way!!! 45 45points reply View more comments #17 K-9 stands for canine.. took me 29 years. flaaaden , Beau B Report Final score: 137points POST Jihana Jihana Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yeah, that one took me ages as well. In my defense: I am not a native speaker 50 50points reply View More Replies... View more comments #18 When I was younger I had no idea that New York and Newark were two different places. I kept thinking people saying Newark were trying to say New York, but had a speech impediment or accent, or just didn't know how to pronounce it. ChickenGoose , Helen Alfvegren Report Final score: 136points POST Nikki Sevven Nikki Sevven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Even worse, there's also a Newark in Delaware. Imagine being from there and having to constantly explain that, no, you're not from New Jersey. 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 I realised a few years ago that cows don’t just naturally produce milk, they have to be pregnant/have a calf to produce it. Which is embarrassingly late to figure out. yllastocs , WearMask Report Final score: 135points POST King Joffrey King Joffrey Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yeah, thanks for that. I'm over 40 and literally learnt it from this post (and even googled it to make sure this is not a wind-up)... In my defence, I grew up in a city and have only seen a real cow a number of times. 38 38points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 When you do something wrong but with enthusiasm, and someone says, “A for effort,” I didn’t understand that it meant an “A” as in school report card grades. It never made sense because in my head, “E” is for Effort, like “C” is for Cookie. I finally had someone explain it to me sometime after I turned 30. Alisaurusrex82 , popofatticus Report Final score: 133points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago You get f for understanding 74 74points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 When I was a kid back in the early 90’s I was obsessed with WWF wrestling. It didn’t hit me until years later that The Undertaker’s managers name, Paul Bearer, wasn’t his real name. LSU2007 , Tony Report Final score: 129points POST Troux Troux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago He was not only the manager but the 'core owner.' 18 18points reply View more comments #22 The black market isn't an actual market. smol_boi-_- , Sancho McCann Report Final score: 129points POST Rose the Cook Rose the Cook Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) As a child I thought it was something to do with the slavery we learned about at school. Also another expression we heard a lot was "the criminal underworld" which I thought was a gang of crooks who lived in the subway. 75 75points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 That when more than one person tells you they saw your husband with a woman who wasnt you, in his car, more than once, it probably means hes cheating on you, regardless of what he says. TimeTraveler3056 , rochelle hartman Report Final score: 126points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Sometimes you just don't want to believe it though 62 62points reply View more comments #24 "You can't have your cake and eat it" doesn't mean "you can't obtain your cake then eat it"; it means "you can't still possess your cake after having eaten it". BuildMeUp1990 , Marufish Report Final score: 119points POST Bacony Cakes Bacony Cakes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago what if you could though 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 That the saying is “kit and caboodle” and not “kitten caboodle.” Until I found out the real saying, I always pictures a big basket filled with kittens. Guac__is__extra__ , Arbrealettres& Report Final score: 114points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Picturing a basket with kittens is not a bad thing at all 109 109points reply View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #26 I thought that ponies were baby horses till I was like 24. RBXXIII , steve lodefink Report Final score: 108points POST Toni Alabakovski Toni Alabakovski Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago And miniature horses are not baby horses either 39 39points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 The rapper Flo Rida is from Florida. tonybenwhite , Eva Rinaldi Report Final score: 103points POST Susie Elle Susie Elle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Wait 49 49points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 That ringing in the ears is not a normal thing everyone experiences or a superstition that someone is talking about you. I was 30 when I realized that it is tinnitus, and not normal even though I've had it since I was around 13 (too loud music). delusionallysane , Bradley Gordon Report Final score: 103points POST AndersM AndersM Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Tinnitus since 13?? Poor you!!! 44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 That lambs were the same species as sheep. wellsheeeeit , alex.ch Report Final score: 103points POST Valerie G. Valerie G. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yup, lambs grow up to be sheep, not like ponies that do not grow up to be horses. 53 53points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 That the saying is “nip it in the bud” NOT butt. Designer_Ant8543 , Bev Sykes Report Final score: 101points POST Yort Yort Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Interesting picture choice. 41 41points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 40 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? 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I guess if nothing's been new for a while it empties. 0 0points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yep...mine just started back working today.... 0 0points reply Persephone Persephone Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago SAME! 0 0points reply BasedWang BasedWang Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Whoo thought I was the only one. 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I bet there's stuff they didn't know, but they're not admitting it. 1 1point reply Load More Comments POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Off topic but does anyone has a problem with their notifications? It's been couple days now that my notifications are not active, cannot see any response and can't even see the settings of the notifications. 23 23points reply Foxxy (The Original) Foxxy (The Original) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yes, haven't had notifications showing for almost a week. 13 13points reply Load More Replies... James016 James016 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yes. I have had none since last week. Seems to be broken. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. 5 5points reply Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Oh okay i thought i had the problem! 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Received some today, but its been a while 0 0points reply Kusotare Kusotare Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago For years, I thought the Underground Railroad was an actual subterranean railway, and I couldn't figure out how southern slave owners didn't know about these rails running under their plantations. 19 19points reply Yort Yort Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I feel like most of us thought the Underground Railroad was literally like a subway for slaves, lol. I hope you like me weren’t too old when you figured it out. 6 6points reply Load More Replies... Lee Kerr Lee Kerr Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago I’m I’m the U.K. but we did stuff about the underground railway when I was 6 or 7; I understood it was people escaping like in war films. 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Publish Not your original work? Add source Have you ever found yourself realizing that there are some things that you were interpreting wrong? If yes, then it's okay because there are more people who misunderstood some common things and they all confessed this after someone on Reddit asked "What took you an embarrassing amount of time to figure out?" The question that received more than 39k upvotes was soon answered by many people who decided to share their personal and funny stories. People confessed how long it took them to realize how some items and things work or how someone else had to explain this to them. One user shared that it took 9 months for them to finally realize how to use a French press correctly. Another Redditor revealed that it took them a while to understand how the fashion world and its runway shows work and that "those ridiculous over-the-top dresses exhibited at fashion shows are not intended to ever be worn in real life." What are some of the things you had to take some time to understand? Don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below! More Info: Reddit This post may include affiliate links. #1 I was 50ish when I realized that the little piggy that goes to market wasn't going f**kin' shopping. dramboxf , jennicatpink Report Final score: 273points POST Debi Gallagher Debi Gallagher Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago R u kiddin me?!! I had no other idea that he was going to market for anything else but to shop!! I am 60 yo and it sure blew my innocent old mind! 160 160points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 When I was younger I thought 'feat' was a very popular rapper. ie Eminem feat 50 cent etc.. I was like damn this feat guy appears in a lot of songs.. fr0896 , Eva Rinaldi Report Final score: 231points POST AndersM AndersM Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago That's really funny! Love this one 49 49points reply View more comments #3 When I was like 5 my dad would constantly make the following joke:
He'd put his hand on my head and squeeze lightly a couple times while saying "I'm a brainsucker. What am I doing?" After a quick pause he'd follow up with the punch line "Starving!", but he always stretched out the pronunciation for the word so it sounded to me like "Star...ving"
For years I thought it was a lame joke where the punchline somehow referred to the fact that brainsuckers were aliens and came from the stars or something like that.
I was sitting in class one day and I must have been 10-12 years old before I realized "He's calling me dumb! The joke is that I dont have a brain so the brainsucker is starving!"
I was at least smart enough to never tell him this, because I'd never live it down if he knew it took me five years to figure out the joke. stevenjackson121 , David B. Gleason Report Final score: 219points POST Joshua Seaman Joshua Seaman Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago If you're joking with a kid, make sure they get it and are in on the joke. Otherwise it risks coming across as mean. Dad calling his kid dumb isn't a good joke to begin with. 53 53points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 How ring binders work. I thought you had to take out all the pages to add a new page to the back of the binder, which annoyed me in school because it could take a while having to realign all the pages to fit the holes in the binder. I was about 22 when I worked in a bookstore and my coworker saw me take all the pages out, after which she showed me how it actually works. I will never forget the look of disbelief on her face. axolotl_1994 , intenteffect Report Final score: 205points POST BoredHuman BoredHuman Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I am actually in disbelief right now. 162 162points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 That those ridiculous over-the-top dresses exhibited at fashion shows are not intended to ever be worn in real life; they are like concept cars of the fashion world, intended to showcase the designer's creativity and vision. Unobtanium_Alloy , Oliver Ayala Report Final score: 204points POST third molar third molar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago TIL !! 52 52points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 Before my cataract surgery I thought Hellboy wore aviator goggles. Post surgery I saw they were remnants of his horns. MollyXDanger502 , Michael Neel Report Final score: 195points POST Alice By Heart Alice By Heart Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago well now I feel dumb 66 66points reply View more comments #7 That the state Montana is literally the word ‘mountains’ in Spanish. Didn’t realize until I was physically in Montana, staring up at some mountains, and thought ‘wow! Mountains are so pretty! Montañas… Montanas… montana, oh.’ clean_da_erf , american_rugbier Report Final score: 186points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Til 64 64points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 I didn't realize until my late teens/early 20s that "chemical castration" means taking pills which render you infertile, not necessarily dipping someone's balls in a vat of acid. Yea this one is pretty embarrassing. MGrooms94 , Jay the Expat Report Final score: 184points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago For pedos your way is a lot better actually 150 150points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 When I was growing up the family would often do road trips to Vancouver, at least once a year. Just outside Williams Lake I would always observe a construction site where some sort of log house is being built. It was always half finished.
After like a decade I was maybe 18 and finally made the comment about them "still building that place". Apparently they build custom log homes on site and disassemble and ship them out. Regnes , Thomas Elliott Report Final score: 172points POST AndersM AndersM Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Nothing to be embarrassed about mate! 79 79points reply View more comments #10 In 'Lady and the Tramp' the humans are called Jim dear and darling. I was in my 30s before I realized that wasn't their actual names, it was what lady heard them calling each other. spacepunk17 , Chad Sparkes Report Final score: 172points POST Emilie Essiambre Emilie Essiambre Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Well I'm 32 and I just learned that haha 67 67points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 That my childhood hamster did not, in fact, run away. kifflington , Ryosuke Iwanaga Report Final score: 171points POST Debi Gallagher Debi Gallagher Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Awwwwww 44 44points reply View more comments #12 My French press. I owned one 9 months before I realized the coffee grounds go UNDER the plunger and not ON TOP of it. I was always so annoyed having to clean the top of the plunger after lowering the coffee into the water.
My girlfriend stared at me like I was the stupidest person she’d ever met trying to formulate how to politely fix this. RollinDeepWithData , Bean Poet Report Final score: 166points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago The first time they served me coffee in this years ago, i started moving the press up and down waitress was not amused 42 42points reply View more comments #13 That breakfast actually means breaking the fast. droidarmy99 , Sean MacEntee Report Final score: 154points POST Isa Trip Isa Trip Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago now i know 30 30points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 That chickens always lay eggs without needing to mate with a rooster. TheGodfearingLegend , Jen Zajac Report Final score: 152points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Basically it's their period.... these eggs are infertile 54 54points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 How to use a staple remover.
Until I was was in my 40s, I’d just use the staple remover to “bite” the long side of a staple and kind of tear it back through the paper.
Then someone showed me how to properly use a staple remover by “biting” the crimped side of the staple to bend the crimp and kind of straighten out the staple again. Once kind of straightened, “bite” the long side of the staple and the staple will back out the same holes it went in without further tearing the paper. slider728 , PIX1861 Report Final score: 143points POST James016 James016 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Well this is a new one for me. 79 79points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 That the ‘Teletubbies’ literally had tele-tubby’s, as in their stomachs were TVs. Figured this out at university. DryPencil_BluntPen , Stevie Rocco Report Final score: 139points POST AndersM AndersM Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Wait!! No way!!! 45 45points reply View more comments #17 K-9 stands for canine.. took me 29 years. flaaaden , Beau B Report Final score: 137points POST Jihana Jihana Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yeah, that one took me ages as well. In my defense: I am not a native speaker 50 50points reply View More Replies... View more comments #18 When I was younger I had no idea that New York and Newark were two different places. I kept thinking people saying Newark were trying to say New York, but had a speech impediment or accent, or just didn't know how to pronounce it. ChickenGoose , Helen Alfvegren Report Final score: 136points POST Nikki Sevven Nikki Sevven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Even worse, there's also a Newark in Delaware. Imagine being from there and having to constantly explain that, no, you're not from New Jersey. 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 I realised a few years ago that cows don’t just naturally produce milk, they have to be pregnant/have a calf to produce it. Which is embarrassingly late to figure out. yllastocs , WearMask Report Final score: 135points POST King Joffrey King Joffrey Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yeah, thanks for that. I'm over 40 and literally learnt it from this post (and even googled it to make sure this is not a wind-up)... In my defence, I grew up in a city and have only seen a real cow a number of times. 38 38points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 When you do something wrong but with enthusiasm, and someone says, “A for effort,” I didn’t understand that it meant an “A” as in school report card grades. It never made sense because in my head, “E” is for Effort, like “C” is for Cookie. I finally had someone explain it to me sometime after I turned 30. Alisaurusrex82 , popofatticus Report Final score: 133points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago You get f for understanding 74 74points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 When I was a kid back in the early 90’s I was obsessed with WWF wrestling. It didn’t hit me until years later that The Undertaker’s managers name, Paul Bearer, wasn’t his real name. LSU2007 , Tony Report Final score: 129points POST Troux Troux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago He was not only the manager but the 'core owner.' 18 18points reply View more comments #22 The black market isn't an actual market. smol_boi-_- , Sancho McCann Report Final score: 129points POST Rose the Cook Rose the Cook Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) As a child I thought it was something to do with the slavery we learned about at school. Also another expression we heard a lot was "the criminal underworld" which I thought was a gang of crooks who lived in the subway. 75 75points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 That when more than one person tells you they saw your husband with a woman who wasnt you, in his car, more than once, it probably means hes cheating on you, regardless of what he says. TimeTraveler3056 , rochelle hartman Report Final score: 126points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Sometimes you just don't want to believe it though 62 62points reply View more comments #24 "You can't have your cake and eat it" doesn't mean "you can't obtain your cake then eat it"; it means "you can't still possess your cake after having eaten it". BuildMeUp1990 , Marufish Report Final score: 119points POST Bacony Cakes Bacony Cakes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago what if you could though 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 That the saying is “kit and caboodle” and not “kitten caboodle.” Until I found out the real saying, I always pictures a big basket filled with kittens. Guac__is__extra__ , Arbrealettres& Report Final score: 114points POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Picturing a basket with kittens is not a bad thing at all 109 109points reply View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #26 I thought that ponies were baby horses till I was like 24. RBXXIII , steve lodefink Report Final score: 108points POST Toni Alabakovski Toni Alabakovski Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago And miniature horses are not baby horses either 39 39points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 The rapper Flo Rida is from Florida. tonybenwhite , Eva Rinaldi Report Final score: 103points POST Susie Elle Susie Elle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Wait 49 49points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 That ringing in the ears is not a normal thing everyone experiences or a superstition that someone is talking about you. I was 30 when I realized that it is tinnitus, and not normal even though I've had it since I was around 13 (too loud music). delusionallysane , Bradley Gordon Report Final score: 103points POST AndersM AndersM Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Tinnitus since 13?? Poor you!!! 44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 That lambs were the same species as sheep. wellsheeeeit , alex.ch Report Final score: 103points POST Valerie G. Valerie G. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yup, lambs grow up to be sheep, not like ponies that do not grow up to be horses. 53 53points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 That the saying is “nip it in the bud” NOT butt. Designer_Ant8543 , Bev Sykes Report Final score: 101points POST Yort Yort Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Interesting picture choice. 41 41points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 40 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? 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I bet there's stuff they didn't know, but they're not admitting it. 1 1point reply Load More Comments POST Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Off topic but does anyone has a problem with their notifications? It's been couple days now that my notifications are not active, cannot see any response and can't even see the settings of the notifications. 23 23points reply Foxxy (The Original) Foxxy (The Original) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yes, haven't had notifications showing for almost a week. 13 13points reply Load More Replies... James016 James016 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yes. I have had none since last week. Seems to be broken. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. 5 5points reply Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Oh okay i thought i had the problem! 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Received some today, but its been a while 0 0points reply Kusotare Kusotare Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago For years, I thought the Underground Railroad was an actual subterranean railway, and I couldn't figure out how southern slave owners didn't know about these rails running under their plantations. 19 19points reply Yort Yort Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I feel like most of us thought the Underground Railroad was literally like a subway for slaves, lol. I hope you like me weren’t too old when you figured it out. 6 6points reply Load More Replies... Lee Kerr Lee Kerr Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago I’m I’m the U.K. but we did stuff about the underground railway when I was 6 or 7; I understood it was people escaping like in war films. What baffled me was when my mam talked about travelling on the underground when she’d lived in London. 0 0points reply Evil Little Thing Evil Little Thing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I feel a lot smarter now. 10 10points reply RaroaRaroa RaroaRaroa Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I feel a lot smarter than most of the people who posted, that's for sure. That they didn't learn some of this stuff until adulthood is mind-blowing 2 2points reply Load More Replies... Mary Peace Mary Peace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago What's blowing my mind is that they admitted it, and some pandas have made such rude comments in response. I bet there's stuff they didn't know, but they're not admitting it. 1 1point reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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