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This happend multiple times. A lot people seem to not know that a Cow had to be pregnant to produce Milk...

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned tax brackets.

I laughed my ass off when my racist uncle smugly explained that he turned down a raise, because that would put him in an upper tax rate and cost him more money than the raise was worth.

Tried to explain how income tax works. Didn't go through that thick skull of his.

That in Judaism, Jesus isn't all that special.

why consumers pay tarrifs

I remember in 7th grade, our social studies class did a module on taxation and tariffs. Seemed pretty easy to understand at the time. Little did I know, later on, that many, many people would not understand this relatively simple concept.

The earth isn't flat.

Seriously, what the fuck.

Ok so disclaimer, this isn't ... as derisive or as ... disdianful as something like 'I can't believe I had to explain to a 27 yo that chocolate milk does not come from brown cows' but... here goes:

About a decade ago I went on a movie date with a girl (in an actual theatre, before netflix existed... god maybe it was closer to two decades fuxk)

....30 minutes into the movie, she started going into a diabetic shock.

Before she almost entirely feinted, she told me what was going on, and was freaking out because she could not find her insulin pen in her purse.

She then completely passed out. Totally limp, sliding out of her seat, ragdoll limp.

I started going through the steps of doing a proper fireman carry, but she managed to regain enough consciousness that I could support about 75% of her weight and she and I could sort of stumble out of the theatre into the lobby.

Set her down in the lobby, on the ground, sort of slouched kind of upright against a wall, told a staff member to call 911.

While waiting, I bought the stupidest large sized coke I'd ever purchased, told her to focus on alternating between sipping it, and breathing, while I held her upper body and head so she wouldn't collapse and take her eye out with the straw.

... Within 10 minutes, the ambulance had not yet arrived, but she had moderately regained consciousness and composure.

By the time the ambulance did arrive, we basically all managed to figure out (as she regained more awareness) that she had a backup insulin pen in her car, the EMTs supervised its administration, and after about 45 minutes of observation, they said she was clear to go if I drove her home.

She made that decision with the EMTs, I had stepped back at that point, and I... told her I could drive her to the hospital, but she just wanted to go home, so I drove her home.

... Now, not to make light of her condition in anyway, at all, but...

... a few days later we were chatting and she said that at no point in her life (she'd had early onset diabetes, type 1, been living with it for a while) ...

... at no point had anyone told her or had she realized that a stupidly massive sugary drink does apparently function decently as an emergency, last ditch, make shift sugar boost... when you are in diabetic shock... from a lack of sugar.

I realize you would not want to depend on this method as your main way of handling diabetes (for numerous, numerous reasons), but it baffled me that someone with 10+ years living with diabetes... wouldn't know that?

Like, I know that just gulping down a huge soda potentially could have been too much sugar, but also, the paramedics were on the way, and I wasn't forcing her to drink the whole thing, she got maybe 2/3 of the way through it and had significantly recovered, told me she thought that was enough.

I dunno.

I'd be interested in the opinions of diabetics and people with actual medical knowledge on this.

Having to explain that a certain infamous "Chinese alphabet" font¹ (favoured by tattoo joints everywhere) is not how you write in Chinese. There is a shocking number of people who have somehow managed to grow up not just to adulthood but to senior citizen levels who think that foreign languages are just English with a funky spelling; that grammar rules are otherwise the same, and that words translate one for one (and sometimes, in extreme cases, like the gibberish font, letter for letter).

¹ https://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/2006/08/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html

"Tax the rich" does not mean anybody wants to tax you for owning your home. Unless it's a fucking palace.

My mom was proud that the neighborhood worked together to block an "ugly new cell tower" from being constructed in the area. Then she was upset that her cell service was spotty, in literally the same fucking breath.

The definition of "cardiovascular system." Budtenders are just built different.

Then there was the extremely wealthy guy who didn't know what I meant when I said "install." He actually asked me "What means "Install""? Native English speaker, over 50, owned a couple businesses. He'd never heard of installing a program or a dishwasher.

I was eating at a BBQ joint with my ~30 year old friend, when I had to break the news that the pigs don’t survive if you “only take their spare ribs.”

I worked in a retail pharmacy so here is a list:

• Women do not have prostates
• During Fukishima nuclear incident, there would be no physical issues for people >5,000 miles away
• Antibiotics don't work on viruses
• Vaccines
• "Natural" medicines can significantly interact with other medicines
• What jock itch is and the astounding amount of men who thought it was normal
• Don't recklessly shove things into your eye, ear, nose, butt, penis/vagina (exceptions apply)

Something explained to me...

I was 41 when I realised that people actually see things in their minds eye. It is not just a metaphor.

Blew my mind, like it is some kind of superpower, you can just imagine stuff, and you see an image of it....

My partner is such a good cook, partly because she can combine flavours in her mind, to check if they will taste good together, that is just fucken cheating.

When people "get a song stuck in their head" they can literally hear it.... How the fuck do you get anything done, you crazy bastards.

The back of a hammer is used for pulling out nails.

About 30 years ago I had to explain to my boyfriend's mom that LGBTQI+ people do not just choose to be LGBTQI+.

I didn't know at the time whether I got through to her, but years later she told me she understood why that was true.

My wife had to explain to me that pickles were pickled cucumbers and there wasn’t a pickle tree.

I was 30 something years old.

I think it was last year that I had to break it to my mother that pickles are not, in fact, a naturally occurring relative of cucumbers, but rather the result of placing cucumbers in some sort of brine. She's almost 70, and apparently believed there were pickle plants out there that you could just walk up to and grab a gherkin, or something.

I had to walk a classmate through how to install a program in Windows. You know, go to the website, hit download, wait for it to finish, next next next, etc. We're two weeks away from getting our diplomas. In IT.

I had to explain to an adult woman that prunes are to plums as raisins are to grapes.