I work at a ski mountain, it was spring and the snow was melting. Had to explain that it needs to be below freezing out for the mountain to make more snow. “Fake” snow is still frozen water.
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.
“Tax the rich” does not mean anybody wants to tax you for owning your home. Unless it’s a fucking palace.
This happend multiple times. A lot people seem to not know that a Cow had to be pregnant to produce Milk…
I never knew knew that. I assumed we’d done some selective breeding along the line so when they start they just don’t stop. Seems really inefficient.
Yep. Really inefficient and horrible. In nature a cow give birth to about 4-6 calves in her entire life (They get about 20 years old.) In the dairy industry, they are fertilized for the first time at 15 months. From then on they are permanently pregnant until they die (in the industry they live to be around 5 years old). The calves are removed from their mothers after birth in order to pump the mother’s milk. Horrible for the calve and her mother cause they have the same kind of bonding to their child/mother that we have. In addition, the cows’ udders are extremely over bred for maximum profit. This makes it extremely painful for the cows to give milk.
The dairy industry is extremely brutal and morally reprehensible. Everyone who consumes dairy should take a look at how milk is actually produced.
From then on they are permanently pregnant
that’s not true.
Would you like to expand on your answer?
typically, they are only pregnant once per year
(They get about 20 years old.)
cows do not live to 20 years old without food, water, protection from the elements and predators, and veterinary care.
Ahh true. I forgot that every other animal in nature only gets a few month if not a few weeks old because they don’t have food, water, protection from the elements and predators, and veterinary care…
let a jersey in the woods.
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)
Do I want to know what the exception is where shoving things into places “recklessly” is okay?
Maybe recklessly isn’t the right word, but there are emergency medications that are administered rectally or nasally where it’s better to be quick than gentle. Rectally administered diazepam for seizures is a good example.
TIL that rectally administered diazepam is a thing.
I think I could have lived my whole life not knowing that and been the happier for it.
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.
I don’t think tax brackets are explained very well. I’m relatively intelligent, and didn’t understand until I was in my early 20s, at my first real job, and made a comment during the financial retirement introduction. Luckily the person leading the orientation took 30 seconds and blew my mind.
Some people are terrible with money. Take my wife… (Please) - after 20 years she suddenly* decided she wants a divorce. Rather than either of us keep our house, she wants to sell it and split the equity we get out of it. Fair enough, I can agree with that… But then she said she wanted to dump it on a flipper for 300k, when comparable houses have gone for 430-450. I said if you’re going to let it go that cheap, let me buy you out. I crunched the numbers, we owe 150k, so I’d either refinance or assume the loan, and give her 75k (her half of the difference between the sale price and what we owe) - she accused me of trying to screw her over. “I’m not letting you have the house for $75k!” “That’s right, you’re not- we (the couple) would be selling it to me (the individual) for $300k, it’s the same as dumping it on a flipper, just that I’m the flipper!” There was no getting through to her. Eventually she agreed to try and sell it properly for what it’s worth.
*to me… Evidently she had made up her mind months ago, but wasn’t going to tell me until her job situation improved…
Yep.
A graduated tax structure is evidently just literally too complex for about half the population to understand.
Throw ‘how is Social Security funded’ into that as well.
The top bracket is 176,000 and everything above that.
All it would take to keep Soc Sec funded is just add more brackets after that.
But nope, America is full of morons who think that their dumb ass making 40k or 80k is going to see a higher tax bill if you explicitly only additionally tax those making stupendous amounts of money.
Had an ex try and convince me that taking overtime pay instead of banking hours would net me less money for the same reason.
That can happen, depending on your company’s payment software. One place I worked at would calculate the expected tax burden based on the highest paycheck you made, so if you worked 50% overtime (thus making 175% of your normal paycheck), it would be placing you in a way higher tax bracket for the rest of the year, and you’d have to reclaim it all in the refund when you did your taxes.
Yeah this is just the payroll processor intentionally fucking with people, not how taxes work.
Except you’re ignoring tax credits. There are a slew of tax credits that only apply at certain income levels and below. It is very possible that you can suddenly no longer qualify for a credit by getting a small raise which is less than what the credit would have given you.
Always consult a tax advisor.
Ah sorry, I live in a country where we don’t require every single citizen to hire an accountant to file their taxes.
My condolences.
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 a friend who recently started growing things I his garden. The cucumbers out grew everything. When I went to his house there was cucumbers everywhere. In jugs of water in the fridge, everywhere.
I said why don’t you make gherkins? He replied with “dude I’ve got too many bloody cucumber why would I start growing gherkins.”. I had a good laugh.Wtf fuck is a gherkin? You mean pickle?
A pickled what? Onion? Egg? Chilli? Cucumber?
Be more descriptive with your feedback… Please.Just “pickle” or “pickles” commonly refers to pickled cucumbers in American English.
I’m confused. Gherkins are just small cucumbers, right? Typically used for pickling, yes, but still just small cucumbers.
From the Dutch “augurk” (which is a (small) pickled cucumber)
Are you thinking of cornichons?
How fractions work to a 30 year old woman.
I literally had to draw a circle, and use the pie analogy from grade school.
But 1/4 is larger than 1/3, because 4 is bigger than 3!
https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/
I once had to explain the concept of having multiple Internet browser tabs to an elderly woman. She was certain nobody else could ever manage accessing a webpage AND their email at the same time, and was angry at our 2fa system for requiring that.
Another time I had to explain to my romantic partner at the time that winter actually lasts from the 21st of December through the 20th of March. He was convinced that winter coincided with the Christmas season, and that spring started on January 1st.
that’s why i consider our calendar to just objectively be bad, why would the year start randomly slightly halfway through the winter? surely the obvious choice is either having new year’s on the winter solstice so the year starts when things get brighter, or having new year’s roughly when winter tends to end?
I’ve always felt that one of the solstices being the start of the year was the obvious answer, I always went for summer just because that feels like the better time to throw a party outdoors for it.
Women have three holes down there, not two. To be fair to him, the only women in his life he lived with for any length of time was his mother who was extremely private about all bathroom stuff and hid all her monthly items.
Lol, it took me until I was 12 to figure that one out. I always thought women had cloacas, like birds. Turns out that a curious kid with an aging encyclopedia and parents that absolutely did not want to talk about biology are a bad combination.
tbf one doesn’t really tend to think of urethras as a hole, like i don’t consider penis-wielders to have 2 holes down there, that just feels wrong.
also fun fact: dicks can have 2 holes, i think the second one is usually more of a deep indentation though, not functional.
dicks can have 2 holes
Wait, where would the second one go?
above/below the first one, dunno which one is the extra one though.
That narwhals are real. Partner thought they were mythological like unicorns.
Honestly, it was funny but somewhat understandable.
I didn’t know jackalopes were fake until I was 30
I didn’t have to explain it, but I found myself in a situation where I was informing a grown woman that fish are indeed animals.
Oh, that reminds me of when I had to explain to my mother that my then girlfriend was vegetarian and that, no, chicken do count as meat.
That sounds like a vestige from the Catholic habit of not eating meat at times, so the definition of “what’s meat” got really specific and excluded things like fish and chicken.
the Catholic habit of not eating meat at times, so the definition of “what’s meat” got really specific
“Beavers are fish, right? And fish aren’t meat, so…”
I mean, the bible lists bats as a kind of bird, so sure, why not.
…the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
What’s a hoopoe?
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.
That’s how I compose music. My brain plays it to me before I can try and put it on paper. Also when I sing I can hear the instrumental on my brain without actually playing it.
