Hmm, interesting. I’ve never seen another bloke at a urinal unbuckling his belt to urinate. None of my underwear have “undie-flaps” either; you just unzip, push them down a little and extract your penis. Reverse the procedure when you’re done.
johncole: I’m a little perplexed by the guys saying they wipe after urinating. I guess they would always be obliged to use the stall in public toilets. How could Priceguy get the impression only pick-up-driving-Confederate-flag-waving men don’t wipe their penises when there’s never any toilet paper by urinals. Surely that gives the impression that most men simply shake and zip up.
Well, I should have added “when the possibility exists” but that would have made the post less zingy, thus decreasing the average zingyness of the universe, which would have been a Bad Thing.
But yes, I do use a stall whenever I possibly can, for precisely this reason.
I thought this too. My father was an engineer. I wondered when we got to go for a ride on his train. I guess I was about five when I learned that was NOT the kind of engineer he was. So after that I had no idea what he did.
As long as I’m confessing, I’m an exceptionally good speller but my pronunciation leaves a lot to be desired. I can, and have, blown it on a three-letter word, that word being spa. Even though I know better, it just doesn’t look like “spah” to me, it looks like “spay.”
I have never seen a circumcised penis except on pictures and it wasn’t untill after joining the SDMB that I realised it wasn’t only Jewish people who had them.
My little sis is adopted. We told her this at a very early age. Until she was about seven, she thought we’d told her she was “a doctor” and was upset that she didn’t have a stethoscope.
I was in line for breakfast at the dorm cafeteria my freshman year when the server asked the guy in front of me if he wanted toast, english muffin or bagel with his breakfast plate … bagel? WTF is a bagel?
I watched the line until someone got one so I could see what it was.
Actually these days I wish I still didn’t know. I’ve become addicted to them.
Well, this may not have helped me if I had had this misunderstanding.
When I was a kid, I didn’t understand the concept of cutaway views and cross-sections. I found the insert from my mom’s tampon box, the one with a diagram on how to insert it. It showed the view as if the woman didn’t have the second leg that was closest to the artist. I didn’t get this, so I just assumed that grown-up women had some sort of hole or slot in their outside upper thigh, and that’s where the tampon went. I didn’t get why I had never see the hole on my mom, or when it was I supposed to get one, but it was the only explanation I could come up with.
I was 22 before I realised that an air guitar wasn’t a real instrument. Before that I’d thought it was one of those metal-plated acoustic guitars on my dad’s Steeleye Span album covers.
Well, you learn something every day - I never noticed that pun, either. There’s a bunch that have passed me by for many years a time, like the Beatles, for example.
My father always liked to wake me up as a kid by saying “Up and at 'em!” (i.e., “Up and at them!”) except I always heard “Up and Adam!” and assumed it was some odd saying that perhaps had a biblical context, but I never questioned it.
Until I was about twelve I (completely without reason) had decided that the word “abruptly” had a silent “b”. Since I never had the opportunity to say or hear it out loud, I never realized it for quite a while.
I also believed for many years that since animals were sent to the vet to be “put to sleep,” there were (obviously) shelves and shelves of sleeping puppies and cats somewhere at the vetrinarians’s office.
Up until this past weekend, the only time I’d ever seen the name “Yojimbo” was on this message board, and I just assumed it was actually that poster’s name, which I figured was “Jim” except he was saying it all cool-like:
eg: Yo, Jim-bo! <—Y’know, like a Brooklyn thing.
Well, my friend brought over some DVDs this weekend, and one of them was, you guessed it, Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo” which means The Bodyguard in Japanese.
Heh hehe heh heh.
I feel the point is that different people have different habits and personal preferences - and that there is no justification for disparaging one choice just because it is different from your own (this observation is not directed at you, just at people in general - including me).
I confuse “former” and “latter” whenever they are used together in a sentence.
For example, if someone says, “We could either go to the circus or to Disneyworld, but I’d prefer the latter,” I pretty much have to have them tell me which one they want.
I think this comes because both “former” and “latter” make me think of things that involve “post” events. Former-major leaguer is a guy AFTER he is a baseball player. Latter also means after to me, taking place “later”.
I get it now, but I always have to think it through.
By the way, women wipe after peeing? Why? Does it get on you or something?
A-bombs (atomic) and H-bombs (hydrogen) are both types of nuclear bombs. H bombs are much more powerful than A bombs. In fact, they use an A bomb-type reaction as a primer to get the real H bomb reaction to start. Technically speaking, an A bomb uses fission, while an H bomb uses fusion.
[True Story]
My mom explained it differently to me once. I was in the seventh grade, and me and my folks went down to DisneyWorld. We took the ferry over the lake, and I recall seeing a big yellow “P” sign on the left of the dock, and a “S” on the right. My mom leaned over and whispered to me, "Trip, you know what those signs are for? If the ferry driver misses the slip and hits the left side, he yells ‘Aw PISS!’. If he misses and hits the right, he yells ‘Aw SHIT!’.
I still remember it that way to this day. Port and Starboard are piss and shit.
[/True Story]
For the first 19 years of my life, I had no idea what a delicatessen was for, nor that one could order a decent sandwich in them.
But my world was completely shaken at the age of 20 when I found out that Dire Straits wasn’t from America.
Tripler
But they sang about ‘Allegheny is a mean old town’!!
I’ve never seen another bloke at a urinal unbuckling his belt to urinate. None of my underwear have “undie-flaps” either; you just unzip, push them down a little and extract your penis. Reverse the procedure when you’re done.