# Aren't you shocked by what some people DON'T know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2000, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431 "2000-11-30T20:34:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/401 "2000-12-30T16:15:00Z")
And “brought” instead of “brough”. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/402 "2000-12-30T19:30:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kyla \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > - She was a vegetarian, but had no problem whatsoever eating eggs. It would appear as if she felt that since they were “dairy products,” they must be something other than animal. (I had to work overtime to keep my friends from spelling that one out to her.) > > Most vegetarians, myself included, do eat eggs, as well as other dairy products. The long name for people who don’t eat meat but do eat milk, cheese, and eggs is ovo-lacto vegetarian. If you don’t eat animal products at all, you are generally considered to be a vegan. Not to hijack the thread too badly, but the rationale is that chickens lay eggs no matter what humans do to them, so you might as well eat them. However, I and many other vegetarians will be careful to buy only free range eggs, so as not to support the torture of animals. I hope you don’t take my words as veggie proselytization, as your food is your own business. This is simply the reasoning. > > Otherwise, your ex does sound like she was missing something somewhere. > \*\* Free range eggs? So the farmer has to know about or hunt down where the the chickens have randomly nested and take the eggs from these scattered indoor and outdoor nests before the foxes and rodents get them? Maybe it’s just me but I’d have a hard time believing that there’s not a well maintained “coop” involved somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/403 "2000-12-30T19:55:46Z")
Regarding the eggs/vegetarian thing… I am an ovo-lacto vegetarian. Most people who call themselves “vegetarian” fall into this category. As Kyla said, those who don’t eat any animal products at all are called vegan. The reason I eat eggs (though I very rarely eat them) is that they aren’t dead things that were once alive. I wouldn’t eat a fertilized egg, but I’ll eat an unfertilized one. When I get my own house, I’d like to have a pair of hens as pets and to provide humane eggs 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/404 "2000-12-30T22:13:28Z")
Until senior year, I thought Stanford was in New England. In third grade or so, I looked at a poster of the presidents and was amazed that there were more than eight or so. Many people I know insist moths are all male and butterflies are all female. Many of these people are adults. One of these same people insisted also that goats are boys and sheep are girls. jb ---
**Author:** ![Short](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Short](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/405 "2000-12-30T22:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jb\_farley \* > **One of these same people insisted also that goats are boys and sheep are girls.** I wonder what they thought goat milk and goat cheese were… On second thought, don’t answer that :rolleyes:. Of course when I was in fourth grade, and tried to make bread, the recipe called for “one package of yeast.” At the time, my mom was regularly shopping at COSTCO (a bulk foods warehouse). Our “packages” of yeast were about five pounds each. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/406 "2000-12-30T22:41:15Z")
[stooges]We ALL put the yeast in![/stooges] jb, nyuk nyuk nyuk ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/407 "2001-01-06T15:31:46Z")
Someone post more stories! I’ve got a few tidbits. -I am constantly correcting the misuse of “good” and “well” -I am in high school, and every few minutes will hear a student substitute several "like"s and a poor word for a perfect slightly larger word Here’s the real important one. Most adults I know seem to be ignorant of the facts that adults are not better than “kids”, that “kids” deserve to be treated equally, and that “kids” are just as intelligent as any adult. I have read articles in kid-based magazines about mistreatment in stores: -being watched disapprovingly by employees -having to wait until all the adults have made their purchases to be served -being given less than the proper change and having to pay full price on sale items. I have personally witnessed another double standard. Adults are apparently allowed to interrupt a conversation between an adult and a kid, but children must wait until two adults are finished speaking. I even have a teacher who has expressly and publicly stated that he believes he is better than all of his students because he is older, and, under the same conditions, agreed that he was a bigot. I was ejected from his classroom for telling him not to condescend to me. It seems to me that children are being given treatment similar to (but less harsh) than that given to African-Americans before the Civil Rights Movement. If anyone else has any stories in the same vein, let me know. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/408 "2001-01-18T16:06:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BlinkingDuck \* > \*\*This is a great thread. When I was in high school speech class, I had to listen to a fellow student give a speech that the ancient Greeks didn’t like violence on their television programs and the Romans did. \*\* Sounds like they had watched the “Star Trek” episode “Bread and Circuses”. :D:D ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/409 "2001-01-18T16:52:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obfusciatrist \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > > **Me first: Was well in to my teens before I realized that sticky silver stuff was NOT called ‘duck tape’.** > > Well, while that genre of tape is not called “duck tape” (it is, of course, ducked tape), there is a specific brand called Duck Tape. \*\* And I hope you’re kidding. It’s duct tape, as in heating/air conditioning ducts. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/410 "2001-01-18T18:27:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wolfman \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > 1. People that ask “what was the Web like in the 60’s?” > > hehe that reminds me of another one. I was interviewing for jobs in 98, Some headhunter hold me that my skills were good, but the client was looking for someone with 10+ years experience in JAVA. \*\* How about employment ads that were looking for people with 7 years experience with Windows 95 _in 1998_. Sounds more like they need people who passed 1[sup]st[/sup] grade math. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/411 "2001-01-18T18:47:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muffin \* > \*\*As this continued, I couldn’t stop laughing. The longer it went on, the more I laughed. Eventually, the poor fellow was so distracted that he said, in a very frustrated voice, that he was going to pitch the machine outside. Only then did I explain to him what a remote control was, and showed him the one for his VCR with which I had been toying. \*\* Oh, you cruel b@$+@rd! :D:D I did a similar thing to my roommate and his girlfriend. They were watching some movie in the living room. I had my omniremote in my bedroom, and I barely had a line-of-sight to the VCR down there. But I’d let them get comfortable, then stop their movie. He’d fumble with the remote, get the movie going, then bury it so that it wouldn’t inadvertantly do whatever it was doing again. It was only after I couldn’t contain my laughter that he caught on. :D:D ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/412 "2001-01-18T19:44:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Boris B \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Zero Hero \* > > When I was in Colorado, some girl asked where I was from and when I told her Florida, she looked at me funny and said something along the lines of “You mean people live there? I thought it was just a vacation place.” > > I heard a similar gaffe about the District of Columbia, I heard some saying that the reason DC had no Senators or fully-voting Representatives was because nobody lived there except members of Congress, who voted in their home districts. I wonder who he thought drove all taxis (and filled all the schools, and staffed all the museums, and …). \*\* Not to mention the 300-some murder victims each year. _If only they were members of Congress._ :D:D ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/413 "2001-01-18T19:53:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by heraldgwena \* > \*\* Another good one is when I was talking to my boyfriend about when I was born and I said that I had been born by C-section, and he then asked “Your sisters too?” Note that i am a triplet. It was pretty funny. It took him about two seconds to realize how stupid THAT question was. \*\* Maybe you’d told your sisters (telepathically, like you multiple-birth people can), “You two go out the front, I’ll go out the side.” :D:D ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/414 "2001-01-18T20:05:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gundy \* > **Same person: While in a chat room, we asked a fellow chatter where she lived. When we saw her response, my friend asked me, “Where’s Tuck-sun?” She meant Tucson, AZ.** I had a co-worker who was Danish. He was asking me about the western US (I grew up in Colorado), and specifically the city of Fernicks. “Furnace?” I asked. “No, Fernicks, AZ, where the Cardinals play.” “Ah, Phoenix!” I realized. He was using the Germanic pronounciation, where “oe” sounds more like “er”. He was embarassed, but I assured him that it was understandable, since English was such a mishmash of languages. I was more impressed that he followed US sports like football and baseball. He once asked why Americans seemed upset that Toronto had won the _World_ Series. I jokingly looked flustered and exclaimed, “Cuz it’s just _wrong!_” :D:D ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/415 "2001-01-18T20:26:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Bad Astronomer \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Kyla \* > > \*\* > > > > Most vegetarians, myself included, do eat eggs, as well as other dairy products. > > \*\* > > My bro-in-law has a story about that. His aunt (so it goes) went to a butcher to get something to eat. He says, “How about some beef tongue?” She makes a face and says, “Ick! I’d never eat anything that came out of a cow’s mouth! Just give me a couple of eggs.” \*\* Reminds me of a “Laugh In” skit where a cavewoman trys to explain to her caveman husband where she got eggs and milk from. ---
**Author:** ![cykrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@cykrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cykrider)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/416 "2001-01-20T17:46:56Z")
I don’t know what **YMMV** stands for. But I see it on the boards all the time. Any help? ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/417 "2001-01-20T18:14:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cykrider \* > \*\*I don’t know what **YMMV** stands for. But I see it on the boards all the time. Any help? \*\* Your Mileage May Vary. ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/418 "2001-01-20T23:13:34Z")
I was about ten years old, and my teacher was telling us the basics about astronomy. Apparently, the sun is 3 times bigger than the earth. I told her I’d read that if the earth was the size of a pea, the sun would be the size of a beach ball. She said the book was wrong. When I was even younger (7/8) I often corrected another teacher’s spelling but that might have been more to do with me being a cocky little git at the time. A devout Catholic I know strongly believes people ‘decide to be gay because they’re too ugly to get a girlfriend’. You might have heard of the spoon game. This supposedly involves hitting your opponent on the head with a spoon from behind whilst holding it in your mouth. Those in the know take it out and hit the opponent _really_ hard then make a big show of pain when the victim has his turn. One guy I know never figured it out and thought he was the champion for months before someone told him. ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/419 "2001-01-21T20:48:30Z")
Did I kill it? ---
**Author:** ![keeper0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@keeper0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keeper0)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-you-shocked-by-what-some-people-dont-know/43431/420 "2001-01-21T22:35:03Z")
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