Huh. I knew that a Shetland Pony was a small breed of horse, but somehow I also had internalized that ponies in general were young horses, despite the fact that Shetlands are fully grown. O_o
OK, now that I see someone else thought this, it makes me seriously suspect if it was actually a defect in high school sex ed. I seriously think I remember learning that the placenta was the wrapper around the fetus. I also remember in college putting my brain on cruise control when it encountered things I thought I learned in high school or junior high. Wonder if that was really what happened here.
Edited to add: Okay, I survived a semester of med school before dropping out to pursue other things. Simply frightening.
Every Subway shop I’ve ever been had its walls decorated with maps of the NY subway system and old news clippings about the opening of the first subway (mass transit not sandwich) service in New York in the early 1900’s. You are excused.
When I tell people I have two mini schnauzers, I’m surprised and how often people say “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a mini schnauzer”…No, you’ve probably never seen a standard or giant schnauzer…those are pretty big dogs.
As for the tying your shoes thing, I seem to have some sort of mental issue. I’m 29 and I’ve never been able to tie my shoes that way. I’ve always used the bunny ears method. Tie the base knot, then make two loops and tie a knot with them, double knot if you have round laces, it rarely unties on it’s own.
Ponies are different breeds of horses that are small even when they’re grown up.
You don’t think Chihuahuas are baby dogs, do you?
Of course not, they’re rats bred to be frighteningly huge 
Scottish Terriers, OTOH, are pigmy wolves. Mean little beasts.
I was 27 before I learned that you could open the tab on a take-out cup lid and fold it back on itself and it would snap in and stick open.
Not me, but I was in the car when it dawned upon a woman in her early 30’s that the “deer crossing” sign we went past was not for the deer!
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I assume this is a serious question. Ponies are not baby horses. Ponies are certain breeds of small horses such as the Shetland Pony. They never grow up into full sized horses. They are bred to be small although there are even smaller breeds like miniature horses. Kids usually like them because they are scaled down even so that they can ride and pet them.
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And of course, historians and the peoples of the Asian steppe have long known how utterly terrifying pony-mounted cavalry can be. Ponies don’t need as much food as larger horses, are more nimble, and (when bred properly) can travel faster over longer distances. Plus, they’re easier to remain seated on in battle. Attilla’s Huns were pony-mounted troops, and they were seen as the scourge of God Himself.
Never, ever fuck with a man who has a pony, and friends with same. This is the lesson of history.
I did not realize until a couple years ago that George Washington and George Washington Carver were two different people. In my defense, I grew up in Canada, so I never took American history, and I did know that George Washington was the first president. So when I heard about all these peanut experiments and whatnot that he also did, I thought, wow, that was one seriously busy dude.
And I had even seen Clone High - I just thought George Washington was black as some kind of complicated joke.
:eek: I just found this out right now! (38 soon)
I grew up thinking “condone” means you disapprove of something. I mean, “con” means against, right?
When I was a kid I always wondered how the deer and cattle knew to cross just. there. Also, how they could read. Okay, I knew they couldn’t read–I figured the sign marked a path they usually took to cross the road on their journey to wherever deer and cattle wander to.
Actually, the placenta does more than that: It contains blood vessels belonging to both the mother and the fetus. The vessels pass very close to each other, so that the circulation of the mother and fetus never actually connect, but oxygen and nutrients can pass from the mother to the fetus, and wastes can pass the other way.
Oh boy, here goes… When I was a kid I grew up way outside the city and always wondered about signs that said “DO NOT PASS” I thought that I was not allowed to cross the road parallel even tho ( Grammar Nazis fuck off) I was walking and there were no cars for miles. :smack:
I started my previous job about 15 years ago when I was in my early 20’s. One of my duties was operating a print machine which held film using a vacuum. The machines were made in Germany so I looked at the vacuum button thinking “That’s a strange way to spell vacume. Maybe it’s a German thing.”:smack:
Also, even though I owned a BB gun as a kid and had heard about shot* I somehow still thought that all guns fired bullets, even shot guns:smack::smack:. So a year or so ago being in my mid 30’s I hear about Dick Cheney shooting his friend and after hearing about the details realizing that the shot gun didn’t have bullets in it and finally realizing what shot really is.
*For a long time I thought shot guns fired bullets that broke apart into little pieces.
Huh. I’ve been in a lot of Subways and never seen that. Just a lot of stock photography of fresh ingredients.
Dear Lord, tell me you made this up.
I learned the truth at 17.
HA! Deer crossing signs are for target practice. Everyone knows that !
I thought condone meant to ‘disapprove’ as well. Hmmmmm.
I haven’t been in one for 10 years probably, but that’s what they used to have in the southeast. It was like decoupaged right onto the walls, like wallpaper.