I feel your pain. I was about 44 when I finally learned to tie my shoe laces correctly too. I was with my current wife and everytime we went for a walk my shoelaces would come undone. So one day she watched me tie them and she mentioned I was tying them incorrectly. I was shocked when she showed me and it was a simple fix----and now I never worry about it. It is completely second nature now–but I, like you, walked around all the time like that. Doh! btw–liked that video and wish it had been around when I was like 4 years old!
I just wish these videos would just show you how the knots work from the POV of the guy tying his shoes. What am I going to learn from seeing it from the mom-tying-her-kids-shoes POV?
Until I was about 25 I thought Lindsey Buckingham was female. I learned the truth after seeing Fleetwood Mac’s mid-90s reunion show on TV. :eek:
Do you really consider 38 to be late in life or did you mean later in life?
signed, Age 52
Um, I didn’t know that till just now. Even though I’ve heard of “birdshot” and though I’ve seen Kill Bill (scene with a shotgun). I’m officially dumb.
Until a thread about it a couple of years ago I thought pineapples grew on trees.
I just watched it and it worked for me. All you need to do is wrap the loop the other way around if you’re currently doing it wrong.
Hurrah! I learned to tie my shoe laces today! And I’m only 35.
That’s the point - generally you don’t bother taking them off. You leave them on. My mom can’t even get hers off in the summer - in the winter she gets them cleaned.
Sad thing is, my dad was an avid hunter and fisherman when he was alive. But my parents never married and I never really went hunting with him, so we rarely talked about guns.
And as for everybody talking about shoe laces. I learned to tie them…I think I’ve heard it described using the words bunny ears. Loop each lace, twist them together and pull (or something like that). I was in my late 20’s or early 30’s before learning the other, some say more sophisticated, method. But I don’t care and sometimes will do it one way, and sometimes another. I’ve heard that boys learn one way and girls learn the other. I wonder how true that is.
What about to wash your hands/wash dishes, stuff like that?
ETA: I used to do bunny ears for my shoes then I started just doing one bunny loop and tied the other end around it…it looks sort of the same in the end, but there’s no bunny. For what it’s worth.
I just leave mine on.
Yeah, I learned the first way, and now do it mostly the way you describe. But some people act like the bunny ears method is inferior.
By definition a ‘pony’ is any domestic horse shorter than 14 hands (roughly 58 inches) at the withers (shoulder). That means there are breeds of ‘ponies’ only 2-4" shorter on average than many ‘horses’.
A baby horse or pony is a foal, a young female is a filly and male a colt. Males are stallions and females mares.
I think part of the confusion may come from the fact that people often refer to the horses (or ponies) that human children ride as ponies.
hmmmm looked at video and DANG I have been doing it wrong and I am 55:smack:
Good point. Obviously I meant ‘embarassingly late in life’.
I was properly educated when I read that same thread. I was crushed when I realized the truth.
“Con” means “with”. Con is the same as Com, which comes from Latin “cum”, meaning exactly “with”. What were you thinking it meant to consecrate a marriage?
Condone - cum donar “with blessing/gift/permission”
combine - “bind with”
compare - “equal with”
concave - “with a hollow part”
Wait…isn’t that precisely what it means? “Caution: Deer have been known to regularly cross the road around this spot. Be on the lookout for them.”?
It’s not an inferior knot- it’s an identical square knot, actually. But the method is. It requires you to perform the same action while holding on to a loop the whole time. You have to fit the top of this fat loop through a tiny hole instead of just any part of just the string. How could that possibly be an improvement?
Yeah, what he said. I put my wedding ring on the day I got married three years ago, and it hasn’t come off since. I suppose I would take it off if I worked someplace where it would be dangerous to have a ring, but I don’t, so the ring stays on. Normal washing doesn’t affect it.
Not me, but Doper lno, in a couple of the funniest posts ever on the SDMB:
Posts 1 (last item in the list) and 15
Hint for the uninitiated: “Goodness gracious, great balls of HEEEYY LAAADDDYYYYY!”
Add me to the roster of those who assumed ponies were baby horses.
<hangs head, kicks dirt with feet>
Huh. I always thought of ponies just as ‘small horses’ without really pondering whether it was attributable to maturity or to the breed. Regardless, I never misspoke because I never saw a horse that seemed small enough to qualify as a “pony”. I reckon now I know why 