Suppose it helps to add the damn link!
At the age of 23… well, this should explain everything.
It seems I’m not as ‘rare’ as I think I am… I am the one and only. :smack:
Nope, I have a friend who washes his dishes in cold water. You are not alone!
I learned the correct way and then goddamn Sesame Street came along and put up a cool thing about tying laces with bunny ears. So aged about six I tried that and whaddayaknow it worked. So I tied laces like that for years. Repeatedly. When all this time I could have tied them once and been done with it. :rolleyes:
Really? I thought subway systems were somehow inspiration for the sandwiches… the shape of the trains or something. Afterall, plenty of shops around here have the subway map wallpaper. Also, what’s a “hero” when not talking about the likes of Superman?
I believe that sub, when referring to a sandwich, is short for submarine, and that the sandwich is called such because it is the same basic shape as a submarine. I think hero refers to the size of the sandwich, and indicates that it is too big for an average joe type to eat all at once.
But sheep and goats don’t look ANYTHING alike. 
I always though ‘hero’ was a bastardization of the proper Greek spelling, ‘gyro’.
And they’re frequently mentioned in children’s literature and shown on tv. Hard to miss this one IMO. It’s like thinking turkeys are big chickens. Or ponies are baby horses, LOL.
A lot of the misperceptions on this thread are about plants or animals, two things which I’ve had a keen interest in from a very early age, as well as having a father who taught at an agricultural college, and growing up around farmers. I’ve probably known the difference between sheep and goats since I was 3. There’s a lot of stuff I don’t know, but I know a shitload about plants and animals. I don’t think this is normal though, especially for people who grew up in cities or suburbs.
Nope. People all over the Midwest seem boringly normal to me, compared to those in rural areas in the East. I’d never met a hick until I moved to central PA! I had also never seen so many mullets in one place…
Krusty: No, it’s a goat. You know, one of them lady goats.
Selma: There are no lady goats: a lady goat is a sheep.
Hibbert: I believe she’s right.
Otto: You’re crazy.
Weird… I tie a perfectly cromulent reef knot – which I just double-checked, and even tried tying it the opposite way from what I normally do which did result in a vertical granny knot – and my laces still come untied when I run. I suspect it has something to do with the round (instead of flat) laces on my running shoes. But I still have to double knot my shoes for running, or they come undone after about 2 miles.
I didn’t even know there was a “wrong” way to tie shoelaces.
39 here and just learned that. Doubly embarrassing since it was preceded by me ranting about the horrible design and complaining how the flap doesn’t stay open and no perforations were designed in, so when I tear off the flap, it always leaves a ragged edge that coffee drips messily out of…“If only they designed a stay-open flap!” I proclaimed :smack:
Cue my wife then showing me the technique, and her apologetic defense to the friends in the car “No, really, my husband is smart! Really!”
Ditto Chinese: 狂犬病 “crazy dog disease.”
About the sheep/goat thing, they’re not that far apart. They can interbreed, usually unsuccessfully, but not always:
While we’re fighting ignorance here, mules aren’t always infertile, either:
What, everything you thought was true when you were 4 turned out to be true? 
I just decided one day as a child that this must be the boyand this must be the girl. After all, boy cowshave horns and girl cows don’t and they are referred to as bulls and cows. Boy deer have horns and girl deerdon’t and they are referred to as bucks and does. It was obvious to me as a child that goat/sheep was the male/female of that species. It made total sense in my mind. It just happened to be something that I never ended up discussing with anyone and since I didn’t live in an agricultural area I didn’t get a lot of hands-on experience with sheep or goats. Hell, lots of people on this very board admitted at one point or another thinking that the cats were girls and the dogs were the boys and they look less alike than sheep and goats.
Till last week, **Mr. Caricci **(44) thought that the bug was spelled beatle.
No, no–don’t double knot them! Then you have to pick at the knot to get it lose. Better yet, since you’re used to the bunny ear method, this should be a piece of cake for you. I present the double slip knot. That sucker will stay tied *and *you can untie easily by pulling a tail.
You’re welcome. 
I second the double slip knot. Nothing will accidentally loosen that knot. Plus, it looks a little neater than the standard knot.
May I use this as a sig?
I was in high school before I figured out reckless was not wreck-less.
Like apparently many a person, it was quite late in life before I realized “misled” was not the past tense of a verb “misle”.
Really? When? I remember a post in the “Yes that person really is that dumb” thread that was running recently about cats and dogs being the male/female versions of one species, but I don’t remember seeing it as a commonly held view amongst people here.