This is something I try to teach people I care about. Learning it changed my life. They only thing I’d argue with you about is: “And if it was a person that made me angry…” People do what they do, you choose to be angry about it. Also, for the most part, it pays to not think that people do things to us. One exception is physical violence. If someone is beating you, I can’t really claim they are not doing it to you.
I always thought the show was titled to be ironic that a fat guy is with a hot chick, and is a ladies man. Just recently I realized that the show takes place in Queens, thus he is the King of Queens.
A while back I had a party at my place, and I needed my friends to see the ridiculousness I discovered in my fridge earlier that day, so I pulled out a bottle of ketchup and a bottle of barbeque. The ketchup container was much bigger but had 3 fewer ounces cited on the label. My least intelligent friend explained that one was measured by weight while the other was measured by volume.
Buh-whaa? There are people in the world mixing up Calgary and calvary? Mind you, I was boggled when I learned that there are US Americans who think Canada is divided up into providences, then I actually heard someone saying that in real life. 
I realized today that there is always some place on earth that has daylight at any given time. It was something that I’ve just never thought of before.
That when someone is being verbally abusive/threatening, the best reaction is no reaction at all.
A work one: Bosses generally couldn’t care less about excuses for why something went wrong - they just care about if, and then when, you can fix it.
Something I am yet to work out: How to deal with/not be affected by condescending people, particularly in social/group situations.
Hey, I’ll trade my misspent youth for half your savings any day. Send me an email, I’m sure we can work out a deal.
His wife voiced Woody. I’m not sure whether to applaud her or feel sorry for him.
God knows how mere horses dragged those heavy coaches around with the wheels going backwards.
Queen Victoria and Colonel Blimp would not be amused.
I learned the rhyme when I was a little kid. Learned the knuckle method from a guy on the boat when I was in my early thirties; he did it all on his left hand, though. Started at the index knuckle with January and ended with the pinky knuckle as July, then started with the pinky knuckle as August and worked backward until he ran out of months at the middle knuckle.
That belief trumps reason in every single person on the planet, including me.
[Doctor McCoy] Heart rate too fast. Body temperature all wrong. Age is…Jim, this man is an Elf![/Doctor McCoy]
King of Queens
I’d heard of the show but never actually saw it until recently. I’d always thought it was about gay guys, maybe a Cage aux Folles thing.
And some of the married ones as well.
This falls more into the category of “trivia I can’t believe I only just now learned, but I had to share it anyway”:
What inventor of Calculus has a brand of cookie named after him?
[SPOILER]Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, after whom Leibniz-Keks are named.
If you said Isaac Newton, thinking of Fig Newtons, you’re wrong: they were named after the town of Newton, Massechusetts.[/SPOILER]
A black co worker had to point out that it’s pronounced collard greens not colored greens.
Well done! Well done, indeed!
I got this wrong! Even though I knew it, and am from MA! Though not Newton.
I’ve liked the Talking Heads since the 80’s, but I just found out that “Take Me to the River” is a remake of an excellentAl Green original.
I used to think that birds swooping down at my car as I was driving down the highway was because their eyesight was such that a big object going fast in the distance looked like a small object (bug) close up. Come to find out, they think I’m a buffalo running through the grass, stirring up the bugs.
One time when I was lying on a beach, I saw a helicopter way far away over the water. Turned out to be a dragon fly about two feet away.
Maybe I should have posted this in the depth-perception thread.
Something I’ve always wondered: are Lois and Clark named after Lewis and Clark?
Which raises the question: are there kids today who aren’t familiar with analog clocks and thus to whom the words “clockwise” and “counterclockwise” are meaningless?