I thought of that and resisted the urge to get more and more detailed. What was I thinking? 
It sounds like either your cousin is just fucking with you by playing stupid, or she actually has some sort of mental/learning disability/handicap.
Yes, I definitely THINK of all dogs as boys and all cats as girls, but I know it’s not really true.
It’s fun to say it, but I’ve yet to meet anyone who actually believed it.
I know people who believe there is an I after the V in mischievous. They pronounce it, too!
In Mickey Mouse and many other comics, miscellaneous bystanders were nearly always portrayed as dogs, if male, with floppy ears and a black button nose. Females would have various features, often catlike.
There are vast numbers of people who apparently believe that the male body contains a gland called the prostrate.
In a sense all dogs are boys, the girls of the species are bitches. However, lions and tigers are cats and all lions and tigers are boys because the females of those species are lionesses and tigresses. Even in cartoons there are female dogs and male cats.
However, you could say that all epiperipatus imthurni Velvet Worms are girls. Doesn’t come up in conversation often though.
Okay, I think we have a thread winner.
She’s not smart enough to fuck with anyone. Her “learning disability” is sheer stupidity.
Bisexuals are capable of monogamous relationships with one person. Just because they are attracted to multiple genders in no way means they have to have simultaneous multiple relationships. It’s amazing how many people think “bisexual” means “inherently non-commital”.
The date. As part of my job I have to have many people sign a document and date it. Ninety-five percent have no idea of the date. Some of them not even the year, let alone the month or day.
A few years back, the company I work for (a CNC machine shop), decided to add a few more people. Turnover was pretty high, so for several months, we always had new hires. That’s when I learned I had been way overestimating the math abilities of the general public. I mean, you don’t have to have a degree in mathematics to do this job, but even as just an operator you need to at least a basic understanding of how numbers work. A few examples:
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[li] The guy who ran a bunch of parts out of tolerance because he simply didn’t understand that 0.3603 is greater than 0.360[/li]
[li] The guy who showed me a sheet with 0.03 printed on it and asked me if that meant three thousandths.[/li]
[li] Some prints call out dimensions that can’t be easily gauged with the equipment we have. But they can be figured out mathematically using the dimensions that can be measured.[/li] I was trying to help someone figure out how to do that (although, to me it seemed obvious just looking at the print). I didn’t just want to give him the answer, so I tried breaking it down into simpler steps that he could figure out. But no matter how much I simplified the problem he was still completely lost. I finally said, “Well, let’s just start by getting half of the diameter of the part, what do we need to divide it by to get half?”. …Blank stare… He literally just did not know.
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There are so many men who assume DD is the be-all end-all in breast sizing. Any woman with big breasts is automatically a DD. I would hazard most men assume this because I see it repeated everywhere. I’ve basically broken men’s (and to be fair, some women’s) minds by saying there was such thing as E cups or G cups.
Similarly, ask a woman (or also some men) what the average penis size is and they’ll say 8 inches.
And I’m pretty sure I’ve posted this response to your post in previous threads, I think. It’s TRUE. I know because I saw it on the Internet!
Once I was dining in San Diego with a friend—a law school graduate—who thought we were looking out over the Gulf of Mexico.
But later in the same meal, he made a reference to Jesus having been “burned at the stake.”
A neighbor whos a HVAC repairman once told me of these Filipino people who came to him asking why their house is so cold. He asked them if they ran their home furnace and they asked what a “furnace” was? He then asked them if they knew what that little box on the wall was for (the themostat) and they had no idea.
Well he showed them how to switch on their furnace and they were SOO grateful their house was now warm. (Remember they were from the Phillipines and never used a furnace before).
But a problem is they came to him the next week saying their house was too HOT now and he then had to sit down and discuss with them temperature and comfort - AND utility bills. Like running your furnace or AC too much can be expensive and how to find their own comfort zones.
Anyways they were grateful and they lavished on him some of the best food he’d ever had.
It often amazes and disturbs me what nurses and other medical professionals/paraprofessionals don’t know. And I have quite a few in the family. Superstitions, egregiously poor bodily awareness or awareness toward their family’s ailments (a.k.a. the cobbler’s children have no shoes), belief or reliance on things like homeopathy, downplaying others’ illnesses as “it’s all in your head” (I got that one while near death after a week of dehydration via food poisoning or norovirus, not sure because it wasn’t worth seeing a doc :rolleyes:) When I had gestational diabetes, the nutritionist was pushing me hard to eat twice as many carbs than usual…while also saying that my condition would be almost fixed if I just ate margarine instead of butter…lol.
Asuka mentioned bra sizes. That’s a funny one. Around the birth of my second child, I went from something like a 38D to a 40I in a month. Hell, I didn’t even know there were I cups before that! (And there was apparently only one brand to accommodate me at the time.) Many years later, and I’ve had about a dozen bra sizes. That’s another thing people might not be aware of, the inconstancy of bra sizes throughout a fertile female’s lifespan. Also, if you’re outside of the general 32-38 b-d spectrum, decent bras are EXPENSIVE. Like, $40 for one is an awesome sale, and I like to have at least a week’s worth, because I sweat and can’t rewear, and they usually don’t last a year (due to hooks distorting or wires poking out or whatever.) I have spent over $100 for one bra. It was…pretty good. It lasted at least 6 months, but not much more.
P.S. I’m not even especially endowed. Really. A lot of the sizing is just about how much the girls stick out as opposed to width or generally ribcage size or whatever.
I find it odd how many people have very distorted ideas about space. I’m not talking the conspiracy theory/flat Earth/moon landing deniers. I’m thinking more about people who honestly thing people live on the Moon, or Mars, or who think that we’ve sent spaceships to other stars. They don’t have any idea about the distances involved between just the planets in our Solar system, not to mention between stars.
Like many things in this list, I don’t expect people will have details memorized. Very few people need to know that Sirius is about 8.5 light years away or whatever. But knowing that stars are really gobsmackingly far away is important.
In 94 Weezer put out a song called Buddy Holly but some fans did not know Holly was a famous musician who died young in the 50s.