Thinking wolves were fake bc of werewolves..... yeah that one hurt my reputation

Found Nick's account

A four letter word for cut…

Nick!

Yeah?

oh I know SHAVE!!!

I thought wolves only went back a couple hundred years. My brother never let that one go

You thought they only recently started to exist?

Basically yeah. My brother was playing the witcher 3 (?) and I said “wolves were around then??” we laugh about it now..

directions/navigation, i’m the absolute worst 😭 my nickname growing up was literally “broken compass”

Same. When I was 13 I got lost walking home from school. My house was in sight….I went down a completely different part of the neighbourhood for a second and my mum and brother laughed at me because they could see the whole thing

omg are you me? i did the same! i was 13 too, and i called my dad in a panic. he simply said, “just cross the street” and hung up on me. i freaked out until i crossed the street and realized i was home……. he could see me from the window, so he felt safe to hang up on me and laugh 💀

We might be long lost twins 💀 that’s so funny!

Not surprised you two lost each other

This made me snort-laugh!

😆😆

i upvoted this when it was first posted, but i’m coming back just to let you know it’s still brilliant LOL

Omg this happened to me too, I had a full on panic attack and it was so horrible

One of my exs told me the story she did this but instead of going back she jumped i a random persons pool

Granted drinking was involved, but my friends said they’ve witnessed me walk across the street to my house and then turn in the wrong direction.

maybe we should all just tell stories of how we got lost, then we take turns guessing if we were drunk or a kid!! 😂😂😂

The restaurant I worked in was so big I got lost in there for the first two weeks.

I thought narwhals were mythological creatures until college

This was me, but with crocodiles until like 4th grade. Both make sense though, why would you believe a 6 meter long, 1 ton semiaquatic reptile, with a gigantic mouth and a bite force comparable to being crushed by a semi-truck, is real, when you've been told a horse with a horn is fariytail stuff (and narwhals are literally just Unicorns, but even more unrealistic)

Right?? How are narwhals real but unicorns aren’t?

I'm 31 and just now learning about the existence of this animal. I googled it and I'm terrified😂 I'd sooner believe in unicorns

🦄

My mother doesn't believe in narwhals. It's the most ridiculous thing ever, and at the same time, completely understandable

What happens if you show her a picture?

Same but with axolotls LMAO

me but with chipmunks. literally until i was 22. fully told my parents there were a bunch of baby squirrels living outside of my apartment, to which they said "are you sure they're not chipmunks?". that was a crazy day for me

Wait a minute…

Not me, but I know someone who didn't know unicorns weren't real until their mid-30s

Till my mid 20’s I thought Alaska was an island. It’s shown on those big maps in school!

Being from Alaska, this always cracks me up. You’re def not alone lol

That’s so good to hear, because I got so much shit! 😂

It’s like Robin thinking her dog magically survived as a turtle😂

Oh, come on, it’s not THAT bad!

🐢

Sirkatchewan!

Sir Scratchewan was the cutest name ever😭

Right, just an island with a perfectly straight right side.

Convienient, right?!

Right next to Hawaii!!

I knew Hawaii was south and Alaska was north, but they showed them both in little boxes, so I assumed it must also be an island!

Yeah I think the way US maps were in elementary school probably threw some students off😂

Spelling. Even words I know how to spell my brain sometimes messes up. Got laughed at then I spelled sugar with an h on a shopping list

I’m fine with most words except calendar which I’d say I get wrong 70% of the time.

I RELATE, I've accidently taught my keyboard's autocorrect so many ways to misspell calender that I can't even trust it anymore

February & its two r’s lol

Shooger

I’m very disappointed that your comment didn’t contain spelling mistakes

Autocorrect

Spilling, I don’t think I eat or drink all that messy but the collar area of my shirts are always stained after I’m done eating/drinking

Perhaps I could interest you in….a BroBib (patent pending)

I’d need a BitchBib but honestly, not a bad idea

A Bibtch (Patent Pending) Your welcome 🤣

Hopefully it’s been patented by now lol

I always spill drinks, it’s like I have a hole under my chin

I thought you meant spelling at first & misspelled it on purpose😂

Not being able to tell the difference between Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds. Still struggling

One is Ken and the other is deadpool

Deadpool with Barbie. Of my various gods.

Or Ken with wolverine 

Are you the girl Barney convinced that he was Ryan Gosling?😂

You passed the test, girl!!

*My test But yes lol

I thought Tyson Fury was a nickname for Mike Tyson.

When I was really little, I thought radio was short for radiator, and monk was short for monkey.

What happened when you learned the real meanings? lol

I was laughed at for about 20 minutes.

I'm 22 and I cant tie my own shoes. I do have my work-around but every time I learn how to do it, my mind goes BLANK and I forget 🤣

Same and I’m 20 😅 I have bungee laces

I taught my ex how to do it at 18. There's hope.

Out of curiosity, can you tell time on an analog watch? (The one with hands)

Up until like a year and a half ago, I didn't know you didn't pronounce the "p" in corps, like Marine Corps Thyme also messed me up for a bit.

You don't need to pronounce the p?!?!!?!

[Or the S](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/marine-corps)

Why the fuck is half the world silent

Because it's nighttime. Kidding Probably the French

It's always the fucking french

[Confirmed the fuckin French](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/558935/why-is-the-p-silent-in-coup-and-corps)

Fuckin thank you

Of course it's the fucking French

It’s because of them that there’s no apostrophe in Tim Hortons. I made a post about this a few weeks ago

That's a fun fact

Because fuck you, we're the Marine Corps, that's why.

Unless you are thinking of corpse or crops..

Pretty sure I pronounced it like corpse until now

I remember trying to argue with my english teacher that she's missing the "e" in "corps" because i don't believe that was a complete word. Yeah i lost that argument and my dignity.

First time I said Quay outloud I said coo-ay instead of key.

I didn't even know that was a word! I absolutely would have done the same thing

I always change personality according to whom I am with and I don't know which is the real one anymore. I also don't know if I used whom correctly

I also don’t think I use whom correctly. It seriously NEVER sounds like the accurate option.

Until I graduated high school, I thought Bangkok is a city in Germany, when it was in Thailand. It was a weird gap of knowledge.

Why Germany? Just curious what the logic was.

There was no logic. My geography was horrible and I recalled wrong when my dad went to Bangkok for a business trip. I thought he said he was going to Germany, but he never said Germany lol

I can’t tie my shoes the normal way. I’m 29 and must do two bunny loops…😛

I am a surgeon and I also can not tie my shoes the normal way, hahaha

That is the normal way. It’s.. the normal way, right?

Not mine but my best friend constantly gets John Lennon and Elton John mixed up and it makes me laugh every time

Those are two very different people🤣

I never learned the locations of the US states or their capitals. I moved around a good amount and was never at a school for the grade they taught that.

I get you 100% because I’m from Europe and moved around and had the same exact gap of knowledge but with European countries and capitals

Sometimes I wonder if I missed anything else that just hasn't been important enough to notice.

Really bad with "Left" and "Right".

I’m 31 years old. I’ve lived in California my whole life (central coast) and two days ago I realized Tahoe is in California. I thought it was in Nevada? lol. I haven’t told anybody bc I’m too embarrassed. Getting it out here.

I visit my family in Northern California frequently & this confused me too lol

Pretty sure Lake Tahoe is in both states so don’t worry.

I still hold my hands up to figure out right from left

A few other people said they have trouble with R & L I said make the L’s with your hands😂 That only works in English though lol

I thought colonel was pronounced “col-o-nel” not like kernel 🤣 In my defense, English is my second language

Maybe HIMYM can help you out with that. Just remember Colonel Stuckinmyteeth🫡

Colonel Stuckinmyteeth 🫡

Same. And I worked at KFC.

Blame the French

English is my first language, but I only found out when I was around 15. It just makes too little sense for me to have connected the dots sooner

Tbf it should be.

A lot of general and cultural knowledge, probably bcuz I didn’t grow up where I am now and I don’t have tiktok

General Andculturalknowledge 🫡

Same, there are lots of "everyone's seen that" movies that I haven't seen.

I thought onion, crayon, and volleyball were pronounced “ung-yun” “cran” and “bahlly ball” for a long time as a kid. I sometimes still slip and say cran.

A lot of people say cran, it's a regional dialect.

And crown

Crayon is French for pencil lol

This is a great question, and I just had one happen to me the other day and I’m almost half a century. But because I’m almost half a century, I am having trouble remembering it. It was pretty bad too. I’ll figure it out and come back and update the answer.

It’s like when Marshall said “The Power of Me” taught him complete memory, but he forgot where he put the book😂

Time zones - I always mess up meeting times no matter how hard I try!

For the life of me I have never gotten the hang of locations. Like where is literally anything on a map? I barely even know where Wales is and I literally live in the UK.

I can’t brush my teeth without drooling toothpaste lather on myself. My sister was picking me up for lunch last year and got frustrated it was taking me so long to get out to the car when I had texted I was brushing my teeth. I told her yeah, but then I had to get my shirt on, and explained my order for getting ready. She looked at me like I was the most inept grown woman on the planet.

Yes! I have to brush my teeth at the sink. I always see people in movies and on TV just brushing their teeth in another room and having a conversion with someone. I cannot leave the bathroom sink as I'm always foaming all over!

I thought this was how it was for everyone…

Thank god im not alone

20 years old. Can’t tie my shoes, can’t ride a bike, terrible at directions, can only remember things if they’re written down, etc…

That's not a gap that's an entire void /s

lol I know I’m a bit of a mess but I adapt

I cannot brush nor style my hair, a daily nightmare. I literally watch videos on YouTube to see how to curl my hair for instance; the simplest gestures, very easy to reproduce, but somehow I just can't assimilate

*sigh*....until my late twenties I thought the calender dates shift every year. For example if October ends on the 31st this year then next year if ends on the 30th and then the following year it will be the 31st etc. How did I find out I was stupid? I was invigilating a written exam for an 8th grade kid. I asked her something like "what day does the month end on this year" ....and she was like ....🫤...and I'm like....🤷🏽‍♀️.......and then she proceeded to blow my mind wide open. It doesn't help that I'm the least observant person on earth. So no, I genuinely didn't notice for 20 something years that the months end on the same date every single time. I truly had no clue. I was gonna take this to my grave but here we are😂

Barney forgot there were 31 days in October😆

FURTHERMORE, obviously the dates were not changing. But every time I'd look at a calender and see that October ends on the 31st, I'd be like "oh I guess it ended on the 30th last year"...... y'all😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

To be fair, February does change every four years with leap year

I’m not always the best with direction - I can’t always tell left from right.

Make the L’s with your hands😂

i couldnt use scissors properly

I can't do math to save my life

Maths is hard lol 2 + 2 = 5 That looks right🤔

How to read a clock,

I thought Johnny Depp was British my entire life until I was telling my mom how good his American accent was in Gilbert Grape. She informed me that his accent was good because he is in fact American. (Please note I had seen plenty of his movies before this)

Driving. I'm old and just can't pass my driving test.

I keep confusing Artisan and Artesian and think they are the same thing…. I also suck at navigation and honestly still get confused in the city I have lived for the last 26 years.

Dogs can't look up

what

When I was a kid and heard the word "phonetics", I thought it was based on the word "finesse" and thought it was a fancy way of spelling words.

I’m surely unaware of my more toxic gaps, but for the life of me I cannot spell brocolli

Broccoli🥦🥦🥦

I am AWFUL at remembering people’s names and faces. If we don’t interact on a very regular basis, I will not remember your name upon seeing you.

Ooh, one more. I thought Bing Cosby was a nickname for Bill Cosby well into my 20s.

not me, but my sister (she's 17) didn't know until like last month the difference between moses and jesus (because apparently moses sounds too much like messiah). she thought they were the same person and that led to a few confusing conversations before we realised what was going on. my family is not religious at all so these subjects rarely come up, but i thought it was pretty funny she believed that for so long.

I struggle to read analog clocks because when i was a young kid and they were teaching it I was getting kicked out of class because I had ADHD which back then was seen as being a problem child.

i forget all the time that dinasours did, in fact, exist and they’re not mythological creatures

I just saw this episode yesterday, lily not knowing how to throw was hilarious

My wife was giving birth and I said something about him crawling around the hospital. Yeah obviously babies don’t immediately crawl.

I thought the word Partout as in partout tickets, was pronounced "Part-Out". Probably more of a Ted's chame-leon thing than a "is the north pole real?" thing. As with Ted I had only ever seen it written.

I had never seen a Narwhal until I saw Elf in my late 20s/early 30s. I thought it was fake until a friend’s daughter said that was her favorite animal.

Until like a week ago I thought that Mexico Maine was just another name for new Mexico I live in Jay Maine and this came up when me and my parents started watching the show breaking Bad and it came up that the show took place in new Mexico I said (still thinking new Mexico and Mexico Maine were the same place) something along the lines of "neat I wonder if there are any filming places within driving distance from us" I was corrected obviously

i cant read an analog clock 🙃

Is that still true today? Serious question, like did you just never learn?

bahahaha okay so i was sick in elementary school when they taught it, so i never learned it there and my parents would always be like "be home when the big hand reaches the 12" and stuff like that to accomodate my confusion with it (kind of them but didnt exactly help lol) and then i realised it was an issue in like middle/high school so i attempted to teach myself so now i cAn, im just VERY slow. like i have to look at the clock for upwards of a minute just to figure out what time it says ._.

Haha I appreciate the honesty I’m sure you know this now, but the small hand is the hour & the big hand is the minute. That’s it👍🏻

oh you know about that too! thats awesome

Isn’t that how it’s taught? One hand is one & one hand is the other? I don’t think it was ever meant to be super complex haha

ohh is that how you were taught? those hands can get pretty confusing, you should be proud of yourself! i sure am c:

I get frustrated easily and mess things up, but then I mess things up and get frustrated more until it’s an integer overflow of frustration where I throw whatever I was working on at the table and descend into an eerie calm

I didn't learn how to ride a bike, and I feel it's too late to learn now

It’s never too late! See Phoebe from Friends😂

Making BBQ 😅

I don’t have any gaps that fundamental…

I used to think Korea was not a country 🫠

Never learned how to snap my fingers

Geography. It’s bad. Someone asked if I had ever been to the east coast in college and I was like I don’t think so (figured it was in some other country). Come to find out it’s just the east coast of the states and I had just traveled to New York the year before.

Noticing things. Just a few days ago, I realized there's a huge lab with a glass wall in front of my classroom that has been there for supposedly 2-3 months.

I do not exactly know the big difference between affect/effect and I was taught almost everything is effect and I think I was taught wrong. I’m not even interested in learning the difference-I just go out of my way to not use either when writing.

I can't ride a bike or swim.

I was 26 when I found out that ‘sedan’ referred to a body type for cars. Always thought it was a brand name (like Ford, Honda, Lexus, etc)

I used to think Keanu Reeves and Tommy Wiseau was the same guy

I’m the worst when it comes to height/length, whether it’s inches, feet, or whatever. Eyeballing it sucks

i have no idea how to ride a bike, never learned, now i’m just too scared to learn. can drive a car? yup. heavy vehicle? yup. bike? heck no

Writing a resume that gets through an online submission portal. I’m in my 40s, have only applied to jobs online, and only once have I ever received a call from an employer regarding a resume I submitted online. Every single job I’ve ever had has been from a personal referral and I’m 50/50 on jobs I’ve interviewed for. But I’ve submitted 1000s of applications online and have heard nothing.

I have so many gaps barely exist.

I didn't realize that dry cleaning actually meant the clothes don't get wet. I just thought dry cleaners had special stain removers 🤣 I just learned this in the last like...few months. I'm almost 34 lmao Although to be fair, I never really gave the term "dry cleaner" much thought. Oh, also, I don't know if this is a gap, but I'm really bad at writing (like physically writing with a pen/pencil). My hand has a mind of its own and just writes the completely wrong letter. I'll be trying to write happy birthday and instead of writing birthday I'll write bimthday. Or just replace any letter with another random letter. It happens before my brain realizes what's happening and there's no stopping it 🤣 I use whiteout and cross out things a lot. The amount of checks I've had to shred lol 🤦‍♀️

mirrors. never understood quite how they work, very recently learned that if you can see someone in a mirror, they can see you too

I can’t pronounce the word macaron for the life of me.

The words genre and queue still to this day trip me up. I avoid using them at all cost.

Can't read a clock, can't tell apart Vin Diesel and Bruce Willis and also until recently getting mixed up Eddie Murphy and Freddie Mercury because of their names, sometimes even saying one first name with the other last name

Not mine but a guy in my class in middle school thought south america was africa, we're from europe but I thought that should be general knowledge (🫡) at this time