Mine is that I pour the milk before the cereal. people are always extremely confused by that.
I eat kiwis with the peel
Australians are next
You’re going to eat Australians with the peel??
You seem confused (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Do you remove the feathers?
Of course not, that’s where most of the fibre is found. I’d avoid the beak though.
The skin is also delicious, like a concentration of sourness mixed with satisfying resistance to my bite.
I open bananas by pinching the bottom instead of ripping at the top (because it works better) and people act like I’m insane.
That is how apes open bananas too.
Not that I’m implying anything of course.
See? The experts agree with me. Your bananas are upside down, not mine.
As someone who also has to argue about how wrong everyone else is…
I always tell them to imagine the iconic ‘slipping on a banana peel’ joke. Sometimes I make them draw it.
If you peel from the stem, it would never look like that. We have so many references that I challenge anyone to show me any media from any time period that shows the banana opened from the stem.
People learn the stem way as children because it’s easier with limited motor skills and just never give it up.
I looked into this and was unable to find quality evidence of such. I also open my bananas from the bananus
bananus
This shit is bananas.
Technically, humans or homo sapiens sapiens are apes.
It’s how the other great apes do it too, which as far as I’m concerned is pretty much the end of the issue. It really is one of those things where there’s a right and wrong way to do it.
Technically you’re opening from the top.
In a hand yes. In a tree it’s the bottom
Incorrect, bananas grow from the stem upwards making the stem end, where most people open them, the bottom, OP opens their bananas from the other end.
Huh TIL thanks
I break bananas in half instead of peeling them
You still have to peel them off right?
You just squeeze them like a gogurt
How does this work with that nasty little stump at the bottom of the banana? (Which everybody knows is pure poison… TIL: AKA the ‘bananus’)
Easy to discard or no?
I slice it a bit above the bananus and when you peel it it comes right out. Easy peasy
Yeah, it’s easy to discard if a little bananus bothers you. But I ain’t a’feared.
Also, I’m usually making smoothies so it’s not much of a concern.
Pro Tip: another advantage of peeling the gorilla-approved way is that you don’t have to separate them when peeling multiple. I usually eat a couple one-offs while the bunch is ripe and then, before the rest get brown and mushy, peel the rest to freeze for smoothies or banana bread or whatever. You can just peel several from the bananus side and save the step of separating them.
I worked in a restaurant that served Bananas Foster so that’s actually a pro tip. You may never have to quickly peel a whole bunch at once but cooks, busy parents, smoothie artisans, etc. frequently do.
Holy shit, “bananus,” I am crying from laughing right now. Phew, I needed that!
I run my thumb up the middle splitting it into 3 slim bananas.
waiting in line when there are self checkouts available. I just dont like doing it.
abandoning self checkouts because the machine is yelling at you and the workers are busy elsewhere. they say self-checkout lane 7 is still blinking to this day.
Funnily enough I tend to find that if you just pick up your bags and walk away a member of staff is arrives pretty quickly. Wild, right?
“Remove item from bagging area!”
"Please wait, help is on the way… "
I like the interaction.
I use the self checkouts specifically to avoid interaction.
yo I fucking hate that rude robot lady
I sigh loudly. Not vocally, but I take in a deep breath and then release it quickly. It’s a tension release to me kinda like yawning but everyone around me seems to think I’m upset or frustrated when I do it.
Ever since we were graced with COVID-19, I frequently find myself taking deep breaths and exhaling as you described just to see if my lung function feels right. Realizing now that I don’t even need to be infected with COVID-19 for it to have a significant impact on my mental health.
I sigh normally for the same reason, and people react similarly.
Me too!
I hate it!
I do the exact same thing. Back in highschool people used to point it out or look at me weird or assume I was upset. My boyfriend asks me “What’s wrong?” and I respond with “Uhh…nothing?”
I’ve done it for as long as I can remember and it feels like it relaxes my nerves.
Not checking in with someone if we made plans. My wife will ask if I texted my family to see if we’re still doing the thing we planned. If I make plans with someone, then I’m going unless they tell me is cancelled. My family could make plans for 12 years from now and we’d all be there a little earlier than the time we said we would be there.
When people often text me or call to make sure plans are still on, it has the weird effect of making me no longer want to go. I’m introverted, but if I make plans I will be there. So it sort of opens the door for me to cancel for some reason.
I noticed certain people will either change the time or day (or forget the confirmed time, or that they already initially set a time and seem to randomly change to what works for them without updating others and accuse like everyone else had the wrong time) or cancel without telling others. So those people I check to see if it’s still on and reconfirm the time even up to an hour before the meet up. I usually give up on a person who does that as it’s emotionally exhausting to constantly coordinate around a changing target. I get enough of that at my job.
“Mine is that I pour the milk before the cereal. people are always extremely confused by that.”
You’re a psychopath. lol
I pour cereal before the milk. It helps to have a mop, it’s a really big mess.
I don’t listen to anything while driving
I’d go crazy if I were trapped alone with just my thoughts for that long.
That’s why I’m doing it. I think it’s healthy to sometimes take time to just sit with your thoughts and be bored. I find driving to be a good moment to do this. For the same reason I’ve decided to not use my phone when queuing either.
This is highly relatable to me as I’ve gotten older. I find it more concerning that others can’t live with their own thoughts and feel it’s necessary to drown them out with constant noise.
Never taken transit? (Without some headphone device.)
We’ll that’s when I’m on social media…
No motion sickness?
I’ve been doing that for many years to the point that people don’t like to drive with me. Actually kinda nice since most people would rather just drive than ride with me
I set my clocks on 24 hour time. Usually gets a comment when they see it.
Same here. I sometimes get momentarily confused when I see 12-hour digital clocks now…
Started doing this since my very first watch. 24 hours in a day, why cut it in half? What is 12am or 12pm idk which is afternoon or midnight
I finally managed to learn it after working with brits for years, but every time they said “after midnight, past midday” as if it made it easier to remember, I just responded with “after midday, past midnight”
Wtf does this mean. I’m so confused. Somebody please explain
“after midnight, past midday”
AM, PM. It actually means ante meridiem and post meridiem, Latin for “Before Noon” and “After Noon,” but the above also works and is in English.
I don’t think they’re confused by times like 1pm.
At least for my brain, 12pm and 12am are the sticking points.
As you note, pm is Latin for after noon, yet we call noon 12pm. Noon isn’t anymore after itself than it is before itself. Neither makes any sense.
With 12am, we generally seem to think about midnight as the end of the day, even though it’s really the start of the new day. The Latin isn’t confusing here, but the numbers get real weird. We start the day counting at 12:00, go up to 12:59, and then reset the count to 1 an hour in? Our 12h clocks are split between being 0-indexed, and a weird variant of modulus 12.
I’m clearly overthinking things, but I don’t always immediately remember which 12 is which. Latin doesn’t help.
With 00 it’s clear which time we’re talking about, and which calendar date it’s part of. It’s also the easiest way to sort out which 12 gets mislabeled what.
TIL people have to learn how to count the 24 hours in a day as 24 rather than 12x2.
This is anti-confusing.
French here, you can come viqit anytime and the only thing we might notice is that you’re using clocks the right way ™ :D
'Murica
My job uses 24h/UTC time a lot. Love the 24h time, everything I can set to it that I use is on that format. Can’t set the coffee machine or microwave to 24h time.
UTC? Hate it. Too much math that changes with the time change and your time zone to get to UTC. Thankfully wearables and phones will often let you have multiple clocks visible.
I do the exact opposite. I think 12h clock is the only way of measuring things americans got right.
Sock shoe sock shoe.
I have to test if the pants/sock/shoe combo works before committing to the whole process a second time.
What kind of incompatibilties have you experienced?
I skip the fourth step from the bottom on every staircase. It started because multiple staircases I regularly traversed coincidentally all had spiders make their homes on the fourth step, so I’d step over them. And then I just never shook the habit.
When eating pizza at a restaurant with a fork and a knife I start cutting bite size triangles from the center of the pizza, it’s pure chaos and people lose their mind when they see me haha
I love this. I hope you also do it in an ever widening spiral?
Chaotic-natural !
I read the second half of this in Heath Ledger’s joker voice
I’ve had several people comment on the way I tie my shoelaces. I can’t even remember how to do it the “normal” way, but I use that knot that takes about half a second where you make both loops at once and pull them through each other.
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
Also relevant: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
I used to triple knot my shoes and they would still come untied. Then I switched to the ian knot, and my shoes haven’t come untied by themselves in forever.
I’m gonna try that, thanks
That’s a better knot as well. Holds together better comes apart without risking turning into a small tight knot and is balanced to keep one lace from getting more fatigued.
It’s the same knot (square knot) unless you’re comparing it to someone who’s ties their shoes wrong.
Edit: also, the quick-tie knot OP is talking about is called Ian Knot or Ian’s Knot. It’s a square knot but tied faster.
Either a square knot or a “granny” knot will work. A lot of people don’t know the difference, but it’s actually a pretty important distinction in different types of rigging because a square knot is so much stronger and more secure.
Granny knot will come untied easily so it only kind of works. Most people who use granny style probably double it up because they get sick of re-tying their shoes all day.
I knew about square knots from when I was a kid but didn’t make the connection between those and shoelaces until much later in life. My hands still aren’t used to reversing one direction from something I’d been doing my entire life.
I guess I should be better at it by now but I rarely wear shoes tight enough to require tying them. Maybe that’s my weird thing for this thread.
I’ve been doing that for ~15 years and almost no one has commented on it :<
That’s how my dad taught me, he calls it “bunny ears.” Funny enough, it took me a really long time to learn to tie my shoes because both my mom and dad were trying to teach me, but they didn’t realize they use different methods and I was so confused.
That’s probably better knot anyway. Most people don’t even realize they tie their shoes with a so calle granny knot. The loops are supposed to sit horizontally, not vertically or at 45 degree angle.
Mmmm, not really. It’s better for round laces, but the regular knot holds better in general.
My point was that many, if not most people do the regular knot wrong.
Ah, yes that’s true.
I’ve always disliked tieing my shoes but I just made myself learn this knot and I love it
I only tie my shoes the first time I wear them. Double knot it and just slip-on/off.
I did that knot in front of a shoe saleswoman and she commented she had never seen anyone do that before. Asked me to show her again how I did it.
Brits seem to really love when I heavily salt tea and heat it in the microwave. I top it off by saying “Cheerio! Pip pip!” in my best southern drawl.
Don’t know why…
I think they’re amused at the person rather than the action. There’s a better chance of finding rocking horse shit than a Brit truly saying “Pip, Pip”, unless they’re from the US or an actor in a 1950’s black and white WW2 themed budget film.
I had a friend who used to say “pip pip”. I also think you missed the joke.
I write the number 5 from the bottom up.
I put my arms in my coat in front of me then flip it over my head
Montessori coat flip ftw!
I was purely public-schooled (US meaning) and we learned the coat-flip too.
Roboplegic wrong-cock
The Martin Sheen? Or something less majestic?
I use flatware when eating everything, including finger food. My friends only made fun of me when I ate crisps with a fork.
I will remove the top bun from hamburgers and use a knife & fork to cut little wedges out of them. Fewer carbs & no sloppiness!
chopsticks are awesome for messy snacks
Yup, (non-slippery) chop sticks are the absolute best for most crisps or cheesey-sticky-powder related snacks.
Lacking chop sticks, wooden tooth picks or barbecue sticks will do in a pinch (or stab).
I should keep some toothpicks in my portable flatware case!
What is “flatware”?
Dull cutlery: fork & knife, maybe spoon. No sporks, they are Of The Devil
Never heard that term before, I’d just say “cutlery”. Or is this to distinguish between them and fancy cutlery?
I always assumed cutlery was just the sharp things and flatware was general table setting fare. “Flatware” might be a food service term?
I ate crisps with a fork
…how?!
Slide 'em between the tines & lift
