This one's kinda stupid but, when i was in grade 5 (the first time Canadians get exposed to sex ed in school) my teacher held the female genetalia diagram sideways for some reason (and it was a really weird diagram now that i think of it) and i thought that the vagina and the urethra (sp?) were the same hole. Yeah, got a bit of a shock when i hit grade nine (year two of sex ed)

It never ocurred to me that people in other countries would teach their pets commands in their native languages until my time in Germany.

A female friend of mine didn't realize that guys experience shrinkage when they're cold. Some friends and I had some fun explaining it to her, and her not getting it. We think she was holding out for an example.

I'll probably remember more later.

wait you don't have a4? OHSHI

When I was young (say about 11-12-ish), I thought sex was 2 people standing up rhythmically hitting groins together by doing pelvic thrusts towards each other. ._.;;


I'll remember more some other time.

When I was in middle school, I knew what sex was, but I thought oral sex was a fancy term to describe kissing. After all, that made sense <.<

The buttons are on the other side so you can take her shirt off easily with one hand.

I didn't know that different countries use different power voltages. I learned the hard way on a trip to the Phillippines years ago when I plugged in my PS1 and it started smoking, a lot, after 10 or so seconds. I wrecked my PS1, and was reluctant to plug anything in after that.

Hmm. Thanks for educating me. I've heard it pronounced, and I've seen it written, but for obvious reasons I never made the connection, and assumed that they were two different words.

I'm English, and I used to think that's where the name derived from. Only when I was a kid, mind you...

Up until 8th grade, I had thought Puerto Rico was Cuba.

I still don't really know where Puerto Rico is on a map.

I thought Oral Sex was a special type of kissing, like French Kissing, except you like move the toungues in and out of each other's mouths or something. >.>;

I mispronounced foliage as foilage, and a few other words like that. I dunno how but I've understood sex for as far back as I can remember, oddly.

What kind of person hasn't seen Seinfeld?

Well.. I actually just like legal better than anything else. I also like tabloid size but that can be hard to work with.

I've never had too many of those moments myself, but my friends sure have. Here's a quick list of epiphonies my friends have had:

1. You don't own the property if you're paying rent.

(yeah my friend got mad when i told him the cleaning guys would probably be in his place while we were working and he said that he's paying money so that they couldn't get into his "property" unless he was home. his tantrum went on longer than that, but you get the idea)

2. All guys masturbate.

(my friend got mad when she found out that her b/f masturbated instead of trying to call her over. i explained to her it's either wait almost 40 minutes to get a hold of you or just beat it. she didn't like that at all :p)

3. Air at the gas station isn't free except for paying customers.

(same friend with the rent thing. i asked him for change for the air machine and he got pissed after i told him i needed it cuz it wasn't free. he was under the assumption that it was free if you just asked them, but i explained that they probably did it for him cuz they thought he had already pumped gas. he was still mad.)

4. Flashing your head lights is a way people communicate while driving.

(another time with the rent guy. whenever i'd pull up to a stop sign or whatever i'd flash my headlights for the other person to go. my friend thought i was just trying to be an ass or something i dunno. i had to sit him down and explain it to him)

when i think of more stories, i'll let you guys know, especially if they have to do with my own personal revelations

Ha. To this day, I still don't know how to properly pronounce the word "harbinger". I was once told, but forgot soon thereafter.

Does it end like the word "singer"?

Or does it end like "Henry Kissinger"?

I can never figure it out.

You'd do that every time, just to tell him to go? Your friend was right, you WERE being an ass :\

If someone was driving behind me and kept flashing their lights at me, I'd assume that there was something seriously wrong with my car, like my tail lights were out or I had a dead dog tied to my bumper or something.

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Har (as in har har).

Binge (as in binge drinking).

Er (as in Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Crash can't read IPA :P )

I was going to say something more interesting, but really, I never heard of A4 before, and this is just about the most interesting thing I've seen. Why in hell won't America adopt such structure as the international standard again?

Wikipedia is awesome.

For the same reason America won't adopt the metric system. Stubbornness..

Up until middle school, I thought sex was where both got nude and jumped into a bathtub. Inside, the sperm would come out of somewhere, travel through the water, and enter somewhere. This misconception came from a picture in a sex ed book with a obese couple in a yellow bathtub.

People didn't know about A4? Ok, I'm sorry but this is really a surprise.

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Huh? it isn't?

I've heard of A4 and such, but our teachers only supply 8.5x11 and 11x17 :(.

When I was young, like really young, for some reason I thought sex involved a man peeing inside a woman lol. I guess because I didn't know of anything else that COULD come out?? I don't know.

It ends like "singer".

har - like "hard" - bing - as in Bing Crosby - er - as in...well...."er"

It wasn't even anything to do with racism, but when I was a little kid, I used to think black people were coloured so because they were born out of their mother's, uh, other hole.

It seemed logical to me at the time :/

Up until a few months ago, I always thought it was spelled sequal.

Main Entry: 1har·bin·ger
Pronunciation: 'här-b&n-j&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English herbergere, from Anglo-French, host, from herberge camp, lodgings, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German heriberga
1 archaic : a person sent ahead to provide lodgings
2 a : one that pioneers in or initiates a major change : PRECURSOR b : one that presages or foreshadows what is to come

Based on its entry in the dictionary I've pronounced it "har-bin-jer" since I can remember learning that word in high school.

Ahaha. That's awesome. <3

I have a story related to black people as well, and my mom constantly reminds me of it.

When I was 4 or so, and saw my first black guy, I apparently said to him "You should take a bath, you're covered in dirt". I guess I'm lucky that he didn't get angry. Mom tells me he laughed and explained that his skin was darker.

When I was little I somehow used to think Africans and other black people over were simply permanently really tanned because their home country was so hot.