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I'm surprised that nobody mentioned tax brackets.
I laughed my ass off when my racist uncle smugly explained that he turned down a raise, because that would put him in an upper tax rate and cost him more money than the raise was worth.
Tried to explain how income tax works. Didn't go through that thick skull of his.
This misconception is widespread enough that I can only think that it is deliberately perpetuated by the ruling class to save them money. The number of people who are convinced that going up a tax bracket could mean you make less total money is astounding, and many of them are like your uncle— utterly convinced to the point that being informed correctly sounds like naivety to them.
I had to explain what "first Tuesday after the first Monday" meant to my cousin's baby daddy. Give you zero hints who he ended up voting for.
Ok I'll bite. I don't understand.
In murica the presidential election vote is held every four years. Notoriously on the first Tuesday after the first Monday(read the day after people pay attention)
Apologies, it's still not very clear.
Basically the first Tuesday in November, except if November 1 is a Tuesday, in which case it would be on the 8th because the first Monday would be November 7.
About 30 years ago I had to explain to my boyfriend's mom that LGBTQI+ people do not just choose to be LGBTQI+.
I didn't know at the time whether I got through to her, but years later she told me she understood why that was true.
Having to explain that a certain infamous "Chinese alphabet" font¹ (favoured by tattoo joints everywhere) is not how you write in Chinese. There is a shocking number of people who have somehow managed to grow up not just to adulthood but to senior citizen levels who think that foreign languages are just English with a funky spelling; that grammar rules are otherwise the same, and that words translate one for one (and sometimes, in extreme cases, like the gibberish font, letter for letter).
¹ https://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/2006/08/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html
Evolution and other basic, elementary-level science to those who insist on the existence of some Skyman.
I think it was last year that I had to break it to my mother that pickles are not, in fact, a naturally occurring relative of cucumbers, but rather the result of placing cucumbers in some sort of brine. She's almost 70, and apparently believed there were pickle plants out there that you could just walk up to and grab a gherkin, or something.
That you CANNOT gain more weight from a sugared drink than it actually weighs.
That sounds like an interesting conversation. A 32oz drink weighs just over 2 pounds. You’d need deficit of 7,000 calories to lose that much weight, lol.
there are caveats to this one, but yes
Let's hear them then, Mr. Smart guy.
First, through God all things are possible-so jot that down; and second, magic
It's all about the size pills
I had to explain to an adult woman that prunes are to plums as raisins are to grapes.
Then why aren't they called plaisins. Craisins are.
How fractions work to a 30 year old woman.
I literally had to draw a circle, and use the pie analogy from grade school.
I once had to explain the concept of having multiple Internet browser tabs to an elderly woman. She was certain nobody else could ever manage accessing a webpage AND their email at the same time, and was angry at our 2fa system for requiring that.
Another time I had to explain to my romantic partner at the time that winter actually lasts from the 21st of December through the 20th of March. He was convinced that winter coincided with the Christmas season, and that spring started on January 1st.
I fix my grandmother's printer connection ever few weeks and she thinks I should work for geek squad because I'm some kinda tech genius. No grandma, thanks but no thanks. She prints out pages that she saves so she can look at them any time. She also only has a laptop...
Women have three holes down there, not two. To be fair to him, the only women in his life he lived with for any length of time was his mother who was extremely private about all bathroom stuff and hid all her monthly items.
I had the same experience once, but I was explaining it to a woman. I'm a guy.
My mom was proud that the neighborhood worked together to block an "ugly new cell tower" from being constructed in the area. Then she was upset that her cell service was spotty, in literally the same fucking breath.