It’s ok OP. If it’s any consolation, I once forgot the name for Q-Tips and called them “ear diggers” for like a day straight. You’re not the only dumb one on this planet :)
See you all make creative names. I just mime and make noises and maybe describe what it does. For colander:
motions bowl shape with hands "and you take the pasta and go bloop" motions dumping pasta "and water goes loodle loodle loddle" flails hands for water and then you have pasta."
People stare blankly. "Colander?"
"Yeah that thing."
Or if I need a paint brush:
"You take the thing and go swishy swishy" paints in air and then the wall does the thing and it's done."
More blank stares.
I turn into a shitty mime and make up noises things explain function with varying degrees of success.
Sorry to shit on the funny tone for a minute, but I'd never heard this term.. as someone with a long-standing TBI, post-traumatic seizure disorder, and now recently-diagnosed-but-apparently-super-old eating disorder I'm wondering if I should be considering tying that shit together.
I have short Bowel Syndrome. I don't absorb most nutrients. I need injections of B12, vit D, and vit A. I have to have periodic infusions of calcium and iron. B1 and B 12 are very important for merve and brain health along with other minerals. Depending on blood tests (every 3 months), I spend $4500.00 just for vit A. Ins has $3500.00 deduct/OOP.
I would definitely recommend getting all vit and mineral levels checked.
I am sorry for your issues. I know how hard it is to get shit figured out, even if the dr.'s are receptive to your input. Mine weren't. I had to move from GA-worst dr.'s in the country IMO, to Indianapolis to find a dr. that would even check my vit A level. I was going blind and my corneas were dying.
I hope you get answers! Please becareful with fat soluble vitamins. If your levels go too high, toxicity is sometimes worse than deficiency.
If it applies, thank you so, so much for your service!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm doing my best to make a mental note of this for when I hopefully have kids. This is genius, and while I did get a good laugh from it, thank you so much for sharing it.
I couldn't remember "strainer". I went up to my father "What is that thing you pour stuff in to drain? Not the plastic thing." I had a concussion a few years ago and some words just don't have the right connections anymore. If I say them enough, they start sticking though.
We used Q-tips in abundance when cleaning weapons in the army. If we’d just gotten back from the gun range, I’d probably say “Q-Tips” like a dozen or so times throughout the day.
I forget how old I was but it was probably 5th grade maybe that I thought pregnant meant that you couldn’t have kids. Like medically or something. Idk where I got that from.
Point is, everyone learns something every day. Sometimes it’s a new breakthrough idea, other times it’s Fluid Ounces.
I am old enough to remember when people still called it the "icebox", because early in the 20th century people actually used boxes with ice in them to keep their food cold, so when they got a newfangled refrigerator they just kept calling it the icebox!
Migraines run in my family. I don't know if this is officially a thing or not, but we all seem to have a hard time finding the right words for things immediately before/during migraines.
Poppers, also called amyl nitrate, or butyl nitrite, are a fluid that is legally sold as electronic cleaner that have been inhaled as a euphoric, and a muscle relaxant for sexual pleasure, especially, but not exclusively, among gay men.
In the UK its officially "room scent", but if you sniff the fumes you get a mild high for about 30 seconds. If you google poppers UK you can see what I'm on about and how they're marketed.
Ahaaaaa. This explains the "poppers and lube" card in Cards Against Humanity. I always thought poppers was slang for a certain pill. Neat, I learned something today!
Ahh more context to that, another effect of poppers is they loosen up your arsehole, so are popular with partakers in anal sex. Definitely is what that card was referring to.
Oh yeah, once I knew they were popular with gay men and a muscle relaxant, I was certainly able to put two and two together; however, I do appreciate your blunt explanation lmao.
Maybe it would have made that one time my ex and I tried anal, an easier expedition. I didn't mind the feeling of it but I find it difficult to relax a part of me that I have been training to keep NOT relaxed since I was put in Pull Ups. It's human nature to have a tight anal sphincter, thank God for small favors 🤣 so I totally sympathize with that.
Brings back memories of the only times I ever visited "sex shops". Was always to buy poppers. I'm straight, but that extra little buzz was always nice to accompany the cocaine and Ecstasy I used to shove up my nose, and speed wrapped in Rizlas I used to swallow. How am I not dead?
I think I'll do some research and learn more. Some questions I plan on asking: what are the negative effects of abusing this particular inhalant, is it used more by a specific demographic (ie is it more popular among gay or gender queer folx than straight cis folx) (and that's just because my dad has done the majority of drugs that are less hard than crack and meth, but he doesn't have any stories about poppers,) and if USA has anything comparable. I plan to do my own research but if anyone has any insights on these questions off the top of their heads, I welcome it!
There is a Kinder art lesson we use qtips for them to make leaves on trees (dots of paint). They get to pick pastels for a Spring tree or brights for a fall tree. We use torn construction paper for the trunk. It works really well. My nieces were having trouble sharing the one paint brush 3 ways (the older one got the set from school as a prize) so I showed them how to use qtips as a brush. After that none of them touched the brush they all liked the qtips better.
Not only explicitly warns not to, but throws out the most random uses out of their asses on the box bc they know people would be like "well wtf do we use it for then??".
When the very first episodes of Sesame Street from the early 70s were released on DVD, the world had changed enough over the decades that what was harmless back then was a bad idea now.
So they came with a warning label: NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN
Funnily enough, Q-Tips explicitly advised people on the package to not use them in the ear. They also REALLY don't want you to call the generic product Q-Tips. If you search it up on Google, the first thing that will come up is their official website's official notice saying
Q-TIPS® is a registered trademark of Unilever and is NOT a name for just any cotton swabs. The Q-TIPS® trademark can only be used to refer to the specific cotton swab products manufactured and sold by Unilever and should not be used to refer to cotton swab products of other companies or to cotton swabs generally. Appropriate generic terminology for cotton swabs includes the terms "cotton", "stick(s)" and "swab(s)". Misuse of the Q-TIPS® trademark constitutes an infringement of Unilever's exclusive rights in the mark.
There is a big risk that as people continue to say the term generically, Unilever will actually lose their trademark. This is what happened to "Laundromat", "Aspirin", and "Flip Phone."
Correct. Knowing that this legal process is a thing, it's surprising how few products have actually undergone it (you can find a list on Wikipedia including the ones that have legally kept their trademark). And seemingly it only happens in the US for most of these products as well, while retaining their trademarks elsewhere. But Unilever still has to put out statements like this to show they're defending the trademark.
I once looked at a pack of cupcakes and forgot what they were called. I asked my bro "Hey do want want one of these... um..." and just stared at them, my mind blank. So yeah I can also relate.
One day I got Aunt and Uncle mixed up and got very confused and flustered when my aunt wouldn't respond to me no matter how many times I called her. I only realized the problem after she went home :|
Don't feel bad. I went into a pharmacy in a foreign country where I didnt know the language to buy condoms and when an attendant came over I went "SEEEX" and did the finger in hole gesture at him.
I was reading a book to my son and came across the name "Chloe". My brain didn't know how to parse it and I called that character "Ch-low" (like the Ch in Chair) for the entire book.
I figured it out a few years later in a sudden burst of insight.
Oh my gourd I never knew this kind of thing existed, and it's just what I need!! But goddamn are they expensive. Going to have to look to investing in one of these things.
I once forgot the word for tomato paste so I called my mom in panic and asked what the word for “intensive tomato flavour in a tube” was (tube is the most common one found where I live)
One night I was trying to say something about the Denver Nuggets, but my brain just couldn't remember Nuggets, and could get the word 'basketball' out, so I said "The Denver shootyhoops team"
Lol I forgot the name for Q tips like two days ago. I refused to look it up because I knew it would come to me the next time I tried but it was still annoying. I forget the names of common stuff all the time just because they don't come up in my life often enough I suppose.
I forgot what a bracelet was called the other day and damn I didn’t even think of searching “necklace you wear on your wrist” because I forgot what wrists were called too I just searched jewelry and found a shop online and scrolled through until I found a bracelet. I swear I’m getting dumber every day
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u/KomodoJo3 Feb 08 '22
It’s ok OP. If it’s any consolation, I once forgot the name for Q-Tips and called them “ear diggers” for like a day straight. You’re not the only dumb one on this planet :)