Things you'd consider "common knowledge"

[Orrachius]

PEMDAS still confuses some people. I don't care what their degrees are in, it still confuses them.

Until the other day when this was discussed on a local radio morning talk show, I didn't know about "PEMDAS" either.

Then again, when I was in school, we were simply expected to learn the precedence of operations. Period. "Acronyms? We don't need no stinking acronyms."

Which was probably a good thing, since the acronym doesn't indicate that the reflexive operators are equal in precedence. It also excludes modulo, unary, bitwise, and logical operators....

In Australia we use BIMDAS. Which I suppose is kind of the same.

[Cill Airne]

I'm honestly surprised at how few people know about BODMAS or PEMDAS to Americans.

[Bodies Without Organs]

.... Swyftlandre »
Oh...back when I started History in Secondary
School. I heard the stupidest comment ever,
"Martin Luther King, was he Black?"
Yup...

I find it hard to hold this against the speaker. At least they were brave enough to actually ask the question.

[Anollasia]

That we live on Earth. I mean everybody knows that!

[Fedeledland]

There's people I regularly see that get confused over Galileo Galilei because, and I quote, "I'm not sure if Galileo Galilei is a dude or two".

So I'd say common knowledge over here is "what's your name".

[Smoya]

That we live on Earth. I mean everybody knows that!

Except for some people....

[The Aumaan Confederacy]

That AIDS is not caused by homosexuality...although recent posts from conservatives on Facebook are ruining my faith in humanity.

[Costa Alegria]

Water is blue.

Not everywhere...

Not when it's frozen, obviously. But it is blue. You just need a massive amount of it to see it.

[Menassa]

The Difference between the Torah and Talmud.... I mean not the deep differences but at least that they're not the same thing.

Ehlohai

[Cirona]

I'm honestly surprised at how few people know about BODMAS or PEMDAS to Americans.

BIDMAS/BIMDAS in Australia.

[Pennswald]

Well, everybody knows hoverboards don't work on water.

Unless you have power--a Pit Bull would do...

[CVT Temp]

H₀(S¹) = H₁(S¹) = Z

H_n(S¹) = 0 for n > 1

[The BranRiech]

Who attacked Pearl Harbor (I've heard multiple people say it was the Germans)

[Tmutarakhan]

I love the fact that I can find out almost anything from a little device in my pocket. People I know get pissed off when I look things up on my smart phone. They'll be sitting there for three minutes arguing over which actor played the guy that died in whatever movie. I bring up IMDB and tell them who it was and they get mad.

Like they would rather argue on and on over something stupid when they could just use technology to find an answer. It's like they would rather remain ignorant.


Hmmmmm....

My friends are the opposite. We'd be sitting around in the bar after class, and when a dispute about some fact came up, someone would be put upon to turn on their laptop and look it up. Usually me, because my laptop had the longest battery life. Smart phones are a real blessing.

See, before the internet I used to be the guy that people would call on to ask if the Winter Palace was stormed during the French revolution or the Russian, or what the capital of Ethiopia is, or whatever little bit of trivia they were arguing about. I feel so redundant nowadays.

[Blouman Empire]

Is this another one of those threads where we get to gather around with smug satisfaction and talk about how much smarter and more sophisticated we are than those dirty hoi polloi?

Oh goody.

Don't worry there are plenty of other threads for you to have your usual circle jerks in and get your affirmation that way.

[Blouman Empire]

Don't forget "emotional"! Arguments must be conducted like two Vulcans playing chicken, and whoever shows a feeling first loses!

Honestly though, why get worked up over an internet debate? I've been on here too long, there's nothing people can say that will make me care anymore.

I don't even get worked up IRL anymore, if someone is wrong I just let them go unless I think they want to learn if they get defensive about it I let it be.

[CVT Temp]

H₀(S¹) = H₁(S¹) = Z

H_n(S¹) = 0 for n > 1

I mean, Neo Art did say this was just an intellectual circle-jerk, right? Fine, then this is common knowledge, you proles.

[Defensor]

I once had an argument with a teacher that Norwegians were from Norway and not from Norwegia.

She was at uni getting her education degree at the time but still

My Std 3 ( year 5) teacher told us that WWII started in 1940, I corrected her that it started in October 1939, she told me I was wrong so I argued back and got sent out of the room.

What a crying shame right there...teachers, psh...

[Individuality-ness]

That 2+2 always equals four and that everyone knows what rule 34 is.

[North Stradia]

I'm always shocked how many people don't understand the difference between "too" and "to", or "your" and "you're".

[Blouman Empire]

The true reward is in having a massive OP I can link to so I no longer have to type all that shit up again.

I know that feel, bro. I have a folder on my desktop labeled "The Internet Is Wrong" in which to save posts that I find myself re-using over and over.

I have something similar but it is comprised of other people's posts for me to reuse.

[Individuality-ness]

I'm always shocked how many people don't understand the difference between "too" and "to", or "your" and "you're".

We all have a little grammar Nazi within us.

[Blouman Empire]

Who attacked Pearl Harbor (I've heard multiple people say it was the Germans)

When we all know it was the CIA

[Ostroeuropa]

I was once stunned when i met someone who thought the world was 6000 years old.

[North Stradia]

That "Muslim" is not a language. I'm not kidding.