#weird knowledge

Now, I knew it was a hair splinter, but apparently, the nurses and doctor who saw me had never heard of such a thing. Me, a hairdresser's daughter, knew exactly what it was just by looking at it. The NP even took the hair (a dog hair) out to show all the nurses. None of them had seen something like that before. I had to explain that, yeah, it's fairly well known among hair dressers, at least the ones on my mom's age. Hair is at it's sharpest when it's cut and the coarser the hair, the more likely it is to cause a splinter. Mom used to get them in her hands from time to time and we'd have to pull them out.

You've got the hiccups and I'm not sorry I gave them to you Your laugh is like a drug and I'll go on getting my fix because that's what an addict does

I tell you I've got a plan we just need to slip into the first bar we see and being that this is Milwaukee there's one on every corner, or at least it seems to be I promise, I've actually got a trick

We sit down on stools, even if we aren't going to stay it's Friday night, so the place is picked it takes some time before the bartender comes our way and I can't help but laugh every time I hear another hic sound your giving me the side eye with a look of frustration The bartender comes and i tell him our situation

So obviously I jumped up and exclaimed "BOB ROSS!!!"

And he was like "... Yeah"

"he's dead now :((("

" what, no! Really?"

"yeah, since 1995"

And then he looked at me for a sec and went "how do you (a 17 year old Italian girl) know Bob Ross exactly??"

One being that wombats poop is a cube.

Over the years, I’ve acquired some truly niche knowledge that is highly specific. It’s ruined a lot of things for me. Here is a non-exhaustive list.

Subject matter: Education Background: I’ve grown up around teachers, worked in educational settings, and now do research embedded within them. What it’s ruined: Just about any show taking place in a high school setting. Specifically, I’m going to call out Pretty Little Liars because one day Aria’s mother decides she’s going to be a substitute teacher and like two days later she’s a full time English teacher. It doesn’t work that way. No one trusts brand new subs that much, they typically show videos and handout worksheets. Plus being a long term substitute takes a different license. Most states will let anyone be a short term substitute, but you need to demonstrate you have a degree in the content area to be a long term substitute.

Subject matter: Summer camp Background: Camp Counselor Media It’s Ruined: The Wet, Hot American Summer Franchise, the Friday the 13th Franchise, that camp show on Nickelodeon that everyone references when you mention camp. ALL I’m saying is that even when counselors aren’t being overtly negligent, they’re not ACA compliant. The ratios of campers to counselors is all wrong. It is the fault of the counselors that Jason drowned, there should have been at least two lifeguards on duty and if he couldn’t swim, he would not have been able to go past the shallow part of the lake. And you do NOT fuck around on the archery range.