People are answering the question “What is one thing you had never noticed before it was pointed out to you, but now you notice it all the time?” and the answers have been a real eye-opener.
“When I was 10, I took vocal lessons for a little while. For one of the songs I wanted to learn, the teacher told me that I kept singing “choo” instead of “you.” She said people do it all the time when singing. Now I hear “choo” constantly when the singer is trying to say “you.”
e.g. ‘How do I liiiiive withoouut choo'”
-SceganMott
“Just seconds before a commercial break starts the network logo will disappear from the corner of the screen. Now I’m like the commercial break Nostradamus to all my friends.”
-lucolleye
“My husband pointed out that when you stop at an intersection and look around a lot of times you can spot people picking their nose. I can’t stop seeing it now.”
-reuelm
“The n in the 7 eleven sign is the only lowercase letter.”
-McChives
“In movies when people crawl through the air conditioning ducts. It always seems to be perfectly lit INSIDE the duct, no air flowing, VERY clean and NO screws to tear them up.
I have worked around enough commercial HVACs to know that these are the stupidest things I have seen in movies.
In the real world, you would not be able to see, be fighting very cold and fast air flowing while getting torn up by all the screws used to put the ducts together plus it will not be at all clean. Whoever came up with this misleading idea for entertainment is a jerk and a liar.”
-Latino_By_Nature
“My friend can’t decide which eye to look at when he’s talking to someone.
Never had that problem before.”
-SwiftCross
“The ‘drunken octopus that wants to fight’ coat hooks. Now every time I see those, I think of that.”
-chewedgummiebears
“In every car commercial, the license plate is painted over to match the color of the car.”
-Conscious_stardust
“This may sound weird, but ad hominems. My best friend, who was on a debate team, introduced me to it. For anyone who doesn’t know, an ad hominem is when you attack the person rather than the argument/position he has (e.g. telling a guy he is “too young” to understand politics).
Since he told me about it, I’ve noticed how almost every person I try to have a discussion with, at some point, says an ad hominem to try to discredit my point by referencing me instead of explaining why the point is wrong. I realized then how often I use it during arguments, and I now actively try to stray away from it.”
-PM_ME_LARGE_CHEST
“Badass characters in movies often have a scene where they take a bite out of an apple. Once you notice it, you see it all the time.”
-ClamAttaxx
“I recently learned that Whoopi Goldberg has no eyebrows – and now it’s all I see when I look at her.”
-VictorBlimpmuscle
“In ancient cultures, 40 was used as a general “quite a few.” Not an uncountable amount, not infinite, but more than you want to casually count. In these old civilizations, where literacy was a treasure, being able to count to 40 was as much as most people cared to do.
Now any time I hear Bible stories, it strikes me (again) how silly literal interpretation based on the English version is.
Rained for 40 days and 40 nights = it rained for quite a while.
Fasted and prayed for 40 days…. wandered in the wilderness for 40 years…. it is EVERYWHERE”
-theBRNK
“That salivating feeling right before you vomit.
Some author wrote that little detail in a book, and now I’m super aware of it every time I feel sick or nauseous.”
-aifengtou
“In movies where the characters are in a car and the camera is shooting through the windshield, most of the time the rearview mirror is missing unless it’s needed for the shot for some reason.”
-bstyledevi
“In NYC we have sewer drains on pretty much all the street corners, if you look on the curb above them you’ll notice little spray paint marks.
Been living here for over 50 years and when one of those trucks came by my house to suck all the debris out the driver pulled out a few cans and marked it. I asked him why, he said that’s how they keep track of when it was last cleaned, they have a color code chart that they check.
Now I see it all over the place.”
-MadLintElf
