Redditor aloe_veracity wanted to discuss simple turn-ons and turn-offs, so they asked:
"What common 'sexy' thing is a turn-off for you personally?"
I do not get and will never understand skinny jeans.
Whoever thinks they are sexy is blind.
Use your words...
baby talking GIFGiphy"Baby talk, is that supposed to be sexy? Because it kinda makes me wanna take them to daycare."
kaeyasimp420
"I baby talk with my partner, but it’s less of a sexy thing and more of a cute n’ cuddly thing when we’re embracing each other."
H2OhYeahh
Off Color
"In Ireland, fake tan is very popular among women of all ages. But any guy I have talked to about this topic hates it, it's okay when done right but 99.9 percent of the time it is orange and patchy and looks like baby diarrhea smeared all over your body."
"Any woman I have discussed this with insists it looks amazing and that the boys love it, but I and any guy I have talked to about it are turned off majorly by the sight and even smell of it."
john_lemon7812
"My sister just shamed me for going somewhere without a fake tan. Don’t mind being pale in Ireland anymore though. Just too much effort to smell like fake tan, and have fake tan on my bed, and clothes. All just to look orange ha."
Kaza-beo
Just Howl
"Ripping off clothes during sex. Just take them off, no need to be a werewolf."
SuvenPan
"Did this twice. The first time I knew ahead of time that it was on the table, so I wore an old shirt that probably should have been thrown out by that point anyway. The second time, though, was totally on impulse and popped the buttons off of a really nice button-down blouse I’d worn for a job interview that day. At the time, it was hot af but once the hormones wore off and I couldn’t find all the buttons to sew them back on, I was miffed about it."
mokutou
Be Normal
"Aside from all the physical turn-offs, I am turned off by someone who's acting sexy, it's too ridiculous to me. Just act normal."
_Norman_Bates
"Ugh my husband used to do this, admittedly he can be incredibly socially awkward sometimes which cracks me up and is a reason why I love him, but man do I hate it when he tries to be sexy, squinting his eyes and slightly while raising his eyebrows, biting his lips and all. Gives me the ick so bad."
urscndmom
Unsexy
Not Listening Season 5 GIF by FriendsGiphy"Dated a girl who was really into anime once, she did the hentai cries to be sexy and it was just the most unsexy thing I've ever experienced."
GemoDorgon
This anime craziness is taking over.
To each their own.
Clothes On
dance party GIFGiphy"Male strippers. Just not for me and if I ever got a lap dance, I would probably just end up laughing lol."
semisweetdreams87
So Arrogant
"When confidence turns into arrogance."
DeerZealousideal7423
"Agreed. There's a difference between giving off the impression you know how to handle anything thrown your way and thinking that any communication with you is me thinking I'm hot crap and you think I'm unworthy of your attention."
patrickwithtraffic
"I struggle with this, but not because I am arrogant lol. I looked down on my abilities so much that I faked arrogance to be funny. My friends get the joke and we laugh, but I forget the joke doesn't land when the person has just met me."
jedadkins
I Still Cringe
"Oh, God. I KNOW this isn’t common outside of like, the 11th grade, which makes it worse. I have a 6’7 ex who would wiggle his eyebrows and do that tongue flicker thing. Something about something that off-putting being done by a towering beast of a man just made it 1000x worse. I still cringe."
No-Photo8763
"My ex used to do this lick/slurp noise and kinda hang his tongue tip out when he talked about hot people. It legit made me gag more than once. That particular gesture has stuck with me more viscerally than anything else he did."
LeSilverKitsune
Flavored
Tv Show Hulu GIF by The BearGiphy"Girls calling me 'Daddy,' it's gross and incestuous. I prefer to be called Chef, it's professional and implies we going to flavor town."
BicycleMinimum4629
Grow Long
"These stupid short beards which are way too symmetric and that everyone gets from the barber. Like someone drew it with a marker."
Kampfzwerg0
Again, sexiness is all subjective.
Our tastes are clearly all over the map.
Enjoy.
"What is life’s biggest "trap" people fall into?"
Perseverance Can Be Overrated
"'The sunk cost fallacy'."
"The idea that you shouldn't give up, you should stick with it, because you've already put in so much work and would be throwing it away."
"Sometimes, you need to cut your losses and move on, and most people struggle with accepting that."- MyNameIsRay
The Dangers Of A Shopping Spree...
"Credit card debt."- GoodRighter
You Can't Force Love
"Getting into relationships with people they're not compatible with, just because they are lonely or because everyone else is doing it, or because they don't think they can ever do better."- JaronK
wine charles GIF by Stan.GiphyYou Stop Saving Money After A While
"A bunch of little traps called 'Subscriptions'."
"I always wondered where my money was going each month until I stopped nearly all of my subscription services."- ThatIowanGuy
Life Is More Precious Than You Think
"Thinking 'I have plenty of time left'."
"In the worst case, you die tomorrow, no matter how old you are."
"Can be a car crash at 16 years old, bursting aneurism at 30 or getting shot at 55."
"Or, not less scary, you grow old, and are then too old to do the stuff you told yourself 'one day'."
"Travel the world when you retire?"
"Catch a common illness like heart diseases etc."
"And nope, a thousand things you can't really do or enjoy."- voxeyeb727
Sometimes You Just Have To Move On
"Staying at the same job for too long."
"I made that mistake, now I'm paying for it."
"It doesn't help your future job prospects having only one or two things to show on your resume and it's extremely specialized."- Milnoc
Tired The Office GIFGiphyTry To Open Your Mind
"Identifying too strongly with your thoughts."- yallneedtherapy
Patience Is A Virtue
"In traffic jam: 'I'm going to change lanes, this one is going faster'."- acdes68
It's About The Goal, Not How Long It Takes To Get There...
"Thinking that you need to be at a certain point at a certain age in your life."
"As long as you have a goal and you are working towards it, you are fine."
"Don’t fall into stress, anxiety, depression over an imaginary race."- sunflowersuger
Sometimes You Must Listen To Your Bank Before Your Heart.
"Wanting stuff 'NOW' and being willing to go into debt to get it."- Monk1e889
Give It To Me Want GIFGiphyIt's easy, if not completely impossible, to fall into at least one of these traps multiple times a year.
However, while we should at least be somewhat conscious of avoiding these traps, being constantly afraid of falling victim to them should be avoided at all costs.
After all, "a life lived in fear is a life half-lived."
Redditor Big_Piccolo_8369 was curious to learn which bits of common knowledge people were late to the party in knowing, leading them to ask:
"What is common knowledge that you found out way too late?"
Strategic Planning
"Always eat before shopping at Costco."- mtl_jim
Sometimes Silence Is Golden
"Just because I hold an opinion on something doesn't mean that I need to share it."
"I spent WAY too much of my early adulthood inserting my viewpoint into discussions that I wasn't really a part of."- xjuggernaughtx
take notes GIFHow To Keep Friendships Strong
"Simply asking 'how are you' once in awhile is all it takes to not fall apart from old friends."- a_burdie_from_hell
Know Your Worth
"Hard work isn’t always the answer."
"When I worked a minimum wage job, I would work hard and not take breaks, so a great job, and always finish early."
"I just then got told to pick up the slack for the employees who spent their time goofing off."
"Never got a promotion, raise, or even a 'hey, good job'."- Disco-Onion
"I learned a couple things from previous employers."
"1: Do Not Count on the Company to care."
"I worked for McDonald's and the franchise I worked for didn't care what they did to me."
"My manager literally told me to my face that she didn't know what happened when I my arm got smashed in the fry hopper mind you she was sitting there watching me and failed to deactivate the machine."
"I learned not only that I don't matter to the company but also to make sure that machines I use are off regardless if someone tells me they are."
"2: Life is short, don't kill yourself for a company that will replace you the second you drop dead."
"I learned this after destroying my back, suffering a concussion, developing ulcers and anxiety all from over working myself to the point where I couldn't function safely and my health declined."- chibicat_25
Think Twice Before Lending Money
"That when people ask to borrow money especially if it's a friend or family just expect to never see it again."- Different-Chest-5716
Loan Borrow GIFGiphySpotting Charlatans
"Being well-educated in one area doesn't mean that a person can't be a total idiot in other areas."- Red-belliedOrator
Never Make Decisions When Angry
"'Every action made in anger ends in sorrow'."
"An attorney, when I was 24."- yours121110
"Don't make permanent decisions based on temporary feelings."- Yoschnitzel
Angry Inside Out GIF by Disney PixarGiphyThe Importance Of Sleep
"Going too long without sleep can impair your ability to drive the same way as drinking too much alcohol."- SuvenPan
It Takes Time To Learn
"That common knowledge never comes early."- CardiologistLower817
Not Everyone Gets What They Deserve...
"Working hard won't get you a promotion, doing average or mediocre work and being likeable/popular will."- NeuronNetworks
Ignoring Me Schitts Creek GIF by CBCGiphyCan't Be Too Literal Minded
"Several doesn’t mean 7 of something."- Zenkir32
Make Sure You Eat Enough
"Calorie Deficit."- Thx-rese
Not As Similar As You Might Think
"I had supposed that apples and pears are varieties of one species."
"In middle age I happened to learn that they are not even the same genus."- lazydog60
pears GIF by jjjjjohnGiphySafety First!
"Staring at the sun, looking directly as eclipses, and looking at the sun through a magnifying glass does not instantly make you blind, it takes time."
"I always thought it was instant and that I could just look away before I went completely blind."
"I only found out that wasn’t true when I was 19."
"Now my eyesight has been progressively worsening for years."- ivegonegaga
All Past Mistakes Can Be Fixed
"'It's NEVER too late to do the right thing, to take the right decision'."- TheSuperPREDATOR
An Optical Illusion
"The claw marks on a Monster energy drink form the letter M."- DancingDick
monster energy rainbow GIFGiphyBasic Hygeine!
"You have to wash anything you drink out of, even if it’s just a water bottle."- laurenmela
We're all bound to be looked down upon every now and then for just learning something everyone else already knows.
Though always remember, the wisest ones are those who never want to stop learning.
Reddit user brokendowndryer asked:
"What is something common that has never happened to you?"
My mother, for example, just never got chicken pox. She's outside of a population where vaccination was commonly available, so it was a disease to be feared growing up. They talked about it like the boogeyman that came to steal your babies.
She, despite having a massive family with double-digit cousins around all the time, managed to avoid it. As an adult with her own money, she feared it so much that she would leave the house when any of the kids, and then grandkids, got it.
My mom went on chicken-pox vacay a lot and I'm starting to wonder how much of it was just her trying to avoid us...
Anyway, while I grapple with the realization of a childhood lie and text my mother dramatically about it, you take a look at the stuff that Reddit has somehow managed to avoid:
The Smart Answer
Nbc No GIF by Brooklyn Nine-NineGiphy"This is jinx territory, I'm not answering."
- rizdalegend
"I once said I’d never had a motorcycle accident or broken a bone. 2 separate conversations with 2 separate people in the office that day."
"Guess what happened that night on the way home?"
"Answer at your own risk guys…"
- Speedy_Dragon46
"I have an answer. I'm absolutely not gonna say it for this reason!"
- An_otherThrowAway
"I concur, this zone is not safe. Blue team out."
- Roosterfish33
One Day Your Prince Will Come
"Being contacted by a Nigerian Prince who needs my help and bank account details to secure his inheritance."
- basicdesires
"Me too!"
"As a fellow Nigerian I almost feel offended. Why don’t they want my money?"
- Butterfly_hues
"I got my first Nigerian prince when I was like 11 on Skype. I feel like I was ahead of the game."
- hunybuny9000
"This happened to me for the first time last month!"
"I was so excited! It was just another internet legend to me before that, I feel so privileged to have been included! 😂😂"
- lumoslomas
Sitting This One Out
"One time I was making fun of my ex and a friend because I had never 'sharted.' Within the week I was sick and I sharted."
"So I will not be playing this game."
- cheesehuahuas
A Rite Of Passage
jump driving GIFGiphy"Hitting a deer. I live in a tiny northern area and it's almost like a rite of passage to hit a deer."
"Ugh...now it's definitely going to happen."
- eddiethreegates
"You're lucky."
"I hit one head-on about a month ago. Just got my car back a few days ago. Been driving less than a year. It was terrifying."
- Ornery-Definition373
"Dude, I was like you once. 15 years of driving and never hitting a deer."
"Then 2020 and suddenly out of nowhere a deer f*cked up the front of my car. Then 2021 and a f*cking deer hit the side of my car."
"Waiting to see where the f*ckers are going to hit this year."
- CylonsInAPolicebox
Words of Wisdom
"I never had my wisdom teeth (third molars) removed."
"All four came in, fit well, doing fine. Whenever I see a new dentist, they’re always surprised. I also never had braces."
"These may be related."
- Sad_Box_1167
"I somehow have no wisdom teeth whatsoever."
- Ecstatic_Brother_259
"I have never been more happy for my cinderblock caveman head than I was when all of my wisdom teeth came in perfectly fine."
"I might have to order my motorcycle helmets online, but I could chew the sh*t out of some animal bones if I really needed to, and you just can't put a price on that."
- memekid2007
Feeling Lied To
"According to the D.A R.E program I was forced to take in 5th grade, I expected more strangers to offer me free drugs than the 0 times it's happened."
- DisforLysdexia
"D.A.R.E. gave me unrealistic expectations about how friendly drug dealers would be."
"No one came to offer me drugs. I live in a state where weed is not legal. I do not have social skills."
"How am I ever supposed to find it!"
"That should be a separate AskReddit. How do you find a weed guy if you have no social skills?"
- Tastyfeesh
Lockdown?
"I completely missed the entire lockdown. 2020 was a normal year for me."
"I never stopped working at my job in a warehouse and I lived alone. I only have time to go out to the store anyways so I feel like I almost missed out on something."
- Fenderman420
"Same here! The best part was no traffic, it was a breeze getting from point A to point B."
- hotbriochedameron
"Same here."
"I work in IT for a hospital, not allowed to WFH. I couldn't take vacation in 2020 or 2021 so 2 straight years of work and commuting. I feel like the quarantine was a big inside joke I wasn't part of."
- GothWitchOfBrooklyn
Reasons
Super Troopers Police GIFGiphy"Never have been stopped by a police officer for any reason and have never had a parking ticket."
- Back2Bach
"Never been stopped for a reason either."
"Been stopped for no reason plenty of times though. I must be one suspicious looking mofo."
- Mad_Aeric
"It's your car dude."
"I drove a beat up 15 year old car and got pulled over once a month. This happened to me for over 2 years."
"Changed cars to a newer one and then never got stopped again."
- imightneedhelp101
I'm A Loser, Baby
"I have never won anything. Like a contest, raffles, drawings, races, etc."
"You'd think by now something would have happened."
- mothershipq
"I was 35 when I won my first anything."
"It was a glass tea infuser bottle Stash tea held a giveaway for on Instagram. A week after it arrived it fell off my desk and shattered into a zillion pieces."
"I wasn't meant to be a winner, apparently."
- cleverdylanrefrence
"Me either. Losers for life! Lol"
- OkConsideration2808
"I won one raffle ever. And it was for a lotto ticket."
"The lotto ticket was not a winning ticket, so did I really win?"
- Recreatedassociation
Every Woman
"Urinary tract infection and yeast infections. Every woman I know has had them. Not me."
"It's strange because I'm always dehydrated. I was severely dehydrated a month ago, but it's all good now."
"I'm 60."
- Vast-Classroom1967
"My mother is 73 and has never had either infection."
"I, on the other hand, seemed to keep a yeast infection in my early 20's and have had multiple UTIs."
"I am 50 now and things are much better."
- iamsuperkathy
You're up, folks.
It's your turn. What seems to happen all the time, just not to YOU?
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