People usually spend a great amount of time working at their offices. As a result, they often tend to learn a lot of things that would never be used outside of their jobs. As memory does not 'decay', people tend to memorize all of it. Now, one simple question from a Twitter user is making people remember every useless piece of information they learned at work. Whether it is how to get furniture into rooms, or how to tell the difference between male and female fish, people have retained a whole variety of random information because of the jobs they have held.
It all started when a Twitter user asked, "what absolutely embarrassing dumb c*** lives inside your head because of your current or old day job(s)? mine include recipes for toffee, weird serial codes for air conditioners, how to break down a shooting script, and the basic principles of how to make dialysis water."
what absolutely embarrassing dumb crap lives inside your head because of your current or old day job(s)? mine include recipes for toffee, weird serial codes for air conditioners, how to break down a shooting script, and the basic principles of how to make dialysis water
- (@LLW90210) August 26, 2018
The one-day-old tweet has collected over 1,000 'likes' already. People were soon responding to the question:
From tying balloons
i've retained the muscle memory to inflate, tie off, and attach a ribbon to 4-6 balloons a minute
- Moderately Normal Stalin (@conradstalin) August 26, 2018
To dog breeds
the name of like, every dog breed and all the different types of dog clubs in the US (used to film dog agility competitions)
- an eternal sea of gloom (@darthjader) August 26, 2018
How to get furniture into a room
every single time I walk into a house I am forced to think about how I would get a couch into the living room
- baseball jhanez (@esjhanez) August 26, 2018
And reading barcodes
I can read barcodes probably a little rusty though
- Chris K (@SNAXIMO) August 26, 2018
People definitely retained a lot of useless facts
76630 is the code for broccoli on Sainsbury's tills. https://t.co/8SzacbHx4O
- Joanna Wakeling (@jwakeling) August 27, 2018
I can name at least 10 different varieties of apples and potatoes, and can singlehandedly fold up a deflated bouncy castle. https://t.co/F8XDZhePVK
- David Lugsden (@davelugs) August 27, 2018
But some pieces of information were actually quite useful
It's been twenty years since I was a pool lifeguard but I can still instantly distinguish distant thunder from any number of other faint low pitched rumbles.
- John Limouze (@johnlimouze) August 26, 2018
Hope you remember the important stuff!
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