Simple things you get confused

[GGG]

Originally Posted by troutman

8 converted touchdowns.

2 point or 1 point conversions.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

I am not diagnosed dyslexic by any means, but I swear every time I'm at a party and a buddy has to show off his fully-stocked up fridge I'm exclaiming "a beer full of fridge!" Its happened many times over the years.

Oh I've got one of those too, if I'm taking out some meat for dinner I'm de-thawing it

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under

7 x 8 = 54? 56? 58? My brain simply refuses to remember this.

The mnemonic I use for this is "five, six, seven, eight"

As 56 = 7 x 8 has the numbers all in order.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under

7 x 8 = 54? 56? 58? My brain simply refuses to remember this.

Originally Posted by troutman

8 converted touchdowns.

Which leaves the guy back at square one, except now he knows it's the equivalent of 8 touchdowns.

[flames_fan_down_under]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

The mnemonic I use for this is "five, six, seven, eight"

As 56 = 7 x 8 has the numbers all in order.

Ohhhh i like that!!!

[OMG!WTF!]

Sometimes I cant remember my own age. Like I have to subtract my year of birth from the current year. Sometimes I get a negative.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Weitz

Spelling ‘necessary’

Mine's "occasionally". I can never remember which letters are doubled and which ones aren't. I usually just type it with all the consonants doubled and let spell-check fix it for me.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman

Dermot Mulroney and Dylan Mcdermott

Also how to spell "resteraunt"

[Nammer403]

Larry David and Bernie Sanders

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Muffins

Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Dermot Mulroney and Dylan Mcdermott

The best part of the sitcom, LA to Vegas was the casting of Dermot Mulroney as Dylan McDermott's main rival.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

The mnemonic I use for this is "five, six, seven, eight"

As 56 = 7 x 8 has the numbers all in order.

Or you do it 8 x 7 = 65. It still has all the numbers in order.

[photon]

I'm pretty sure I grew up in a parallel universe where the order of the planets went Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, etc.. because that's how I always want to remember it, then I remember it's Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.. Many decades after I learned it and it still feels wrong.

[nfotiu]

Homonyms baffle me sometimes. I know all the correct usage for there/their/they're who's/whose it's/its etc and drives me crazy to see people messing them up. I can't believe how many times I'll re-read something I've written and see that the auto-pilot version of me wrote the incorrect one. Sometime my possessed auto-pilot brain even makes up weird phonetic spellings or drops in some completely phonetically similar word that I can't believe came from me!

[psyang]

Along with the 7+5/8+5 issue someone posted above, I often get 4 and r mixed up. It usually arises when I have to type in a license key for software. My brain will see 4 and my finger will type r without me knowing it.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by psyang

Along with the 7+5/8+5 issue someone posted above, I often get 4 and r mixed up. It usually arises when I have to type in a license key for software. My brain will see 4 and my finger will type r without me knowing it.

Oh man, MS license keys are so bad for that. They seem to group those kinds of things in the same key like B8, 4R, H4, XF, ones my brain can mess up. And for some reason they made the code on the stickers smnaller and smaller, culminating in 6 point font on a messy background in Win 8.1.

[Dion]

I struggle with the word "a Lot / alot." The correct spelling is of course "a lot" but I find myself using the wrong spelling "a lot" when typing out a message.

[Flabbibulin]

Nm

[Flabbibulin]

Originally Posted by wooohooo

I always get confused by 'effect' vs 'affect'.

Auto correct seems to suggest one or the other in some cases, but Im skeptical that they/it even knows

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by GGG

Or you do it 8 x 7 = 65. It still has all the numbers in order.

True of course. But in my head I always count it off like a dance choreographer starting a routine.

[Geraldsh]

I was taught to make a decision. Now people are taking decisions, who are they taking them from and why don’t they make their own?