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What did you actually learn from reddit? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll share mine first.

I had a psych patient one night pile shitty toilet paper next to his toilet overnight. Normally my psych nurse brain would consider this a symptom of disorganized psychosis, EXCEPT!

I remembered an aita post about a conflict between a western OP and his middle eastern roomate trying to figure out why their roommate put their shitty toilet paper in the trash. Turns out many middle eastern toilets can't handle toilet paper.

Oh and inpatient psychiatry doesn't provide freestanding hard plastic trashcans (turns out they make great clubs). We gave him one of our freestanding paper bag trashcans and problem solved.

TL;DR; Reddit expanded my cultural knowledge enough to differentiate disorganized psychotic behaviors from a genuine cultural difference. Thanks reddit!

Anyone have any similar examples of positive exchanges of knowledge or culture using reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Uhhhhh... poop knife?

But seriously, I was a kid who had to go through DARE in school, and I did not know how much outright lying was part of that program. And because I was a goody-two-shoes, I believed everything DARE told me.

I was in my late 30s before Reddit presented me with facts that showed me that LSD does not, in fact, pool at the base of your spine and cause you to trip randomly for the rest of your life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never player truth or dare but I never wanted to because I didn't want to tell people I hardly know very personal stuff. Not that long ago I learned that people apparently frequently lie while playing it, but honestly why are you playing it then?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

DARE was (is) an anti-drug program in the United States that is aimed at K-12 students. It was all over schools in the 80s and early 90s.

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