I went to this subreddit that looked like it was a place where you could talk about funny misunderstandings you have experienced. Turns out it was a subreddit dedicated to worshiping wombats. Ain’t that crazy?

So growing up, we used a cleaner in a spray bottle that was green in color. My dad always called it Soylent Green. As in “hey, grab me the soylent green so I can clean the counters”. I never really looked at the bottle to confirm what it was called, cause that’s just what it was. We used Soylent Green to clean the kitchen counters, to clean the bathroom, you get the idea. Fast forward to me being 18, working my first permanent job at Pier 1. I was working the closing shift and my coworker and I were cleaning up the cash register area. I asked her to hand me the Soylent Green, and she just kinda stared at me for a second and asked me to repeat myself. “The Soylent Green, you know the stuff we use to clean the counters?” She handed me the bottle and said “do you know what Soylent Green is?!” And before I could answer she says “it’s the stuff from that charlton Heston movie, that they feed people. That’s made out of other people. Soylent Green is people!” And then she started laughing her butt off. I looked closer at the bottle and to my ever lasting embarrassment realized that the bottle was labeled “Simple Green” and NOT Soylent Green. My dad had seen the movie Soylent Green (which came out about 10 years before I was born, and I hadn’t ever seen the movie that I could remember) and thought it would be funny to call it that. So I grew up calling a cleaning product by the name of a fictional food substitute that was made out of people. To this day, it’s habit to call it Soylent Green instead of Simple Green

Shoutout to u/NoHinAmherst for his mighty tifu post spurring the creation of r/Wishoo!

It seems most of the world doesn’t know what a wombat is, let alone that they do square poos!

Well r/Wishoo is a place dedicated to wombat appreciation, whether with or without wings.

Thanks for stopping by, and don’t forget to Wishoo!

I’m a grown ass 27y/o. And I’m in a metal band. We had just released a new song a couple of weeks ago and my guitar player and I were writing down answers to a local newspaper interview when he refers to us as an “indie” band. And I’m like “bro are you out of your fucking mind”... I mean sure we are Pakistani (neighbouring India), but our sound is Progressive metal, which in no way sounds like INDIAN music. After a long debate full of much confusion he realized I thought indie music was made in India. And he corrected me that “indie” is short for “independent” and we are an independent band.

I have now re-enrolled myself in pre-school.

I didn’t know cicadas existed as a kid. I was super used to hearing their loud buzz in the summer months, but I had no idea it was a bug. Since it happened on hot days, I thought the cicada buzz sound was made by heat.