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Top 10 Things That People Never Use Correctly- The Top Ten Today


We all are living, in our sweet little home buried inside our hectic schedule and performing many of the things in the routine that we hardly notice. How many times have you noticed that during brushing your teeth, you actually never brushed back side of your lower frontal teeth?

Well, we all are so much engrossed in all other things that we certainly miss many of the things that we do are unusually wrong!

What if I told you that you have been shaving your beard with electric shaver incorrectly? Because rather than rubbing it to your skin you should be letting it just rest and glide on your skin...
You never noticed that, right?

So here we are counting upon our list of Top 10 Things That People Never Use Correctly, and never know about it.

Buckle up, as we're diving straight to the list.

#10. Ear Buds?

You know, those things you use for your ears? Yeah, Q tips, they’re not made for that purpose!

 q tips ear buds

According to the Q-tips cotton swab website, q-tips are practically the Swiss army knife of the medicine cabinet. The site raves, “perfect for cleaning down to the last detail!” 

There are pages dedicated to tips for how to incorporate q-tips into your daily beauty, first aid, cleaning, and arts and crafts routines. 

Of all the uses listed – from perfecting your lip stick application to cleaning your dog’s paws to getting between the keys of your keyboard – cleaning your ears makes no appearance. In fact, the box may even come with a warning: “do not insert swab into ear canal.!” 

I know most of the people reading this use q-tips for cleaning their ears, when they actually do quite the opposite, this is what we can call a must do or must not do :)



#9. Pouring Packet Juice


I recently found out that we’ve been pouring juice and milk wrong our entire lives! To prevent the wavering stream problem, it is actually meant to be poured like this.. 

 fruit juice spilled


Well don't lie, you did that and so did I..

#8. Escalators


There are two types of people:
  1. People that use escalators like regular stairs. They climb the escalator and get to their destination faster.
  2. People that just stand there. Yes... just stand there.
I've often found myself stuck on an escalator wondering if the person responsible for this needless waste of my time has never noticed the striking resemblance that an escalator bears to regular stairs. (Really?! They both have stairs!)

Well many escalators even have a partition line and its for this purpose only, for one side people to use it to walk and other side people to just stand.

 escalator to walk and stand

In Dutch they even made it like this. That means Stand Right, Walk Left.

#7. Apostrophe








apostrophe

In fact, apostrophe may be the most abused punctuation mark in the English language. A quick glance at street signs, advertisements, social media and stores will demonstrate that almost no one seems to know how to use this mark properly.

The apostrophe has two, and only two, uses: to show possession and to indicate the omission of letters or numbers.

Given below are few examples, of its incorrect usage.

Happy Mothers Day, it should be Happy Mother's Day.

Happy Teacher's Day, well here as teachers is plural it should be Happy Teachers' Day.

Your's Truly, it is Yours Truly

#6. Resume


Many people use a resume to showcase their accomplishments and what they want from their next job. The problem with this is that employers care very little about what you want from your next job or what you accomplished in your previous. Employers want to see how you can help them solve their problems.

To complicate the situation for job applicants, employers use an applicant tracking system to weed out resumes that don’t closely align with the job posting. Further complicating the matter is that recruiters spend an average of six seconds reviewing a single resume.

  • In your resume, use words and phrases that closely align to the job posting (this results in your resume ranking higher in the applicant tracking system).
  • Include an executive summary at the top. This is the Cliff Notes version - if the recruiter doesn’t read your entire resume, they get the most important details right away (recruiters spend six seconds or less reviewing a single resume).
  • When writing the bullet points within your job history section, use the RATS (results, action, task/situation) sentence structure to place the results of your efforts in the line of sight of the reader (people read web content in the shape of an F).

    For example, if I were applying to a job that required experience with fundraising, I would write:
    • Raised $23k by creating the ABC Fundraiser event.

      In this example, the results (raised $23k) precede the action (by creating) and is followed by the task or situation (ABC Fundraiser event).
Well, I guess that's why there is so much unemployment ;-)




#5. Magnifying Glass

 Image result for magnifying glass



It’s not true that people never use these correctly; people (such as jewelers or geologists) who use them professionally generally use them correctly.

The inexperienced will put the magnifier close to the object and pull it slowly back until they get the best image. The pros put the magnifier up to their eye and then move the object (or their head) until they get the best image.

Try it both ways. You may not be convinced after one try, but odds are that you’ll gradually adopt the method used by those who do it all the time.

#4. Lose and Loose


I am not a grammar Nazi but I know the use of the words "lose" and "loose".

I have come across at least 3 dozen good English speakers using "loose" when they meant "lose". 

lose vs loose

I think the reason they "lose" is a "loose" grip in English ;-)

#3. Toilet Flush

 toilet flush



Yes, I mean the toilet flush lever.

Most toilets made in the last fifteen years or so, whether they advertise the fact or not, are designed with two different levels of flush. 

The reason is, modern toilets are designed to conserve water, and there is no way around it, it takes less water to flush urine alone than it does to flush solid waste. Most manufactures caught on to this long ago.

Some fancy models make a big deal out of it, even providing two different buttons to push—which is foolish. The most common solution, though, is this: 

A quick jab at the handle is sufficient to flush liquids only. For solid wastes, hold the handle down until the bowl has completely emptied. If you don’t, you will only push the waste down into the trap, stopping up the toilet.

#2. Hashtag


Many people don’t actually know the use of a hashtag on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. They use it as a fancy way of posting their stories and the true meaning and use of hashtags is altogether lost.

A Hashtag is a keyword or words which is specific to your post, written without any spaces between them and with a # symbol at the beginning of the word/s. These hashtags when placed in your post help in finding similar related posts when you click on a hashtag.

E.g. When posting a picture of yourself in Paris, you can use the hashtags such as #Paris #Europe etc.. and not #wowwhatanamazingplace or #mummasgirlatparis


hashtag

#1. A.S.A.P.


A.S.A.P is an acronym that most people seem to have no idea what it means.
Whenever I see it on an email I can almost hear the person on the other side screaming, and demanding to have whatever they need done, done immediately.

ASAP means ‘as-soon-as-possible’. Not this second, not within the next hour. It means whenever you can, get the task done. People still get mad when the task doesn’t get done until the next day, even if that was as soon as possible that I could get to the project.

So annoying. We need a new acronym like: Immediately Drop Everything As*hole (I.D.E.A.), or something like that, to get the real point across of how urgent the message is.



There you have it, Top 10 Things That People Never Use Correctly and probably never knew about it! Well this is what happens when we are not thinking and thinking that we are thinking :o

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I hope you enjoyed this list and do realize what the actual thing you should be doing rather than what you were doing earlier, share it with your friends and tell them what they were doing wrong and stay tuned for the next Top 10 Today list.

Peace Out!

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