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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #4352
    Koscielny
    Site Banned Posts: 21 ✭Koscielny


    Fairytale of New York "...came in eighteen to one"

    Me for the last 20 years "...came in at ten to one"

    :o


  • #4353
    Mackman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭Mackman


    Koscielny wrote: »
    Fairytale of New York "...came in eighteen to one"

    Me for the last 20 years "...came in at ten to one"

    :o

    :eek: i always thought 10 to 1 too


  • #4354
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    cantdecide wrote: »
    Penneys
    Pennies
    Penneys
    Pennies
    Penneys

    Dear cow-tippin' Jesus I'M STOOOOPID!!!

    Preemark or Prymark?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4355
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Just found out that the version of "Walking in the Air" in The Snowman was not sung by Aled Jones, but by another choirboy by the name of Peter Auty. The version Aled Jones sang was a cover that was released three years after.


  • #4356
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    mzungu wrote: »
    Just found out that the version of "Walking in the Air" in The Snowman was not sung by Aled Jones, but by another choirboy by the name of Peter Auty. The version Aled Jones sang was a cover that was released three years after.
    I wouldn't have thought that were obvious.


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  • #4357
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,823 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    In the TV ad for Fairy washing-up liquid, the voice-over says "That's fair economy".
    I always thought it was "That's Fairyconomy".


  • #4358
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    fussyonion wrote: »
    In the TV ad for Fairy washing-up liquid, the voice-over says "That's fair economy".
    I always thought it was "That's Fairyconomy".

    Ehhh...


  • #4359
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,823 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Ehhh...

    Tut. I thought I was wrong and now it turns out I was right all along.


  • #4360
    paleoperson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    Even though two Tesco trolleys may look the same, they can have slight differences in the slots to try to get people to put them back in the exact spots they took them from, and that's the main reason they don't fit sometimes. At least that's the current working theory, it might be they just break sometimes. You'd think they could just put up a sign saying to please return trolley from where you took it.


  • #4361
    Second Yellow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭Second Yellow


    I'm in my 30s and I didn't know until a few months ago which one was #1 and which one was #2.

    The similarities between two and poo popped into my head a few months ago out of nowhere.

    Only about 30 years too late.


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  • #4362
    Second Yellow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭Second Yellow


    Kolido wrote: »
    Des Lynam is from Ennis, he lived there until he was 6

    " What really obvious thing have you only just realised? "


  • #4363
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Second Yellow wrote: »
    I'm in my 30s and I didn't know until a few months ago which one was #1 and which one was #2.

    The similarities between two and poo popped into my head a few months ago out of nowhere.

    Only about 30 years too late.

    It's a flawed system. There should be no number 1, only numbers 2 and 3:)


  • #4364
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    What the flip? Rhode Island isn't an island??


  • #4365
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    What the flip? Rhode Island isn't an island??


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOMn06mIKvM


  • #4366
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Asking...'is there any ska?' Ska = Scandal...wow!


  • #4367
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Realising that TGI Friday's stems from Thanks God Its...

    Always knew the phrase but never associated it with the restaraunt chain... :o


  • #4368
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Realising that TGI Friday's stems from Thanks God Its...

    Always knew the phrase but never associated it with the restaraunt chain... :o

    Now can you make the connection for TFI Friday?


  • #4369
    Frigating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭Frigating


    Sting from The Police: not like a bee sting or a scorpion sting but a police sting!


  • #4370
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    As far as I know, he was nicknamed Sting by his school friends because he always used to wear a yellow jumper with black stripes.

    Also, the Police were initally called Military Police, if I remember correctly.


  • #4371
    seagull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭seagull


    New Home wrote: »
    As far as I know, he was nicknamed Sting by his school friends because he always used to wear a yellow jumper with black stripes.

    Also, the Police were initally called Military Police, if I remember correctly.

    It is indeed a nickname dating back to high school due to his favourite stripey jersey.


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  • #4372
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Today is Friday the 13th.


  • #4373
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Today is Friday the 13th.
    You missed the bit about the full moon :P


  • #4374
    Lavinia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭Lavinia


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    You missed the bit about the full moon :P
    was on 12th ... luckily lol


    :D


  • #4375
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,061 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    paleoperson wrote: »
    Even though two Tesco trolleys may look the same, they can have slight differences in the slots to try to get people to put them back in the exact spots they took them from, and that's the main reason they don't fit sometimes. At least that's the current working theory, it might be they just break sometimes. You'd think they could just put up a sign saying to please return trolley from where you took it.
    Like humans...


  • #4376
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Most of the continents' names begin & end with the letter A. Huh.


  • #4377
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Lavinia wrote: »
    was on 12th ... luckily lol


    :D
    :P


  • #4378
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,956 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Thanks to a post in the latest "rip off" thread - a pint is not just a pint, there are different size pints :eek:


  • #4379
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I know there are different sized infinities (which surprised me when I read it) - but surely a pint is a pint no?
    Is there nothing sacred?


  • #4380
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Out on a limb = out on the branch (limb) of a tree with risk of it breaking


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  • #4381
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Something that someone said to me recently, made me realise that sometimes I use reverse psychology on myself without my own knowledge :confused: :pac:


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