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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #4112
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Just realised that Bombay Duck is not a duck.
    It's a lizard-fish.


  • #4113
    PowerToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭PowerToWait


    It's Srameen's 10th year on Boards this month.

    Happy anniversary you wily old goat.


  • #4114
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    764dak wrote: »
    Mickey Mouse is not a rat.
    Hate to burst your bubble

    http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/06/movies/disney-link-to-the-fbi-and-hoover-is-disclosed.html
    From 1940 until his death in 1966, Walt Disney served as a secret informer for the Los Angeles office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents that have come to light under the Freedom of Information Act.


  • #4115
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    Only just copped that the dots on the iron on a clothes label (you know, where they tell you how to wash the garment etc) correspond to the actual dots on the dial of your iron :cool:

    Took me 25 years to make the connection. Defo nailed the domestic goddess bit :D


  • #4116
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    DanMurphy wrote:
    Mickey Mouse was a rat. Donald Duck was a Drake.

    A drake is a male duck.


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  • #4117
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Just realised that Bombay Duck is not a duck.

    How long have you been eating it?


  • #4118
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,546 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    galah wrote: »
    Only just copped that the dots on the iron on a clothes label (you know, where they tell you how to wash the garment etc) correspond to the actual dots on the dial of your iron :cool:

    Took me 25 years to make the connection. Defo nailed the domestic goddess bit :D

    I have only just realised that Irons have different temperature settings, as a direct consequence of this post.

    Given the fact that it takes about 20 minutes for an iron to cool down. Should one separate the ironing into layers ranked from coolest to hottest temperature ironing?

    I thought irons were the same as my oven. Either off or maximum.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #4119
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Akrasia wrote: »
    I have only just realised that Irons have different temperature settings, as a direct consequence of this post.

    I thought irons were the same as my oven. Off or maximum.

    Took me a long time and many burnt frozen pizzas to realise there is a good reason why ovens have a range of temperatures. My reasoning was, if the instructions say it'll cook in 20 mins at 180, surely it'll cook faster at 250.

    I was not wrong, technically.


  • #4120
    furiousox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭furiousox


    Marjorie Dawes got her name from the nursery rhyme.

    You are a khaki coloured bombardier, it's Hiroshima that you're nearing.



  • #4121
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,546 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    Took me a long time and many burnt frozen pizzas to realise there is a good reason why ovens have a range of temperatures. My reasoning was, if the instructions say it'll cook in 20 mins at 180, surely it'll cook faster at 250.

    I was not wrong, technically.

    I have grown to enjoy the crispy on the outside, icy on the inside texture combination.

    Nobody who's ever eaten at my house has ever complained about it.. or returned for a second visit....Or survived much longer.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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  • #4122
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I had an AM radio for six months before I realised it could be used in the afternoon too :pac:


  • #4123
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    On my way home there and 'Heart - All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You' came on. Never realised it before but it appears to be a bout some promiscuous mad chick who I think has a husband with a ginormous penis. Story starts off with her driving along in the lashing rain and she sees this "boy" standing at the side of the road with no coat on, nor even an umbrella. So she pulls over and offers him a "ride". She brings him to a hotel (she "knew well" . Next morning the "boy" wakes up and she is gone but she has left him the following note:
    I am the flower you are the seed,
    We walked in the garden we planted a tree,
    Don't try to find me, please don't you dare,
    Just live in my memory, you'll always be there

    Mad as a box of frogs as they say.

    Anyway, some years pass (not sure how many, she doesn't say) but when she is out one day she sees him and he sees her, then he notices that her child has the same eyes as him!! Immediately she starts begging him not to say anything as she is love with "another man"! A man who couldn't give her the "little thing" that he did!! But sure all he gave her was the ride, so I can only assume that he the "little" thing he gave her was his penis and her husband give couldn't give her a that as his is too big? But why would a woman want a small dick :confused:

    Anyway, seriously mad song. Would it be too late to complain to Mary Whitehouse?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBfP63T0a60


  • #4124
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,546 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    I had an AM radio for six months before I realised it could be used in the afternoon too :pac:

    I also under estimated my BC radio until I found the button that tuned in ancient sumerian broadcasts.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #4125
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I only realised today what 'shaving above the knee' means.


  • #4126
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    kylith wrote: »
    I only realised today what 'shaving above the knee' means.

    Please enlighten me. It sounds like it means shaving above the knee.


  • #4127
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,864 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    On my way home there and 'Heart - All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You' came on. Never realised it before but it appears to be a bout some promiscuous mad chick who I think has a husband with a ginormous penis. Story starts off with her driving along in the lashing rain and she sees this "boy" standing at the side of the road with no coat on, nor even an umbrella. So she pulls over and offers him a "ride". She brings him to a hotel (she "knew well" . Next morning the "boy" wakes up and she is gone but she has left him the following note:



    Mad as a box of frogs as they say.

    Anyway, some years pass (not sure how many, she doesn't say) but when she is out one day she sees him and he sees her, then he notices that her child has the same eyes as him!! Immediately she starts begging him not to say anything as she is love with "another man"! A man who couldn't give her the "little thing" that he did!! But sure all he gave her was the ride, so I can only assume that he the "little" thing he gave her was his penis and her husband give couldn't give her a that as his is too big? But why would a woman want a small dick :confused:

    Anyway, seriously mad song. Would it be too late to complain to Mary Whitehouse?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBfP63T0a60
    Surely the little thing he gave her was his seed for the baby that her husband couldn't provide.:confused:


  • #4128
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Surely the little thing he gave her was his seed for the baby that her husband couldn't provide.:confused:

    But then why would she keep singing that all she wants to do is make love to him? She's already done that and she talks about his loving arms too.

    I suppose the chorus part could be about the night in question though.

    So the song is about a woman with a infertile / impotent husbands who picks up a young guy so she can get pregnant.

    Mad how I never really listened to the lyrics before. There was me thinking they were all hairpsray and boobs.


  • #4129
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,438 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    Quazzie wrote: »
    Surely the little thing he gave her was his seed for the baby that her husband couldn't provide.:confused:

    But then why would she keep singing that all she wants to do is make love to him? She's already done that and she talks about his loving arms too.

    I suppose the chorus part could be about the night in question though.

    So the song is about a woman with a infertile / impotent husbands who picks up a young guy so she can get pregnant.

    Mad how I never really listened to the lyrics before. There was me thinking they were all hairpsray and boobs.


    Listen to ' these dreams' it will really blow your mind


  • #4130
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    Speaking of lyrics, here's one. You know that song "Piano in the Dark", that has the lyrics, "...I cry just a little/when he plays piano in the dark"?

    I'm sure I would cry too, if I had to listen to someone try to play the piano when there wasn't enough light to see it by. ;)


  • #4131
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    This is an odd one but basically when I was in fourth class we were doing a school play that involved some kind of parody using all the major characters from fairy tales - Cinderella etc. I remember there was a girl in my class who kept making a mistake when she was reading her lines. Something about sleeping Beauty and the line started "needless to say....". Anyway this girl was so stupid that every time she read the line aloud she would say, "and needle-less to say" and I was so infuriated each time by her inability to pronounce "needless".

    Yesterday, after nearly a quarter of a century of unresolved irritation, and for no apparent reason, as I swept the floor, I realised that the "needle-less" was a pun on the fact that she pricked her finger on the needle of a spinning wheel.


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  • #4132
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    OldNotWIse wrote: »

    Yesterday, after nearly a quarter of a century of unresolved irritation, and for no apparent reason, as I swept the floor, I realised that the "needle-less" was a pun on the fact that she pricked her finger on the needle of a spinning wheel.

    now I wonder if my 4 year old niece was using a pun when she thanked me for the "spaghetti bolog-nails" that I made for her. In fairness, I'm not a great cook :/:)


  • #4133
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    Olishi4 wrote: »
    now I wonder if my 4 year old niece was using a pun when she thanked me for the "spaghetti bolog-nails" that I made for her. In fairness, I'm not a great cook :/:)

    It's a four-year-old thing. I'll never forget when my little brother pestered my mother to go to KFC so he could get his favorite, a chicken leg with "cold slop" (cole slaw) and "mashy potatoes", or McDonald's for a "Big Map" and fries with "yellow ketchup" and "red mustard" (because he couldn't consistently keep the names straight). :)


  • #4134
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I just realized that he DID kick Bishop Brennan up the arse :eek::eek:


  • #4135
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,568 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    I have just realised who Conor McGregor looks similar to.

    Give him bushy hair, and he'd be the spit of Luke Kelly :D


  • #4136
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    castletownman wrote: »
    I have just realised who Conor McGregor looks similar to.

    Give him bushy hair, and he'd be the spit of Luke Kelly :D

    Jesus...that's changed everything.


  • #4137
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    I found out accidentally that if I've been buying my cats one sort of dry food, and I switch them to a new food, they will often overeat the new food for a bit before the novelty wears off. So now that I've settled them into a reliable high-quality food, I use another super-premium food as cat treats and save tons of money. They don't care whether the "treats" are big or small, or whether they came out of a big bag or a small packet, and they absolutely cannot read. :P


  • #4138
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    Please enlighten me. It sounds like it means shaving above the knee.
    It means shaving your lady bits.


  • #4139
    Laika123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭Laika123


    kylith wrote: »
    It means shaving your lady bits.

    Does it also go for male bits?, although your chin is also above the knee.



    I just found out today after lots of torment, anguish and despair that English is the native language of Ireland.


  • #4140
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    i thought for ages that 40D stood for 4 overdose. turns out its actually just 4 on demand.


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  • #4141
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    The Poolbeg Incinerator is well under construction and has been with 2 yrs. Due to be operating by the end of next year.
    I was full sure that it was still being debated and objections were still being considered. I checked Google Maps and sure enough there it is under construction.


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